News tagged with reprogramming
New Method Gives Regenerative Medicine a Boost
Apr 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Bioengineers at UC San Diego have developed a breakthrough method for sequencing-based methylation profiling, which could help fuel personalized regenerative medicine and even lead to more ...
Engineers develop new way to fuse cells
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Jan 04, 2009 |
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MIT engineers have developed a new, highly efficient way to pair up cells so they can be fused together into a hybrid cell. The new technique should make it much easier for scientists to study what happens ...
Single virus used to convert adult cells to embryonic stem cell-like cells
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Dec 15, 2008 |
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Whitehead Institute researchers have greatly simplified the creation of so-called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, cutting the number of viruses used in the reprogramming process from four to one. Scientists hope that ...
Scientists identify compounds for stem-cell production from adult cells
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Nov 05, 2008 |
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In the study, the scientists screened known drugs and identified small molecules that could replace conventional reprogramming genes, which can have dangerous side effects. This new process offers a new way to generate stem ...
New method for creating inducible stem cells is remarkably efficient
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Sep 10, 2008 |
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Some of the most challenging obstacles limiting the reprogramming of mature human cells into stem cells may not seem quite as daunting in the near future. Two independent research papers, published by Cell Press in the September ...
Researchers turn one form of adult mouse cell directly into another
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Aug 27, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a feat of biological prestidigitation likely to turn the field of regenerative medicine on its head, Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) co-director Doug Melton and post doctoral fellow ...
New technique produces genetically identical stem cells
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Jul 01, 2008 |
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Adult cells of mice created from genetically reprogrammed cells—so-called induced pluripotent stem (IPS) stem cells—can be triggered via drug to enter an embryonic-stem-cell-like state, without the need for further genetic ...
