Stem Cell Treatment Cures Blindness
Inspiration for the research came from techniques already used in labs and in gardening, where a change in the physical environment can alter a cell’s identity. In the lab, for example, frog skin cells can be switched to brain cells if exposed to a solution with a low pH. And botanists can grow a new plant by creating a plant callus, a node of plant cells created from a physical injury to an existing plant.
So far, the STAP technique seems to work in mice. But the results are promising for humans.
Professor Chris Mason, chair of regenerative medicine bioprocessing, at University College London told the Press Association, “If it works in man, this could be the game changer that ultimately makes a wide range of cell therapies available using the patient’s own cells as starting material. The age of personalized medicine would have finally arrived.”
The researchers reported their results in this weeks journal of Nature.
Stem Cell Treatment Cures Blindness
Inspiration for the research came from techniques already used in labs and in gardening, where a change in the physical environment can alter a cell’s identity. In the lab, for example, frog skin cells can be switched to brain cells if exposed to a solution with a low pH. And botanists can grow a new plant by creating a plant callus, a node of plant cells created from a physical injury to an existing plant.
So far, the STAP technique seems to work in mice. But the results are promising for humans.
Professor Chris Mason, chair of regenerative medicine bioprocessing, at University College London told the Press Association, “If it works in man, this could be the game changer that ultimately makes a wide range of cell therapies available using the patient’s own cells as starting material. The age of personalized medicine would have finally arrived.”
The researchers reported their results in this weeks journal of Nature.
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