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Category: induced pluripotent stem – iPS cells

Posted on October 27, 2019October 27, 2019

Explained: How lab-grown organoids can transform medicine

Researchers had used brain organoids to study how Zika virus affects brain development in the embryo and causes small-sized brain called microcephaly. This study would have been nearly impossible using…

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Posted on June 18, 2017June 18, 2017

Hyderabad researchers grow miniature eyes using stem cells

Researchers at the Hyderabad-based L.V. Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) have successfully grown miniature eye-like organs that closely resemble the developing eyes of an early-stage embryo. The miniature eyes were produced…

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Posted on January 13, 2016July 20, 2016

A step closer to regenerative medicine

A landmark study published today (September 12, 2013) in Nature shows that reprogramming of adult cells that behave like stem cells can be achieved right inside the body (in vivo).…

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Posted on January 12, 2016July 20, 2016

“Functional” blood vessels made from stem cells

A team of scientists has been able to engineer “stable and functional” blood vessels in mice using induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells taken from humans. The blood vessels lasted for…

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Posted on January 12, 2016July 20, 2016

Editorial: Organs, made to order

Producing fully functional human organs using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) will, in the foreseeable future, cease to remain in the realm of science fiction. In a game-changing study…

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Posted on January 11, 2016

Editorial: Turning the clock back

Published in The Hindu on October 10,2012 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded on Monday to Sir John B. Gurdon of the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge and Dr.…

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Posted on January 11, 2016

Repairing damaged hearts by healing affected cells

Published in The Hindu on April 19, 2012 Scientists have found an easier way of repairing hearts damaged by cardiac arrest — reprogramming one kind of heart cells into another.…

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Posted on January 7, 2016

Induced pluripotent stem cells cure liver cirrhosis

Published in The Hindu on October 13, 2011 Treating human diseases using adult cells taken from a patient and genetically reprogramming them so that they behave like embryonic stem cells…

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