Correcting Cells: What do you think life would be like if you could correct all inherited genetic diseases. Science researches have discovered a way to help patients by transforming tissue into stem cells, potentially being able to reverse the conditions. Using the older technology of cell programming scientists believe that they can use cells to create stem cells which can virtually grow into any tissue type. This system is stated in the article to be called "induced pluripotent stem cell (iPS) reprogramming, this involves introducing four genes known to be active in the developing embryo, which in turn change the cells' pattern of gene expression to one that resembles an embryonic cell rather than an adult one."
While this has not yet completed full testing on humans researches are very confident it will be successfull, leading to a huge step in fixing inherited diseases which in many cases lead to increased risk of cancer.
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THAT IS UNBELIEVABLY AWESOME !!!!!!
I truly respect all these scientistfor doing great thing for man kind also did you know that Scientists corrected the genetic deficits in cells from patients with Fanconi anemia and then reprogrammed them into induced pluripotent stem cells.
http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/22724/
This is interesting because i know they already began research in this area but i did not know they had gotten this far. The scientist coax the cells to differentiate into red blood cells.
http://www.lsblog.org/blog/?p=3841
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