Samantha Hain, a California State University – Northridge undergraduate student in my laboratory, funded for a year by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine “Bridges to Stem Cell Research” program, then demonstrated that this protocol generated the identical mixture of sensory neurons when BMP4 and retinoic acid were added to induced pluripotent stem cells. These special stem cells are produced by reprogramming a patient’s own mature cells, such as their skin cells, thereby maintaining the patient’s genetic code. The ability to create sensory neurons with a patient’s own reprogrammed cells holds the most potential for creating a cell-based treatment that restores the sense of touch without immune suppression.
https://www.labnews.co.uk/features/feel-good-factor-17-04-2018/
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