Scientists produce stem cells for 10 diseases
2008-08-08 15:34:03 (GMT) (Caymanmama.com - Health News News)Tampa, Florida (CaymanMama.com) — Harvard scientists say that they have produced stem cells for ten genetic disorders that will enable investigators to observe the diseases growing in the lab.
According to scientists, this premature step using the innovative technique can assist and accelerate the efforts in finding treatments for several of the most confounding diseases or disorders.
Dr. George Daley and his colleagues at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute made use of ordinary skin cells in addition to bone marrow from people having various types of ailments including Huntington’s, Parkinson’s and Down Syndrome in order to create the stem cells.
Doug Melton, the co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute said, “The new cells will allow researchers to watch the disease progress in a dish, that is, to watch what goes right or wrong.” He further added, “I think we’ll see in years ahead that this opens the door to a new way to treating degenerative diseases.”
A new technique is used to re-programs cells by providing them the exact qualities like that of the chameleon of the embryonic stem cells. These stem cells can morph in every kind of tissue like that of the brain, nerve and heart. The hope with the embryonic stem cells is to accelerate medical research.
The first research teams reported last November about their reprogramming of skin cells and also that the cells behaved like the stem cells in a sequence lab tests were from Japan and Wisconsin. Another team of researchers from Harvard stated that they programmed skin cells from a couple of elderly patients with Lou Gehrig’s disease or ALS and produced them in the nerve cells.
According to Melton, the novel disease specific cell lines symbolize an assortment of the degenerative ailment for which there are no certain remedies.
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