Month: September 2022

THE CLONED MEAT ISSUE may be an exemplar of related food issues, including GMOs: more about provenance transparency and individual choices than actual safety; more about heavy-handed paternalism masquerading for financial control of large markets. In the context of food scandals and industrialized food, a hugely negative public reaction was inevitable. View in LinkedIn

AFTER A DETOUR into cloned meat in the context of food scandals, we now return to cloned stem cells, and their use in test tube organ generation, a truly disruptive technology with immense human impact. Now that the issue of embryonic origin is behind us, adult-derived stem cell organs are the start of personalized medicine. View in LinkedIn

STEM CELLS TO GROW ORGANS. "The research will have dramatic impact on the future use of stem cells to better the human condition, providing a framework for future studies in the field of regenerative medicine aimed at constructing tissues and organs from populations of cultured pluripotent cells." http://lnkd.in/btJDsvy View in LinkedIn

SCIENTISTS GROW KIDNEY FROM STEM CELLS. "This is the first time anybody has managed to direct stem cells into the functional units of a kidney." Within the next three to five years, the artificial organs could be used to allow doctors to repair damaged kidneys within the body, rather than letting diseases develop before proceeding with a transplant." http://lnkd.in/bwvEaxQ View in LinkedIn

STEM CELLS TRANSFORMED BY TWO FACTORS TO EMBRYO. "Whereas numerous gene activities have been found to be essential during early embryogenesis, little is known about the minimal conditions and factors that would be sufficient to instruct pluripotent cells to organize the embryo," but now two growth factors have been identified to direct an embryo. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6179/87.long View in LinkedIn

CHIMERIC STEM CELLS TO GROW ORGANS IN PIGS. "If all goes according to plan, professor Hiroshi Nagashima's genetically-engineered pigs will grow up with functional organs. A few of those body parts, though, will have the genetic makeup of a human. In essence, they'll be mostly swine, partly human." http://lnkd.in/bwV3f2q View in LinkedIn

STEM CELL KIDNEY: IN MEDICAL USE IN FORESEEABLE FUTURE. http://lnkd.in/bwvEaxQ View in LinkedIn

BRAIN ORGANOIDS GROWN FROM STEM CELLS. "Ear, eye, liver, windpipe, bladder and even a heart. The list of body parts grown from stem cells is getting longer and longer. Now add to it one of the most complex organs: the brain. In eight to 10 days, the stem cells turned into brain cells." http://lnkd.in/bg_fA5J View in LinkedIn

DENTAL PULP STEM CELLS. "More recently a subpopulation of dental pulp stem cells has been described as human Immature Dental Pulp Stem Cells (IDPSC) ... Through the addition of tissue-specific cytokines, differentiated cells were obtained in vitro from these cells, not only of mesenchymal linage but also of endo- and ecto-dermal lineage." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_pulp_stem_cells View in LinkedIn

NEW TEETH FROM STEM CELLS. "So far, teeth have been regenerated in mice and monkeys, and clinical trials with humans are underway, but whether the technology can generate teeth that are nourished by the blood and have full sensations remains to be seen." http://lnkd.in/bZeuY5P View in LinkedIn