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A Sweet Success for Embryonic Stem Cells

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Scientists have for the first time prodded human embryonic stem cells to become functional pancreatic cells. The work, published online today in Nature Biotechnology, marks an important step toward using embryonic stem cells to treat diabetes.

 
Darkfrog commented 8 months ago - Re: A Sweet Success for Embryonic Stem Cells
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It says that the cells still form tumors occasionally. Are there any plans to deal with that?
davidd commented 8 months ago - Re: Re: A Sweet Success for Embryonic Stem Cells
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I have not got the betta cell form human embryonic cell is still form tumors occasionally.
The human embryonic cell differentiates to betta cells is not successful directly. However, they differentiate the huamn embryonic cell to pancreatic endoderm and implanted these still-immature cells into mice. Eventually, the mice without their own betta cell can produce insulin. I think they get no information about the right signal to differentiate the huamn embryonic cell to betta cells. However, it is a great result.
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