{"id":1043100,"date":"2011-05-01T15:51:47","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T15:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longevitymedicine.tv\/a-stable-self-renewing-supply-of-neural-stem-cells\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T17:02:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T21:02:07","slug":"a-stable-self-renewing-supply-of-neural-stem-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/longevity-medicine\/a-stable-self-renewing-supply-of-neural-stem-cells.php","title":{"rendered":"A Stable, Self-Renewing Supply of Neural Stem Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News from the field of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stem_cell\">stem cell<\/a> research: \"researchers [report] a game-changing advance in stem cell science: the creation of long-term, self-renewing, primitive neural precursor cells from human <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Embryonic_stem_cell\">embryonic stem cells (hESCs)<\/a> that can be directed to become many types of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neuron\">neuron<\/a> without increased risk of tumor formation. ... It means we can generate stable, renewable neural stem cells or downstream products quickly, in great quantities and in a clinical grade - millions in less than a week - that can be used for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clinical_trial\">clinical trials<\/a> and, eventually, for clinical treatments. Until now, that has not been possible. ... Human embryonic stem cells hold great promise in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fightaging.org\/archives\/2003\/11\/stem-cells-regenerative-medicine-and-tissue-engineering.php\">regenerative medicine<\/a> due to their ability to become any kind of cell needed to repair and restore damaged tissues. But the potential of hESCs has been constrained by a number of practical problems, not least among them the difficulty of growing sufficient quantities of stable, usable cells and the risk that some of these cells might form tumors. ... [Researchers] added small molecules in a chemically defined culture condition that induces hESCs to become primitive neural precursor cells, but then halts the further <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cell_differentiation\">differentiation<\/a> process. ... And because it doesn't use any <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gene_therapy\">gene transfer technologies<\/a> or exogenous cell products, there's minimal risk of introducing mutations or outside contamination.\"<\/p>\n<p><span>Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2011\/04\/110425153554.htm\">http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2011\/04\/110425153554.htm<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News from the field of stem cell research: \"researchers [report] a game-changing advance in stem cell science: the creation of long-term, self-renewing, primitive neural precursor cells from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) that can be directed to become many types &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/longevity-medicine\/a-stable-self-renewing-supply-of-neural-stem-cells.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1246678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-longevity-medicine"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}