{"id":317671,"date":"2010-02-11T18:06:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T23:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=22022"},"modified":"2010-02-11T18:06:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T23:06:12","slug":"artificial-stem-cells-researchers-transform-a-skin-cell-into-a-nerve-cell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/317671","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Stem Cells? Researchers Transform A Skin Cell Into A Nerve Cell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/hplusmagazine.com\/editors-blog\/how-change-skin-cell-nerve-cell-or-cellular-anarchy-great-leap-sideways\">h+ magazine<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Stanford researchers <a href=\"http:\/\/hplusmagazine.com\/editors-blog\/how-change-skin-cell-nerve-cell-or-cellular-anarchy-great-leap-sideways\">just changed a skin cell into a nerve cell.<\/a> &#8220;Only stem cells have been known to do this&#8230; The direct conversion of one terminally differentiated cell to another changes the facts, and shakes our understanding &#8211; implying that, just maybe, under the right conditions, all cells are pluripotent: with the proper tools, all types of cells may form all types of cells&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is much to hope for as we discover this great leap sideways&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The team bathed skin cells in &#8220;delivery viruses&#8221; containing proteins to trigger a neuron-specific DNA sequence, and discovered the skin cells changed completely \u2014 growing rounder, extending axon-like processes and even forming functional synapses&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This article suggests ultimately research in this field &#8220;could lead to revolutionary progress in the fight against Parkinson&#8217;s, Alzheimer&#8217;s, and neurodegenerative&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via h+ magazine: Stanford researchers just changed a skin cell into a nerve cell. &#8220;Only stem cells have been known to do this&#8230; The direct conversion of one terminally differentiated cell to another changes the facts, and shakes our understanding &#8211; implying that, just maybe, under the right conditions, all cells are pluripotent: with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}