Re: San Francisco Chronicle of March 6 in the Business section Researchers unlock secret of producing specialized cells
In a scientific first, a reserch team at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and UCSF demonstrated that small regulatory molecules called micro RNAs can influence embriyonic stem cells to produce heart muscle cells. The study, published Wednesday in the journal Cell Stem Cell, suggests that the hundreds of different microRNAs naturally occurring in the body could provide key tools to control the differentiation of stem cells into the more specific cell types needed to treat ailmets such as heart defects and spinal cord injuries. And so on and so forth........... Comments?
