The vast majority of fatal diseases (including cancer) could be solved through treatment with stem cells , which have the capacity to self-renew or differentiate to produce various types of mature tissues and functional. However, there is a major obstacle because of the ethics of extracting them from human embryos, especially by religious organizations (including the fact that such treatments are experimental period .)
All in all, a group of scientists Max Planck Institute of Molecular Genetics of Germany has managed to reduce this barrier, with the discovery of the conversion of cells from amniotic fluid (fluid surrounding the fetus in the womb) in pluripotent stem cells (can not form a body full, but any other cell type and cell lines).
The biggest advantage involving embryonic stem cells is that they have the ability to quickly become any other cell type (such as liver cell, the hair ...), through a process called reprogramming (induction of genes, what to become pluripotent). However, with this research, we discovered that cells extracted from amniotic fluid have the same characteristics that make them into cells with other functions. Furthermore, its extraction is relatively simple, since in the prenatal checkups collect more than necessary. On the other hand, when fresh cells not only have mutations in their genes.
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| conversion process amniotic cells into other cells. Source: Max Planck Institute. |
This group of scientists is deep in research on stem cells, which make large and beneficial results like this. So much so, that their findings have been published in the journal PlosOne .
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