According to scientists from Harvard, some new stems cells for 10 genetic disorders have been created and these stems cells will allow researchers to observe the development of some disease in a lab dish.
It will help scientists to speed up their efforts to find treatments for some confounding ailments.
The new work has been reported online in the journal Cell and according to researchers they are planning to make these cell lines available to other researchers and scientists soon.
To produce these stem cells, the scientists at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute used common skin cells and bone marrow from those people who had different disease like Down syndrome, Huntington’s and Parkinson’s.
“With the help of these new cells the researchers will be able to observe the progress of disease in a dish and they would judge what’s going wrong and what’s right,” said Doug Melton, co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell institute.
“In the coming years this will open the door to a new method for the treatment of degenerative diseases,” he added.
The cells are reprogrammed under this new technique by giving them the chameleon-like traits of developing stem cells that can be transformed into almost all sorts of tissue like heart, brain and nerve.
The scientists are quite hopeful that it will help a lot to speed up medical research regarding different diseases.
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My grandchild has phelan mcdermid syndrome and autism. Are there any trials we can get her in?