Scientists to create iPS cells from Japanese patients
The Yomiuri Shimbun
A group of researchers including Kyoto University Prof. Shinya
Yamanaka that successfully developed induced pluripotent stem cells,
or iPS cells, plans to create iPS cells from the cells of Japanese
patients suffering from about 10 intractable and incurable diseases,
including muscular dystrophy, it has been learned.
The researchers are set to apply to an in-house ethics committee for
permission to begin the project and start work on research including
developing new medicines using iPS cells as early as April.
Cell deterioration is usually studied to determine the cause of a
particular ailment. But if the team can create iPS cells from
patients' cells and transform them into sick ones, they will be able
to elucidate the mechanism by which healthy cells degenerate.
According to Kyoto University Prof. Tatsutoshi Nakahata, who
represents the group, and Yamanaka, who held a press conference in
Kawasaki where he gave a lecture Saturday, targeted diseases include
juvenile diabetes, muscular dystrophy, neurodegenerating diseases and
congenital anemia. The team will invite patients at Kyoto University
Hospital to donate cells for use in the research.
Cells will be extracted from patients' skin, blood lymphocytes,
gastric mucosae and other sources. The group will compare iPS cells
created from cells of healthy people with those created from sick
cells.
Yamanaka created iPS cells from Americans' cells. But Japanese
patients' cells will be used for this research project as the effects
and side effects of therapies differ among races.
(Mar. 10, 2008)
http://www.yomiuri.
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