{"id":173082,"date":"2023-09-29T11:17:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T16:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/scientists-find-way-to-wipe-a-cells-memory-to-better-reprogram-it-as-a-stem-cell"},"modified":"2023-09-29T11:17:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T16:17:49","slug":"scientists-find-way-to-wipe-a-cells-memory-to-better-reprogram-it-as-a-stem-cell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/scientists-find-way-to-wipe-a-cells-memory-to-better-reprogram-it-as-a-stem-cell","title":{"rendered":"Scientists find way to wipe a cell\u2019s memory to better reprogram it as a stem cell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-find-way-to-wipe-a-cells-memory-to-better-reprogram-it-as-a-stem-cell2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a groundbreaking study published today in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-023-06424-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external\" class=\"\"><em>Nature<\/em><\/a>, Australian scientists have resolved a long-standing problem in regenerative medicine. Led by Professor Ryan Lister from the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research and The University of Western Australia and Professor Jose M Polo from Monash University and the University of Adelaide, the team developed a new method to reprogram human cells to better mimic embryonic stem cells, with significant implications for biomedical and therapeutic uses.<\/p>\n<p>In a revolutionary advance in the mid-2000s, it was discovered that the non-reproductive adult cells of the body, called \u2018somatic\u2019 cells, could be artificially reprogrammed into a state that resembles embryonic stem (ES) cells which have the capacity to then generate any cell of the body.<\/p>\n<p>The ability to artificially reprogram human somatic cells, such as skin cells, into these so-called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells provided a way to make an essentially unlimited supply of ES-like cells, with widespread applications in disease modelling, drug screening and cell-based therapies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a groundbreaking study published today in Nature, Australian scientists have resolved a long-standing problem in regenerative medicine. Led by Professor Ryan Lister from the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research and The University of Western Australia and Professor Jose M Polo from Monash University and the University of Adelaide, the team developed a new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}