{"id":70980,"date":"2017-07-17T20:42:40","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T03:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/a-new-technique-transforms-human-skin-into-brain-cells"},"modified":"2017-07-25T06:01:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T13:01:11","slug":"a-new-technique-transforms-human-skin-into-brain-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/a-new-technique-transforms-human-skin-into-brain-cells","title":{"rendered":"A New Technique Transforms Human Skin Into Brain Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iKwO_ahjy0s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMicroglia play an important role in Alzheimer\u2019s and other diseases of the central nervous system. Recent research has revealed that newly discovered Alzheimer\u2019s-risk genes influence microglia behavior,\u201d Jones said in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newswise.com\/articles\/view\/673555\/?sc=rsmn\" target=\"_blank\">an interview for a UCI press release<\/a>. \u201cUsing these cells, we can understand the biology of these genes and test potential new therapies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>A Renewable Method<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The skin cells had been donated by patients from UCI\u2019s Alzheimer\u2019s Disease Research Center. These were first subjected to a genetic process to convert them into <a href=\"https:\/\/stemcell.ucla.edu\/induced-pluripotent-stem-cells\">induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells<\/a> \u2014 adult cells modified to behave as an embryonic stem cell, allowing them to become other kinds of cells. These iPS cells were then exposed to differentiation factors designed to imitate the environment of developing microglia, which transformed them into the brain cells.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/a-new-technique-transforms-human-skin-into-brain-cells\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/a-new-technique-transforms-human-skin-into-brain-cells\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMicroglia play an important role in Alzheimer\u2019s and other diseases of the central nervous system. Recent research has revealed that newly discovered Alzheimer\u2019s-risk genes influence microglia behavior,\u201d Jones said in an interview for a UCI press release. \u201cUsing these cells, we can understand the biology of these genes and test potential new therapies.\u201d A Renewable [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70980","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71153,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70980\/revisions\/71153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}