诱导能干细胞还可实现另一种可能,即从患有特定疾病尤其是与基因有关的疾病的患者身上获得诱导能干细胞,然后使其转变成受该疾病影响的特定细胞。
Several groups of researchers have used disease-prone cells created in this way to explorehow the disease in question develops, and whether it succumbs to drugs.
有几个研究小组已利用这种疾病倾向细胞来探索疾病的发展及药物的有效性。
George Daley, of Harvard University, is one of the most enthusiastic explorers of thesedisease in a dish models.
哈弗大学的乔治?戴利是最热衷于这些皿中疾病的研究者之一。
In 2008 he created stem-cell lines from people with ten different conditions, includingDown s syndrome, juvenile diabetes and Parkinson s disease.
2008年他从十种不同疾病包括唐氏综合征、青少年型糖尿病及帕金森病的患者身上获得干细胞株。
Such models are hardly foolproofDr Daley himself acknowledges that the technology is stillin its infancybut eventually they may bring new drugs.
这些模型难免存在差错戴利博士也承这一技术还处于起步阶段,但最终它们可能带来新药。
iPierian, a company that Dr Daley helped found, has used iPS cells to develop two antibodiesthat might be used to attack tau, a protein implicated in Alzheimer s disease, and also toclear up inflammation linked with Alzheimer s and other neurodegenerative conditions.
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