Word: eggan
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...week’s story about the successful transplantation of a windpipe grown from stem cells. But while transplantation is “a very exciting application of stem cells,” it is not a solution for many diseases, as stem cell and regenerative biology professor Kevin Eggan said in a talk last night, titled “Using Stem Cells and Reprogramming to Model Neural Degeneration.” For example, he said it is difficult to imagine growing a new forebrain in the case of Alzheimer’s Disease, which is effectively what would need...
...need to compare these cells we've generated to the gold-standard cells we've generated from human embryonic stem cells," Eggan said. "Until we can do that, we won't have complete confidence...
...Eggan said that Massachusetts law prohibiting compensation of human egg donors had stymied his lab's efforts to study the disease...
...spent roughly $100,000 on advertising," Eggan said. "We've only had one woman follow through and go through the considerable effort of donating oocytes [egg cells] for research. I would characterize the number of oocytes she donated as a handful. And the results we had from those very few initial experiments were encouraging, but there's no sign of additional donors in sight...
...addition, the stem cells are specific to only a certain type of the disease, which afflicts less than five percent of sufferers, Eggan said. But the study authors said research on this less-common variant could have broader applications, if, as they hope, the disease mechanism is similar for most or all types of Lou Gehrig's disease despite different initial triggers in the vast majority of ALS patients...