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Studies from C.F. Chang et al add new findings in the area of gene therapy

Published in Blood Weekly, November 6th, 2008

According to recent research from Taipei, Taiwan, "Multipotential mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) isolated front bone marrow can differentiate into multiple mesenchymal tissues and exhibit a neuronal phenotype under appropriate induction conditions. Methods promoting neural differentiation have been adapted to derive insulin producing cells (IPCs) from embryonic stem cells, but it remains unclear whether neuronal cell-based differentiation method swill be able to derive IPCs from MSCs."

"Using a four-stage differentiation protocol which contains neuronal differentiation factor and WC-conversion reagent-nicotinamide, the potential of human MSCs to differentiate into IPCs...

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