New all-round stem-cell research of global competition

New all-round stem-cell research of global competition
According to the report of Beijing (Xinhua) the 2nd August embryo's stem cell has been a headliner in the stem-cell research all the time, because it can divide into various organ cells, has the most extensive development potentiality. By the look of technological angle, " all-round " Embryo stem cell to therapeutic cloning top ideal.

However, touch ethics and morals because of human embryo's stem-cell research, is forbidden in a lot of countries by the law, relevant research is in the condition in a dilemma too, stem-cell research demands urgently to break out of the encirclement.

In 2007, Japan and American scientist claim respectively to find that turns ordinary skin cells into the stem cell method, the stem cell that gets like this has function similar to embryo's stem cell, known as inducing the multi-functional stem cell, have another name called iPS cells. This discovery is chosen as the great science progress that year by two major authority scientific magazines of " Nature " and " science " separately.

IPS cells are " Initialisation " And then ordinary for body cell,but have with embryo stem cell similar function, can split up and produce various tissue cells. More important, it gets around a great deal of obstacles of ethics and law,etc. faced all the time in embryo's stem-cell research, the application prospect of the medical field is very broad. It is tantamount to that this discovery is cloning the research field " The ingenious military move breaks out of the encirclement " . A lot of countries such as U.S.A., Japan are with great enthusiasm even more, or increase input, or make the encouragement policies, promote this new developing stem-cell research.

Zhou Qi says, in fact, Chinese stem cell's basic research and application study relatively start early when being interviewed by reporter of Xinhua News Agency, after 2001, the great research project correlated to stem cell was no less than 20. In addition, the energetical support that the country has also offered in researching and developing the networking, talent and building, studying the platform and putting up etc., have established the foundation for the advantage status in this research field of China.

High to continue the honour, say iPS cell have getting all-round comments to the intersection of Xinhua News Agency and reporter even, totally get the cells of ability through operating outside the body and split up with embryo's stem cell too, this will expand the application prospect of iPS cells greatly. This achievement is to march toward a great step in the real medical course from stem-cell research, clinical application study such as all-round mechanism research and organ transplant, medicine screening, gene therapy to stem cell have important value.



New all-round stem-cell research of global competition