Japanese scientists create a bank offering a new type of stem cell

To save the formation of the bank to a new type of stem cells from the skin donors, can help reduce the time and cost to the patient in regenerative medicine in the future, the Japanese scientists said on Wednesday. Shinya Yamanaka (Shinya Yamanaka) of Kyoto University in Japan, led by two groups of researchers who work in November about the possibility of the transformation of normal skin cells similar to embryonic stem cells, but without using the technique of vegetative propagation of the human embryo announced. A new type of stem cells, as induced pluripotent stem cells (induced pluripotent stem cells - iPS cells) - the hope of regenerative medicine. But according to scientists, will take years before the time when it will be possible to use these cells in humans. The idea of creating a bank of iPS cells is that they reduce the cost of the treatment and the time needed to produce a new type of stem cells, which hope Yamanaka (Yamanaka) scientists that iPS cells in the study diseases and the treatment of people with diseases such as Parkinson's disease and diabetes help.