{"id":4415,"date":"2015-11-12T09:31:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T14:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4415"},"modified":"2015-11-12T15:10:22","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T20:10:22","slug":"repairing-dna-in-a-matter-of-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/repairing-dna-in-a-matter-of-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Repairing DNA in a matter of weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reprogramming and genetically correcting stem cells can be achieved in as little as two weeks thanks to a new technique. This advance could offer potential therapies for individuals with a range of genetic disorders. Previous techniques to create stem cells from a patient\u2019s tissue and reprogram the stem cell to remove a negative mutation took more than three months.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers believe this will have immediate implications for future research in regenerative medicine, and could potentially advance transplant medicine by making gene-corrected cells available to patients quicker and at a lower cost.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers wish to adapt the technique to work with blood samples to further reduce the time needed to create stem cells from specialized tissues.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/stem-cell-reports\/pdf\/S2213-6711(15)00306-9.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>Stem Cell Reports\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>November 11<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0author<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sara Howden, Murdoch Children&#8217;s Research Institute, Australian Regenerative Medicine Unit, Monash University, Victoria, Australia<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reprogramming and genetically correcting stem cells can be achieved in as little as two weeks thanks to a new technique. This advance could offer potential therapies for individuals with a range of genetic disorders. Previous techniques to create stem cells from a patient\u2019s tissue and reprogram the stem cell to remove a negative mutation took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1274,909,51,53,1288],"class_list":["post-4415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-dna","tag-genetics","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-stem-cells"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-19d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4433,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4415\/revisions\/4433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}