{"id":427,"date":"2012-12-31T02:52:20","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T02:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/?p=427"},"modified":"2012-12-31T02:52:20","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T02:52:20","slug":"need-a-neuron-make-it-out-of-urine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/2012\/12\/31\/need-a-neuron-make-it-out-of-urine\/","title":{"rendered":"Need a neuron? Make it out of urine!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Really, really interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nmeth\/journal\/v10\/n1\/full\/nmeth.2283.html\">new report<\/a> in Nature Methods about work from a team at the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health in China, who &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/brain-cells-made-from-urine-1.11985\">have found a relatively straightforward way to persuade the cells discarded in human urine to turn into valuable neurons.<\/a>&#8221; From the abstract:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Human neural stem cells hold great promise for research and therapy in neural disease. We describe the generation of integration-free and expandable human neural progenitor cells (NPCs). We combined an episomal system to deliver reprogramming factors with a chemically defined culture medium to reprogram epithelial-like cells from human urine into NPCs (hUiNPCs). These transgene-free hUiNPCs can self-renew and can differentiate into multiple functional neuronal subtypes and glial cells <em>in vitro<\/em>. Although functional <em>in vivo<\/em> analysis is still needed, we report that the cells survive and differentiate upon transplant into newborn rat brain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amazing times we live in, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really, really interesting new report in Nature Methods about work from a team at the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}