Scientists get liver cells created from human skin.

London, Aug 25 .- A group of scientists from the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) has managed to create liver cells from the reprogramming of skin cells from ten donors, which opens the door to new treatments for diseases affecting the liver.

Tissue samples of donors, seven with liver disease and three healthy, served as a starting point for induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS, in, ffxiv gil, its English acronym).

This cell type shares certain characteristics with embryonic stem cells have the ability to become any tissue in the body.

IPS cells to transform into liver tissue, the researchers used a series of chemical components, in the case of samples taken from sick patients, the cells were able to reproduce the different types of pathologies of the donors.

Scientists, star trek online gold, believe that this development may serve not only for the investigation of liver diseases through the reproduction of them in the laboratory, but also could be key to the creation of tissue to help repair damage caused by pathologies as cirrhosis, hepatitis or liver cancer.

One of the researchers, Ludovic Vallier, the center of stem cell research, gaia gold, at the University of Cambridge, says that this work represents "a major step in deciding the clinical potential of stem cells" but cautioned that more studies are still needed to get develop effective treatments.

The research on liver-related diseases often encounter the difficulty that the liver cells known as hepatocytes, can not reproduce in the lab, so this study, which opens the possibility of creating hepatocytes from stem cells, facilitate the investigation and the testing of new treatments.

Furthermore, researchers might even be personalized treatments with the creation of hepatic tissue samples from patient's own skin, reducing rejects.