The Chinese research team found that the drug combination that can induce all -around stem cells

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 22 (Reporter Peng Qian) From cloned technology to regeneration medicine, how to create or restore life in other ways other than the natural giving birth of reproductive cells is a hot issue for exploring life science. The latest research of Chinese scientists has found a new drug combination that can specifically induce all -around stem cells with a complete and organic potential.

Almighty stem cells refer to stem cells that have a full part of potential and can be differentiated into all embryo and external tissues and organs. Professor Ding Sheng, Dean of the School of Pharmacy of Tsinghua University, and his team for the first time discovered a drug combination that can targeted and stabilize all -around stem cells in vitro. Related research has been published online on the 21st in the British "Nature" magazine.

The research team selected and screening thousands of small molecular drug combinations. Through multiple rounds of analysis, the combination of three small molecules -TAW cocktail drug combinations can induce mice to induce multi -functional stem cells with omnidirectional characteristics. Each letter in TAW represents a molecule that regulates the fate of specific cells, and new studies have found that they induce the combination of all -around stem cells.

The research team tested the differentiated potential of stem cells after TAW -induced stem cells in the early embryos of the body and mice. It was found that these cells not only showed the characteristics of all -around stem cells in the cultural dish, but also differentiated into the body into the embryo and the embryo outside the embryo. The spectrum system has the potential to develop into a fetus and surrounding cycles and placenta.

In an interview with reporters, Ding Sheng said that this shows that researchers can maintain the omnidirectional (embryonic and outerization potential) of cells in the laboratory, providing a stable system for subsequent research, so that more about more about the about Scientific research of the origin of life becomes possible.

[Editor in charge: Liu Yang]

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