| 1 | SF Business Times | Shinya Yamanaka explains induced pluripotent stem cells | 47932 | 347 | 29 | 59.6 | positive | 2:17 | Great. So I guess first of all if you can explain in a understandable way as somewhat scientific but also understandable for my readers and viewers what are induced chloropotent stem cells. So can I say just IPS cells? Yes, so IPS cells are very similar to ES cells and Bureonic stem cells but it's not from Enriots but from skin cells or blood cells, body cells. So we don't have to use Enriots. Instead we can make IPS cells from patients on cells and from IPS cells we can make variety of cells. Virtually all types of cells that exist in a body like heart cells, brain cells, muscle cells. Those cells we can use in many medical applications such as drug discovery and also regenerating medicine. So that's but IPS cells are. How are those developed? How did you come across this in the world? So we knew we should be able to make IPS cells from skin cells. We can we should be able to convert skin cells into back into embryonic state. You know, about a very famous sheep, right? So she was born by a re-programming of somatic cells back into the embryonic state. So from that experiment we learned that we should be able to convert somatic cells back into... | ↗ |