| 1 | UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center | Understanding and optimizing stem cell reprogramming | Shan Sabri | 561 | 7 | 2 | 62.2 | positive | 1:04 | [Music] my work aims to better understand the process of stem-cell reprogramming which is the process of creating stem cells from other cells of the body now stem cells could one day be used to help repair the body but this still remains some issues holding them back for being used in the clinical setting now while we've shown that we can alter the fate of a cell we tend to have a small understanding of how to control that fate my goal is to connect the dots between say are starting cells and our end state stem cells so I'm currently writing a computer program to find patterns throughout this process using a new technology that gathers a ton of information from thousands of individual cells now with these patterns we can better understand the reprogramming process and a results will ultimately help researchers better find to their stem cell techniques for more practical uses in a clinical setting [Music] you | ↗ |