Bones can host mini medicine factories

• Autores: Linda Geddes
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2935, 2013, pág. 10
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In 2009, David Baltimore and colleagues at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena showed that stem cells from bone marrow could be engineered to develop into B-cells that made antibodies against HIV. The Immusoft researchers have built on that work, extracting immature B-cells called plasmoblasts from human blood and treating them with a virus that inserts the genetic code for a new protein. Ultimately, it might be possible to engineer B-cells to churn out any protein of choice. They could boost levels of hormones that fall as people age, protects brain cells against Alzheimer's disease, and is present at higher than average levels in people who live to be 100.