IPS Cell Research Center at Kyoto University, Japan

the "iPS Cell (also known as induced pluripotent stem cell) Research Center" established on the 22nd, led by iPS cell culturer, Kyoto University Professor Yamanaka, will carry out a lot of work on iPS cells from basic research to clinical applications" The iPS Cell Research Center has a number of research groups, including several dedicated teams of scientific and technical personnel selected from Japan and abroad, including Yamanaka, and several part-time teams of researchers from Kyoto UniversityYamanaka will lead a group to study how to induce iPS cells to differentiate into various other cells and tissues, and demonstrate whether these cells and tissues are safe for the human bodyIn addition, Professor Zefang Shu, a professor at Osaka University who has restored the function of the patient's heart muscle with the patient's leg cells, will work with the above-mentioned center to study iPS cellsZefangshu cultured a cell film in 2007 with the leg cells of a 56-year-old dilated cardiomyopathy patient, which restored the patient's weakly shrunkenheart, but the membrane could not differentiate into the heart muscleThe switch to iPS cells is expected to produce high-quality myocardial cells, Zefangshu saidYamanaka's team reported on November 20 last year that the team had implanted four recoded genes into human skin cells that function edited like embryonic stem cells, known as iPS cellsOn the same day, a team at the University of Wisconsin in the United States reported much the same resultsThis iPS cell synthesis technique was named the first and second largest scientific advances in 2007 by the authoritative scientific journals Nature and Science, respectively(Money)