STAP Cell, It is just so amazing! No! More than amazing! You might be able to become younger!!!

STAP Cell From Youtube

RIKEN (is Japan's largest comprehensive research institution renowned for high-quality research in a diverse range of scientific disciplines.) has successfully created a new "embryo-stem cell". Simply stimulated with mildly acidic liquid, the cells of the body of the mouse change to the ES cell that can become any cell. 

People didn't believe that the cells of the body that a role is stated once can not change to the ES cell. It's a breakthrough to overturn the common sense of the life sciences! It was published as a lead story of the British science journal Nature electronic version on 29th.

Ms. Haruko Obogata (30) is an unit leader of  the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB) who has named STAP (Stimulus-Triggered Acquisition of Pluripotency) cell for the new embryo-stem cell.

Ms. Haruko Obogata From Youtube

She made STAP cell just 3 years after she got her PhD. It can be made more easily than iPS cells and the safety is excellent. To reshape the ES cell and the cells of the body, it is necessary to revert the cells to the state of a fertilized egg in the task of initialization. iPS cells initialize by introducing a gene. But STAP cell is simply immerse in acidic solution.

It was denied once from Nature. They said, "You are taunt the history of the cell biology of hundreds of years". "It's a mistake, I'm sure." Some researchers around were also puzzled, but she had a great deal of conviction that "It is useful for people always". She said, "I wanted quit my research and cried all night long many times. But I tried to work hard for just one day, today and just tomorrow. And I realized five years had passed. " She is very active person and a poor loser. She goes the limit. 

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She is very unique person. She doesn't wear a doctor's smock. She wears her grandmother's Japanese cooking apron. And her laboratory is very cute. She likes Moomin and turtle. 

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 There is Moomin's character on her lab's the wall. She said, "I feel lonely when I do experiments by myself, so the character helps me. "

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 This is her turtle in her lab.

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Only women are in her lab, I guess.

Still she has to try to make STAP cell by human cells, but I'm sure she can do it and it will help us a lot! This technology that the old cell reshapes to a younger cell. So If we can use this STAP cell, simply we can become younger! Oh my god! 

I want to write how come she could make STAP cell next time. She is just amazing. And RIKEN too!

Next article > [STAP Cell > easy explanation] Does it really exist? Nobody knows except researchers. But I still believe there is a hope.


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