Study of TBX3 Function in human Embryo Stem (hES) Cell
Differentiation and Identification of Genome-Wide TBX3 Promoter
Binding-Sites with the CHIP-GLAS Promoter Array Stem cells can
develop into every cell, every tissue and every organ in the
human body, e.g. they can make any kind of cells in the human
body. Stem cells reproduce themselves many times over and over.
Their almost limitless potential has made stem cells a
significant focus of medical research. But before scientists can
use stem cells for medical purposes, they must first learn how
to harness their power. They can't treat disease until they
learn how to manipulate stem cells to get them to develop into
specific tissues or organs. We would like to be able to grow a
particular type of cell in the laboratory and then inject it
into a patient, where it would replace diseased tissue. But stem
cells are not yet being used to treat disease because we still
haven't learned how to direct a stem cell to differentiate into
a specific tissue or cell type (b