Scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have overcome one of the greatest challenges in biology and taken a major step toward being able to grow whole organs and tissues from stem cells. By manipulating the appropriate signaling, the U.Va. researchers have turned embryonic stem cells into a fish embryo, essentially controlling embryonic development.
The research will have dramatic impact on the future use of stem cells to better the human condition, providing a framework for future studies in the field of regenerative medicine aimed at constructing tissues and organs from populations of cultured pluripotent cells.
In accomplishing this, U.Va. scientists Bernard and Chris Thisse have overcome the most massive of biological barriers. We have generated an animal by just instructing embryonic cells the right way, said Chris Thisse of the School of Medicines Department of Cell Biology.
The importance of that is profound. If we know how to instruct embryonic cells, she said, we can pretty much do what we want. For example, scientists will be able one day to instruct stem cells to grow into organs needed for transplant.
Directing Embryonic Development
The researchers were able to identify the signals sufficient for starting the cascade of molecular and cellular processes that lead to a fully developed fish embryo. With this study came an answer to the longstanding question of how few signals can initiate the processes of development: amazingly, only two.
The study has shed light on the important roles these two signals play for the formation of organs and full development of a zebrafish embryo. Moreover, the Thisses are now able to direct embryonic development and formation of tissues and organs by controlling signal locations and concentrations.
The embryo they generated was smaller than a normal embryo, because they instructed a small pool of embryonic stem cells, but otherwise he has everything in terms of appropriate development, said Bernard Thisse of the Department of Cell Biology.
Their next steps will be to attempt to reproduce their findings using mice. They expect molecular and cellular mechanisms will be extremely similar in mice and other mammals including humans.
The findings have been published online by Science and will appear in a forthcoming print edition of the prestigious journal. The article was written by U.Va.s Peng-Fei Xu, Nathalie Houssin, Karine F. Ferri-Lagneau, Bernard Thisse and Christine Thisse.
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