Fewer cells from the stressed rodents were programmed to become neurons, while many were set on the path to becoming insulation-generating cells, the data showed.
Anand claims to have created the brain by converting adult skin cells into pluripotent cells: stem cells that can be programmed to become any tissue in the body.
In "The Bourne Identity" (and "Supremacy"), as in "The Manchurian Candidate," men are programmed to become killers, suggesting that one theme in these ambivalently bellicose times is how do you turn a nice liberal boy -- Matt Damon, Liev Schreiber -- into a murderer?
An individual's iPSCs can be programmed to become gut epithelial cells or liver hepatocytes using FGF/BMP-induced differentiation.
Their computers are programmed to become sentient in the event that Larry and Sergey leave the planet for Mars.
- Layers of Use - the water feature can be programmed to become a stage for performances or an auditorium facing the Council House.
The retina, which he describes as a "mini-brain that processes an image in a number of ways," may provide answers about how the human brain is built, he contends, revealing how embryonic cells make the right connections and are programmed to become the mature cells that they ultimately become.
Not surprisingly then, the two things that we are programmed to become most personally attached to are our cars and phones.
For much of that time, the team has concentrated on adult stem cells, which, through careful manipulation, can be programmed to become other types of cells.
Thanks to an incessant barrage of ads and messages that are controlled by a thousand unseen reputation management operatives, we're programmed to become unquestioning consumers, to obediently and uncritically buy, buy, buy.
