The role of growth factors in pluripotency and differentiation of human embryonic stem cells towards human therapy

在严格的伦理准则下获得和研究的人类干细胞，在增加我们对早期人类发育和移植治疗的理解方面具有巨大的潜力。为了实现这一潜力，必须了解维持这些细胞作为干细胞（能够无限分裂并成为任何细胞类型）并将其转化为特定细胞类型的因素。该项目旨在研究这些因素，并将干细胞应用于肌肉疾病治疗。

Human stem cells, obtained and studied within strict ethical guidelines, have huge potential for increasing our understanding of early human development and for transplantation therapy. In order to realise this potential the factors that maintain these cells as stem cells (able to divide indefinitely and to become any cell type) and which turn them into particular cell types must be understood. This project aims to study these factors and to apply stem cells to muscle disease therapy.