A study conducted by a team from Adenberh to it for the first time is being monitored bacterial infection which is operating in the science, "Alchemy vital" to convert parts of a host objects to other parts fit for purpose.
The study, published in the journal "Journal Cell", the bacterium that causes leprosy, a convert nerve stem cells and muscles.
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The study authors said that that method can "Intelligent and Advanced" to help in the treatment and stem cell research. Experts described the study as the discovery of "a wonderful and exciting."
It may be alchemy experts had failed to turn base metals into gold, but the team from the University of Adenberh able to reach that bacteria can operate to transform parts of the body to something that may be of greater value to them.
This is a milestone achieved by scientists in the lab, where skin cells turned into a flexible stem cells that can become part of the structural Ketlat in the body from the heart muscle and the end of brain cells.
Anura Rambuchana said, one of the researchers: "Since it can exploit the cells of our bodies, so why not take advantage of bacteria that then?"
The experiments showed that in rats and cells that grow in the laboratory that leprosy bacteria infected neurons. During several weeks, began to destroy bacteria nerves to reach their goals are, and changed the chemical characteristics of these cells to become stem cells.
On the contrary nerves static, these cells can grow and spread in the body.
And said Rambuchana: "That is the type of stem cells that originated from within the body's own tissue, so the immune system does not pay attention to it, and can move to any part of the body unchecked."
And those cells can harbor to muscle tissue and turn into muscle cells.
The Rambuchana stressed that this discovery may أذهلهم.
He said: "This is the first time that shows us where the ability of bacterial infection on the formation of stem cells, that this is the most important thing."
"Alchemy"
The Rambuchana hopes that the results of that discovery to an increase in the understanding of leprosy and to find new ways to develop stem cells that would be a goal in the future treatment approaches for a number of diseases.
As Rambuchana believe it "likely" that there will be other types of bacteria have worked on the development of the same capacity in reprogramming the host body.
For his part, said Chris Mason, a professor and specialist in stem cell research at the London university The ability of bacteria to convert one type of mammalian cells to another is a matter of basically the ancient knowledge of chemistry.
He added: "As this startling discovery is still limited to the model mice, it highlights the complexity of the interactions between mammals and bacteria, and the ingenuity of scientists in the detection mechanisms of the disease, which was considered a decade ago from the ideas of science fiction."
He added: "The next essential step is to translate this information valuable to the material benefits for patients, a process that could take a decade to be absorbed their relationship to clinical medicine."
As Diana Lockwood, a professor at the University of London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said this discovery it "interesting and exciting for the attention."
However, it warned that there was "a big gap between that and the clinical leprosy", stressing that they do not think that that experience may lead to the emergence of new types of treatment.
Said Rob eating, Professor and Chairman, Department of Regenerative Medicine Medical Research Institute: "This discovery is of great importance, not on the level of understanding and treatment of bacterial diseases, but will also have an impact on the field of regenerative medicine, which is witnessing rapid developments."
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