Sentences with phrase «[pelvic organ»

«Soon I'll start exploring whether my ovaries, which remain someplace inside me in that vast cavern of organs and scar tissue, have eggs.

They are conjoined twins with shared organs.

«In the long term, we want to be able to send energy to and communicate with implants all over the body, to record data from a variety of organs in many different ways, maybe even report on the conditions of tumors or cancer therapies,» Maharbiz says.

With whole - body donation, the organs are kept intact.

If you are not consuming enough food regularly in your diet, the body will have to resort to burning muscle tissue and even organ tissue to generate energy.

• Prellis Biologics, a San Francisco - based company that uses 3D printing to create human tissue and organs, raised $ 1.8 million in seed funding.

Grace Mosley [Student]: The body is not just a box that has organs in it.

Experiments so far with neural dust motes have only involved the peripheral nervous system, which serves the limbs and organs, and not the central nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.

«This isn't reinventing the wheel,» said Christina Strong, a New Jersey lawyer who co-wrote a set of standards that most states largely adopted for the organ transplant industry.

Researchers are also making strides toward achieving what Wohlers calls the holy grail: printing replacement organs.

Now, to be clear, donating your body to science is different from being an organ donor on your license.

In a recent study, Coffey and O'Leary suggest that the mesentery deserves to be recognized as an new human organ.

The only beautiful detail is that the organ — which is meant to be shaped like a light bulb — was shaped like a heart.»

«The idea of being able to use biology to design and engineer living things that can do things like cure disease or eliminate organ waiting lists, or even revert climate change, or help us live on other planets — that's more what was exciting about it,» he says.

They are distinct from the organ and tissue transplant industry, which the U.S. government closely regulates.

I won't reveal yet who my favorites are, but I will say that these young scientist - founders came up with very creative solutions for preventing infections in some common surgeries, tackling resistance in targeted antibody drugs, improving gene vectors for cell therapies, helping the vision - impaired «see» faces and better read their environments, imaging hard - to - see spots in the lungs and other organs, improving genetic risk analysis, and expediting the logistical operations of hospitals.

«He was a really senior person but he spent a lot of time with me fixing my pricing model and helping me scale my business,» says Organ.

Rothblatt, having found a drug to keep her daughter (and thousands of others afflicted with the condition) alive, now has United Therapeutics focused on developing a supply of transplantable organs.

Elion also discovered azathioprine, an immunosuppressant that made it possible for people with weak immune systems to receive organ transplants.

Mayasari Lim from SE3D will also provide a hands - on workshop to teach attendees the basics of bio-printing, a technology that has the potential to solve current organ transplant shortage crisis.

If you want to donate, Florian recommends signing up for the National Organ Donor Registry at organdonor.gov.

Mark Organ, chief executive of Toronto - based marketing startup Influitive, remembers being shocked when Price, president of a fast - growing software company at the time, offered to help him tweak his business model.

Checking the organ donor box on your driver's license isn't enough, Florian said — your license may not end up at the hospital with you in an emergency, and your family has the potential to override the designation.

Your skin is the largest organ in your body, and 64 % of the chemicals in makeup are absorbed from your skin1.

When eels stack thousands of the organ plates in a row, their bodies can produce much higher voltage electric fields.

The latest episodes are part of a series called «Diaries of a Dirty Tongue,» and feature a foul - mouthed giant organ.

«Smoking has been found to harm nearly every bodily organ and organ system in the body and diminishes a person's overall health.»

It has already invested in some companies that graduated from the Labs incubator, including Modern Meadow, a New Jersey — based startup that's biofabricating leather without the need for animals, and 3Scan, a company that enables 3D analysis of tumors and organs.

And it may represent the first step on the road to using pig organs as viable options for humans.

Through the work I've done at Growth Everywhere, I've been lucky enough to chat with notable entrepreneurs such as Jason Lemkin (founder of Echosign, which sold to Adobe), Mark Organ (co-founder of Eloqua, which sold to Oracle) and others who are constantly pushing the boundaries of business success with their own companies.

How does this mysterious three - pound organ called the brain hold such sway over the matters of life, death, consciousness, perception, sleep and so much more?

«It is a remarkably costly organ energetically.»

In Cooper's case, his lungs were seriously damaged when doctors induced a coma and put him into therapeutic hypothermia after the treadmill incident to minimize damage to his organs.

With holograms, students can manipulate organs and bones from every conceivable angle and get an immersive look at the body's internal landscape.

Legendary inventor Dean Kamen is working on a venture to manufacture human organs with the backing of the Pentagon, Rockwell and others.»

One reason that taller people are more likely to die of many types of cancer is because they tend to have bigger organs, so there is a greater chance that one cell in the organ will become cancerous, Batty said.

The athletic adults also appeared to have healthier and younger - looking immune systems, at least when it came to an organ called the thymus that's responsible for generating key immune cells called T cells.

I'm really passionate about tissue engineering and this idea of creating organs, and the impact that can have.

Our brains are remarkably resilient, even growing new brain cells deep into adulthood, but even this incredible organ eventually ages.

Connie Contardi, Yolanda Gampp and Jocelyn Mercer's channel How to Cake It features cakes that look like human organs, Chinese takeout and more.

The field of bioprinting is hardly new, and many believe we're at least a decade away from a usable printed organ.

As we age, the brain — like any other organ — begins to work less efficiently, so signs of decline start to surface.

While the eventual goal for BioBots — and for the bioprinting industry as a whole — is to produce fully functioning organs for human transplant, most of the current application is in the research field.

On Monday, Vaughn's lawyer Larry Organ had told Bloomberg that «the law doesn't require you to have a thick skin» and that «Tesla is not doing enough.»

In the company blog, Telsa referred to Organ as having «a long track record of extorting money for meritless claims» and said that the company «would rather spend more on a trial and clear its name than settle with the plaintiff.»

The drone would likely need to follow a strict set of standards — Spanish drone designers, for instance, found that fast speeds, interior temperature control, and precise mapping were key factors to successful organ transport.

So right now, they focus on other applications, such as building precise three - dimensional models, drawn from CT scans, of actual patient organs and tissues that surgeons can use for pre-operative practice and training in the case of difficult surgeries.

If those same airways can soon be used to deliver your Amazon deliveries, perhaps the FAA could give some leniency to actual life - saving organs.

The proposed drone system is dubbed the MOTH, short for Manufactured Organ Transport Helicopter system.

PET scanners help to reveal how tissues and organs are functioning by using a radioactive drug to trace activity.