Sentences with phrase «a in laboratory cultures»

Subsequent work showed that the transgenic milk reduced bacterial growth in laboratory cultures, so the team wanted to know if the same would happen in a real gut.

Glucose, she says, aids the survival of male embryos conceived in laboratory cultures.

The drug as well as the physical contact of the microneedles with the scar tissue contributes to the efficacy of the device, leading to the cessation of scar tissue growth and a considerable reduction of keloids as demonstrated in laboratory cultures and experiments with animals.

Although specific microbial halogenation reactions have been recognized for decades and the link between the dehalogenation of anthropogenic halogenated contaminants in laboratory cultures and contaminated field sites has been well established, only a few studies specifically looked at pristine ecosystems and the genetic potential for microbial degradation of naturally occurring organohalogens, Kappler says.

Jeremy Luban and his colleagues at Columbia University in New York, and Heinrich Göttlinger's team at Harvard Medical School in Boston, studied the interaction of HIV with cyclophilin A in laboratory cultures.

The old way to search for microbial life in the ocean, he explains, was to isolate individual species by growing them in laboratory cultures.

In a striking, unexpected discovery, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have determined that vitamin C kills drug - resistant tuberculosis (TB) bacteria in laboratory culture.

He found vesicles in these samples just like the ones in the laboratory cultures.

In a striking, unexpected discovery, researchers have determined that vitamin C kills drug - resistant tuberculosis (TB) bacteria in laboratory culture.

Instead, he hopes to develop ways to grow the weakened sporozoites in laboratory cultures and put them in traditional vaccine vials for later injection.

Thrillingly, Collins» team got this to work in a laboratory culture within a year of the identification of the CF gene.

Studies in animals, and human cells in laboratory culture, indicate that CLA may protect against certain types of cancer (6, 7, 8).

In a series of experiments in laboratory culture dishes, they found that blackberries and Blueberries are of particular interest because of their high antioxidant capacity.

Not exact matches

The counseling center is like a laboratory, in which people are learning intensively year after year and gaining a deeper understanding of the problems of the people and their family life in that particular culture.

While some still object to cells being taken from animals and used by scientists to grow clean meat in laboratories — and some just don't like the idea of eating a «cultured» steak created by men and women in white coats — others see the lab - grown meat revolution as key to solving the environmental crisis linked to meat eating.

Our technicians prepare the culture in our laboratory following strict quality control procedures.

The sample may be used for a urinalysis (a test that microscopically checks the urine for germs or pus) or a urine culture (which attempts to grow and identify bacteria in a laboratory).

Just as bacterial cultures flourish in an agar - filled petri dish, laboratories are ideal breeding grounds for close friendships.

While other papers have examined these mutations using expensive and time - consuming experiments on live ferrets and laboratory cell cultures, Deem and Melia Bonomo used the pEpitope method to rapidly calculate how much the egg - passage mutations would decrease vaccine efficacy in humans.

In addition to managing the cell bank, the facility makes culture media and maintains a resale storeroom for laboratory products.

Researchers from Duke University had previously used CRISPR to correct genetic mutations in cultured cells from Duchenne patients, and other labs had corrected genes in single - cell embryos in a laboratory environment.

When these cultured cells were exposed to an air / liquid interface in the laboratory, they stratified, generating what the authors referred to as a multi-layered, «skin - like organoid.»

They reflect on the different cultures in Japanese and Western laboratories.

Since the algae reproduces by cell division about once per day in the laboratory, numerous genetically identical cultures could be derived from the isolate.

Dr. Zubair already grows such cells in his Mayo Clinic laboratory using a large tissue culture and several incubators — but only at a snail's pace.

When the scientists succeeded in collecting the queen, part of the colony was transported to the laboratory, and all the bacteria found on the insects» surface and inside their bodies were isolated, characterized, and placed in culture medium.

Interestingly, the collected sample had been cultured successfully in the laboratory only when it was allowed to grow in the company of a species of bacteria, Methylobacterium, that antibiotics were unable to kill.

The mutated, drug resistant H7N9 virus, however, was still able to infect cultured human cells and spread between laboratory animals as efficiently as nonmutated strains, researchers report December 10 in Nature Communications.

Scientists at Kumamoto University originally developed a cultivation kit to culture and identify mycorrhizae, fungi that have a symbiotic relationship with many plants and are necessary for cultivating orchidaceous plants in the laboratory.

Until now clinical microbiology has relied primarily on culturing pathogens in the laboratory to study strain differences — a time - consuming process.

«As a biologist, I needed simple yet tunable cell - culture gels that would give me a defined system to study metabolites in the laboratory.

They also suggest it may soon be possible to mature the cells in a laboratory dish simply by adding a cocktail of microRNAs to the cell culture.

«To put this into perspective, reprogramming to induced pluripotency in cell culture takes several days to weeks whereas reprogramming to totipotency in zygotes occurs in less than 24 h,» says Kikuë Tachibana - Konwalski, who devotes her laboratory's research to understanding the molecular secrets of egg cells and zygotes.

These early studies were in laboratory - cultured cells.

At the Galveston National Laboratory, which houses a biosafety level 4 lab, researchers shut down experiments, euthanized infected animals, put pathogens in cold storage, and autoclaved cell cultures.

Using a labor - intensive cell culturing technique for hunting retroviruses that he had pioneered in the 1970s, Ruscetti had transmitted the pathogen from patients» T - cells to uninfected T - cells in the laboratory.

Therefore, a generation of U.S. biomedical researchers lacks the career - transforming experience of having studied in laboratories embedded in foreign cultures.

Barnes's team went on to show last year that soya extracts could also inhibit the growth of prostate cancer cells in laboratory tissue cultures.

The scientists have succeeded for the first time in culturing mycoplasma from a GBS patient in a laboratory setting.

«Too often in our culture we seem to believe that science and technology are important, but it's for those weird, special people that are willing to dedicate themselves like monks, going off into a laboratory to cure our diseases and solve our problems.»

According to Spradling, these cells «likely arise by dedifferentiation in culture,» and «the same safety and reliability concerns would apply as to any laboratory - generated cell type that lacks a normal counterpart» in the body.

Anthony St. Leger, Ph.D., research fellow in Caspi's laboratory, was able to culture bacteria from the mouse conjunctiva, the membrane that lines the eyelids.

When the researchers used gene engineering techniques to knock out DDX3 expression in laboratory - grown cell cultures that highly expressed this protein, cell proliferation was half that of cell cultures with high DDX3 expression.

The treatment did a lot to prevent cell migration, a key mechanism in metastasis, in experiments on laboratory cultures (in vitro) of cancerous human cells.

The Cal / OSHA citations against UCLA, writes Langerman in his article, «speak to a laboratory which lacks a safety culture.»

In the monkey, when we tried injecting 20 or 30 laboratory - cultured pluripotent stem cells, nothing happened.

An experimental drug that targets abnormally high levels of a protein linked to cancer growth appears to significantly reduce the proliferation of prostate cancer cells in laboratory cell cultures and animals, while also making these cells considerably more vulnerable to radiation, according to results of a study led by Johns Hopkins scientists.

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However, both types of pancreatic cells have been extremely difficult to culture in the laboratory.

The particular chemistry and high pressures of vent habitats are difficult to replicate on terra firma, so the majority of deep - sea species have not been cultured in laboratories and much is unknown about their life cycles.