Sentences with phrase «cell research center»

Philanthropic leaders in biomedical research as well as many other fields, philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad created USC's stem cell research center with a $ 30 million gift to the Keck School of Medicine of USC in February 2006.

«This generous gift ensures that USC's stem cell research center will continue to attract the best and brightest emerging talent and encourages their pioneering work as they transition into the next stage of their careers,» said Andy McMahon, Ph.D., F.R.S., director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC.

The Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center promotes basic and clinical research training in the field of stem cell biology.

Affiliations Laboratory of Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Stem Cell Research Center, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Sakyo - ku, Kyoto, Japan, Institute for Integrated Cell - Material Sciences (iCeMS), Kyoto University, Sakyo - ku, Kyoto, Japan

Affiliation Laboratory of Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Stem Cell Research Center, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Sakyo - ku, Kyoto, Japan

In a study using human muscle tissue, scientists in Children's Stem Cell Research Center - led by Johnny Huard, PhD, and Bruno Péault, PhD - isolated and characterized stem cells taken from blood vessels (known as myoendothelial cells) that are easily isolated using cell - sorting techniques, proliferate rapidly and can be differentiated in the laboratory into muscle, bone and cartilage cells.

The research was supported by grants from the Oppenheimer Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the National Center for Research Resources and the Chinese Scholarship Council of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, as well as funding from the Center for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy at UCLA and the Broad Stem Cell Research Center.

The research was supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research, the Eugene V. Cota - Robles Grant, the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and the UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center.

, visit StemCellsOfferHope.com, which is affiliated with the Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center at the University of California, Irvine.

A donor made a $ 1,009,220 contribution to the MDS - Leukemia Stem Cell Research Center at Columbia University Irving Medical Center to advance clinical and basic research in myelodysplastic syndrome and leukemia.

Designed by Gabriel Nistor, a scientist in Keirstead's laboratory, the quarter - million dollar system housed at the Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center will allow scientists to dissect single cells using lasers, manipulate cells using robotic instruments, and control the climate in the work area.

«This technique holds tremendous promise to advance our knowledge of stem cells and their potential to cure disease,» said Keirstead, associate professor of anatomy and neurobiology and co-director of UCI's Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center.

The study, which was led by Samantha Butler, a UCLA associate professor of neurobiology and member of the Broad Stem Cell Research Center, was published today in the journal Stem Cell Reports.

«Our new type of treatment only targets metastatic tissue, which enables us to avoid some of conventional chemotherapy's unwanted side effects,» said Zhao, who is a member of the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center at UCI.

The complete list is: the Food Research Center; the Center for Research, Teaching, and Innovation in Glass; the Center for Research and Development of Functional Materials; the Brazilian Research Institute for Neuroscience and Neurotechnology; the Center for Research on Inflammatory Diseases; the Center for Research and Innovation in Biodiversity and Drug Discovery; the Center for Research on Toxins, Immune Response, and Cell Signaling; the Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics; the Center for Research in Mathematical Sciences Applied to Industry; the Obesity and Co-Morbidities Research Center; the Center for Cell - Based Therapy; the Center for Metropolitan Studies; the Human Genome and Stem - Cell Research Center; the Center for Computational Science and Engineering; the Center for Research on Redox Processes in Biomedicine; the Center for the Study of Violence; and the Optics and Photonics Research Center.

The research was supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program, the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases of the National Institutes of Health, the Rose Hills Foundation Research Award, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine's Bridges Program and the UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center.

The researchers reprogrammed the cells to create induced pluripotent stem cells in an FDA - compliant facility at the Broad Stem Cell Research Center; the use of this facility is an important step in the process as preclinical research moves toward human clinical trials.

«This work demonstrates the feasibility of using a single gene editing platform, plus the regenerative power of stem cells to correct genetic mutations and restore dystrophin production for 60 percent of Duchenne patients,» said Pyle, associate professor of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics and member of the Broad Stem Cell Research Center.

The Broads work to create lasting positive change through institutions like high - quality public charter schools, genomics and stem cell research centers and contemporary art museums like The Broad in downtown Los Angeles.

It will also support core research facilities and innovative projects at USC, home to one of only two dedicated university stem cell research centers in Los Angeles.

Not exact matches

The early stage research involves mice and yeast and centers on how diet affects aging and health and how cell aging leads to cell breakdowns.

A January 2014 fact sheet from the Pew Research Center about mobile technology found that, as of May 2013, 63 percent of adult cell owners use their phones to go online, and more shockingly, 34 percent of Internet users go online mostly using their phones.

«The thing would look like the chip from your cell phone with this very thin gauzy light sail,» said Pete Worden, the former director of NASA's Ames Research Center, who is leading the project.

A research group at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center used human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) to grow human stomach tissue (paywall)-- and, notably, the part of the organ that produces digestive enzymes.

Food Allergy Center research investigator and lead author of the study Jessica O'Konek said: «We're changing the way the immune cells respond upon exposure to allergens.

In 2010, researchers from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center published a study in the journal Clinical Cancer Research showing that sulforaphane had the ability to kill breast cancer stem cells in mice and in lab cultures, and it also prevented the growth of new tumor cells.

According to a study published in April 2010 by the Pew Research Center, 75 percent of children ages 12 to 17 now have a cell phone.2 That said, it can be a struggle for parents to balance the family budget in order to keep the whole family in touch while on the go.

One of the best talks of this conference was given by Dr. Renee Reijo Pera, Professor and Director of the Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research at Stanford University.

Wellington said the fuel cell program that began at GE's Global Research Center in Niskayuna is expanding.

«Our study suggests that epigenetic changes to cells treated with cigarette smoke sensitize airway cells to genetic mutations known to cause lung cancers,» says Stephen Baylin, M.D., the Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research and professor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.

Numerous smaller nonprofits, such as the Robert Packard Center for ALS Research and the Australian Stem Cell Centre, to name two, have a specific biomedical focus.

Jose E. Garcia - Arraras, a biology professor at the university's biology research center on the Río Piedras campus, said a power plant designed to keep scientific samples refrigerated broke down and the roof of a critical building gave way to flooding, rendering «samples, libraries, cell lines, etc. lost.»

Chichung Lie, a cell biologist at the National Research Center for Environment and Health in Munich, Germany, and another of this year's winners, expects the boost in his profile to «encourage young scientists to pursue their Ph.D. studies or their postdoc with me.»

Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Institute for Integrated Cell - Material Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan.

In a groundbreaking study that provides scientists with a critical new understanding of stem cell development and its role in disease, UCLA researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research led by Dr. Kathrin Plath, professor of biological chemistry, have established a first - of - its - kind methodology that defines the unique stages by which specialized cells are reprogrammed into stem cells that resemble those found in the embcell development and its role in disease, UCLA researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research led by Dr. Kathrin Plath, professor of biological chemistry, have established a first - of - its - kind methodology that defines the unique stages by which specialized cells are reprogrammed into stem cells that resemble those found in the embCell Research led by Dr. Kathrin Plath, professor of biological chemistry, have established a first - of - its - kind methodology that defines the unique stages by which specialized cells are reprogrammed into stem cells that resemble those found in the embryo.

«Researchers often seek out the types of cancerous cells that are homogenous in nature and are easier to observe with traditional microscopic devices,» said Luis Polo - Parada, an Associate Professor of Medical Pharmacology and Physiology and an investigator at Mizzou's Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center.

«Fat cells can adopt a range of metabolic phenotypes, depending on physiological conditions and location in the body,» said James G. Granneman, Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work from the Center for Integrative Metabolic and Endocrine Research at the Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, MI.

The discovery is an important advance in the search for new medications to fight obesity, said senior investigator Shingo Kajimura, PhD, UCSF assistant professor of cell and tissue biology, with a joint appointment in the UCSF Diabetes Center and the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research at Ucell and tissue biology, with a joint appointment in the UCSF Diabetes Center and the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCell Research at UCSF.

«Several major advances in recent years have been good news for multiple myeloma patients, but those new drugs only target terminally differentiated cancer cells and thus can only reduce the bulk of the tumor,» said Jamieson, who is also deputy director of the Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center, director of the CIRM Alpha Stem Cell Clinic at UC San Diego and director of stem cell research at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego HeaCell Clinical Center, director of the CIRM Alpha Stem Cell Clinic at UC San Diego and director of stem cell research at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego HeaCell Clinic at UC San Diego and director of stem cell research at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Heacell research at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health.

«I think this is the best option we have ever had,» says Renee Reijo Pera, director of Stanford University's Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Education in California, who wasn't involved in the study.

«Our findings provide a possible flanking strategy to counteract the ability of melanoma cells to re-wire their signaling networks,» said co-coresponding author Meenhard Herlyn, Caspar Wistar Professor in Melanoma Research and director of the Melanoma Research Center at The Wistar Institute.

Led by researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center — Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC — James), the retrospective study suggested that a pattern of molecules called microRNA (miRNA) in tumor cells might predict patients» response to radiation therapy.

Research for the study was conducted by first co-authors Dr. Ranit Kedmi and Nuphar Veiga and colleagues at Prof. Peer's TAU Laboratory, in collaboration with Prof. Itai Benhar of TAU's School of Molecular Cell Biology and Biotechnology, Dr. Michael Harlev of TAU's Veterinary Service Center, Dr. Mark Belkhe of Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) and Prof. Judy Lieberman of Boston Chidren's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

A Yale Cancer Center research team conducted a study to determine how those tumor cells manage to grow outside the lungs.

Regulation of Cell Growth Laboratory, Division of Basic Sciences, National Cancer Institute — Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.

An experimental drug in early development for aggressive brain tumors can cross the blood - brain tumor barrier, kill tumor cells and block the growth of tumor blood vessels, according to a study led by researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center — Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC — James).

This collaboration reflects work of The Center for Engineering Mechanobiology, a National Science Foundation - funded Science and Technology Center that supports interdisciplinary research on the way cells exert and are influenced by the physical forces in their environment.

«The best explanation for what we are seeing is that frequently, after exposure to HIV, a few cells in the genital tract are infected, without establishment of a systemic infection,» says senior investigator Eric Hunter, PhD, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at Emory University School of Medicine, Emory Vaccine Center, and Yerkes National Primate Research Center.

A new study by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center — Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC — James) has identified a mechanism by which cancer cells develop resistance to a class of drugs called fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) inhibitors.

«Even with the new immunological studies, we can't tell what's special about the whole - cell vaccine that makes it better,» says Kathryn Edwards, the director of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Vaccine Research Center.