Sentences with phrase «cell modeling effort»
«It is 10 times more ambitious and 100 times more important for mankind,» claims Hans Westerhoff, who heads the Silicon Cell modeling effort at the Free University in Amsterdam.
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The scientists, in collaboration with IBM, are launching the effort by building a computer model of the neocortical column of a rat, a single circuit of about 10,000 cells, each of which is capable of thousands of connections.
Despite decades of effort, however, researchers were unable to develop a mouse model of renal cell carcinoma — until now.
One postdoc presents data on her efforts to develop an organoid model for small - cell lung cancer; another reports progress on culturing hormone - secreting organoids from human gut tissue.
Current efforts are focused on identifying TB - specific surface proteins that are targeted by CD4 + and CD8 + T cells and testing them in their multi-organ computational model.
Consequently, despite the extensive and highly successful efforts of many researchers to develop infection models in Drosophila, the outcomes of infection are often measured by end - points such as insect death (survival of a cohort of insects over time) or changes in cell morphology at fixed periods throughout infection (often monitored by staining different elements of the cytoskeleton).
In a breakthrough effort for computational biology, the world's first complete computer model of an organism has been completed, Stanford researchers reported last week in the journal Cell.
NCI's efforts to develop new laboratory models of human cancer includes vastly increasing the number of human cancer cell lines (grown as two - dimensional and three - dimensional cultures) and patient - derived tumor xenografts.
In an effort to improve this, we employed an alginate encapsulation strategy for human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) and attached them to the heart with a biocompatible PEG hydrogel patch in a rat MI model.
Current efforts, mostly conducted in animal models, involve attempting to derive and aggregate embryonic stem cells, exposing them to such factors as acetic acid, allowing them to differentiate, or specialize, and then sorting through these cells to extract the cell types of interest.
Using stem cells, the scientists created models of the disease in a dish that displayed different genetic scenarios, identifying individual and shared defects that could inform treatment efforts.
The Hyundai Nexo is its latest effort to go up against competition from the Toyota Mirai and Honda Clarity Fuel Cell, as well as upcoming models from the likes of Mercedes - Benz.