Sentences with phrase «cells experimenting with»

«Theranostics» Simultaneously Kill and Image Prostate Cancer Cells Experimenting with human prostate cancer cells and mice, cancer - imaging experts developed a method for finding and killing malignant cells while sparing healthy ones.

Inverted microscope enables long term live cell experiments with available perfusion and incubator for full environmental control.

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It's only been tested on mice so far, but the results are tremendously promising for an antibody Stanford researchers have been experimenting with that blocks the body from «eating» cancer cells.

As I stated in my original article, prior to conducting experiments with human cells, ANT - OAR techniques would need to be rigorously tested in animal models to establish a procedure that guarantees with reasonable certainty that an embryo is not generated.

In various experiments with various conditions, scientists have been able to create a wide range of cell - like structures of increasing complexity on the road toward a simple self - replicating organism.

The researchers experimented with inducing oxidative stress in a human cell line culture with and without VCOP (virgin coconut oil polyphenols) to observe how VCOP positively promoted catalase, a very important enzyme in protecting the cell from oxidative damage, and glutathione (GSH), a self - recycling antioxidant produced by the liver.

You may sometimes need to experiment with texture, because the very process of freezing causes any water in the food to expand, breaking down cell walls.

In a preliminary experiment, the team found that stem cells produced from fibroblasts of men with Klinefelter syndrome also lost the extra sex chromosome.

In experiments with mice, the researchers found that Paneth cells engineered to lack a functional ATG16L1 gene were five times more likely to die in the face of rising TNF - alpha signals than normal cells.

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Shukla and colleagues discovered that a small drug molecule called BX795, which is sold to labs for use in experiments, helped clear HSV - 1 infection in cultured human corneal cells, in donated human corneas, and in the corneas of mice infected with HSV - 1.

This method allows the scientists to measure very subtle effects with very high confidence, while eliminating the effect of any genetic or epigenetic modifications and cell culture related variations that could occur during the experiment.

Focusing initially on experiments that merged cells, she built a career in gerontology and a successful working relationship with her husband and research partner.

Other teams are trying to introduce the proteins encoded by the genes directly into cells, while Yamanaka is experimenting with «microRNAs» — snippets of RNA that help regulate gene activity.

Their next experiment, Coles says, is to transplant the cells into mice with degenerating retinas to see if they restore function and later to figure out how to activate and manipulate them.

Despite the presumed virulence of the strain — experiments with mouse lungs showed it produces 1000 times more bacteria in infected cells than do standard varieties — Valway says the number of TB cases that developed were kept in line with other typical outbreaks, which «shows that doing good contact investigations is important and preventative therapy works.»

Scientists have long experimented with organs - on - chips: tiny representations of human organs, such as lungs, hearts and intestines, made from cells embedded on plastic about the size of a computer memory stick.

Last year Cuervo collaborated with Sheng Zhang, a professor at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston on experiments showing that huntingtin — the Huntington's disease protein — helps the cell's autophagy system identify what it should eliminate.

Dr. Zubair is working with engineers at the University of Colorado who are building the specialized cell bioreactor that will be taken to the ISS within a year for the experiment.

When Lin's team repeated their experiment with nerve cells, they found that stimulating the quantum dots caused ion channels to open and the nerve cell to fire.

Many other experiments have been wrecked by contamination with «impostor» cells.

In one experiment with human cells, a guide RNA should have led the Cas9 enzyme only to a gene on chromosome 2 (yellow bar), but it also directed the enzyme to many off - target sites (red) on several other chromosomes.

In further test tube experiments, the researchers treated the immortalized white blood cells with both chemical and genetic blockers, called small interfering RNA (siRNA), designed to render either p70S6K or GRB10 nonfunctional.

Physicists who have revived experiments from 50 years ago say nerve cells communicate with mechanical pulses, not electric ones

In another clue that cancer cells persist because they maintain their telomeres, those cells that started out with longer telomeres in the experiment lived longer than those with shorter telomeres.

Researchers are also experimenting with another form of immunotherapy called adoptive cell transfer, which harvests and then reintroduces patients» tumor - infiltrating lymphocytes — cells with anti-tumor capabilities that dig deep behind enemy lines.

«We showed that the coupling of cell wall growth to mechanical strain is quantitatively consistent with how bacteria recovered their shape after being deformed in experiments.»

They report their findings, based on experiments with cells and mice, in the September 2016 issue of Biomaterials.

Some of the experiments included cells from SMA patients, obtained through a collaboration with Han Phan, MD, a pediatric neurologist at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, and the Laboratory for Translational Cell Biology at Emory.

In experiments with human cells, Shengdar Tsai of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School found that some guide RNAs nearly always lead Cas9 to the correct cutting site.

In experiments with mouse ovaries inhibiting the identified enzymes saved the oocytes from cell death despite treatment with chemotherapeutics.

Several groups worldwide have done experiments with ensheathing cells in rats, some of which have been highly successful.

In a final experiment, the group gave the animals a compound that prevented LPA from binding to its receptor on mouse brain cells, right before they were injected with hydrocephalus - inducing LPA.

A similar experiment with salamanders started with 6.7 x 107 J. lividum cells per milliliter and the same concentration of Bd zoospores.

And in related experiments, he made tadpoles grow eyes on their stomachs by changing the electrical properties of cells to mimic those associated with eye formation.

Domínguez - Bendala, who led the team along with colleague Ricardo Pastori, found that BMP - 7 caused pancreatic cells to secrete unexpectedly high amounts of insulin after they used it as a control in another, unrelated, experiment.

Huang teamed up with other researchers to do microfluidics experiments, growing bacteria in tiny chambers and tracking individual cells to learn how photosynthetic bacteria grow in light and dark.

Test tube experiments showed that white blood cells with the mutation responded more strongly to Il - 4 than did normal cells.

Experiments in cells with an inactivated form of Argonaute — which contributes only to the antiviral and not the gene regulation activity of RNAi — confirmed that they were observing an antiviral RNAi response.

Experimenting with human cells and mice, Johns Hopkins researchers have found that a genetic mutation that alters a protein called NOD1 may increase susceptibility to human cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection.

The team's further experiments on cultured heart cells confirmed that GDF - 11 stops the thickening growth seen with age.

They call this form of activation «non-ligand-dependent,» and in a complex series of biochemical and animal experiments, traced the pathway through which FER's binding to MET inside the cell sets off a cascade of cell - signaling events, all directly connected in prior research with cancer initiation, including RAC1 / PAK1 and SHP2 - ERK.

Scientist Kenneth Ka - Ho Lee, who has been trying to reproduce STAP cells and has been regularly blogging about his progress, has given up, writing «I don't think STAP cells exist and it will be a waste of manpower and research funding to carry on with this experiment any further.»

Other groups are experimenting with taking such tissue from the nose, growing it in the lab to isolate the desired cells and transplanting them.

Mallat hopes to clarify the role of regulatory T cells with a new experiment: injecting the cells into genetically normal mice with atherosclerosis, to see whether the cells can treat the disease.

Plasmons have been used in wafer - type cells, but Pillai's group is the first to experiment with them in thin films.

The researchers experimented with mice that were genetically engineered to have light - sensitive proteins on some of their nerve cells.

He had been experimenting with human cancer cells, microbes, and mothers» milk.

In the experiment, Jiang's team fabricated a broadband active frequency - selective surface with a stretching transformation pattern on a printed circuit board, and soldered the resistors and varactors between each of the two unit patterned cells.

The experiments have shown that the inhibition of endosomal acidification prevents the activation of P45 - IKKα and specifically inhibits the growth of cancer cells with mutant BRAF, both in vitro and in vivo.