Sentences with phrase «cells tissues organs»

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ReInnervate, a start - up in Durham, England, is developing a tiny, three - dimensional plastic scaffolding on which human cells can be grown into artificial tissue, and perhaps eventually into replacements for organs.

He earned degrees in cell biology and tissue engineering and eventually got a job in a lab run by Vladimir Mironov, who was investigating the use of bioprinting — 3 - D printing using living cells — to generate replacement organs.

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.

The building block electronic and protonic actual occasions are, in the case of human beings, swept into vastly more complex, Chinese box - like sets of containing societies within which there are social levels that can be identified with cells, others which answer to Aristotle's levels of tissues and organs, and which finally are presided over by what Whitehead refers to as the regnant nexus, a social thread of complex temporal inheritance which, Whitehead suggests, wanders from part to part of the brain, is the seat of conscious direction of the organism as a whole, and answers to what in Plato and Aristotle is called the soul.

Then there are societies of cells in organs and tissues; some of these societies may be dispersed widely through the body, as in the case of blood cells.

What we eat becomes our cells, our blood, tissues, organs, skin... We create health with what we put in our bodies.

Coconut oil provides many benefits including the ability to regulate blood sugar and hormone levels, boost thyroid function, fuel the human body's metabolic demands and provide healing support to cells, tissue and organs.

Intermittent fasting allows the body to shed off inferior cells and dump toxins out of the fat cells and deep within organ tissues.

Your body uses iron to produce red blood cells which then provide oxygen to your tissues and organs (and your baby!).

Beef is a good source of protein needed for the growth of tissues, cells, and organs in the body of the embryo and relevant for the healing and reparation of damaged tissues during childbirth.

It's a rich source of stem cells, particularly those that can grow into tissues, organs, and blood vessels.

As well as allowing the use of stem cells grown from established cell lines, the technology could enable the creation of improved human tissue models for drug testing and potentially even purpose - built replacement organs.

The fields within biology are further divided based on the scale at which organisms are studied and the methods used to study them: biochemistry examines the fundamental chemistry of life; molecular biology studies the complex interactions of systems of biological molecules; cellular biology examines the basic building block of all life, the cell; physiology examines the physical and chemical functions of the tissues and organ systems of an organism; and ecology examines how various organisms interrelate.

For unknown reasons our immune system attacks healthy cells, tissues and organs in a process called autoimmunity, which can result in diseases such as multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes, lupus or rheumatoid arthritis.

Stem cells in babies» urine seem to help regenerate kidney tissue, protecting it from toxic drugs and could pep up organs for transplantation

These «organs on a chip,» as they are called, are typically glass slides coated with human cells that have been configured to mimic a particular tissue or interface between tissues.

The results were spectacular: The luminous protein made it possible to glimpse the inner workings of cells, tissues, and organs in unprecedented detail.

In an amazing feat of tissue engineering, Anthony Atala and his research team at the Children's Hospital in Boston are creating new organs in the laboratory using patients» own cells and by employing the same technology used to clone Dolly the sheep.

The secret to repairing our tissues and growing new organs is getting all touchy - feely with cells

BUILDING artificial tissue could become child's play, if Lego - like blocks made of human cells can be assembled into working organs.

Experiments on Earth using microgravity have shown that stem cells — the master cells that produce all organ and tissue cell types — will grow faster, compared to conventionally grown cells.

Abba Zubair, M.D., Ph.D, believes that cells grown in the International Space Station (ISS) could help patients recover from a stroke, and that it may even be possible to generate human tissues and organs in space.

«Knowing how cells respond to mechanical cues in the living embryo and how they physically sculpt tissues and organs in the 3D space will transform the way we think about developmental processes,» said Otger Campàs, a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UCSB and senior author on the paper that reports this novel technique in Nature Methods.

These techniques include: human tissue created by reprogramming cells from people with the relevant disease (dubbed «patient in a dish»); «body on a chip» devices, where human tissue samples on a silicon chip are linked by a circulating blood substitute; many computer modelling approaches, such as virtual organs, virtual patients and virtual clinical trials; and microdosing studies, where tiny doses of drugs given to volunteers allow scientists to study their metabolism in humans, safely and with unsurpassed accuracy.

Whether building organs or maintaining healthy adult tissues, cells use biochemical and mechanical cues from their environment to make important decisions, such as becoming a neuron, a skin cell or a heart cell.

As prostate cancer progresses, tumor cells may infiltrate this periprostatic adipose tissue: this is a key step in the progression of this cancer, as it signals locally advanced disease (where the cancer can progress to nearby organs).

The cells used to build the organs could be cultured from stem cells taken from fat or bone - marrow tissue, he says: «We could engineer a blood vessel from your own cells.»

As it can take weeks to grow human cells into intact differentiated and functional tissues within Organ Chips, such as those that mimic the lung and intestine, and researchers seek to understand how drugs, toxins or other perturbations alter tissue structure and function, the team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering led by Donald Ingber has been searching for ways to non-invasively monitor the health and maturity of cells cultured within these microfluidic devices over extended times.

Epithelial cells form tissue layers that cover our skin and the inner surfaces of most of our internal organs, while endothelial cells line the adjacent blood - transporting vessels and capillaries that support their functions.

Another challenge is producing stem - cell - derived tissues or organs that don't develop teratomas — tumors that contain a variety of tissues found in different organs — when transplanted.

The cancer cell is then able to penetrate the tissue and set up a colonies at new organ sites,» Halberg explains.

Scientists have focused for decades on the role of biochemical cues in embryonic development, Campàs said, because no techniques existed to measure the mechanical cues that cells are exposed to during the formation of tissues and organs.

The scientists» findings have wide implications in the effort to understand how organs are sculpted into their shapes and how cells respond to their native mechanical environment both in healthy tissues and during disease.

Four weeks after the team switched on the enzyme, they found that tissue had regenerated in several organs, new brain cells were developing and the mice were living longer.

To get into the blood vessels, the cell needs to penetrate tissue, both when it leaves the tumour and when it is attaching to a new organ.

The scientists have shown that, in all cancers, a sort of «identity crisis» is observed in cancerous cells: in the organs or tissues in which a tumor develops, genes specific to other tissues or to other stages of the development of the organism express themselves in an aberrant manner.

It is more profound in cancers that arise in tissues with a high turnover rate, such as the skin and the epithelium, the thin layer of cells that line many organs.

For instance, medical researchers might succeed in creating complex tissues and organs derived from patients» own stem cells.

In humans, the goal of SCNT is «nonreproductive cloning» — making embryos, then removing stem cells from the embryo and cultivating them to grow into tissues that could cure diseases, replace organs and heal injuries.

Most animals, including humans, have two copies of their genome — the full set of instructions needed to make every cell, tissue, and organ in the body.

Badylak's debut paper on ECM went to press right around the time scientists first coined the term «tissue engineering» to describe what was then considered a small but burgeoning field — the far - out - there efforts to coax cells into tissue to restore, maintain, or improve tissue function or whole organs.

Change the size from 10 nanometers to 100 nanometers, and the drugs can end up in the wrong cells or organs and thereby damage healthy tissues.

Hwang claimed to have perfected somatic cell nuclear transplant, a procedure in which genetic material is removed from a donated egg and replaced with DNA from the patient to create cloned cells that could regenerate diseased tissues or organs.

Over the course of three years, Horvath and his team analyzed nearly 8,000 tissue samples from these datasets, which included blood, saliva and cells from organs like the brain and the colon.

Tumours spread with the help of enzymes called matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), which destroy the connective tissue between cells and organs, allowing tumour cells to break out of the original site and enter new ones.

Interdisciplinary research at the University of Pennsylvania is showing how cells interact over long distances within fibrous tissue, like that associated with many diseases of the liver, lungs and other organs.

Lupus, or systemic lupus erythematosus, is a progressive, degenerative disease in which the immune system turns against itself, attacking a person's healthy tissue, cells and organs.

Understanding exactly how stem cells form into specific organs and tissues is the holy grail of regenerative medicine.

Therefore, these «self - reactive» T cells survive destruction within an organ called the thymus, the central immune organ in which T - cells mature, and attack healthy cells and tissues, including melanocytes.

Hilde Mangold (1898 - 1924) Under the guidance of Hans Spemann, she carried out the experiments that led to the discovery of the organizer effect, which directs the development of embryonic cells into tissues and organs.