Sentences with phrase «healthy cells use»

The reason pet parents want to feed their pets a diet high in fat is due to the way tumor cells, unlike healthy cells use fat.

Healthy cells use most of their glucose «fuel» to produce energy, rather than for building components of new cells, such as fats and DNA.

For example, cancer cells tend to use glycolysis in the cell cytoplasm in their metabolism, an ancient system, whereas healthy cells use oxidation - phosphorylation.

Not exact matches

Human Longevity has already received $ 70 million in private backing and aims to use both genomics and stem cell therapies to allow us to live longer, healthier lives.

They include going after the damage to cells done by free radicals, making use of hormone therapy, or caloric restrictions, or vitamin supplements, or, most dramatically, healthy gene selection through pre-implantation genetic diagnosis and even repairing the entire human genome.

If the egg is fertilized by a sperm cell, it stays in the uterus and grows into a baby, using that extra blood and tissue to keep it healthy and protected as it's developing.

On Thursday, the United Nations» member states will consider two resolutions: One resolution would ban all human cloning methods, including efforts to use cloned embryonic stem cells to try and generate healthy tissues, or to treat degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's.

In the present study, the researchers have discovered a reason for reduced fertility in people with autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 1 (APS1), which increases the risk of developing autoimmune disease (caused by the immune system attacking and damaging healthy cells) and which is often used as a model for autoimmune disease in general.

Because they can differentiate into almost any cell type in the body, stem cells have the potential to be used to create healthy cells to treat a number of diseases.

To do their job, T cells use specialized receptors to differentiate healthy cells from cancer cells.

To make the rat kidneys, Ott and his colleagues took kidneys from healthy «donor» rats and used a chemical solution to wash away the native cells, leaving behind the organ's scaffold.

«We concluded that stem cells used in cardiac therapy should be drawn from healthy donors or be better genetically engineered for the patient.»

In addition to using healthy cells to do their work for them, cancer cells also slowly destroy the skin's immune defence mechanism.

Only stem cells from healthy donors or genetically engineered cells should be used in treating cardiac conditions.»

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.

One example of this research is the practice of using stem cells taken from a healthy eye's limbus, the area around the cornea where stem cells are stored, to create a layer of healthy cells to replace damaged ones in the cornea, the transparent, dome - shaped layer of cells covering the front of the eye.

Developed by Amgen, it uses a modified version of the herpes virus that can't infect healthy tissue but attacks cancer cells.

The scientists in London got the same result in a similar experiment using mammalian kidney cells, showing that healthy and mutant cells compete directly against each other in mammals.

When they administered minocycline — a tetracycline antibiotic with anti-inflammatory properties commonly used to treat bacterial infections, acne and arthritis — many of the abnormalities in the astroglial cells were corrected and there were more healthy interactions between the astroglia and neurons compared to the control cells without the defect.

Another key finding of the research was that the impact of vitamin D on inflammatory disease can not be predicted using cells from healthy individuals or even from the blood of patients with inflammation as cells from the disease tissue are very different.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto / BakiBG SAN ANTONIO, Texas — So much of our information from — and interaction with — the world is now mediated by computers, cell phones and tablets that health experts have been practically running themselves ragged trying to find ways to use these conduits to help people make healthier choices.Great success stories have come out of parts of the developing world, where cell phones have been used to improve maternal and infant care and help people adhere to medication guidelines.

USE it or lose it: a class of immune cell demolishes idle circuits and connections in the brain, even a healthy one.

Interphone compared surveyed cell phone use in 6,420 people with brain tumors to that of 7,658 healthy people in 13 developed countries — Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and the U.K. — to try to determine whether people with brain tumors had used their cell phones more than healthy people, an association that might suggest that cell phones caused the tumors.

The researchers then used a 3 - D cell culture system to coax their mutant and healthy hPSCs down the differentiation pathway into becoming kidney progenitor cells and finally the proximal tubule cells found in kidney nephrons.

Stem cell models, derived from healthy or diseased cells, are also being developed for use in drug efficacy and toxicity testing.

Using tumor samples from the Women's Healthy Eating and Living clinical trial, researchers identified stem - like tumor cells as being characterized by low levels of the molecule p53 upregulated modulator of apoptosis (PUMA).

His team plans to introduce a healthy copy of the CF gene into cells lining the nose and lungs, using a lipid suspension that fuses with the cell membrane and allows the gene to enter the cell.

In a bid to progress beyond the shotgun approach to fighting cancer — blasting malignant cells with toxic chemicals or radiation, which kills surrounding healthy cells in the process — researchers at the Harvard - MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) are using nanotechnology to develop seek - and - destroy models to zero in on and dismantle tumors without damaging nearby normal tissue.

Normal healthy cells readily adapt to using ketone bodies for fuel, but most cancer cells lack this metabolic flexibility.

* No sperm necessary: By combining genetically altered cells, Japanese scientists create a healthy baby mouse using only female DNA.

For the CRISPR trial, a UPenn - led team wants to remove T cells from patients and use a harmless virus to give the cells a receptor for NY - ESO - 1, a protein that is often present on certain tumors but not on most healthy cells.

«By identifying the full set of genes in each of these two cell types, we provide detailed information that taste scientists can use to help understand how these cells work, both when healthy and also when affected by damage or disease.»

In a collaborative effort between the Gladstone laboratories of Benoit Bruneau, PhD, Katherine Pollard, PhD, and Dr. Srivastava, the scientists used stem cell technology to make large amounts of endothelial cells from patients with CAVD, comparing them to healthy cells and mapping their genetic and epigenetic changes as they developed into valve cells.

Scientists already know how to use a weakened strain of a respiratory virus called adenovirus to transport healthy genes to cells.

The research team first used the blood of healthy individuals, spiking some of the blood with living breast cancer cells to see if the NanoFlares could detect them.

Targeted Alpha Therapy of prostate cancer uses PSMA - 617, an anti-PSMA (Prostate Specific Membrane Antigen) peptide that specifically binds to prostate cancer cells, but not to normal, healthy cells.

The stem cells used to treat Paizley, specific to the blood, came from the bone marrow of a healthy adult donor.

Exploiting that power, researchers are now using microRNAs to convert the scar tissue of damaged hearts into healthy muscle cells, opening the door for a better therapy after heart attacks and heart failure.

In May 2006, Eggan's lab received approval from Harvard to seek healthy human eggs from female donors, a first step toward using research cloning to create new stem cell lines.

HSCT is effectively used today as a form of «replacement» therapy for patients with hard - to - treat blood cancers, providing healthy cells from either the patient (autologous transplantation) or from a donor (allogeneic transplantation) to better equip patients to fight the disease on their own.

Then De Luca and colleagues used a retrovirus to insert a healthy copy of the LAMB3 gene into DNA in the lab - grown skin stem cells.

These individual transcriptomes can be used to define cell types and to understand the functions of healthy and diseased cells in the human body.

In previous studies, pulsating magnetic fields have been used to deliver drugs, but the heat caused by the application can destroy healthy cells of patients.

Previous research conducted by Dr. Badylak's team suggested that ECM also could be used to regenerate lost muscle by placing the material in the injury site where it signals the body to recruit stem and other progenitor cells to rebuild healthy tissue.

The experimental treatment also spared healthy cells, in these and in prior experiments, making the method potentially much less taxing on patients than commonly used chemotherapy.

Lead author Nora Volkow, a psychiatrist at the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health, recruited 47 healthy volunteers and used positron emission tomography (PET) scans to measure glucose metabolism in the brain while cell phones were placed over the right or left ear.

The new approach builds on information gleaned from developmental studies of embryonic stem cells (see story # 16) and one day may be used to create healthy replacements for harmed or diseased tissue.

Now, Salk Institute scientists have created a new tool that targets not DNA, but RNA, and used it to correct a protein imbalance in cells from a dementia patient, restoring them to healthy levels.

In this project, the researchers used single cell technology to explore gene expression patterns in healthy and diseased hearts.

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