Sentences with phrase «if blood stem»

If blood stem cells aren't the next big thing, another cell, discovered by researchers at the University of Minnesota's Stem Cell Institute in Minneapolis, might be.

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The avian symbol stems from a variation of a legend that circulated during medieval times that said if her chicks were starving, the mother pelican would pierce her own chest and feed the young her blood.

If blood flow is compromised during sleep, the mother will automatically wake up,» says Zepeda, who notes that in 30 years of practice, he's delivered over 8000 babies, and never seen a problem stemming from a mother's sleeping position.

If your twins are fraternal, it is also good to know that most current cord blood treatments require the use of a well matched donor's stem cells, like a sibling's.

The researchers confirmed this hypothesis by showing that if they blocked YAP1 they could inhibit stem cells from undergoing self - renewal, forming blood vessel - like structures, and reduce lung cancer cell growth in mice.

If we can learn lessons from Zika's ability to cross the blood - brain barrier and target brain stem cells selectively, we could be holding the key to future treatments.»

If a patient's blood shows high levels of the markers, it indicates that neuropsychiatric symptoms could stem from autoantibodies created in the wake of infectious disease — and that the treatment of choice might be steroids or IVIG.

«We began with stem cells taken from cord - blood, which have fewer acquired mutations and little, if any, epigenetic memory, which cells accumulate as time goes on,» says Zambidis, associate professor of oncology and pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Cell Engineering and the Kimmel Cancer Center.

Stem cell biologist Amy Wagers and cardiologist Richard Lee, both of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, wondered if any circulating factors, in young blood, such as hormones, might affect aging hearts.

«The beautiful thing,» Lanza says, «is that if you have an embryonic stem cell line that is O negative, because it's immortal you could create an unlimited amount of universal blood that would match virtually everybody, so you wouldn't have to worry about matching blood types.»

But if an accident leads to substantial blood loss, for instance, or the defense against a pathogen requires more blood cells in the course of an infection, the stem cells are activated.

He adds, however, that if they work as reported, MAPCs are still not very efficient: one adult blood - forming stem cell replaced as much bone marrow as a million MAPCs.

To find out if this was true, workers in stem - cell biologist Irving Weissman's lab at Stanford University Medical School took one blood stem cell from an adult mouse and tagged it with a marker that glowed green under fluorescent light.

Additional trials were excluded from consideration if their only relationship to stem cells involved now - conventional unmanipulated bone marrow or cord blood transplants.

The good news is that a baby's stored umbilical cord blood stem cells can be used not only for the child but also for a close family member if ever needed.

Role of hematopoietic stem cells in steady state hematopoiesis It is remain not very clear if all blood cell types are developed from one hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) in normal hematopoiesis, because of limitations of conventional transplantation models.

The videos confirmed the unorthodox new mode of division Obernier's labeling experiments had implied, but also revealed the cells» surprising dynamism: a long tail that touches and probes nearby blood vessels, short arms that poke and prod other stem cells, and a tongue - like antenna that pokes into the nearby ventricular space, as if to «taste» the cerebrospinal fluid there.

We can also perform blood analysis in house with full results in under an hour to see if the pain is stemming from an infection or organ dysfunction.