Sentences with phrase «lab studying stem»

Akina is now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington in the Reh Lab studying stem cells.

He and his lab study stem cell biology to provide insights into many areas, such as developmental biology, homeostasis in the normal adult and recovery from injury.

Not exact matches

In 2010, researchers from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center published a study in the journal Clinical Cancer Research showing that sulforaphane had the ability to kill breast cancer stem cells in mice and in lab cultures, and it also prevented the growth of new tumor cells.

For example, animal studies have shown that neurons derived in the lab from human embryonic stem cells improve Parkinson's symptoms; however, any residual stem cells associated with those neurons could form masses of unwanted cells.

Shane Mayack was a postdoc in the lab of Amy Wagers at Harvard University's Joslin Diabetes Center, studying blood stem cells.

The disease model, described in a new study by a UC San Francisco - led team, involves taking skin cells from patients with the bone disease, reprogramming them in a lab dish to their embryonic state, and deriving stem cells from them.

Around 2000, then - postdoc Wagers and other researchers in Irving Weissman's and Thomas Rando's labs at Stanford revived the method, known as parabiosis, to study the fate of blood stem cells and muscle cells.

«Because of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, we were able to work with other researchers to make patient cells into any type of neuron,» said Young - Pearse, whose lab spent two years fine - tuning protocols with collaborators to generate the neurons needed for her early onset Alzheimer's study.

The researchers used the new lab - on - a-chip to study how adult stem cells in adipose tissue develop into mature fat cells, conducting their investigations outside the body.

Importantly, researchers must still study existing embryonic stem cell lines — the gold standard — to rule out any hidden risks in the lab - made cells, he says.

Stephen DiNardo, PhD, a professor of Cell and Developmental Biology and Kari F. Lenhart, PhD, a postdoctoral scientist in the DiNardo lab, study the development of fruit fly sperm as a model to investigate the stem cell - niche.

The flatworm is ideal for studying stem cells, says lead author Kaja Wasik, who conducted the work as a PhD student in Hannon's lab along with co-lead author James Gurtowski from Schatz's lab.

Lab studies are also finding that mesenchymal stem cells extracted from different parts of the body can have different attributes.

The Yamashita lab used stem cells from the testes of the fruit fly Drosophila to study the process of cell division.

Thorold Theunissen, a postdoctoral fellow in Jaenisch's lab and co-first author of the study, says «Our work provides a rigorous set of criteria for comparing naïve human stem cells to their counterparts in the early human embryo.

The approach enabled a wide range of studies of human brain development, including implicating a new class of neural stem cell recently discovered by the lab in the evolutionary expansion of the human brain and identifying how the mosquito - borne Zika virus may contribute to microcephaly in infants infected in utero.

«We have bioengineered micro-scale heart tissues with a method that can easily be reproduced, which will enable scientists in stem cell biology and the drug industry to study heart cells in their proper context,» said first author Nathaniel Huebsch, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Conklin lab at Gladstone.

The Rutgers - led study was published in Stem Cell Reports and led by Zhichao Song, a doctoral student in Kwan's lab.

Conklin's lab at Gladstone, an independent, nonprofit life science research organization affiliated with UC San Francisco, supplied these human induced pluripotent stem cells for this study.

«This is essentially a recipe for how to make human inner ears from stem cells,» said Dr. Koehler, lead author of the study and whose research lab works on modeling human development.

But isolating the stem cells and maintaining them in the lab to study has been difficult.

Dr. Junfeng Feng, a neurosurgeon at Ren Ji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Shanghai Institute of Head Trauma, visited Zhao's lab to study how electric fields might guide stem cells implanted in the brain.

«Lab - grown human colons change study of GI disease: Stem cell derived organoids fill gap in modeling common ailments.»

Studying a new type of pinhead - size, lab - grown brain made with technology first suggested by three high school students, Johns Hopkins researchers have confirmed a key way in which Zika virus causes microcephaly and other damage in fetal brains: by infecting specialized stem cells that build its outer layer, the cortex.

The answer to this question comes from the lab of Marcel Leist (University of Konstanz, Germany) and their studies employing a defined and controllable in vitro system of post-mitotic murine astrocytes generated from embryonic stem cells (mAGES)[1].

But making chimeras with human organs whose development can be studied is more likely to succeed than the technique researchers have been trying for years: coaxing stem cells growing in lab dishes to become three - dimensional, functional tissues and organs.

I work in the Reinholdt lab where I study stem cell biology and the development of the mammalian germline.

Now, a new STEM CELLS study from the labs of Qing - Ling Fu (Sun Yat - sen University, Guangzhou) and Zhongquan Qi (Xiamen University, Fujian, PR China) has described the effect of iPSC - MSCs on immune T cells in a relevant in vivo mouse model.

Recently, his lab used induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells — adult cells made to act like embryonic stem cells — made from skin cells of patients carrying apoE4, or other mutations related to Alzheimer's, to study their effects on the development, survival, and degeneration of human neurons.

The Zheng lab studies cell division including the study of stem cells, genome organization, and lineage specification.

Her lab is using stem cells to study the function of the disease - causing gene and to generate human neurons suitable for transplantation and pharmacological screening.

Though Diamond's lab has received federal funding, he said researchers who have been cut out include those who study pregnancy, fetal development or neural stem cells.

In addition, the Garcia - Perez lab studies the impact of LINE - 1 retrotransposons in somatic stem cells and in Fanconi Anemia patients.

The study, published online February 20, 2018, in Cell Reports, was conducted by the UCSF lab of Saul Villeda, PhD, an assistant professor of anatomy and member of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCSF.

His lab is studying stem cells during development, homeostasis and tumor development.

Team Identifies Genetic Abnormalities in Stem Cell Lines — The study, from the Loring lab, suggests the need for frequent genomic monitoring of stem cells to assure their stability and clinical safStem Cell Lines — The study, from the Loring lab, suggests the need for frequent genomic monitoring of stem cells to assure their stability and clinical safstem cells to assure their stability and clinical safety.

Microscopic view of a colony of undifferentiated human embryonic stem cells being studied in developmental biologist James Thomson's research lab at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

In the lab for Human Brain and Neural Stem Cell Studies we aim at developing experimental paradigms to systematically identify novel types of neural stem and progenitor cells that serve as building blocks for brain developmStem Cell Studies we aim at developing experimental paradigms to systematically identify novel types of neural stem and progenitor cells that serve as building blocks for brain developmstem and progenitor cells that serve as building blocks for brain development.

A new study from the labs of Yiqun Yu and Hongmeng Yu (Fudan University, Shanghai, China) sought to uncover the role of Notch signaling in the regulation of olfactory epithelium (OE) progenitor / stem cells.

The Ellerby lab is known for its pioneering studies on Huntington's disease (HD), and Karen is now using human stem cell models of HD to understand why important molecular signaling pathways, such as the TGF - β pathway, are dysregulated in HD.

McDevitt's lab also studies how biomaterials can more effectively control the way stem cells develop into other cells in the body.

«More importantly, it solidified my desire to work as a research associate in a lab studying immunology, stem cells, or neurological disease.»

Our lab uses both cardiomyoctes derived from human stem cells (iPS cell - derived cardiomyocytes) and mouse models harboring the human mutation to study which exact changes occur during the onset and development of the disease.

The curriculum was adapted to facilities that included self - contained classrooms for STEM programs and activities; space, furniture and equipment flexibility; a large, centralized media center; large classrooms for science and engineering labs; and a site adjacent to a park with a lake, and within walking distance of another lake for environmental study.

The virtual labs and simulations, as well as the robust item types offered in our Study Island NGSS products, allow students to connect with real - world concepts in a way that supports STEM learning and provides students with the skills and tools they need to think critically about science and engineering.

A smaller group of 9th grade students focused on a social studies lesson in an enclosed room between the STEM and ELA pods, and another group of students was conducting a science experiment dissolving Alka - Seltzer tabs in the adjacent science lab.

The Broad Foundation Donates $ 25 Million To UCSF Stem Cell Program Because scientists were prohibited by President George W. Bush's stem cell policy from conducting these studies in federally funded buildings, UCSF scientists were forced to carry out their research in challenging circumstances — first in segregated space within an existing UCSF lab, later in rented space at an off - campus site and subsequently 40 miles away at Geron Corp., through a joint projStem Cell Program Because scientists were prohibited by President George W. Bush's stem cell policy from conducting these studies in federally funded buildings, UCSF scientists were forced to carry out their research in challenging circumstances — first in segregated space within an existing UCSF lab, later in rented space at an off - campus site and subsequently 40 miles away at Geron Corp., through a joint projstem cell policy from conducting these studies in federally funded buildings, UCSF scientists were forced to carry out their research in challenging circumstances — first in segregated space within an existing UCSF lab, later in rented space at an off - campus site and subsequently 40 miles away at Geron Corp., through a joint project.

In addition, evidence stemming from other labs does show that the attachment system is triggered in transference (e.g., Cox et al., 2008, Study 5) and that attachment style and working models clearly emerge in transference (e.g., Brumbaugh and Fraley, 2006, 2007).