Sentences with phrase «abnormalities affecting these cells»
Major brain disorders such as PD, ADHD, and schizophrenia are related to abnormalities affecting these cells.
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Folate deficiency can result in several different complications — the most important of these are neural tube defects (such as spina bifida, an abnormality of the spine and spinal cord) in babies and anemia (in which the number and function of red blood cells is affected leading to an inability of the blood to carry sufficient oxygen).
«Studies of fetuses and babies with the telltale small brains and heads of microcephaly in Zika - affected areas have found abnormalities in the cortex, and Zika virus has been found in the fetal tissue,» says Guo - li Ming, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of neurology, neuroscience, and psychiatry and behavioral science at Johns Hopkins» Institute for Cell Engineering.
Utilising both chondrocytes as a starting material and non-integrating mRNA technology as a reprogramming strategy, the group aimed to remove the risk of epigenetic memory of somatic cell of origin, which can affect future differentiation propensity, and reduces the risk of abnormalities being introduced during reprogramming.