Sentences with phrase «adult ovarian cell»
In the paper, published in the now - defunct online journal e-biomed, West, Lanza and their colleagues showed that they could pull a nucleus from a human egg cell, replace it with a whole adult ovarian cell and generate an embryo that divided into six cells.
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The team tried this method with two types of body cells: ovarian cells from an adult and connective tissue cells from a fetus.
Brain cells are often found in ovarian teratomas, but it is extremely unusual for them to organise themselves into brain - like structures, says Masayuki Shintaku at the Shiga Medical Centre for Adults in Japan, who studied the tumour.
Many of these genes are usually switched off in adults, but previous research has shown that in many cancers — including prostate, ovarian, and brain cancer, melanoma, and leukemia — HOX genes are switched back on, helping the cancer cells to proliferate and survive.
Those findings are among results of six studies of investigational chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells for both adult and pediatric leukemias, adult lymphomas, and ovarian cancer which will be presented during the 2016 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting.
And a December 2014 study found that ovarian tumors coax adult stem cells into providing key metabolites they need to grow.