Sentences with phrase «around blood stem»

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The ESRC Genomics Forum has a commitment to promote social research on the contemporary life sciences around issues including designer babies, synthetic blood, DNA profiling, identity politics, personalised medicine, stem cell research and synthetic biology.

«In effort to treat rare blinding disease, researchers turn stem cells into blood vessels: Patients around the world contribute skin samples to test potential new therapy.»

As the heart starts pumping a primitive blood - like fluid around the body of an embryo, the change in pressure from the flowing liquid is the cue for cells lining the aorta to change first into blood stem cells, then into all blood - cell types in the body.

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.

The pain is the hallmark of a very rare, but unusually deadly type of stroke called a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), the result of ruptured blood vessels leaking blood between the skull and brain and around the brain stem.

«It's estimated that we're born with around 20,000 blood stem cells, and at any one time, around 1000 are simultaneously active to replenish blood,» says Holstege.

Perivascular cells, including pericytes in the smallest blood vessels (e.g., microvessels) and ARCs around larger ones, express mesenchymal stem cell markers and bear a multi-differentiation fate potential (differentiate into osteoblasts, chondrocytes, adipocytes, smooth muscle cells and myocytes) similar to that documented for MSCs in vitro.

So far, for all the enthusiasm over stem cell therapies, there are only a few that have been validated — including bone marrow transplants to treat certain blood cancers — and those that have been around for years.