Sentences with phrase «as human skin cells»

These penetrate tissue and heat up when excited by radio - frequency waves; and they have been shown to thaw arteries and heart valve tissue from pigs, as well as human skin cells, rapidly and evenly, without the typical damage.

Not exact matches

As reported June 13 in Cell Reports, a topical drug penetrated and tanned laboratory samples of live human skin, absent the sun.

Using a mathematical model known as the Ising model, invented to describe phase transitions in statistical physics, such as how a substance changes from liquid to gas, the Johns Hopkins researchers calculated the probability distribution of methylation along the genome in several different human cell types, including normal and cancerous colon, lung and liver cells, as well as brain, skin, blood and embryonic stem cells.

The reprogrammed skin cells that have led to this enthusiasm seem to have the same properties as the embryonic stem cells (ESCs) found in human embryos just a few days old.

«We culture typical skin cell of the epidermis, such as human keratinocytes, in our dishes to form an artificial epidermis with all of its natural layers,» explained Sibylle Thude, the biologist who led the investigation into the accreditation.

But then ISS itself serves as a home to six microbe - filled humans who stay in orbit for as long as 6 months each and routinely shed skin cells when they exercise, comb their hair, eat, and do other activities that potentially can contaminate their isolated «built environment.»

Wei Long Ng explained: «The two - step bioprinting strategy involves the fabrication of hierarchical porous collagen - based structures (that closely resembles the skin's dermal region), and deposition of epidermal cells such as keratinocytes and melanocytes at pre-defined positions on top of the biomimetic dermal skin constructs, to create 3D in - vitro pigmented human skin constructs.

Alternative cell lines, such as induced pluripotent stem cells generated from patient skin cells, offer a more accurate window on human biology, he says.

«Human skin cells are known as corneocytes and look like little hexagonal lozenges,» she explains.

The naturally occurring arsenic kills human cells, leading first to skin scarring and then, as it slowly builds up in the body, to brain damage, heart disease and cancer.

The ability of scientists to convert human skin cells into other cell types, such as neurons, has the potential to enhance understanding of disease and lead to finding new ways to heal damaged tissues and organs, a field called regenerative medicine.

Skin cells reprogrammed to act like embryonic stem cells — a breakthrough first reported in human cells 2 weeks ago — are already showing promise as a therapeutic agent.

Xu and his team, which includes researchers from Penn's departments of Dermatology and Biology, as well as the New Jersey Institute of Technology, started with human skin cells called dermal fibroblasts.

Human embryonic stem cells derived from affected embryos during a pre-implantation diagnostic (PGD), as well as the conversion of somatic cells, such as skin fibroblasts, into induced pluripotent stem cells by genetic manipulation, offer the unique opportunity to have access to a large spectrum of disease - specific cell models.

In human skin, keratinocytes, the cells found in the outer layer of our skin known as the epidermis, soak up our naturally occurring melanosomes.

Reykjavik, ICELAND, 25 September 2011 — Scientists at deCODE Genetics and academic collaborators from Iceland, The Netherlands, Spain, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, the USA, the UK and Romania today report the discovery of a variant in the sequence of the human genome associated with risk of developing basal cell carcinoma of the skin (BCC), as well as prostate cancer and glioma, the most serious form of brain cancer.

These cells, derived from the skin cells of human patients, have the same genetic makeup — including any potential disease - causing mutations — as the patient.

Humans obviously regenerate some cell types very well, such as skin, muscle and liver cells, but almost not at all in cells of the nervous system or with any complex tissue systems.

Rather than reversing cells all the way back to a stem cell state before prompting them to turn into something else, such as in the case of iPS cells, the researchers «rewind» skin cells just enough to instruct them to form the more than 200 cell types that constitute the human body.

Ng explains, «The two - step bioprinting strategy involves the fabrication of hierarchical porous collagen - based structures (that closely resembles the skin's dermal region), and deposition of epidermal cells such as keratinocytes and melanocytes at pre-defined positions on top of the biomimetic dermal skin constructs, to create 3D in - vitro pigmented human skin constructs.

A decade later, scientists figured out how to generate another type of all - purpose cell from human skin, known as induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS.

The work, as detailed in the journal Stem Cells, shows that only a bit of creative manipulation is needed to turn skin cells into human white blood cCells, shows that only a bit of creative manipulation is needed to turn skin cells into human white blood ccells into human white blood cellscells.

Recent work from Fousteri Lab revealed a novel metabolic function of active transcription that is rapidly switched on globally in human cells to promote genetic accuracy, and reduce the mutation burden in genotoxins - exposed tissues, such as skin and lung, thus actively participating in lowering oncogenesis.

However, while hESCs are created from human embryos, iPS cells are cells that were originally from adult tissues, such as skin from an adult body, but have been «reprogrammed» to a hESC - like state.

Scientists study dorsal closure, which occurs during the development of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, to gain insights into wound healing in humans, as both processes involve closing a gap in the skin by stretching the surrounding epithelial cells over it.

Two teams independently discover a way to turn ordinary human skins cells into stem cells with the same characteristics as those derived from human embryos, a breakthrough that could open the door for advanced medical therapies.

Two teams of scientists have independently discovered a way to turn ordinary human skin cells into stem cells with the same characteristics as those derived from human embryos, a breakthrough that could open the door for advanced medical therapies.

InvivoSciences makes engineered heart tissues from mouse embryonic stem cells and stem cells from differentiated adult tissues in humans, such as fat and skin.

Human skin cells have also been directly converted into neurons that can be used to study and find treatments for diseases in the brain, as well as liver cells and insulin - producing cells of the pancreas.

Using Gladstone's unique expertise, the scientists then used induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), generated from adult human skin cells, to create a type of beating heart cell known as cardiomyocytes.

In humans, these cells function to protect skin from damaging environmental stresses such as ultraviolet radiation exposure.

Gage and Ghosh discuss how human skin cells induced to return to an immature state («induced pluripotent stem cells» or IPS cells) are revolutionizing our understanding and treatment of mental and neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson's disease, as well as leading to new models of drug development for all diseases.

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Astaxanthin has proved itself as a strong UVB absorber and is able to reduce DNA damage that causes cell and collagen degradation in the human skin, which can result in premature aging, hyperpigmentation, wrinkle formation, erythema, and skin cancer.

First described in 1842 by Gustav Simon, a French dermatologist, Demodex mites are normal skin inhabitants of many mammals, and > 140 species of Demodex have been identified (2 in humans, 3 in dogs).1 The mites live in hair follicles as well as the sebaceous glands and ducts and feed off of sebum, cells, and debris from the epidermis.2, 3 In dogs, the mites are passed from the bitch to her puppies through close contact while nursing.

Animal skin comes together with wax, resin, cloth and rope to create mutilated human and animal shapes, as if stem cells have gone off on horrible tangents, reproducing unspeakable forms of flesh.