Sentences with phrase «as human tissue»

For example, a non-Newtonian model would be needed for 3 - D printing polymers and biomaterials, such as human tissue and organs.

Given the chance, the bacteria will spread across surfaces such as human tissue to form a biofilm that may resist treatment with antibiotics.

Three researchers are calling for the FDA to regulate feces as a human tissue rather than a drug to make it easier for doctors to perform fecal transplants.

Such women can not obtain breast milk from other women on the open market, because U.S. regulations treat breast milk as human tissue and prohibit its free sale.

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(The connective tissue in the latter, as readers discover, is the role human empathy plays in the public response to the tragedy.)

The tiny sensors, which consist of infrared light - emitting diodes (LEDs) coupled with a sensitive light detector, measure infinitesimal gradations in light in human tissue, due to changing blood volume in the microvasculature as blood circulates through the body — a process that follows in rhythm with the beating of the heart.

On a normal diet, the human body breaks down carbohydrates into glucose, which are used for energy or stored as glycogen in liver and muscle tissue.

Salk Institute scientists say they have developed a superior way of cultivating human brain tissue, guiding research for treating neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's.

The difficulties associated with obtaining nerve tissue at the correct stage of development and differentiation from aborted embryos means that foetal tissue transplantation is no longer in favour, but the creation of human embryos specifically as sources of stem cells, and the push to use «spare» embryos from IVF treatments is gatheringmomentum.

Aristotle described human being as a layered hierarchy of informed matter, the elements fusing together under the impress of a higher - level form to compose tissues, tissues serving as the proximate matter for a yet more complex organizing form at the level of organs, and organs bound into the active, dynamic organism by the yet higher form of soul.

The building block electronic and protonic actual occasions are, in the case of human beings, swept into vastly more complex, Chinese box - like sets of containing societies within which there are social levels that can be identified with cells, others which answer to Aristotle's levels of tissues and organs, and which finally are presided over by what Whitehead refers to as the regnant nexus, a social thread of complex temporal inheritance which, Whitehead suggests, wanders from part to part of the brain, is the seat of conscious direction of the organism as a whole, and answers to what in Plato and Aristotle is called the soul.

Pro-choice euphemisms like «pre-embryo,» «foetal tissue,» and «ball of cells» are materialistic and reflect fully the diminishment of human life as chance — easy come, easy go.

StemExpress describes itself as «a multi-million dollar company that supplies human blood, tissue products, primary cells and other clinical specimens to biomedical researchers,» according to the company website.

Whilst acknowledging that many questions remain unanswered in the debate between those who would advocate the use of stem cells taken from human embryos, and those experimenting on stem cells drawn from tissues of the adult human body, there is a lengthy discussion of the moral status of the human embryo as being a crucial matter in this regard.

As humans, we've developed ways to donate blood, tissue, organs, and even sperm and ovarian eggs in recent generations, but human milk has been shared since women began having babies.

More work has to be done on humans as many of the results showed up in mice samples, however in studying the human brains of women who had AD scientists found significantly less male fetal tissue in their brains as in the same of women who did not have AD.

Riordan & Wambach (2012) state, «Human milk is similar to unstructured living tissue, such as blood, and is capable or transporting nutrients, affecting biochemical systems, enhancing immunity, and destroying pathogens.»

Riordan & Wambach (2012) state, «Human milk is similar to unstructured living tissue, such as blood, and is capable or transporting nutrients, affecting biochemical systems, enhancing immunity, and destroying pathogens» They they go on to say, «Breastmilk, like all other animal milks, is species - specific.

There are so many issues involving vaccinations, such as state requirements and the use of animal / human tissue, that Dr. Sears does an amazing job covering the subject.

As well as allowing the use of stem cells grown from established cell lines, the technology could enable the creation of improved human tissue models for drug testing and potentially even purpose - built replacement organAs well as allowing the use of stem cells grown from established cell lines, the technology could enable the creation of improved human tissue models for drug testing and potentially even purpose - built replacement organas allowing the use of stem cells grown from established cell lines, the technology could enable the creation of improved human tissue models for drug testing and potentially even purpose - built replacement organs.

On Thursday, the United Nations» member states will consider two resolutions: One resolution would ban all human cloning methods, including efforts to use cloned embryonic stem cells to try and generate healthy tissues, or to treat degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's.

Three - dimensional models of living tissue will advance understanding of human breast development as well as the growth of breast cancer.

Wang points out that the current findings are preliminary and that comparing SLC13A5 activity in healthy and cancerous human liver tissue will be necessary before studies of this pathway as a cancer drug target should be contemplated.

Larger biomarker signatures can be detected with technology from CDI Laboratories, which offers microarrays of functional human proteins (over 20,000 on a single array) to test the antibodies present in human liquid biopsy samples, such as blood, serum, plasma, CSF, or tissue lysates.

Researchers there are examining the role of other signaling factory beyond BMP as well as conducting further studies using human cells and human scar tissue.

These «organs on a chip,» as they are called, are typically glass slides coated with human cells that have been configured to mimic a particular tissue or interface between tissues.

The biobank of MedUni Vienna and Vienna General Hospital is a central service facility dedicated to the storage of human tissue, cell material and body fluids for more in - depth diagnosis, academic research projects and clinical tests, as well as working - up samples by way of a medical service.

As director of the United Kingdom Human Tissue Bank, Samantha Orr manages staff and takes part in clinical and research liaison activities.

WHAT THEY DO BEST: In real life, human tissues are not so neatly color - coded as they are in such iconic texts as Gray's Anatomy, and they can be extraordinarily difficult to distinguish.

The researchers have compared various processes involved in gene expression, such as gene transcription and chromatin modification, and have repeated this in different tissues and cell types from both humans and mice.

Also known as corpse wax, it effectively preserved the shape of the soft brain tissue (HOMO — Journal of Comparative Human Biology, doi.org/nz6).

The effect also happened too quickly to be due to dry air damaging nasal tissue so that it is not as effective a barrier to viruses, which has been suggested as a factor in humans.

Besides its potential application in human patients, the newly developed skin tissue also could be used as an alternative to testing cosmetics on animals, the researchers said.

The space - based results were a product of CRaTER's ability to accurately gauge the radiation dose of cosmic rays after passing through a material known as «tissue - equivalent plastic,» which simulates human muscle tissue.

As far as anybody knows, the genetically different tissues in a human chimera materialize as unpredictably as the orange, black, and white patches on the coat of a calico caAs far as anybody knows, the genetically different tissues in a human chimera materialize as unpredictably as the orange, black, and white patches on the coat of a calico caas anybody knows, the genetically different tissues in a human chimera materialize as unpredictably as the orange, black, and white patches on the coat of a calico caas unpredictably as the orange, black, and white patches on the coat of a calico caas the orange, black, and white patches on the coat of a calico cat.

The newly discovered human cells, named «cord - blood - derived embryonic - like stem cells» or CBEs, are not quite as primitive as embryonic stem cells, which can give rise to any tissue type of the body.

These techniques include: human tissue created by reprogramming cells from people with the relevant disease (dubbed «patient in a dish»); «body on a chip» devices, where human tissue samples on a silicon chip are linked by a circulating blood substitute; many computer modelling approaches, such as virtual organs, virtual patients and virtual clinical trials; and microdosing studies, where tiny doses of drugs given to volunteers allow scientists to study their metabolism in humans, safely and with unsurpassed accuracy.

As it can take weeks to grow human cells into intact differentiated and functional tissues within Organ Chips, such as those that mimic the lung and intestine, and researchers seek to understand how drugs, toxins or other perturbations alter tissue structure and function, the team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering led by Donald Ingber has been searching for ways to non-invasively monitor the health and maturity of cells cultured within these microfluidic devices over extended timeAs it can take weeks to grow human cells into intact differentiated and functional tissues within Organ Chips, such as those that mimic the lung and intestine, and researchers seek to understand how drugs, toxins or other perturbations alter tissue structure and function, the team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering led by Donald Ingber has been searching for ways to non-invasively monitor the health and maturity of cells cultured within these microfluidic devices over extended timeas those that mimic the lung and intestine, and researchers seek to understand how drugs, toxins or other perturbations alter tissue structure and function, the team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering led by Donald Ingber has been searching for ways to non-invasively monitor the health and maturity of cells cultured within these microfluidic devices over extended times.

The interdisciplinary project team is made up of eco - and human toxicologists, physicists, chemists and biologists, and they have just managed to take their first major step forward in achieving their goal: they have developed a method for testing a variety of environmental samples such as river water, animal tissue, or human urine and blood that can detect nanomaterials at a concentration level of nanogram per liter (ppb — parts per billion).

Human tissues and organs change as we grow older.

The bacteria can seem so similar to human tissue that antibodies produced against it attack human organs as well.

Palaeontologists can date when our ancestors lost the organ, as the tissue attaches to a skeletal feature called the hyoid bulla, which is absent in humans.

Using a mouse model of HSV - 1 as well as autopsied samples of human adult and fetal tissues, investigators from Dartmouth College's Geisel School of Medicine found that antibodies against HSV - 1 produced by adult women or female mice could travel to the nervous systems of their yet unborn babies, preventing the development and spread of infection during birth.

There are moments of pure nature - channel gore, such as when McAuliffe delineates the life cycle of a guinea worm, a parasite that migrates from a human's intestinal muscle through the tissues of the body all the way to the lower limbs or sole of the foot where it — no, that's enough.

Biotech's latest mantra is «proteomics,» as it focuses on how dynamic networks of human proteins control cells and tissues

It was difficult to capture an image through thicker samples, such as a human arm, because too much light was scattered back from the tissue.

Niklason hopes that other simple engineered tissues, such as the blood vessels she has been working on, will be ready for human trials within a year.

While tissue engineering exists for restoring normal sexual function, such as lab - grown vaginas, this would take the practice into the arena of human enhancement.

Body Bazaar: The Market for Human Tissue in the Biotechnology Age, Lori Andrews and Dorothy Nelkin (Crown) Your DNA, cells, and tissue are viewed by biotechnologists as resources ripe for harveTissue in the Biotechnology Age, Lori Andrews and Dorothy Nelkin (Crown) Your DNA, cells, and tissue are viewed by biotechnologists as resources ripe for harvetissue are viewed by biotechnologists as resources ripe for harvesting.

By pairing a receptor that targets neurons with a molecule that degrades the main component of Alzheimer's plaques, the biologists were able to substantially dissolve these plaques in mice brains and human brain tissue, offering a potential mechanism for treating the debilitating disease, as well as other conditions that involve either the brain or the eyes.