Sentences with phrase «blood cells in the lab»

A solution, Cheng and his colleagues thought, could be to grow blood cells in the lab that were matched to each patient's own genetic material and thus could evade the immune system.

Not exact matches

This new kind of approach to fighting blood cancers is truly personalized; immune T - cells are extracted from patients, genetically tinkered to home in on an destroy cancerous cells, multiplied in a lab, and then jolted back into the patient's body within about two weeks.

In lab dishes, the blast cells formed tissues that resembled blood - forming stem cells as well as blood vessels, the group found.

Rahul Palchaudhuri, a postdoctoral fellow in Scadden's lab and first author on the paper, armed CD45 - targeting antibodies with a payload that destroys only existing blood cells.

Shane Mayack was a postdoc in the lab of Amy Wagers at Harvard University's Joslin Diabetes Center, studying blood stem cells.

I couldn't resist composing this after the mention of the charmingly misspelled word «hematopoetic» in your story on blood grown in the lab from stem cells (12 November, p 8):

Researchers in the Rice lab of chemist and bioengineer Jeffrey Hartgerink had just such an experience with the hydrogels they developed as a synthetic scaffold to deliver drugs and encourage the growth of cells and blood vessels for new tissue.

So far Kajander and his colleagues have found the nanobacteria in cattle blood, in 80 % of samples of commercial cow serum in which mammalian cells are grown in the lab, and in the blood of nearly 6 % of more than 1000 Finnish adults tested.

And his group has applied for funding to run lab studies to see if the fish hosting blotchy lesions develop more subtle — and disturbing — symptoms with time, such as a slower swimming speed or changes in blood - cell counts.

Tanyi and colleagues made each patient's vaccine by sifting through the patient's own peripheral blood mononuclear cells for suitable precursor cells, and then growing these, in the lab, into a large population of dendritic cells.

Transplants grown from stem cells in the lab can help replenish the blood and have been used to cure anaemia in mice.

The implications were hardly lost on the Bethesda crowd: If the virus was transmitted in cell cultures in Ruscetti's lab, it could also be contaminating the nation's blood supply as a result of blood donations from unknowingly infected donors.

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.

«This development has the potential to enable earlier detection of solid tumors through a simple blood draw by substantially improving our ability to detect very low quantities of circulating DNA derived from tumor cells,» says corresponding author Hunter Underhill, M.D., Ph.D., who initiated the research while in the lab of senior author Jay Shendure, M.D., Ph.D., a professor in genome sciences at the University of Washington.

As with the other self - diagnosis tools, home use of Ozcan's cell phone blood imager is a ways off, but it is already being looked at for pilot programs in remote locations where doctors and lab equipment are in short supply.

«We studied human T cells, isolated from blood donors of all ages, to compare mature cytotoxic T cells with naive ones,» said Philip Ansumana Hull, graduate student in Ott's lab and one of the first authors of the study.

In lab tests the refurbished cells cured the disease in mice and in human blooIn lab tests the refurbished cells cured the disease in mice and in human blooin mice and in human blooin human blood.

Part of the issue was settled when Cecilia Riquelme, a postdoc in Leinwand's lab, drew blood from recently fed pythons and applied it to a dish of living rat heart cells.

Using stem cells from umbilical cord blood, researchers are growing clusters of real liver cells in the lab.

Dr. Gabriel Ferguson, a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Martinez - Agosto and first author of the study, built upon the lab's previous research that utilized the blood system of the fruit fly species Drosophila, showing that a specific set of signals must be received by progenitor cells to activate their differentiation into cells that can work to fight infection after injury.

Additional problems cropped up in March, however, when New Scientist reported that a single image had appeared three different times in data from Verfaillie's lab — once referring to bone and once to cartilage in a 2001 Blood paper about human MAPCs, and once again to describe bone cells in a 2006 patent application.

Liu's «lab on a chip» is notable for its ability to not only capture tumor cells circulating in the blood, but to «release» those cells as well.

When the team tested the drug on cells grown in the lab, they found that it killed blood vessel cells and prevented growth of new blood vessels.

Labs can test their proficiency at carrying out the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), a technique that generates usable quantities of DNA from cells in a tiny sample of blood or semen.

RED blood cells generated in a lab have been successfully injected into a human volunteer for the first time.

To find out if this was true, workers in stem - cell biologist Irving Weissman's lab at Stanford University Medical School took one blood stem cell from an adult mouse and tagged it with a marker that glowed green under fluorescent light.

«The blood - brain barrier forms pretty early in gestation, so the thyroid hormone, even from the mother, is probably not getting through the barrier and into the brain, likely leading to developmental deficits,» says Shusta, whose group was among the first to develop blood - brain barriers from patient - derived stem cells in the lab dish.

In lab dishes, Liu's team corrected a mutation in human cells from a patient with an iron - storage blood disorder called hereditary hemochromatosiIn lab dishes, Liu's team corrected a mutation in human cells from a patient with an iron - storage blood disorder called hereditary hemochromatosiin human cells from a patient with an iron - storage blood disorder called hereditary hemochromatosis.

Johannes Scheid, a student in Nussenzweig's lab, isolated it several years ago from an HIV - infected patient whose immune system had an exceptional ability to neutralize HIV in the blood by preventing the virus from infecting and destroying a specific type of immune cells, called CD4 cells, in patients.

Berkeley Lab researchers found that the sticky residue left behind by tobacco smoke led to changes in weight and blood cell count in mice.

Hungerford, a predoctoral fellow, was writing his doctoral thesis on chromosomes in a genetics lab at Fox Chase Cancer Center, and detected a tiny flaw in chromosomes from the blood cells of patients with a type of leukemia.

In the new papers, according to STAT, scientists will report that the organoids survived for extended periods of time — two months in one case — and even connected to lab animals» circulatory and nervous systems, transferring blood and nerve signals between the host animal and the implanted human cellIn the new papers, according to STAT, scientists will report that the organoids survived for extended periods of time — two months in one case — and even connected to lab animals» circulatory and nervous systems, transferring blood and nerve signals between the host animal and the implanted human cellin one case — and even connected to lab animals» circulatory and nervous systems, transferring blood and nerve signals between the host animal and the implanted human cells.

Postdoctoral positions are available in Dr. Sarah Yuan's lab studying blood / vascular cell biology wi...

In that condition, stem cells collected from the blood or bone marrow could be removed from a patient, edited in the lab to correct the DNA typo — a process called «ex vivo» gene editing — and then reinjected to proliferate and make a patient healthIn that condition, stem cells collected from the blood or bone marrow could be removed from a patient, edited in the lab to correct the DNA typo — a process called «ex vivo» gene editing — and then reinjected to proliferate and make a patient healthin the lab to correct the DNA typo — a process called «ex vivo» gene editing — and then reinjected to proliferate and make a patient healthy.

Corn's lab is one of several using CRISPR to cure — at least in isolated cells and mice — sickle cell disease, where a single - letter DNA mutation stymies the oxygen - ferrying capacity of red blood cells.

These cells are extracted from monkeys, altered with CRISPR in a lab, and then later infused back into the monkey's marrow to grow and make new, healthy blood cells.

The blood is efficiently separated so that mononuclear white blood cells and peripheral blood stem cells can be transferred to a collection bag which will be transferred to the lab and frozen for later use in adult stem cell therapy.

By examining the results of genome - wide association studies (GWAS) in conjunction with experiments on mouse and human red blood cells (RBCs), researchers in the lab of Whitehead Institute Founding Member Harvey Lodish have identified the protein cyclin D3 as regulating the number of cell divisions RBC progenitors undergo, which ultimately affects the resulting size and quantity of RBCs.

The King Lab has pioneered the use of selectin proteins to deliver apoptosis death signals to tumor cells in flowing blood, and to deliver therapeutic cargo (e.g., siRNA, chemotherapeutics) encapsulated in nanoscale liposomes.

Scientists from BloodSystems Research Institute in San Francisco, California, and Canadian Blood Services» Centre for Innovation lab in Edmonton, Alberta, report that specific red blood cell manufacturing methods may be less damaging to cells than otBlood Services» Centre for Innovation lab in Edmonton, Alberta, report that specific red blood cell manufacturing methods may be less damaging to cells than otblood cell manufacturing methods may be less damaging to cells than others.

Researchers at Boston Children's Hospital have, for the first time, generated blood - forming stem cells in the lab using pluripotent stem cells, which can make virtually every cell type in the body.

Chunhui Xu's lab in the Department of Pediatrics recently published a paper in Stem Cell Reports on the differentiation of endothelial cells, which line and maintain blood vessels.

The common blood tests listed in the chart below are among the most helpful to understand, but keep scrolling to see guides to many other lab tests, such as white blood cell readings and cholesterol / lipid panels.

It is prescribed for edema in Germany and may be safer than other remedies because it replenishes potassium.910 Preliminary animal studies suggest that dandelion may help normalize blood sugar and fight inflammation.11 Dandelion root extract caused cancer cells to destroy themselves in a Canadian lab study, which prompted a clinical study (the results of which are not yet available).12

We have a comprehensive in - house lab that allows for rapid analysis of white and red blood cell values, electrolytes, and parameters of organ function.

The bone marrow should respond to anemia by producing more red blood cells; therefore, an increase in the number of immature cells called reticulocytes should be seen on lab results.

Lab Technician II — TRL Plasma Laboratories — January 2013 — Present • Monitor the heat sealing and aseptic sampling of plasma units; place units of plasma into freezer in timely manner in order to ensure quality of product • Label plasma samples and units properly and store according to policy; manage an average of 50 different plasma units on a regular basis • Evaluate refrigerator and freezer temperatures ad inform supervisor if equipment is malfunctioning • Maintain efficient and clean work environment and ensure inventory is stocked properly; answer phones and answer questions or transfer calls to appropriate departmentLab Technician I — ABC Medical Technologies, Inc. — May 2007 — January 2013 • Operated laboratory equipment, such as cell counters and microscopes, to analyze urine, blood, and tissue samples; recorded both normal and abnormal findings; had less than a.1 percent margin of error in sample findings • Used computerized instruments and automated equipment to perform multiple tests at one time; maintained calibration and proper function of equipment on a regular basis • Entered data from tests into physician reports; discussed abnormal results with supervisor and re-ran tests before logging data into patient's medical record

Lab Technician — ABO Laboratories — May 2012 — Present • Execute a variety of laboratory assays and tests in accordance with established procedures, policies, and regulations; ensure samples are properly labeled and stored • Study blood samples for transfusions and record the blood group, number of cells, blood type, cell morphology, and other blood type compatibility • Perform procedural and instrument calibrations, document all quality control activities, and perform regular equipment maintenance • Identify problems that may negatively affect test results or performance; correct issues immediately and properly notify supervisor • Maintain meticulous records and demonstrate that the testing of samples is done in the same manner as patient specimens; promote cost - effective testing practices and reduce waste by 10 percent

Hysi's research also included a review of Dr. Gottman's Love Lab studies, which found higher white blood cell counts in couples that were happily married.