Sentences with phrase «blood cells work»

Rod Kellems, Ph.D., study co-author and chairman of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the UTHealth Medical School, added, «This research provides insight into how red blood cells work, revealing that SphK1 - mediated elevation of S1P contributes to sickling and promotes disease progression and highlights potential therapeutic opportunities for sickle cell disease.»

Not exact matches

Technology by Cellectis allows cellular engineering, and a human trial of the company's work in editing blood cells will be presented at the upcoming American Society of Hematology.

Copper — is also found in shredded coconut which works together with iron to fuel your metabolism, support energy function, as well as to make functional red blood cells.

Its cells are burrowing into the covering of your uterus, making spaces for your blood to stream so that the created placenta will have the capacity to give supplements and oxygen to your developing child when it begins to work toward the end of this current week.

While the Vortex system is designed specifically for blood, the company is working with academic researchers to develop versions that could be used to isolate cells from other body fluids as well, such as cerebrospinal fluid and urine.

Stem cells found in cord blood don't need to be as closely matched to work.

Recent collaborative work between UCR and Cedars - Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles demonstrated that in animal models of human breast cancer, mice treated with 123B9 that was conjugated with paclitaxel had significantly fewer circulating cancer cells in the blood compared to mice that were not treated or even treated with paclitaxel alone.

In the placenta, RDGs have been found working in pathways associated with many of the tools of invasion: immune suppression, blood vessel growth, cell proliferation, and inflammation.

«Our work illustrates that this exquisite control mechanism — regulated by PUS7 and pseudouridine — is critical to adjusting the amount of proteins needed for human stem cells to grow and produce blood,» says Cristian Bellodi.

Rubinstein said checkpoint therapies work by cutting the brake cables on the white bloods cells that are inherently able to kill tumor cells.

The chips are designed to look for the activation of certain white blood cells, which would indicate the immune system was going to work to fight the infection.

«We found that a protein expressed by gut bacteria called Bacteroides works to prevent IBD by rapidly recruiting white blood cells to kill a cell of the immune system that is responsible for orchestrating IBD,» says McCoy.

The system works just like a standard glucose meter: patients test their blood using a traditional lancet, then use a special strip stored in the cell phone to analyze it.

Prof. Alon says: «Our study shows that the endothelial cells, which were thought to be dynamic assistants in this process of crossing of blood vessel walls, are really more responders to the «physical work» invested by the white blood cell motors and nuclei in generating gaps and crossing through blood vessels.»

These studies demonstrated that, at higher levels, leptin worked as a primary mechanism in inducing precancerous colon cells by increasing the blood supply to them and promoting their progression.

Researchers are still somewhat uncertain about exactly how it works, but they know that it targets the parasite as it infects red blood cells.

Other proteins work as muscles, control metabolism and immune response, or transport oxygen in the red blood cells.

This type of behaviour of the white blood cells served as an inspiration for the postdoc, Daniel Ahmed, who was working in Professor Bradley Nelson's research group at ETH Zurich.

«Despite the low infection levels of mouse cells with oHSV, we were able to cause a delay in tumor growth in one of the cancer models and even cure many of the mice in a second model,» said first author Jennifer Leddon, who conducted much of the laboratory work during a research experience in the Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Diseases.

The effect can work both ways — young mouse stem cells lose potency in old blood.

Scientists report today that artificial blood vessels made using a person's own skin cells work well in patients receiving kidney dialysis.

The former target, say, using gene editing techniques to inactivate HIV receptors and achieve resistance of blood cells to the virus (which Sangamo BioSciences is working on in clincial trials) is different than helping parents who both carry genes for Huntington's Disease to have a child that is free of the disease (a change to the genome that would be passed on to future generations and would likely not be very commonly needed).

Instead of using white blood cells, the British researchers, working with a Dutch group, want to take stem cells from bone marrow and insert the ADA gene into these.

Based on the pioneering work of Dr. Claire Lugassy and Dr. Raymond Barnhill at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, a new study provides additional support for a process by which melanoma cells, a deadly form of skin cancer, can spread throughout the body by creeping like tiny spiders along the outside of blood vessels without ever entering the blood stream, and that this process is exacerbated by exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light.

Previous work has shown that fetal cells can linger in the mother's blood and bone for decades, a condition researchers call fetal microchimerism.

The work also reinforces the importance of finding tumor cell clusters in the blood as a mechanism of detecting cancer metastasis earlier.

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Lanza is also working with hemangioblasts, intermediate cells derived from embryos that can make all blood and vascular cell types.

Until a smaller study on sex mismatches by the same Dutch team six years ago, no one had thought to look at the pregnancy history of red blood cell donors, says Rutger Middelburg, an epidemiologist with Sanquin Research in the Netherlands, who helped lead that pilot work and the study published Tuesday.

Vitamin B12 helps red blood cells and nerves work properly, among other functions.

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.

In adults, more cannabinoids will force one group of cells to more intensive work, but at the same time it will weaken the efficiency of the other, and in consequence blood glucose level will not change or may even increase significantly.»

«Under no circumstances should it be concluded from our work that consumption of marijuana can be a way to cure diabetes,» Prof. Dobrzyn warns and explains: «The concentration of glucose in the blood is determined by the balance between the activities of alpha and beta cells of the pancreas and insulin target tissues such as skeletal muscle and adipose tissue.

He adds, however, that if they work as reported, MAPCs are still not very efficient: one adult blood - forming stem cell replaced as much bone marrow as a million MAPCs.

The rockets work like this: A protein anchored to the bacterium's membrane triggers the rapid polymerization of the protein actin; this provides an explosive boost, so the bacterium can push through the membrane of white blood cells and burst out to infect another cell.

Snake and reptile venoms typically don't work for this type of research because most of them function as hemotoxins (which destroy red blood cells) and target components of the cardiovascular system, King says.

Kole's work focused on tricking the red blood cell manufacturing machinery of thalassaemic patients into producing normal haemoglobin from their mutated genes.

Working under a microscope with tweezers, steady hands, and held breath, Theall fashions copper wire only twice the diameter of a red blood cell into electrodes that he will insert into the cockroach's brain.

Professor Geoff Pilkington, study co-author and Head of the Brain Tumour Research Centre, said: «Although this work is still at an early stage, we have demonstrated key elements that are associated with tumour cell binding to blood vessels and this may provide a target for future drug development to prevent the development of secondary tumours in the brain.

«Because the hematopoetic stem cell niche is so important for the creation of bone marrow and blood cells and because Del - 1 is a soluble protein and is easily manipulated, one can see that it could be a target in many potential applications,» said George Hajishengallis, the Thomas W. Evans Centennial Professor in the Department of Microbiology in Penn's School of Dental Medicine and a senior author on the work.

But to work, to build proteins or whatever else it does, the DNA requires the rest of the metabolic apparatus of the cell — or of the whole blood - forming system in the case of genes involved in the synthesis of haemoglobin.

Dogged genetic detective work has led scientists to a hybrid red blood cell protein that offers some protection against malaria.

To show that the hitch would work, Ploegh's team attached the vitamin biotin to red blood cells and infused them into mice.

Dr. Nagy is renowned for his work in stem cells, blood vessel biology, and creating genetic tools in cancer cells, among other areas.

A protein may be the key to maintaining the health of aging blood stem cells, according to work by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai recently published online in Stem Cell Reports.

Studies show that nanoparticles can work their way into the bloodstream, penetrate cells, and get past the blood - brain barrier.

Then an experiment in 2005 found that young blood returned the liver and skeletal stem cells of old mice to a more youthful state, and work in 2012 discovered that young blood can reverse heart decline in old mice.

Kurtis says a vaccine that exploits the antibody's ability to imprison Plasmodium within blood cells would have more time to work with than one that tries to block reinfection.

Active pertussis toxin works by entering white blood cells and chemically modifying a category of G proteins, which are essential signaling molecules.

«Our challenge now is to tease out exactly how this protein works in the cells involved in making up the blood - brain barrier.