Sentences with phrase «cell colony grew»

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In 1999, Anthony Atala grew a colony of bladder cells, taken from a biopsy and seeded on a «scaffold» in the shape of a patient's own bladder.

After a few days, they divided the clusters into individual cells, a small percentage of which grew into so - called blast colonies of up to 400 million cells, the team reports in Nature Methods.

«This alga is colony - forming, which means that a lot of individual cells grow to form a colony.

The 250 or so irregular blobs, up to 12 centimetres in length, have scalloped edges, suggesting an organised and growing colony of coordinated cells.

By using molecular genetic tools to reduce the amount of PC in human lung cancer cells, the team observed decreased cell growth, a compromised ability to form colonies in soft agar (a gelatinous material specifically used to grow bacteria and other cells), and a reduced rate of tumor growth in mice.

It turns out that even asexual fungal cells can be social: As they grow and fuse with one another to form colonies, they reach out toward some neighbors while snubbing others.

These are images of mouse embryonic stem cells which grow in a round colony of cells (A) and express Sox2 (B), shown in red.

Tschinkel believes that an ant colony grows just as a single organism does, by rules that guide interactions among its cells and between it and its environment, a process called embryogenesis.

The adapted cells outcompeted the normal ones and grew about three times as many colonies.

Among the hundreds of colonies that grew from these cells, the scientists found that a handful had markers for pluripotency.

Traditionally, establishing clonal populations from edited hiPS cells grown and passaged as colonies is inefficient and time consuming; often, it results in cell death or premature differentiation.

Human embryonic stem cells, shown growing in a «colony» in the middle of the picture above, have been an essential addition to the ever - growing stem cell family.

In addition to showing increased ability to grow as spherical colonies, the stem - like cancer cells were shown to proliferate slower than the bulk cancer cells [28, 29].

He and the Vereide Group grow precursors of human arterial cells, build colonies of dendritic cells (cells which can alert the rest of the immune system to the presence of a tumor), and use chick embryos to study the formation of early tissue layers for a possible future in which complex tissues, or even organs, can be grown to replace diseased, wounded, or malfunctioning ones.

For each sample, single HSCs were isolated and grown into colonies of homogenous cells to obtain enough DNA for exome sequencing.

After only 10 days — instead of the more typical three to four weeks — one out of 100 hundred cells grew into a tiny colony with all the markings of a typical human embryonic stem cell colony.

The area protocol designed here does not count single cells or the growth of the single cells in compact hESC colonies grown on top of the feeder layer.

Suddenly cells change the kind of food they eat, change their resistance to antibiotics and even grow colonies with completely different shapes.

These images show human embryonic stem cell colonies, as grown in 1998 by researchers at the University of Wisconsin — Madison, in different stages of development.

Then these founder cells express more proteins that keep them alive, allow them to divide and divide, bring them blood and nutrients, and help them grow into new metastatic tumor colonies.

When we further characterized the cell lines derived from the iPSC - like colonies, we observed that they possessed hESC - like morphology, growing as flat colonies with large nucleo - cytoplasmic ratios, defined borders and prominent nucleoli (Figure 4C).

In the yeast cells, they showed that the more effectively they prevented full aggregation — by adding more sites mimicking phosphorylation — the more robustly colonies of the cells would grow.

(E) Rat1 - DD cells expressing kinase - inactive alleles of MELK (D150A or T167A), fail to grow as colonies in soft agar.

This fungal colony is referred to as the mycelium — a sentient, constantly evolving network of branching, thread like, single cell chains that grows throughout the soil or within wood.

When the sulcus is inflamed, the cells in the gums will be deprived of oxygen and this lack of oxygen favors the growth of harmful bacteria... and once their colonies grow, they can crowd out other friendly colonies of bacteria by competing for the same nutrients and dysbiosis will occur.