Stem
cell lines resulting from a pathbreaking collaboration beginning in 2014 between The NYSCF Research Institute and the Charcot - Marie - Tooth Association (CMTA) are now available for use...
Stem
cell lines resulting from a pathbreaking collaboration beginning in 2014 between The NYSCF Research Institute and the Charcot - Marie - Tooth Association (CMTA) are now available for use by other researchers in the largest and first ever initiative of its kind.
Not exact matches
«Our study
results are the first to argue that we may be able to treat inflammatory bowel disease and protect against transplant rejection not only by blocking TNF alpha as is done currently, but also by stimulating ATG16L1 to prevent early death of
cells lining the gut,» says study senior investigator Ken Cadwell, PhD, an associate professor at NYU School of Medicine and NYU Langone Health's Skirball Institute for Biomolecular Medicine.
CCG is also developing
cell lines that are cultured to represent tumor behavior in vivo, and computational methods that will help researchers understand tumor behavior and apply the
resulting data to diagnoses, treatments, and cures.
Although the researchers emphasized that laboratory
results involving
cell lines and mice do not necessarily translate to human treatment, they say their findings show that new mTOR inhibitors combined with chemotherapy could become a new treatment strategy for T - ALL.
This
results in shifts in the structure of the brain as it forms and displacement of
cells from where they're supposed to be, including those that
line the ventricles and help control fluid flow.
Hwang claimed his stem
cells did not
result from parthenogenesis, but George Daley, head of the study, showed that the genome of Hwang's
cell line has a genetic signature that indicates it sprang from a parthenogenetic embryo.
As a
result, every
cell in the iPS
cell line will contain the same mitochondrial DNA mutations as that initial adult
cell.
«Our study
results suggest a new drug cocktail that is effective in both human lung cancer
cell lines and fly models,» says Cagan.
The laboratory process, described in the journal Scientific Reports, entails genetically modifying a
line of human embryonic stem
cells to become fluorescent upon their differentiation to retinal ganglion
cells, and then using that
cell line for development of new differentiation methods and characterization of the
resulting cells.
The successful prostate
cell line that
resulted from this event, named «22rv1,» was thus infected with a hybrid, lab - created virus: XMRV.
As a
result, many of the studies published up to now describe only two or three patient stem
cell lines,» says David Panchision, who oversees the NIMH's National Cooperative Reprogrammed Cell Research Group (NCRCRG) program, which supported this w
cell lines,» says David Panchision, who oversees the NIMH's National Cooperative Reprogrammed
Cell Research Group (NCRCRG) program, which supported this w
Cell Research Group (NCRCRG) program, which supported this work.
The
resulting «map» of gene - drug interactions allowed the researchers to accurately predict the responses of multiple human cancer
cell lines to different chemotherapy agents based on the
cell lines» genetic profiles and also revealed new genetic factors that appear to determine the response of breast and ovarian tumor
cells to common classes of chemotherapy treatment.
The causes of such unpredictable
results, Harris said, can include bad ingredients in the lab, including contaminated and misidentified
cell lines; poor research design, including insufficient numbers of mice in animal studies; statistical error and overreach, including «HARKing» (hypothesizing after the
results are known), a push beyond the limits of the data; and funding pressures, which can lead scientists to hype or exaggerate their
results to remain competitive for additional grant money.
Their studies indicate that the two conditions common in sickle
cell disease, dramatically increase red blood
cells» adhesion to the
lining of blood vessels walls and the debilitating pain crises that can
result.
In experiments with cancer
cell lines, the PIM1 inhibitors killed
cells in a MYC - dependent manner, and in two different mouse models — one in which mice were implanted with patient tumors and the other in which a genetic alteration of MYC predisposes the mice to tumor development — the administration of PIM1 inhibitors
resulted in significant tumor regression.
They show that this new formulation reduces the minimal curative dose in a disease model, based on infections in mice, by 100-fold and, most importantly, circumvents drug resistance in a
cell line that is resistant as a
result of mutations in the transporter that mediates drug uptake.
Genomic data from the HeLa
cell line are also being released with the final version of the paper as a
result of discussions between leaders of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and relatives of Henrietta Lacks, from whose cervical tumor the original HeLa
cell line was derived prior to her death in 1951.
Many scientific journals require researchers who report
results based on
cell line experiments to use DNA profiling to establish the identity of the used
cells.
But it is inevitable that
results obtained in one
cell line might not exactly match those in another.
All human
cell lines growing in tissue culture dishes, and about 95 % of
cells in a human being, split evenly,
resulting in daughter
cells of equal size.
«We set out to test this in
cell lines derived from mice and humans, and came up with a
result we definitely did not expect — which then led us to dig deeper for answers.»
Craig Venter and his teams at the J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Maryland, and San Diego, California, have shown themselves to be technical wizards by synthesising a genome from code contained on a computer, and using it to start a
cell line of the
resulting synthetic organism (see «How the synthetic bacterium was made»).
As a
result, in late June, more than a year after Science retracted the 2004 paper, researchers at ISC were able to claim the discovery of human parthenogenetic
cell lines as their own in the journal Cloning and Stem
Cells.
However, it is notoriously difficult to maintain the integrity of
cell lines — due to contamination or simple mistakes such as mislabeling, later generations of a
cell line may bear no resemblance to the original sample, potentially invalidating
results of research performed on mistaken
cells.
Over the next few months, Wilmut's team confirmed that Dolly was a clone of the mammary
cell line, and wrote up the
results.
As a
result,
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cell phones are on the opposite side from the display screen (which would make it impossible to see the person on the other end of the
line while exchanging sign language).
«We apologized for any distress experienced by the family as a
result of our recent publication of the genome sequence of a HeLa
cell line.
For the study published in Traffic, the researchers did not use pluripotent
cells lines derived from Gulf War veterans, but said they plan to use veterans»
cells in the future for more refined
results.
These
results were reproduced in three experiments with the three
cell lines.
The
results, although still preliminary in a quantitative sense, demonstrate that the reactivation of methylation - silenced genes does occur in different
cell lines, suggesting it is a general phenomenon.
The protein encoded by the PIK3C2G gene belongs to the phosphatidylinositol -4,5-bisphosphonate 3 - kinase (PI3K) family, which plays a critical role in cancer.28 Experimental evidence suggests that activation of PI3K signaling enhances production of COX - 2 and PGE2, which
results in inhibition of apoptosis in colon cancer
cell lines that can be restored with NSAID - mediated blockade of PI3K.29
The
resulting endothelial
cell lines described in this study retain their phenotype after repeated passage, require minimal nutritional support and, importantly, may be useful for identifying factors that regulate endothelial
cell proliferation and tumor
cell adhesion in different anatomical regions.
The
results have also been confirmed in
cell lines and mouse models.
Results from a study published in Science Translational Medicine show that the publicly available
cell line U87MG does not originate from the
cell line it is claimed to do.
The National Infrastructure PHENOMIN is pleased to announce the
results of its 6th Call: Generation and Characterization of CreERT2
cell specific promoter driven deleter mouse
lines.
Mycoplasma compete with host
cells for nutrients and can alter expression of receptors, ion channels, and growth factors
resulting in changes to the
cell line's growth and behavior.
Gesicle production can be performed in any 293T - based
cell line, but we recommend the Gesicle Producer 293T Cell Line for optimal production resu
cell line, but we recommend the Gesicle Producer 293T Cell Line for optimal production resu
line, but we recommend the Gesicle Producer 293T
Cell Line for optimal production resu
Cell Line for optimal production resu
Line for optimal production
results.
Identification of small molecule inhibitors of Cisplatin - induced hair
cell death:
results of a 10,000 compound screen in the zebrafish lateral
line.
In the present work, our observations led us to conclude that inhibition of TRF2 abrogates the formation and maintenance of the spheroidal phenotype and loss of TRF2
results in down regulation of CSC characteristics when exposed to DNA damaging environment in HCT116 colon cancer
cell line.
Single -
cell seeding of edited hiPS
cells in this system
results in high survival of pluripotent, edited clones, yielding a diverse set of edited clonal
lines.
This
result was similar to recently published data from the Egli lab in New York, which used an alternative technique, that of maternal spindle transfer or MST in eggs prior to fertilization, where they also had one aberrant ES
cell line where this occurred (out of 8).
Embryonic stems
cells often contribute to the germ
line,
resulting in the production of some sperm carrying the extra DNA.
It should be said that stem
cell lines are quite different from normal embryonic development and these
results should be interpreted with caution.
These
results provide the validity to the newly developed hypoxia / reoxygenation culture system for examining the regulation of CSCs in breast cancer
cell lines by niche factors in the tumor microenvironment and developing differential targeting strategies to eradicate breast CSCs.
The use of higher resolution techniques, such as array CGH and, soon, whole genome sequencing, will enhance the ability of researchers to examine stem
cell lines to determine which are best — least likely to
result in diseases and other problems — to use in creating therapies for use in humans.
Treatment of the Karpas 299 and SU - DHL1
cell lines with increasing concentrations of rapamycin, an inhibitor of the mTOR - raptor complex,
resulted in a marked concentration - dependent decrease of the phosphorylation levels of mTOR, p70S6K, 4E - BP1, and total eIF4E (Fig. 4A).
Infection of both
cell lines with adeno - myrAkt
resulted in substantially increased of Ser473p - AKT levels (A) associated with increased phosphorylation (activation) of mTOR, p70S6K, and rpS6 (B).
Of note, treatment of ALCL
cell lines with rapamycin also
resulted in a slight decrease of Ser473 phosphorylation of AKT.
The approach to target validation utilizes RNAi, CRISPR, and ORF expression platforms to genetically perturb candidate target gene expression in relevant cancer
cell lines, and then profile the
resulting phenotypic changes with regard to their effect on various biochemical pathways.