Sentences with phrase «cell precursors become»

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have now unraveled how pre-leukemic white blood cell precursors become leukemia stem cells.

Not exact matches

Smell neurons begin as identical precursor cells, immature cells that have not yet «decided» which type of nerve cell they will become.

If these precursor cells can be coaxed into becoming fully functioning sperm cells, the technique could allow infertile men to father their own children, and even allow women to produce their own sperm.

These egg - generating cells are germline stem cells — precursors that become either eggs or sperm depending on whether they end up in ovaries or testes.

In response to muscle damage, these stem cells divide to generate precursor cells that become the fibres that make up our muscles.

Because the cells that give rise to sperm divide frequently — about 23 times a year — they are much more likely to accumulate genetic copying errors than the female precursor cells, oocytes, which divide only twice before becoming eggs.

In theory, if the precursor cells can be pushed to mature into adulthood, they may become capable of producing myelin.

«At least part of the problem is that the precursor myelin - producing cells are recruited to that area, but they fail to become adult cells capable of producing nerve cell insulation.

Monje first became interested in neurons» role supporting tumors while working on childhood glioma, a cancer that strikes in the precursors to glial cells in the developing brain.

One concerning discovery was that the stem cells that Zika was found to infect, called cortical neural precursors, become factories for viral replication.

Jeanne Loring, a stem - cell biologist at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, who is also planning stem - cell trials for Parkinson's, is concerned that the Australian and Chinese trials use neural precursors and not ES - cell - derived cells that have fully committed to becoming dopamine - producing cells.

By adding vitamin D to a petri dish full of osteoclast precursors, they discovered that the hormone blocked a signal called RANK ligand that tells these cells to become osteoclasts.

In these droplets he can simulate how the chemical precursors to life became the cells we know today.

Subsequently, some aerobic (or oxygen - breathing) protists merged with photosynthetic bacteria, which became chloroplasts and other plastids, to create free - swimming green algae and the precursors of today's plant cells.

«We can take human brown fat precursor cells, grow them in Petri dishes and then culture them to become energy - dissipating cells,» says Dr. Tseng.

They then experimented with varying combinations of well - known signaling molecules, including WNT, BMP and Hedgehog, as a way to coax these cells to become ever - more - specialized precursor cells.

For example, there is no equivalent of indefinitely self - renewing embryonic stem cells in the human embryo — these are instead transient cells that very quickly specialise to become the precursors of tissues in the embryo.

Fortunately, we've found a way round this to allow us to commit the precursor cells to become the right dopamine cells without the other cells appearing after grafting.»

«They are the closest precursor to functional heart cells, and, in a single step, they can rapidly and efficiently become heart cells, both in a dish and in a live heart.

When the embryo is at the 16 - cell stage (called a morula), it is a solid sphere of cells and already the precursors of the trophoblast cells are defined; the external, relatively larger cells mostly become the trophoblast cells.

«You take stem cells and programme them to become «neural precursor cells».

In his laboratory mice, Dr. Ding has now used chemical reprogramming to turn fibroblasts into neural «precursor» cells with the potential to become new oligodendrocytes.

In terms of mechanism, the authors found that the presence of H. hepaticus, even as it triggers inflammation via Th17 cells, also indirectly turns on genes that instruct immature precursor T cells to become Tregs.

The piece mentioned that some of the funds would support ViaCyte and our efforts to develop and test the VC - 01 ™ product, comprised of an implantable device that holds precursor cells that upon implant in a patient are expected to differentiate to become pancreatic islet cells that produce insulin and other blood sugar - regulating hormones.

In their paper, co-authors Lei Sun and Huangming Xie describe for the first time the cellular network that determines whether a precursor cell becomes a muscle cell or brown fat cell and miR - 193b - 365's role in this network.

These precursor cells, although they haven't accumulated lipids, can potentially become fat cells.