Sentences with phrase «cell researchers from»

Stem cell researchers from UCLA used a high resolution technique to examine the genome, or total DNA content, of a pair of human embryonic stem cell lines and found that while both lines could form neurons, the lines had differences in the numbers of certain genes that could control such things as individual traits and disease susceptibility.
October 2010 - Third Call for European Stem Cell Group Final open call for EuroSyStem research network The European Stem Cell Group was founded in 2009 to bring together basic stem cell researchers from across Europe and encourage cross-disciplinary collaboration.
April 2009 - European Stem Cell Group founded EuroSyStem calls for Associate PIs to join the new European Stem Cell Group The new European Stem Cell Group aims to bring together basic stem cell researchers from across Europe, and encourage cross-disciplinary collaboration.
The aim of this new Group is to bring together basic stem cell researchers from across Europe, and to encourage wide - ranging collaboration.
To glean some insight into why, New Scientist asked 1000 stem cell researchers from around the world to answer an anonymous survey about the pressures of their work.

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Chinese researchers recently unveiled miniature kidneys comprised of cells printed from a hydrogel material, which live for up to four months.
Researchers from the Sichuan University in Chengdu inserted the re-engineered cells into a lung cancer patient participating in a clinical trial at the West China Hospital on October 28th, according to Nature.
Researchers blasted rats with full - body doses of RF radiation (mostly at higher levels than those associated with cell phones) from the time they were born until they were two years old for nine hours a day.
By discovering more about their survival tricks, the researchers hope to learn more ways to protect human cells from damage.
Researcher Aviv Regev's «lab has gone from looking at 18 cells at a time to sequencing RNA from hundreds of thousands.»
Researchers from Osaka University, in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, recently found a way to produce polymer solar cells without the need for these specialized treatments, while improving its conductivity, by using amorphous polymer blends and adding a component.
Chicago, GenomeWeb — A new study by researchers from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has demonstrated the predictive power of an AR - V7 protein expression test using Epic Sciences» non-EPCAM-based circulating tumor cell detection platform, which could help guide treatment decisions for men with metastatic castration - resistant prostate cancer.
It's only been tested on mice so far, but the results are tremendously promising for an antibody Stanford researchers have been experimenting with that blocks the body from «eating» cancer cells.
Says head researcher Alan Mackay - Sim, «Apart from neural and brain cells, they look like they can turn into blood cells, heart muscles, and skeletal muscle.»
One clear positive element in the stem - cell debate for me was hearing the top researchers in biomedical science reinforce The Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC 343: «Man is the summit of the Creator's work, as the inspired account expresses by clearly distinguishing the creation of man from that of other creatures»).
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has allowed a contract for the dissemination of embryonic stem cell lines approved for US government funding to lapse, shuttering a key stem cell bank, and doubling the price researchers pay for samples of some human embryonic stem cell (hESC) line... from $ 500 per vial of frozen cells to $ 1,000.
Fetal stem cells, which may turn out to be useful for treating conditions like Parkinson's, need to be cloned — that is, researchers need to take a cell from a body, put it in an embryo, and grow that embryo to a certain small size before harvesting the stem cells.
Researchers are on the verge of creating sperm and eggs from skin cells.
From these experiments, the researchers concluded ``... VCOP protects cells from pro-oxidant insults by modulating cellular antioxidant status.&raFrom these experiments, the researchers concluded ``... VCOP protects cells from pro-oxidant insults by modulating cellular antioxidant status.&rafrom pro-oxidant insults by modulating cellular antioxidant status.»
The researchers experimented with inducing oxidative stress in a human cell line culture with and without VCOP (virgin coconut oil polyphenols) to observe how VCOP positively promoted catalase, a very important enzyme in protecting the cell from oxidative damage, and glutathione (GSH), a self - recycling antioxidant produced by the liver.
In 2010, researchers from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center published a study in the journal Clinical Cancer Research showing that sulforaphane had the ability to kill breast cancer stem cells in mice and in lab cultures, and it also prevented the growth of new tumor cells.
To confirm that breast milk's protective properties were due to EGF, the researchers gave premature baby mice a drug that selectively turned off their cell receptors to EGF — a technique that prevents EGF from entering the gut cells.
Lab - grown tissues derived from patients» stem cells may also allow researchers to screen drugs and test their effectiveness on diseases like cancer.
From the embryonic stem cells, the researchers produced a type of tissue called retinal pigment epithelium (RPE).
But researchers barely tried to protect Lacks» identity, treating her cells as no different from a sample collected from a lab rat.
The researchers detected this SMN long noncoding RNA, or lnc - RNA (pronounced «link RNA») for short, in human embryonic kidney cells, brain cell samples and neurons derived from the stem cells of healthy people and those with spinal muscular atrophy type I and II.
And other researchers question the need to use cells from the patient's own skin.
The MYC protein — which is one of the molecules used to reprogram iPSCs from adult cells — likely plays a role in dictating which sites in the genome are randomly methylated during the reprogramming process, the researchers hypothesized.
The researchers collected samples of indoor dust from 11 homes in North Carolina and tested extracts from the samples in a mouse pre-adipocyte cell model, 3T3 - L1 cells, often used to test compounds for potential effects on the accumulation of triglycerides, a type of fat.
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.
The researchers from Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute found that even the oldest brains they studied produced new brain cells.
In 2011 researchers found that these waves of electricity cause neurons in the hippocampus, the main brain area involved with memory, to fire backward during sleep, sending an electrical signal from their axons to their own dendrites rather than to other cells.
June is currently working with a consortium of academic and industry researchers, as well as scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology to establish sound manufacturing principles for CAR T cells.
By comparing the results to cells from paired normal tissue, researchers get a detailed molecular picture of the tumor environment, including the types and activity levels of T cells that are critical to the immunotherapy response.
The Houston Methodist researchers culled through thousands of existing drugs to see if they could identify a compound that would prevent cancer cells from spreading, or metastasizing.
Deep in one of the facility's 10 liquid nitrogen freezers, which hold samples for the university's researchers so they don't have to maintain their own cell banks, was a sample that had been taken many years before from a child who died from an undiagnosed illness.
Researchers have pinpointed a gene that keeps important brain cells in mice from crossing their wires, providing a possible link between brain wiring and mood disorders like depression.
In 2014, for example, according to data in the article, stem cell researchers between 35 and 39 were successful more often than any other age group, winning grants 21.6 % of the time, as compared to success rates ranging from 18.3 % for those between 40 and 44 to 13.4 % for those in the 55 to 59 age group.
These «organoids» appear to be different when built with cells from autistic patients compared with when they are built with cells from the patients» non-autistic family members, researchers report July 16 in Cell.
In blood samples from these patients, the researchers found an increase in the percentage of gamma delta T cells, similar to what they observed in mice, which remained stable over years.
The researchers say that they can grow the stomach organoids from both embryonic stem cells and skin cells induced to pluripotency.
The researchers then tested a drug FDA - approved for treatment of multiple sclerosis, which acts by preventing certain immune cells from leaving lymph nodes for sites of inflammation.
Researchers... have extracted teichoic acid from the bacteria's cell wall and used it to protect groups of mice from subsequent massive doses of virulent staph organisms.
Once a gene is gone, researchers grow mice from the stem cells to see what happens.
Cells inside the brains contract, while cells on the outside grow and push outward, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, discovered from working with the lab - grown brains, or organCells inside the brains contract, while cells on the outside grow and push outward, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, discovered from working with the lab - grown brains, or organcells on the outside grow and push outward, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, discovered from working with the lab - grown brains, or organoids.
The latest in live - cell microscopy — multiphoton imaging, light - sheet techniques, and technology borrowed from Raman spectroscopy — allow researchers to study living cells in more detail with less effort.
Partial reprogramming of cells within prematurely aging mice's bodies extended the rodents» average life span from 18 weeks to 24 weeks, researchers report December 15 in Cell.
The researchers tested whether pifithrins, compounds identified as inhibitors of p53, can protect neural cells from being killed by Zika infection.
However, the MIT team adapted it to randomly turn on or off distinct gene sets across large populations of cells, allowing the researchers to identify genes that protect cells from a protein associated with Parkinson's disease.
Researchers from the Department of Biomedicine at the University of Basel have now found that the fate of adult hippocampal stem cells is not only controlled by their local niche, but also by a cell - intrinsic mechanism.
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