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.
Not exact matches
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.&ra
From these experiments, the
researchers concluded ``... VCOP protects
cells from pro-oxidant insults by modulating cellular antioxidant status.&ra
from 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 organ
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 organ
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 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.