Sentences with phrase «cell researchers maintain»

Stem cell researchers maintain that whatever the potential of adult stem cells, embryonic research could help them achieve it.

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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.
Using this mixture, the researchers were able to print living cells in a specific architecture, such as an ear shape, that maintained its form even after printing.
Now researchers at the University of Plymouth, working in partnership with pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, have for the first time successfully cultured and maintained cells from the guts of rainbow trout, a recommended fish species for toxicological studies.
In a study in the current issue of the Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases, researchers treated these stem cells with leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF), which effectively maintained the undifferentiated state of the satellite cells and enhanced their transplantation efficiency.
Now, for the first time, researchers at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology identified a molecular pathway that maintains the stability and function of Treg cells.
Researchers aren't quite sure how they maintain their own 24 - hour schedule, whereas other cells need external reminders.
«It is possible the researchers simply have not worked out adequate methods to maintain these cells long - term in culture,» he says.
Researchers from the University of Twente MESA + research institute have now found a method that allows them to ensure that living cells — in this case bacteria from the human body — can be incorporated in materials while maintaining their mobility.
Researchers found that the protein YY1 brings Xist RNA back to the inactive X chromosome to maintain X chromosome inactivation in stimulated B cells.
Using a nuclear protein expressed in follicle stem cells (FSCs), the researchers found that castor, which plays an important role in specifying which types of brain cells are produced during embryonic development, also helps maintain FSCs throughout the life of the animal.
In a study, researchers found that pigs, which have gut bacterial profiles and immune systems similar to humans, also maintain two distinct colonic stem cell populations — ASCL - 2 and BMI - 1.
Some researchers speculated that maintaining higher levels of donor immune cells for longer could help to improve the success rate.
The researchers then came up with a recipe for their 3 - D ink, using a combination of bacteria, hydrogel, and nutrients to sustain the cells and maintain their functionality.
The researchers, based at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA, used extrusion - based 3 - D printing to produce a grid - like 3 - D structure to grow embryoid body that demonstrated cell viability and rapid self - renewal for 7 days while maintaining high pluripotentcy.
In a new study published in Science Advances, a group of University of Wisconsin - Madison researchers show that individual cells in the human body have an armament designed to prevent HCMV from achieving and maintaining this latency, to shine a spotlight on the virus so the immune system knows to fight.
To use RNAi against the pest, the researchers first identified a gene the insect can't do without — one that encodes a cytoskeleton protein vital to maintaining a cell's shape.
The researchers discovered that this region is required to both turn Sox2 on, and for the embryonic stem cells to maintain their characteristic appearance and ability to differentiate into all the cell types of the adult organism.
Researchers running clinical trials planned to stop enrolling new patients, and furloughs were scheduled for all but about a quarter of NIH's 19,000 staff members, who were deemed «essential» to care for patients and maintain animals and cell lines.
Researchers from the University of Missouri School of Medicine have identified a molecular mechanism that operates in memory T cells that could be manipulated to produce and maintain more memory T cells in the body, a finding that could improve vaccinations and cancer immunotherapies.
Researchers from Turku, Finland, have discovered new information about the mechanisms which maintain gene activity in human embryonic stem cells.
Now, researchers from the University of Missouri School of Medicine have identified a molecular mechanism that operates in memory T cells that could be manipulated to produce and maintain more memory T cells in the body, a finding that could improve vaccinations and cancer immunotherapies.
Researchers from the University of Seville at the Andalusian Centre for Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine (Centro Andaluz de Biología Molecular y Medicina Regenerativa — Cabimer) have discovered that in eukaryotic cells the proximity of the genes to the nuclear pores, which are found in the nuclear membrane, contributes to maintaining the integrity of the genome.
Researchers from the University of Michigan and the Mayo Clinic studied rat IEC - 6 intestinal epithelial cells, chosen because they maintain a stable diploid genomic structure (two sets of chromosomes), lack the cellular characteristics of cancer cells, and replicate normally.
In a new study being presented at The Allied Genetics Conference in Orlando, Florida, researchers report new insights about the underlying drivers that help cells heal and maintain their shape.
Scientists at the university maintain the store and supply other researchers with cells on request.
Cystine is responsible for maintaining high levels of antioxidants that disarm free radicals of oxygen; so when the researchers got rid of this nutrient, the cancer cells essentially died by their own hand of free radical damage.
«I'm interested in understanding how single cells maintain their proper shape,» said Athena Lin, graduate student at the University of California, San Francisco, and lead researcher on the project.
In this proof - of - principle study, the researchers showed, using DNA sequencing and karyotyping technologies, that the patient's unique cell characteristics were maintained in both normal and tumor CR laboratory cells.
A protein may be the key to maintaining the health of aging blood stem cells, according to work by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai recently published online in Stem Cell Reports.
A new fabrication method enabled researchers to make larger perovskite cells with few defects, helping to maintain efficiency at larger cell sizes.
When using a well established model of colorectal cancer, the researchers observed that dietary emulsifier consumption was sufficient to make the animals more susceptible to developing colonic tumors because this created and maintained a pro-inflammatory environment associated with an altered proliferation / apoptosis (cell death) balance.
The researchers are manipulating cells so that they can look at direct contact between two cell membranes or precisely control and maintain a variety of distances between cells and determine how cells communicate.
The researchers tested the drug on mice with H. pylori infections from several different cell lines, and found that the drug was effective against the H. pylori while maintaining populations of healthy gut bacteria.
To test whether the cells would maintain their multipotency in living animals, the researchers transplanted them into mice whose white blood cells had been depleted, and showed that the new cells could expand and differentiate into various types of white blood cells.
Researchers identify a network of a dozen transcription factors needed to maintain the pluripotent state of mouse embryonic stem cells.
The Joslin researchers «reprogrammed» the fibroblasts into iPSCs by using viral procedures that activated four genes that together maintain cells in the iPSC state.
«This discovery will advance our understanding of stem cell epigenetics and chromatin structures, provide potential mechanisms on maintaining the hallmark properties of ES cells, and help researchers with the rich source of information to better understand some of the unique features — such as self - renewal and pluripotency — of human embryonic stem cells,» said Ng Huck Hui, Ph.D., senior group leader at GIS and a member of the Singapore team that conducted this research.
Under a two - year project, researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) are collaborating with the Walter Reed - Windber Clinical Breast Care Project to find and compare the proteins of cancers that enable cells to maintain or spread the disease throughout the body.
Researchers also provided new details of how the Nrp1 pathway functions, including evidence that along with bolstering the ability of regulatory T cells to suppress the immune response, the pathway also helps maintain a stable population of regulatory T cells.
However, researchers from the laboratory of Nenad Bursac (Duke University, Durham, NC, USA) have recently described the production and differentiation of induced myogenic progenitor cells (iMPCs) from hPSCs into the first entirely hPSC - derived 3D muscle tissues that survive, vascularize, and maintain function following transplantation [5].
The researchers were able to maintain the production of Lsd1 in fat cells, thus reducing age - related transformation of brown fat cells to white fat cells.
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