Sentences with phrase «cell researchers who»

Each story is described through interviews with stem cell researchers who were directly involved or appeared on the scene later but can knowledgably discuss the event's impact.

The injunction case was brought by two stem cell researchers who complained that NIH's 2009 ESC research guidelines violated the law.

Not exact matches

For a small study published in March in the journal Aging Cell, researchers looked at 125 amateur cyclists aged 55 to 79, comparing them with 75 people of a similar age who rarely or never exercised.

In 2014, a team of researchers at UCLA led by genetics researcher, Steve Cole, discovered that the cells of people who experience chronic loneliness appear to be stuck in a state of fear.

In the June 2010 issue of Nature Medicine, in an interview with theBoston - based researcher, Daley tells how he further changed the focus of his work after Prof. Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University, who won the 2010 Kyoto Prize for advanced technology, made known his successes with iPS cells in 2007: «Once Yamanaka solved the problem, I turned around virtually my entire programme to take advantage of that breakthrough,» he says.

First, the interns will gather information about research institutions, academic researchers, and companies conducting work in adjacent research areas (e.g. cell therapy company) who are currently using technologies that are applicable to plant - based and clean meat research or food technology.

Frankenbunnies Embryos made by Chinese researchers who fused human skin cells with rabbit eggs, hoping to create a source of stem cells.

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.

They would add a liter of the tissue to two liters of seawater and shake the mixture 75 times — no more, no less — to make «the individual light - producing cells pop out of the tissue,» according to Bill Ward, a bioluminescence researcher at Rutgers University in New Jersey who was a post - doc in Cormier's laboratory.

Demand for the therapy is also spurring competition for the researchers and technicians who create the cells.

In a head - to - head clinical trial comparing standard chemotherapy with the immunotherapy drug nivolumab, researchers found that people with squamous - non-small cell lung cancer who received nivolumab lived, on average, 3.2 months longer than those receiving chemotherapy.

Through a variety of «high tech» approaches, including the isolation of monoclonal antibodies from single B cells and ultra-deep sequencing of shifting viral populations over more than three years of infection, the researchers studied one woman who developed potent broadly neutralizing antibodies.

The study «provided the surprising result that one new therapy currently being explored to lower insulin resistance promotes, rather than decreases, the formation of bone in mice,» says Darwin Prockop, a stem cell researcher at Texas A&M College of Medicine in Temple, who was not involved in the work.

According to Izpisúa Belmonte, who is also a professor at the gene expression laboratories of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, California, CMRB aims to become «a research centre of excellence in south Europe in the line of world - recognized institutions such as the Salk or the Whitehead institutes, where both pre - and postdoctoral researchers receive multidisciplinary training of the highest quality» in stem cell biology and cell regeneration.

The researchers found that radiosurgery controlled the spread of the cancerous cells as effectively as whole - brain radiation; patients who received radiosurgery experienced less cognitive decline compared to those who received whole - brain radiation.

In science news around the world, scientists march in India to call for more research funding, a South Korean researcher who was enmeshed in a stem cell scandal a decade ago resigns from a newly created government position, Canada establishes a vast marine conservation area in the High Arctic, a highly regarded advocate for science is convicted of financial misdemeanors in Egypt, and more.

By redirecting that energy to a genetically modified part of the cell capable of producing various complex chemical materials, we induce the light driven biosynthesis of these compounds,» says Post Doc Agnieszka Janina Zygadlo Nielsen, who along with colleagues Post Doc Thiyagarajan Gnanasekaran and PhD student Artur Jacek Wlodarczyk has been the main researcher behind the study.

Researchers at Dana - Farber / Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center report promising outcomes from a clinical trial with patients with a rare form of bone marrow failure who received a hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) after pre-treatment with immunosuppressive drugs only.

The researchers obtained stem cells from the discarded fat of liposuction patients who underwent elective surgery.

The Duke researchers who made this discovery say it may help explain how a relatively small number of genes can create the dazzling array of different cell types found in human brains and the nervous systems in other animals.

In people who age prematurely, changes in the way that DNA is tightly packed in cells leads to mayhem that promotes the aging process, researchers have discovered.

A former postdoctoral researcher who worked in the lab of a promising stem cell biologist engaged in scientific misconduct, faking images and other data in two papers that were later retracted, according to U.S. government investigators.

«The study of this type of tumours has been problematic up to now due to the lack of cell models and the appropriate animal models,» says CNIC researcher Juan Carlos Ramírez, who adds that the difficulty of generating these chromosomal translocations had limited the availability of cells with this mark of the disease.

Researchers who plan to do a lot of single - cell RNA analysis can even buy complete systems for it right off the shelf.

[Chinedu Nwokoro et al., «Inhaled black carbon in the lower airways of London cyclists»] Researchers at the London School of Medicine collected sputum samples from healthy non-smokers who walk or bike to see how much black carbon was in airway macrophages — a type of white blood cell that takes in foreign material.

Underscoring the relevance to humans, the researchers studied nasal and bronchial cells from people who suffer from asthma or chronic rhinosinusitis (nasal congestion / sniffles) due to dust - mite sensitivity, and found that on average these cells had a markedly lower expression of the dectin - 1 gene.

Unlike humans, who use their lymphatic systems to produce and transport white blood cells, tuna use theirs to move two of their fins, researchers report today in Science.

The researchers used mice with skin like that of red - haired, fair - skinned people, who don't tan because of a nonfunctioning protein on the surface of the skin cells that make melanin.

«Most researchers have relied on cell lines to screen the effect of drugs and other treatments including viruses,» said Dr. Cripe, who also is a professor at The Ohio State University College of Medicine.

Today, a team of researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory reports in the journal Genes & Development that they have arrived at «new insights into signaling events that underlie metastasis in ovarian cancer cells,» says Gaofeng Fan, Ph.D., postdoctoral investigator who conducted most of the experiments, in the laboratory of his mentor, CSHL Professor Nicholas K. Tonks.

The sensor was developed by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, who have demonstrated several applications for its ability to spatially resolve the chemical's presence inside cells.

New Scientist was unable to reach the Lisbon team members, but Jean Peduzzi - Nelson, a stem cell researcher at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, who advised the team on their surgical technique — she had previously tested it on rodents — claims the clinic has given the therapy to about 140 people in total.

«It is sobering,» says George Daley, a stem cell researcher at Harvard Medical School who has helped write guidelines for people considering stem cell treatments.

That message, delivered in two studies published today, is both good news and bad news for researchers who hope to use so - called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) to study diseases and perhaps some day treat patients.

Researchers sequenced ancient DNA from the mitochondria — tiny energy factories inside cells — from a Neandertal who lived about 100,000 years ago in southwest Germany.

In 1997, researchers at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto combed through nearly 27,000 cell phone calls during a 14 - month period made by hundreds of drivers who had been in crashes.

The researchers then studied DNA from the white blood cells of eight people who scored in the top 15th percentile of loneliness and six who scored in the bottom 15th percentile.

And it suggests that stem cells derived from embryos should remain the primary reference for iPS cells when researchers want to compare how cells from diseased patients behave, says Nissim Benvenisty of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who has studied differences between ES cells and iPS cells derived from carriers of fragile X syndrome.

This puts control of curli fiber production in the hands of the researchers, who can adjust the amount of AHL in the cells» environment.

In May researchers at McGill University reported that the gene responsible for creating cells» protein - building machinery is more frequently methylated in the hippocampus — the brain region responsible for short - term memory and spatial navigation — of depressed suicide victims who suffered child abuse than in the brains of nonsuicide victims who were not abused.

This protective effect seems to suggest that infections earlier in life may stimulate the immune system to deal with future infections and cancerous cells more efficiently, say the British researchers who made the discovery.

The researchers, who report their work in the 26 October issue of Molecular Cell, hope to soon create an altered version of the protein that will work in humans.

Those hoping for quick clinical success should remember it takes time for revolutionary treatments to go from lab bench to bedside, says Andras Nagy, a stem cell researcher at Mount Sinai Hospital's Lunenfeld — Tanenbaum Research Institute in Toronto, who has not been directly involved in Yamanaka's work.

«The cells of warm - blooded organisms need a mainly constant temperature and tolerate deviations from the optimal 37 ° C only conditionally,» explains Dr. Marco Preußner, who is a postdoctoral researcher and first author of the study.

Now, we may know what could have been at the root of the issue, thanks to work by researchers who attempted to reproduce the results of «observations that may have misled the researchers who made the original claims -LSB-, which include] cells that glow, faintly, under key wavelengths of light,» Vogel wrote.

«With this important advance, super-resolution microscopy and DNA - PAINT could become more accessible to biomedical researchers, accelerating our insights into the function of individual molecules and the processes they control within cells,» said Wyss Institute Founding Director Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at HMS and the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children's Hospital, as well as Professor of Bioengineering at SEAS.

A multicenter team of researchers reports that a full genomic analysis of tumor samples from a small number of people who died of pancreatic cancer suggests that chemical changes to DNA that do not affect the DNA sequence itself yet control how it operates confer survival advantages on subsets of pancreatic cancer cells.

«We can communicate with cells much more effectively, and vice versa,» said the study's first author Jameson Rogers, a graduate researcher at the Wyss Institute who is pursuing his Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences from Harvard University.

The researchers collected dermal papilla cells from seven volunteers who had been diagnosed with male - pattern baldness.

One of the last researchers to go through the two - stage approval process was Shinya Yamanaka, the Kyoto University researcher who first reported the derivation of iPS cells.