Sentences with phrase «cell science into»

The Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine facility is intended to house biologists, chemists, technologists, bioengineers, computer scientists and clinicians in open laboratories and is designed to facilitate and encourage collaboration among them as required to translate the basic understanding of stem cell science into tools useful to diagnose and treat human disease.

Organized by the Alliance for Regenerative Medicine (ARM), the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), and the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, the 2013 Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa is a three - day conference aimed at bringing together senior members of the regenerative medicine industry with the scientific research community to advance stem cell science into cures.

CIRM leaders have said that the organization is now entering a second stage in which the focus of its funding will shift to translating basic stem cell science into therapies.

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In his book The Science of Hitting, Ted explains that he carved the strike zone into 77 cells, each the size of a baseball.

Science has inserted a synthetic copy of DNA into a living cell membrane.

Whether it is changing text books to teach religion as a «science,» making laws that prohibit stem - cell research which would without question help those in need, to stopping of any kind of gay rights, trying to put religion (christianity) into schools, a woman's right to choose, etc, etc...

It is only by a leap of science - fiction (the kind exemplified by Teilhard de Chardin's «psychical dust» and subsequent «complexification» theory) that psychicalized cells can be transformed into my awareness of myself.

Elsewhere, Philip Ball, an English science writer, reports on research into the mechanical properties of cancer cells.

Its nice to see people using their science books, and Pedro its nice to see you've read some science as well as religious books, I would just like to say that no one has actually figured out how the first cell came into existence billions of years ago.

If religious right didn't intrude into government... meddle in science (hobbling stem cell research.

Jiachen Lee, Arooba Ahmed and Jillian Parker, a trio of young scientists from the Half Hollow Hills school district won the $ 100,000 top team award in the prestigious Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology for their research into cell division that could help find treatments to cancers, viruses and other diseases.

Treating the skin cells with a biochemical cocktail to promote neural stem cell characteristics seemed to do the trick, turning it into a one - step process, he and his colleague report today in Science Translational Medicine.

Now, in a study published February 13 in Science Signaling, Lin's team discovered that a chemical compound that activates ATF6 also converts patient - derived stem cells into blood vessels.

In this special section of Science, expert contributors retrace the long and tortuous path leading to the mapping and identification of the BRCA1 gene; discuss the ways in which BRCA mutation status has been integrated into the clinical management of patients in high - risk families; and highlight the role of the BRCA proteins in preserving the structural and numerical integrity of chromosomes throughout the cell cycle, a function that may explain their tumor suppressor activity.

Adenovirus 36 has been found to encourage the transformation of adult stem cells in fatty tissue into fat cells as discussed on the daily Scientific American podcast 60 - Second Science on August 20th.

The paper's lead author — Marcus Yip, who completed his PhD at MIT last fall — and his colleagues Rui Jin and Nathan Ickes, both in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, will also exhibit a prototype charger that plugs into an ordinary cell phone and can recharge the signal - processing chip in roughly two minutes.

This week in Science Advances, he offers one answer: a fuel cell that generates electricity while converting carbon dioxide into a commodity chemical.

Its impact appears to reduce the ability of the cells in the eye's trabecular meshwork to continually move the clear aqueous humor out of the front of the eye and dump it into the body's general circulation, said Liu, corresponding author of the study in the journal Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science.

Nevertheless,» [the] study is very important because it demonstrates for the first time that we can use gene therapy to transform cells in the brain into ones that will secrete GDNF,» says Jeffrey Kordower, a professor of neurological sciences at Rush Presbyterian Medical Center in Chicago.

The drugs block viral entry into cells, the team reports in the June 3 Science Translational Medicine.

In their report published in Science Immunology they describe how expression of a specific molecule — complement C5a — is required to cause the immune cells called neutrophils to adhere to joint surfaces and migrate into the joint, a process known to set off the inflammatory cascade.

In the study published in the journal Science Signaling, the team led by LLuís Espinosa, investigator of IMIM's research group into stem cells and cancer, have shown that inhibition of endosomal activity is a potential therapeutic strategy for the treatment of cancers with the BRAF mutated gene.

However, only rigorous science and responsible regulation can ensure the safe and effective translation of science into effective therapies,» remarked Paolo Bianco, Pathologist, Stem Cell Biologist, Professor of Pathology at the University of Roma «La Sapienza» and one of the 13 authors of the commentary who come from Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands and the United States.

«The long - term vision is simple,» said Saif, who is also part of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the U. of I. «Could we make elementary structures and seed them with stem cells that would differentiate into smart structures to deliver drugs, perform minimally invasive surgery or target cancer?»

The lab, at times, feels like a seething primordial soup of Darwinian selection, where only the strongest survive (i.e., publish papers in Science, Cell, or Nature), and the weak fade into oblivion (i.e., become anorexic, turn into technical sales reps, or go to law school).

A major breakthrough occurred last year when scientists figured out how to turn skin cells into ES - like cells that could serve the same purpose (Science, 23 November 2007, p. 1224).

«Compared to any other device that converts chemical energy into electricity, the fuel cell, and in particular the solid oxide or ceramic fuel cell, is hands down the most efficient,» says veteran fuel cell researcher Eric Wachsman, director of the University of Maryland Energy Research Center, who published research pointing the way to lower temperature SOFCs on November 18 in Science.

In the online edition of Science, he and his colleagues report that Oct4 and Sox2 were capable of converting neonatal foreskin fibroblasts into cells similar to Yamanaka's, whereas Nanog significantly boosted the frequency of reprogramming and Lin28 upped it by a moderate amount.

This idea turns science into production and employs a cascade of thousands of tiny robotic cells.

Science tells us that Earth's first single - celled organisms emerged about 3.5 billion years ago and only gradually evolved into many different species, he explained.

In a study spanning molecular genetics, stem cells and the sciences of both brain and behavior, researchers at University of California San Diego, with colleagues at the Salk Institute of Biological Studies and elsewhere, have created a neurodevelopmental model of a rare genetic disorder that may provide new insights into the underlying neurobiology of the human social brain.

But additional research presented at the meeting may boost their efficiency: teams from Tokyo University of Science and Notre Dame both revealed new types of dyes that could extend the spectrum of light captured by such cells into the infrared range.

Using a process called somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), a team from Oregon Health & Science University (O.H.S.U.) in Portland implanted the contents of individual skin cells from adult male rhesus macaques into each of 304 macaque egg cells stripped of their genetic material.

«This information yields new insights into how sperm stem cells function and develop under normal circumstances,» says the study's lead author Bradley Cairns, PhD, senior director of basic science at HCI and professor and chair of oncological sciences at the U of U. «We have built a very important framework we can now use to help us understand what happens when things go wrong, resulting in issues like infertility and cancer in men.»

Research conducted at Japan's National Institute for Materials Science built on previous findings that gold nanoparticles can encourage stem cells in the bone marrow to differentiate into bone cells, and that specific biomolecules can inhibit or promote stem cell differentiation.

Now, a collaboration between the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Science (IMS) and other institutions in Japan and Europe have found that in immune cells, simply blocking a transcription factor that leads to differentiation is sufficient to keep cells in a multipotent stem cell - like state where they can continue to proliferate and can later differentiate into various cell types.

The new finding brings a measure of closure to a story that first rocked the science world in February 2004, when Hwang and colleagues at Seoul National University announced they had cloned a female donor's cell by transferring its nucleus into one of her egg cells stripped of its nucleus in a procedure known as somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), and harvested embryonic stem cells from the resulting fusion.

Four weeks after transplanting these cells into the kidney cavities of mice with a form of kidney anaemia, the treated animals had blood EPO levels 20 times higher than those in controls (Science Translational Medicine, doi.org/cdmx).

When these cells were coaxed into forming sperm and used to fertilise eggs, 50 to 60 per cent of the resulting pregnancies led to live births (Science, doi.org/cbxt).

Developmental biologist Goro Yoshizaki of Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology in Japan and his colleagues set out to see whether spermatogonia — male germ cells that give rise to sperm — might contain a subpopulation of cells with stem cell - like activity that can develop into either sperm or eggs.

Converting adult skin cells into pluripotent cells — immature stem cells that can be programmed to become any tissue in the body — is a rapidly developing area of science that earned the researcher who discovered the technique, Shinya Yamanaka, a Nobel Prize in 2012.

Specialization in at least three of seven possible focus areas (biochemistry and cell biology, genetics, medical biology, microbiology, ecology, plant sciences, zoology / animal sciences), with the option to develop a focus area into a primary focus.

LOCATING PRE-HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS Researcher: Fuchou Tang, Assistant Professor, Biodynamic Optical Imaging Center, Integrated Science Research Center, Peking University Project: In a study published in Nature, Tang and his collaborators isolated pre-hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) for the first time and showed their unique transcriptome signatures before and during their maturation into HSCs (533:487 - 92, 2CELLS Researcher: Fuchou Tang, Assistant Professor, Biodynamic Optical Imaging Center, Integrated Science Research Center, Peking University Project: In a study published in Nature, Tang and his collaborators isolated pre-hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) for the first time and showed their unique transcriptome signatures before and during their maturation into HSCs (533:487 - 92, 2cells (HSCs) for the first time and showed their unique transcriptome signatures before and during their maturation into HSCs (533:487 - 92, 2016).

Over the years, Dr. Nimer has conducted extensive clinical and basic science research into the treatment and genetic basis of adult leukemia and bone marrow failure states, defining the regulatory mechanisms that control the production of blood cells and exploring ways to improve the treatment of blood based cancers.

I think a lot of people were led to believe — and to what extent scientists were responsible for this is an interesting question — that if only the regulations were relaxed, embryonic stem - cell science would be central to our medical research and practice going into the future, and that it would massively alleviate suffering and produce cures for dreaded diseases.

iPSCs — stem cells created from skin cells that can be transformed into any type of cell in the body — revolutionized biomedical science.

In an emphatic letter published today in Science, 11 researchers argue that NIH should reverse its decision against funding studies in which scientists implant human stem cells into early, nonhuman embryos.

BioRN is a life science research and industry cluster dedicated to the development of cell - specific, molecular and personalised innovative treatments The BioRN Cluster aims at promoting the region into one of the top life science clusters in Europe.

This is the first clinical trial of its kind and The Human Trial is the first film to take us backstage into the world of cure research: the formidable obstacles and grinding effort, the complexity of the disease and the science, what it takes to harvest cells, regulatory rules and the $ 5 billion plus it typically takes to bring a drug to market.

«This is important biotechnologically, because if you look at if from the angle of genome editing, the delivery of small genes into cells is much easier than the delivery of large genes,» said Rotem Sorek of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel who was not involved in the work.