Sentences with phrase «cell state using»

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In photovoltaic solar cells, for example, the European Copper Institute (ECI) states that copper is used in cabling, earthing, inverters and transformers, among other things.

In the second half of 2017, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved two immunotherapies that use genetically engineered T cells (CAR - T cell therapy) to fight cancer.

Whether I use the expression «momentary self» or the word «monad,» what I am in fact doing is setting a limit, on no validly argued grounds, to the dissolution of the «total temporary states» into a purely ad hoc combination of inexplicable and inexplicably organized collections of bodily cells, sensations, intentions, thoughts, nervous processes, desires, and the like.

Though there have been many strides made towards ending the HIV / AIDS epidemic, such as the recent breakthrough of scientists using gene editing to remove HIV from the genome of T - cells, there is still much work to be done with over 1.2 million in the United States living with the disease.

These parents had opted not to use an attorney, so my only personal requirement was that they sign and notarize a document stating that they would either use all embryos to try to conceive or donate unused embryos to an embryo adoption bank, and that they would not donate them for stem - cell research or destroy them.

Particularly outside the U.S. (creative cell phone uses have lagged in the States), organizers have used mass text messages to alert people to the location for a rally or demonstration and give authorities little time to counter them.

His bill banning the use of handheld cell phones while driving became the first such state law in the entire country in 2000.

Sen. Brad Hoylman has asked the state Committee on Open Government whether a Senate rule banning the use of cell phones to take pictures violates the state's open meetings law.

In place of his opening statement, Mr. Rangel pulled out his cell phone and proceeded to engage in a mock conversation, using his allotted three minutes to theatrically jab State Senator Adriano Espaillat, who nearly ousted him two years ago in a newly re-drawn district, and Pastor Mike Walrond, an impressive debater, whose backers packed St. Luke A.M.E. Church in Washington Heights.

A longtime Albany reporter was arrested early Wednesday afternoon after he used his cell phone in the lobby of the New York State Senate — a move that gave birth to a hashtag movement and saw Gov. Andrew Cuomo step in to free him.

To make the HSCs, the Harvard group used human skin cells to create induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), adult cells researchers genetically reprogram to an embryonic - stem - cell state, where they can grow into any kind of cell.

On Thursday, the United Nations» member states will consider two resolutions: One resolution would ban all human cloning methods, including efforts to use cloned embryonic stem cells to try and generate healthy tissues, or to treat degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's.

«To our knowledge, we are the only research group to use sequential human biopsies to study CD8 + T cell function in situ, in their natural spatial distribution and at their original physiological state,» she said.

Using viral gene insertion and regulatory proteins, researchers turned adult human skin cells directly into adult human blood cells, without first returning them to a fully pluripotent state.

Alfano states «Resonant Raman using the laser pointer 532 nm has become an e?cient tool for investigating molecular components in tissues and cells, providing more detailed information and a way to detect diseases like skin cancer, brain cancer, or atherosclerosis — in mere seconds.»

According to Raymond Geor, an exercise physiologist at Michigan State University, sled dog muscle cells are well equipped to use this fat because they have a higher mitochondrial density — more cellular power plants — than other animals.

The team used viruses to replace the defective genes that cause the anaemia with normal ones, then used a second virus to insert genes that «reset» the cells to a pluripotent state.

Meanwhile, cell biologist Paul Durham and his team from Missouri State University are working on a multitasking bandage layered with antifungal, antibacterial, and anti-inflammatory agents for use on a variety of wounds, including deep cuts and punctures.

The spinning devices used essentially put «the cells in a constant state of freefall in a liquid», McGuckin explains.

And although using fetal stem cells wasn't controversial in Sweden, it was in the United States.

They reprogrammed the skin cells, rejuvenating them into an embryolike state (using the four - gene approach described in 2007).

Using a technique known as single - cell RNA sequencing, the team explored more than 65,000 individual cells that exist under normal or inflammatory conditions, looking for genes that were more active in one state or subpopulation versus another.

In a continuation of this work, Goldman is also using mathematical modeling to pursue the most effective dose of chemotherapy to induce the vulnerable transition state of the cancer cell demonstrated in this research.

The researchers then used a combination of existing United States Food and Drug Administration - approved drugs to target autophagy and found ovarian cancer cells to be highly sensitive to these drugs in several different mouse cancer models — even among cells resistant to standard chemotherapy.

The new rules state that stem cells can be used if they are part of a study approved by the federal government, or if the protocol has been approved by an Institutional Review Board (IRB) that provides ethical review for research involving human volunteers.

In London last week at the World Conference of Science Journalists, Philip Hilts, the director of the Knight Science Journalism Program at M.I.T., reviewed the worldwide state of Internet and cell phone use, two of the major ways people now get news

«Our conclusion is that by pushing the mice into an extreme state and then bringing them back — by starving them and then feeding them again — the cells in the pancreas are triggered to use some kind of developmental reprogramming that rebuilds the part of the organ that's no longer functioning,» says senior author Valter Longo of the University of Southern California School of Gerontology and Director of the USC Longevity Institute.

Scientists in the United States have been trying to find ways around the ban on using federal funds to create stem cells from human embryos.

When the team used fragments of interfering RNA to sabotage the production of beta - catenin in these stem cells, the blood cells returned to an early leukaemic state.

The continued marketing and use of experimental stem cell - based interventions inside and outside the United States is problematic and unsustainable, according to a new paper by science policy and bioethics experts at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy and Wake Forest University.

Within a decade, we should be able to use these technologies to read and alter the state of neurons for an enormous fraction of the cells in human brains.

The stem cells, derived from human umbilical cord - blood and coaxed into an embryonic - like state, were grown without the conventional use of viruses, which can mutate genes and initiate cancers, according to the scientists.

Two types of stem cells were used to produce the mini-brains: embryonic cells and adult cells that had been reprogrammed to a starter state.

Fact: The WI - 38 and MRC - 5 cell lines, derived from two fetuses that were aborted, respectively, in 1962 in Sweden and in 1966 in the United Kingdom, are used to produce the following vaccines, all licensed and marketed in the United States:

(In seeming contradiction, the report goes on to state, one page later, that «11 [current vaccines]... are produced using historic, fetal - derived cell lines.»)

Currently, most influenza vaccines in the United States are produced using chicken eggs, while a few are made in cell culture or by using recombinant DNA technologies.

Using the JEDI technology, Mount Sinai researchers uncovered evidence that immune cells can find cells in the brain expressing their target antigen, even in non-infected states, which provides evidence of an immune surveillance pathway within the body's central nervous system.

The authors used a time - lapse video recording coupled to single - cell molecular analyses to study the process step - by - step and found that fate decision is not a unique programmed event, but the result of a very dynamic process composed of spontaneous fluctuation and selective stabilisation of alternative cellular states.

Starting with 2 - D structures formed using state - of - the - art methods in semiconductor manufacturing and carefully placed «Kirigami cuts,» the researchers created more than 50 different mostly closed 3 - D structures that, in theory, could contain cells or support advanced electronic or optoelectronic devices.

«We'd Damn Well Better Understand What They're Doing,» says Alan Hudson of Wayne State University (above) about the human tag - along bacteria he studies using a $ 250,000 microscope (below) that magnifies cells 15,000 times.

With a lack of social pressure, many states have felt little push to clamp down on the use of cell phones while driving.

They then used next generation sequencing — a state - of - the - art method to rapidly measure gene expression — to sequence and quantify the thousands of genes that are expressed in hair cells, in comparison with other cells in the ear.

The researchers analysed the genetic composition of myocardial cells using state - of - the - art gene sequencing technology.

When a young (or naive) T cell is in a resting state, it uses oxygen to «breathe.»

In this study, she and her colleagues used cell cultures collected from 16 patients in the United States and Europe to search for drugs that could kill or stop the growth of DIPG cells.

Lanza previously led a clinical trial in the United States — published November 2014 in the Lancet — that demonstrated embryonic stem cells could be used safely for patients with degenerative eye diseases, but the patient sample was Caucasian with the exception of one African - American.

Using USDA soil maps and crop yields, they extrapolated potential carbon dioxide emissions across 580 million 30 - meter by 30 - meter «geospatial cells» in Corn Belt states.

Mission scientists used state - of - the - art computer simulations to show that the surface of Sputnik Planum is covered with icy, churning, convective «cells» 10 - 30 miles across, and less than a million years old.

* Correction: Venter did not derive a self - replicating synthetic cell, as this article previously stated, but a synthetic genome which was used to control a self - replicating cell.

Rutgers University scientists have discovered the three - dimensional structure of a gene - specific transcription activation complex, providing the first structural and mechanistic description of the process cells use to turn on, or activate, specific genes in response to changes in cell type, developmental state and environment.