Sentences with phrase «cell technology took»

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Cancer - focused CRISPR technology involves taking a set of molecular shears and the guiding molecule Cas9 in order to cut out unwanted genes in immune cells that may help proliferate cancers.

The following month, SolarCity, having determined that Silevo would not achieve two of its three production and technology milestones, decided that it had to bring in an outside partner, Panasonic, to help bear the costs and to take over solar - cell manufacturing.

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.

Technology helps, in big ways and little: grassroots data tools like the VAN let organizers get moving as soon as they hit the ground, and even something as simple as VOIP and cell phones take away some of the logistical hassle of setting up field offices.

To get more cells, researchers from Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Mass., grew clusters of human embryonic cells in a precise cocktail of growth factors and other cell - regulating chemicals that took several years to work out, says Robert Lanza, the firm's vice president of research and scientific developmCell Technology in Worcester, Mass., grew clusters of human embryonic cells in a precise cocktail of growth factors and other cell - regulating chemicals that took several years to work out, says Robert Lanza, the firm's vice president of research and scientific developmcell - regulating chemicals that took several years to work out, says Robert Lanza, the firm's vice president of research and scientific development.

One big one: «Not everybody appreciates the way CRISPR technology works — it makes the cut in the DNA but it doesn't take care of the repair — so we rely on the cells» fundamental machinery to do that,» Doudna says.

Using next - generation sequencing technologies that were previously unavailable, Michael Gardner, a graduate research assistant, and Jianying Wang, a senior research associate in Mitchum's lab, made a remarkable new discovery — nematodes possess the ability to produce a second type of peptide that can effectively «take over» plant stem cells that are used to create vital pathways for the delivery of nutrients throughout the plant.

The team makes it clear that it thinks its approach is superior to one reported last month in Nature by scientists at Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) in California — deriving an ES cell line from a single cell taken from a morula (ScienceNOW 23 AuguCell Technology (ACT) in California — deriving an ES cell line from a single cell taken from a morula (ScienceNOW 23 Augucell line from a single cell taken from a morula (ScienceNOW 23 Augucell taken from a morula (ScienceNOW 23 August).

The problem is that splitting water takes more energy than conventional solar - cell technology can realistically deliver.

«Use of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology» — which involves taking skin cells from patients and reprogramming them into embryonic - like stem cells capable of turning into other specific cell types relevant for studying a particular disease — «makes it possible to model dementias that affect people later in life,» says senior study author Catherine Verfaillie of KU Leuven.

In theory, two men could use this technology to have a baby, because you could take skin cells and use them to make an egg.

«The success of our technology, in combination with modern anti-reflection coatings, will take us a long way down the path towards highly efficient and thin solar cells that could be available at a competitive price.»

The vibrant videos produced with the new technology show the movement and interactions of proteins as cells remodel their structural supports or reorganize their membranes to take up molecules from outside the cell.

The authors then took advantage of a relatively new technology known as CRISPR - Cas9 to target those specific DNA sequences inside a cell.

Payne researches autoimmunity, and a few years ago, a postdoctoral researcher in her laboratory, Christoph T. Ellebrecht, MD, took an interest in CAR T cell technology as a potential weapon against B cell - related autoimmune diseases.

«I think this is an extremely important — and solid — paper,» says stem cell researcher Robert Lanza, vice president of research and scientific development at Applied Cell Technology, a regenerative medicine company headquartered in Alameda, Calif., who did not take part in the stcell researcher Robert Lanza, vice president of research and scientific development at Applied Cell Technology, a regenerative medicine company headquartered in Alameda, Calif., who did not take part in the stCell Technology, a regenerative medicine company headquartered in Alameda, Calif., who did not take part in the study.

Taking up this challenge, a team at Rudolf Jaenisch's lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology transferred the nuclei of olfactory neurons into egg cells whose nuclei had been removed.

It will take more work to confirm that these genes are also differentially active in aging people and not just differently aged cell lines, says aging specialist Leonard Guarente of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

«With this technology, we can now peer into the first steps a cell takes to become cancerous,» explains Dr Peter Campbell, a corresponding author from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

His team has developed an innovative technique for detecting these reservoirs — a way of taking a «photo» of each individual cell hiding the virus — a significant breakthrough, as this approach is 1,000 times more accurate than current technologies.

To help design new structures that enable cells to «shape up,» researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have come up with a way to measure, and more importantly, classify, the shapes cells tend to take in different environments.

His laboratory currently applies high throughput imaging technologies to study trafficking between the endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi complex, and the internalization pathways taken by synthetic nanoparticles on exposure to cells.

He adds that taking this approach toward data sets in disaster - prone places such as Africa and India — where technology, infrastructure, and access to water and health services is limited but many people have access to cell phones — could help create better contingency plans.

In addition, they hope to take the spatial recognition experiments to the next level using a new microscopy technology that could show simultaneous activity in both subclasses of pyramidal cells in a freely moving mouse.

«It assumes that all our clinical trials go smoothly, that industry takes up the technology — and that «stem cell tourism» doesn't set us back,» he said.

To answer this question, the Srivastava team took skin cells from the family and reprogrammed them using stem cell technology into beating heart cells.

Thirty - two participants from eight countries took part in the 2010 workshop, which was entitled «Towards a quantitative understanding of stem cell - niche interaction: Experiments, models, and technologies».

More recently, neuroscientists have been able to take a wider view of brain function using new technology to track activity levels across the entire brain instead of individual cells.

ANN ARBOR, Mich — By combining engineered polymeric materials known as hydrogels with complex intestinal tissue known as organoids — made from human pluripotent stem cells — researchers have taken an important step toward creating a new technology for controlling the growth of these organoids and using them for treating wounds in the gut that can be caused by disorders such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

The technology included a variety of expression systems, including the wheat germ cell free translation system for eukaryotic gene expression, to take synthetic gene sequences and translate them into proteins.

Nowadays many researchers are interested to take advantage of single cell technology to answer questions like:

However some technical challenges still need to be taken to make the technology more accessible and usable to its full potential: gaining selective and comprehensive genetic access to the neurons of interest, controlling variation in the expression of the optogenetic tools (when using viruses) and its precise localization (axon vs. presynaptic terminals), tailoring light - delivery system signals to individual cells in a population rather than the population as a whole, developing observation techniques which have the same spatial and temporal resolution as those tools... to cite only a few of them.

New CRISPR technology takes cells to the movies Researchers use expensive machinery to develop ways to harness DNA as a synthetic raw material to store large amounts of digital information o...

I want to help take stem cell - based tissues to the next level — to generate technologies that are actually being used by industry and are being implemented for the manufacturing of stem cell - based products.

This will likely take the form of breakthroughs in regenerative medicine through stem cell research and other novel technologies.»

Fact # 3: The technology that conventional medicine uses to detect cancer in various parts on the body is based on a PET scan (Positron Emission Tomography), which takes advantage of cancer cells» voracious appetite for sugar.

So it makes sense that cell phones, smartphones, tablets, and other wireless technologies are being looked at to take the place of the traditional face to face office visit for nutrition.

I think what the director is going for in this scene is a class - conscious contrast of the rich and poor, for sitting right next to Henry are some decadent, rich kids equipped with modern technology we take for granted like cell phones and iPods.

Now, Hyundai is ready to take its fuel cell technology further.

Even though fuel - cell technology is the long - term hope for Honda, the current volume draw belongs to the PHEV — a no - compromise solution that offers up 76 kilometres of pure electric range, a gasoline engine to take over when needed, and loads of comfortable passenger space for the whole family.

Although hybrids, plug - in hybrids and fully electric vehicles are becoming more popular, there is one future technology that has yet to take off, hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.

Fuel cell vehicles have yet to take off as well as regular electric vehicles, but a few automakers continue to invest in the technology...

After already setting a precedent by introducing the FCX Clarity fuel - cell vehicle in 2007 in Los Angeles, Honda has now taken the next step with those great car technologies at the 2015 LA Auto Show.

Some breeders take advantage of advanced reproductive technology to pinpoint the exact days when conception is likely to occur and have their bitches tested for hormone levels and reproductive system cell structure.

If Prophet ends up living forever in that Nanosuit, or if he and Psycho are never able to take down the militarized forces of CELL (who, I suppose, is trying to harness the power of this alien technology for all the wrong reasons), then I guess that's fine.

The factory was originally planned to make PV cells and modules based on Silevo's high - efficiency technology, but as Tesla took over SolarCity, the company began making statements about «combining» Silevo's technology with that of its long - time manufacturing partner Panasonic.

It has taken three years, during which time the technology and even the companies involved have changed, but the much anticipated SolarCity «gigafactory» in Buffalo, New York has finally produced its first PV cells.

Some experts believe, however, that fuel cell cars will never become economically competitive with other technologies or that it will take decades for them to become profitable.

They bleat about needing decades and # billions to perfect fuel cell technology — and with that comes the need for big new infrastructure — hydrogen infrastructure — that'll take decades too.

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