Sentences with phrase «cells from the blood»

Vortex's system uses a microfluidic chip to generate tiny vortices that trap larger, more deformable cancer cells from a blood plasma sample.

The Porteus team started with human stem cells from the blood of patients with sickle cell disease, corrected the gene mutation using CRISPR and then concentrated the human stem cells so that 90 percent carried the corrected sickle cell gene.

Lu's team will extract immune cells called T cells from the blood of the enrolled patients, and then use CRISPR — Cas9 technology — which pairs a molecular guide able to identify specific genetic sequences on a chromosome with an enzyme that can snip the chromosome at that spot — to knock out a gene in the cells.

Next, the team exposed immature immune cells from the blood of healthy people to the bacteria found in the guts of MS patients.

In July 1998, a programme to remove the white blood cells from blood destined for transfusion began.

The device has been used to separate different blood components, to separate cancer cells from blood and to manipulate nanorod motors inside living cells, to name only a few research areas.

The research demonstrated that following injury, there is increased migration of inflammatory cells from blood to the liver, increasing IFNL3 secretion and liver damage.

The chip's key feature is a tiny flow channel on a hierarchically designed pad that is optimized to capture tumor cells from the blood flowing across it.

Admittedly, crayfish aren't known for their grey matter, but that might be about to change: they can grow new brain cells from blood.

Subsequently, the hematopoietic system has to be replaced with stem cells from the blood of a healthy donor.

Eisenberg measured telomere length in cells from those blood samples.

To find out, they studied T cells from blood samples from 71 children with dengue fever or dengue hemorrhagic fever.

In this study, researchers measured the mtDNA amount and degree of mtDNA damage in blood cells from blood samples from veterans with GWI.

Berkeley researchers isolated circulating tumor cells from the blood of breast cancer patients, then used microscale physics to design a precision test for protein biomarkers, which are indicators of cancer.

So my field is science and technology, so my work is circulating tumor cells where I isolate cancer cells from blood of patients and isolate their DNA and RNA and try to sequence them and try to device treatments for cancer treatment and therapy.

The experimental test uses a plastic chip whose microscopic inner surfaces are covered in antibodies to grab cancer cells from the blood.

A key advance the team made was in devising a system to precisely handle and manipulate the concentrated cells from blood.

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's Dr. Howard Scher notes in the NCI piece that plucking the cancer cells from blood is just the start.

UH researchers have identified a unique epigenetic footprint in specific types of immune cells from blood that can identify individuals with HIV that have a range of impairments in cognitive function.

The chip would allow the filtering of cancer cells from a blood sample, which would be an easier way to harvest cancer cells, rather than the current method of taking them from tumor sites in the body.

Cells from the blood or skin of participating individuals will be harvested and reprogrammed into induced pluripotent stem cells.

Cedars - Sinai scientists can harvest cells from the blood or skin of participating individuals.

Here we consider two surface markers thought to define these cells in mice, CD8 and Killer cell lectin - like receptor G1 (KLRG1), and a means we developed to remove these cells from the blood of aged C57BL / 6 mice.

Cedars - Sinai scientists can harvest cells from the blood or skin of an individual and reprogram them into induced pluripotent stem cells, which can be made into any organ cell (such as those from the lung, liver or intestine), each bearing the unique genetic fingerprint and characteristics of the person.

Our stem cell transplant program laboratory is specially equipped to handle all of the blood and stem cell preparation necessary for transplant, including apheresis (separation and collection of stem cells from the blood) and cryopreservation (freezing of stem cells for future use).

Using antibodies with magnetic nanoparticles linked to their Fc domains, we first developed a method to use magnets to filter out the unwanted cells from the blood and later constructed a device that does this automatically.

In patients with inflammatory bowel diseases, microbiota - reactive CD4 + T cells were reduced in the blood compared with intestine; T - cell responses that we detected had an increased frequency of interleukin 17A production compared with responses of T cells from blood or intestinal tissues of controls.

Professor Karim Raza, University of Birmingham, said, «Our findings were unexpected as we initially thought that cells from the inflamed rheumatoid joint would respond just as well to vitamin D as cells from the blood.

The mRNA carries the instructions to the ribosome as to how it needs to synthesize new proteins, by which the process of creating structural and contractile proteins from strands of amino acids taken inside the cells from the blood, is started.

Mononuclear cells from the blood were isolated during the OGTTs to analyze if these cells were producing molecules known as ROS (reactive oxygen species).

Platelet - rich plasma is obtained via a process called centrifugation that removes red and white blood cells from a blood sample while leaving behind a high concentration of platelets in the plasma.

One of the earliest events in the development of atherosclerosis is the recruitment of inflammatory white blood cells from the blood to the arterial wall by vascular cell adhesion molecules (42).

This would be an easy task if it was acceptable just to remove everything that wasn't water or a blood cell from the blood.

Once the insulin has «unlocked the door», glucose can cross over into the cell from the blood.

It allows glucose to enter cells from the blood stream thereby providing energy for the cells.

Sarthak Laboratory (India) 2001 — 2003 Clinical Technologist • Cultured and identified aerobic organisms from blood, urine, stool, sputum, and other specimens • Detected human lymphocytic cells from blood specimens • Directed and managed blood bank ensuring efficient and organized operations • Trained junior staff members providing assistance and guidance as needed

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Consider: Last year alone, the FDA approved two treatments, from Novartis and Gilead, that literally reengineer patients» immune T - cells to target and destroy blood cancers.

CAR - T treatments, including competing products from Novartis rivals Kite Pharma and Juno Therapeutics, come with the risk of potentially deadly side effects such as cytokine - release syndrome (CRS), in which a glut of T - cell - assisting cytokines can cause high fever, low blood pressure, and problems with lung oxygenation.

The screening tested nearly 500 employees, primarily in search of insulin resistance, a condition that prevents the body from properly processing the hormone that promotes the absorption of glucose from the blood into your cells.

This new kind of approach to fighting blood cancers is truly personalized; immune T - cells are extracted from patients, genetically tinkered to home in on an destroy cancerous cells, multiplied in a lab, and then jolted back into the patient's body within about two weeks.

At present artificial red blood cells are produced from donor blood and the method isn't efficient because limited quantities of RBC can be produced.

Says head researcher Alan Mackay - Sim, «Apart from neural and brain cells, they look like they can turn into blood cells, heart muscles, and skeletal muscle.»

Of course, people who are suffocating from lack of blood, and who breathe in and out yet it does not satisfy you with oxygen when you breathe because you have no red blood cells to nourish your organs with oxygen.

Stem cells can be obtained licitly, without loss of human life — for example, from an adult organism or from the blood of the umbilical cord at the time of birth.

From it will develop:... 60 trillion cells, 100 thousand miles of nerve fiber, 60 thousand miles of vessels carrying blood around the body, 250 bones, to say nothing of joints, ligaments and muscles.

Eicosonoids from Omega - 3's are hormone - like compounds that help regulate blood pressure, blood clotting, aid in growth and development of cells, needed for vision and brain development, and maturation of nerves.

B vitamins help your body make energy from food and assist in the production of red blood cells.

It offers cardio protection, it helps lower bad cholesterol, it may help prevent the progression of multiple sclerosis, it has the ability to regenerate brain cells after a stroke, it has the ability to cross the blood - brain barrier to potentially ward off Alzheimer's disease, apparently it's good at wiping amyloid plaque from the brain (which studies haves linked to Alzheimer's), it may help to prevent certain types of cancer, and studies have shown that it inhibits cancer cell growth and metastases (meaning it keeps cancer from spreading).

Similar to turmeric, cinnamon improves insulin sensitivity and allows glucose to be transported from the blood and into the cells much more efficiently.

Vitamin E helps protect cells from damage and prevents blood clots, thrombosis and atherosclerosis by improving the body's use of oxygen.