Sentences with phrase «cells from your blood on»

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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.

Newborns have more red blood cells than adults do at birth because before birth it's the placenta that's kind of breaking down the blood cells and when the baby's born they kind of have to do it on their own and so, there's this fetal blood cells that have to breakdown and be eliminated from the body.

On an additional project with former MIT graduate student Eric Grovender, Ameer co-developed a cartridge filter that purifies blood, «based on protein and cell engineering,» for those suffering from chronic kidney failurOn an additional project with former MIT graduate student Eric Grovender, Ameer co-developed a cartridge filter that purifies blood, «based on protein and cell engineering,» for those suffering from chronic kidney failuron protein and cell engineering,» for those suffering from chronic kidney failure.

They isolated blood cells from HIV - positive patients on antiretroviral therapy and at different stages of disease progression, as well as cells from non-infected individuals.

«After already being able to demonstrate the influence of prenatal smoking on regulatory T - cell numbers in cord blood from our LINA study, the current epidemiological investigation delves even deeper into molecular processes,» Dr. Gunda Herberth and Dr. Irina Lehmann resume.

By hindering LMPTP, the drug reawakens insulin receptors on the surface of cells — especially in the liver — which normally absorb excess sugar from the blood when they detect insulin.

This drug (vedolizumab) blocks a specific adhesion molecule on the surface of the T - cell and thereby inhibits immune cells from binding themselves to receptors present in the intestine, preventing the T - cells from penetrating the blood vessels in the intestinal tissue.

Somewhere, they mused, a mosquito that fed on a dinosaur might be trapped in amber, and white blood cells from the dinosaur might be preserved in the mosquito's stomach.

The virus does this because, unlike most microbes, Zika can pass from blood into the brain, where it infects and kills stem cells, having severe effects on developing brains.

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.

These techniques include: human tissue created by reprogramming cells from people with the relevant disease (dubbed «patient in a dish»); «body on a chip» devices, where human tissue samples on a silicon chip are linked by a circulating blood substitute; many computer modelling approaches, such as virtual organs, virtual patients and virtual clinical trials; and microdosing studies, where tiny doses of drugs given to volunteers allow scientists to study their metabolism in humans, safely and with unsurpassed accuracy.

In experiments on normal and MLL cells from mice and humans, the researchers demonstrated that beta - catenin is activated in cancer stem cells that prompt leukaemic blood cells to multiply.

By analyzing chemical changes of the IRS - 2 protein in immortalized cultures of human white blood cells, it determined that IRS - 2 appeared in two different forms — «on,» which allows the signal to pass through, and «off,» which stops the signal from activating the cells into M2 macrophages.

Researchers are developing many different versions of CAR - T cell therapies, but the basic premise is the same: Doctors remove a patient's T cells (immune system cells that attack invaders) from a blood sample and genetically modify them to produce artificial proteins on their surfaces.

I couldn't resist composing this after the mention of the charmingly misspelled word «hematopoetic» in your story on blood grown in the lab from stem cells (12 November, p 8):

The researchers then took naïve immune cells — which transform into different types based on the invaders they encounter — from the blood of healthy individuals and exposed them to bacteria in the guts of MS patients.

The insulin these cells produced acted on blood sugar levels in the same way as insulin from the pancreas.

And the cells in our body differ from one another — serving as neurons, white blood cells, smell sensors, and so on — largely because they activate different sets of genes and thus produce different mixtures of proteins.

Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) have developed a way to equip mouse blood stem cells with a fluorescent marker that can be switched on from the outside.

«We began with stem cells taken from cord - blood, which have fewer acquired mutations and little, if any, epigenetic memory, which cells accumulate as time goes on,» says Zambidis, associate professor of oncology and pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Cell Engineering and the Kimmel Cancer Center.

Analyzing immune cells in umbilical cord blood from 1074 infants, Zhang and colleagues found that babies who showed hyperactive innate immune responses at birth went on to develop a food allergy when tested at age one.

Another key finding of the research was that the impact of vitamin D on inflammatory disease can not be predicted using cells from healthy individuals or even from the blood of patients with inflammation as cells from the disease tissue are very different.

Luster's team hopes to further investigate the characteristics of joints that underlie the critical role of C5a in initiating type III hypersensitivity and whether specific molecules expressed on endothelial cells lining joints play a role in transporting C5a and chemokines from the joint space into adjacent blood vessels.

The method relies on a special dye that shows up brown when mixed with whole blood, but turns teal when mixed with plasma that has been separated from red blood cells.

Y. pestis was initially passed from person to person — say, when an infected individual coughed on a healthy person — and most likely caused lung infections known as pneumonic plague or blood infections called septicemic plague, the researchers report October 22 in Cell.

Until then, he had devoted himself precociously to the heart, publishing his first scientific paper, on damage to red blood cells from open - heart surgery, at age 17.

The implications were hardly lost on the Bethesda crowd: If the virus was transmitted in cell cultures in Ruscetti's lab, it could also be contaminating the nation's blood supply as a result of blood donations from unknowingly infected donors.

Schiffman and his team conducted another series of experiments in the laboratory on blood samples from adult African elephants to find how these genes respond to DNA damage in the elephant cells.

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) has released the first comprehensive, evidence - based guidelines for management of sickle cell disease from birth to end of life, based on recommendations developed by a nationwide team of experts co-chaired by a UT Southwestern Medical Center hematologist.

HSCT is effectively used today as a form of «replacement» therapy for patients with hard - to - treat blood cancers, providing healthy cells from either the patient (autologous transplantation) or from a donor (allogeneic transplantation) to better equip patients to fight the disease on their own.

Another approach focuses on the malaria parasite, which jumps from one red blood cell to another, killing the cells in the process.

Earlier mouse studies by Li and his collaborators had indicated that the expression of several imprinted genes changes as hematopoietic stem cells embark on their journey from quiescent reserve cells to multi-lineage progenitor cells, which form the many highly specialized cell types that circulate within the blood stream.

In the current study, the researchers showed that FGPs are present on the surface of the zebrafish brain and that these blood vessel - associated FGPs do not arise from the immune system, as had been previously thought, but from endothelial cells themselves.

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.

In the second study in Science, researchers from Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, created a chip 1 to 2 centimeters long in which a 1 millimeter - wide channel, coated with human lung cells on the inside and overlaid with human blood capillaries on the outside, mimicked the air sacs, or alveoli, of the lungs.

Their system, adapted from technology they previously developed and commercialized through U.K. - based CN BioInnovations, also incorporates several on - board pumps that can control the flow of liquid between the «organs,» replicating the circulation of blood, immune cells, and proteins through the human body.

A study of the way malaria parasites behave when they live in human red blood cells has revealed that they can rapidly change the proteins on the surface of their host cells during the course of a single infection in order to hide from the immune system.

The Schwann cells then rely more heavily on obtaining dietary lipids from blood vessels that pass through nerve fibres.

In order for these unspecialized cells to acquire the characteristics that make a leaf cell different from a root cell or a blood cell different from a muscle cell, they must turn on different subsets of genes to produce the proteins responsible for each cell type's distinctive properties.

Kole's work focused on tricking the red blood cell manufacturing machinery of thalassaemic patients into producing normal haemoglobin from their mutated genes.

On - demand replacement body parts inched closer to reality with the announcement from San Diego biotech company Organovo that its organ «printer» had created the first artificial blood vessel made entirely from human cells, with no synthetic scaffolding.

The other evidence for the stem cell fatigue came from observations that van Andel - Schipper's white blood cells had drastically worn - down telomeres — the protective tips on chromosomes that burn down like wicks each time a cell divides.

Although myeloma is, like leukemias and lymphomas, a cancer involving white blood cells known as lymphocytes, myeloma cells don't traditionally express CD19 on their surface because they arise from the most mature type of lymphocytes — plasma cells.

In an effort to overcome these limitations, a team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering led by its Founding Director, Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., had previously engineered a microfluidic «Organ - on - a-Chip» (Organ Chip) culture device in which cells from a human intestinal cell line originally isolated from a tumor were cultured in one of two parallel running channels, separated by a porous matrix - coated membrane from human blood vessel - derived endothelial cells in the adjacent channel.

T cells are collected from the patient's blood and genetically engineered to express cell - surface proteins called CARs, which recognize specific molecules found on the surface of cancer cells.

Because CD4 + (helper) T cell responses have been shown to be sufficient for protection from WNV challenge (independent of B cells and CD8 + T cells) and crucial for viral clearance from the CNS, the researchers focused on the WNV - specific CD4 + T cell repertoires present in the blood samples.

Scientists have long thought that HIV infects only memory T cells, based on studies of T cells isolated from blood.

By engineering red blood cells to have «sticky» proteins on their surface, a team of researchers has given the cells the ability to carry anything from drugs to treat immune disorders or cancer to radioactive molecules used in imaging of blood vessels.

Their method relied on briefly bathing blood cells from newborn mice in a mildly acidic solution and then tweaking culture conditions to produce stem cells.

How the placenta passes nutrients from mother to fetus depends in part on the activity of insulin — a circulating hormone that tells fat and muscle cells to absorb glucose and other nutrients from the blood.