For example, researchers have demonstrated that the method can be used to treat muscular dystrophy and glaucoma in mice, render human
cells grown in lab dishes resistant to HIV, and help create food crops and livestock with desirable traits.
In a paper published in November, working with MIT graduate student Jungmin Lee and chemistry professor Moungi Bawendi, the researchers showed that they could get quantum dots inside human
cells grown in the lab, without the particles becoming confined in endosomes or clumping together.
In the new study, the researchers explored the role of cell shape in two vastly different types of epithelial cells — human bronchial epithelial
cells grown in the lab and cells within the living embryo of the fruit fly — and observed them as they matured over time.
To find methods for stemming the tide of liver - damaging microbes, Schnabl and team tried experimentally bumping up copies of the REG3G gene in intestinal lining
cells grown in the lab.
Researchers have previously demonstrated that yeast, fruit fly cells and some types of human
cells grown in lab dishes divvy up proteins unequally.
Scientists have suggested that such embryonic stem cells could be used for learning about genetic diseases, testing new drugs on
cells grown in the lab, or growing healthy cells for therapeutic transplantation.
However, most of these efforts failed, even though the antibody - IL - 2 combination usually works very well against cancer
cells grown in a lab dish.
When the team tested the drug on
cells grown in the lab, they found that it killed blood vessel cells and prevented growth of new blood vessels.
But when the team instructed human beta - like
cells grown in the lab to produce more ERRγ, «Voilà,» says Evans.
Neil Shay, a biochemist and molecular biologist in OSU's College of Agricultural Sciences, was part of a study team that exposed human liver and fat
cells grown in the lab to extracts of four natural chemicals found in Muscadine grapes, a dark - red variety native to the southeastern United States.
«Retinal nerve
cells grown in the lab: Work could eventually lead to cell transplants for people blinded by glaucoma, MS.» ScienceDaily.
In studies with human fibroblasts that make up connective tissue, Boger's team tested whether NOD1 activity could affect CMV replication in cultures of
cells grown in the lab.
Already, researchers have used CRISPR / Cas9 to edit genes in human
cells grown in lab dishes, monkeys (SN: 3/8/14, p. 7), dogs (SN: 11/28/15, p. 16), mice and pigs (SN: 11/14/15, p. 6), yeast, fruit flies, the worm Caenorhabditis elegans, zebrafish, tobacco and rice.
Sure enough, 6 - HAP stopped DNA formation in different tumor
cells grown in the lab.
In experiments in human
cells grown in a lab dish, the researchers showed that they could accurately label mRNA molecules and determine how frequently they are being translated.
«It's particularly encouraging in this study that even at relatively low concentrations the liver drug still had an effect on Parkinson's
cells grown in the lab.
At the same time, researchers have found that much smaller protein clusters called oligomers — made of only a few copies of these proteins — can be highly toxic to motor neuron - like
cells grown in the lab and thus are more likely to be the chief causes of brain - cell death in these diseases.
So far, researchers have mostly turned on genes with CRISPRa in
cells growing in lab dishes, says Charles Gersbach, a biomedical engineer at Duke University not involved in the new study.
Stem cell researchers at UConn Health have reversed Prader - Willi syndrome in brain
cells growing in the lab, findings they recently published in the Human Molecular Genetics.
«Prader - Willi syndrome reversed in brain
cells growing in the lab.»
They tested these drugs one at a time for lethal interaction with 112 different tumor - suppressor gene mutations in human cancer
cells growing in the lab.
And because CRISPR works so well in
cells growing in a lab dish, some tests can forgo using animals altogether.
A key difference, however, is that Dolly's donor cell came from adult udder
cells growing in lab dishes (see ScienceNOW, 24 February), while the donor cells used to create the monkey clones came from early embryos.
But when physiologist H. Lee Sweeney of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia and his colleagues put this faulty gene into embryonic quail muscle
cells growing in lab dishes, the cells made a shortened version of the protein and incorporated it into their contractile machinery.
Stem cell researchers at UConn Health have reversed Prader - Willi syndrome in brain
cells growing in the lab, findings they recently published in Human Molecular Genetics.
But making chimeras with human organs whose development can be studied is more likely to succeed than the technique researchers have been trying for years: coaxing stem
cells growing in lab dishes to become three - dimensional, functional tissues and organs.
A recent report uses cutting edge techniques to study this question in
cells growing in the lab.
Not exact matches
Brooklyn - based startup Modern Meadow
grows fish, poultry, meat, and leather
in its
labs from muscle
cells.
Scientists can then
grow the muscle
cells and develop them
in a
lab the same way the
cells would
grow on a living organism.
That product is edible fish,
grown as
cells in a
lab vat rather than as a creature
in a sea, lake, or aquaculture pond.
While some still object to
cells being taken from animals and used by scientists to
grow clean meat
in laboratories — and some just don't like the idea of eating a «cultured» steak created by men and women
in white coats — others see the
lab -
grown meat revolution as key to solving the environmental crisis linked to meat eating.
02 Feb 2018 — Clean meat innovators Memphis Meats has been getting a lot of attention from investors recently with billionaire businessmen Richard Branson and Bill Gates staking their claim
in the pioneering company last year — and now the venture capital arm of Tyson Foods has invested
in the food tech startup which
lab -
grows meat directly from animal
cells.
This may entail making small holes
in the bone to allow new cartilage to
grow (microfracture), taking cartilage from another part of the athlete's knee and transplanting it into the defect (osteochondral autograft transfer), taking cartilage
cells from the knee and then having them
grown in a
lab for later re-implantation (autologous chondrocyte implantation), or taking cartilage from a person who has passed away and placing it
in the defect (osteochondral allograft transfer).
Researchers at Tufts Medical School noticed that cancer
cells being
grown in the
lab multiplied more quickly
in polyester test tubes than
in glass.
In 2011, the team was the first to report functional, lab - grown anal sphincters bioengineered from human cells that were implanted in immune - suppressed rodent
In 2011, the team was the first to report functional,
lab -
grown anal sphincters bioengineered from human
cells that were implanted
in immune - suppressed rodent
in immune - suppressed rodents.
Researchers hope the organoids will be better than
lab animals or
cells growing in culture at revealing how the human brain develops, both normally and when things go awry, and identify potential therapeutic or genome - editing targets.
In a study reported online in Nature, she and her team revealed how the lymphatic system develops in the embryo and for the first time managed to grow lymphatic cells in the la
In a study reported online
in Nature, she and her team revealed how the lymphatic system develops in the embryo and for the first time managed to grow lymphatic cells in the la
in Nature, she and her team revealed how the lymphatic system develops
in the embryo and for the first time managed to grow lymphatic cells in the la
in the embryo and for the first time managed to
grow lymphatic
cells in the la
in the
lab.
But as the research
in Yaniv's
lab progressed, it became clear that scientists on both sides of the argument had been right: Lymphatic
cells do indeed
grow from veins, but they originate from a niche within the vein that harbors angioblasts.
Lab -
grown stem
cells can make the hormone EPO, which has notoriously been used
in sports doping.
Cells inside the brains contract, while cells on the outside grow and push outward, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, discovered from working with the lab - grown brains, or organ
Cells inside the brains contract, while
cells on the outside grow and push outward, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, discovered from working with the lab - grown brains, or organ
cells on the outside
grow and push outward, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science
in Rehovot, Israel, discovered from working with the
lab -
grown brains, or organoids.
Brainlike
cell bundles
grown in a
lab may expose some of the biological differences of autistic brains.
TWO types of human ear
cell have been
grown in the
lab from fetal stem
cells.
Beginning
in the 1970s, physicians learned how to harvest skin stem
cells from a patient with extensive burn wounds,
grow them
in the laboratory, then apply the
lab -
grown tissue to close and protect a patient's wounds.
The scientists also showed,
in lab - cultured human
cells, that an ALDH - blocking drug strips regulatory T -
cells of their ability to
grow and protect themselves from cyclophosphamide.
«I'm working with Professor Richard Oreffo and Dr Rahul Tare from the University's Centre for Human Development, Stem
Cells and Regeneration who are trying to create and grow cartilage in the lab using a patients» own (autologous) stem cells to then be implanted back into the patient if they have a cartilage defect,» she expl
Cells and Regeneration who are trying to create and
grow cartilage
in the
lab using a patients» own (autologous) stem
cells to then be implanted back into the patient if they have a cartilage defect,» she expl
cells to then be implanted back into the patient if they have a cartilage defect,» she explains.
«One problem
in liver research is that no one is able to
grow liver
cells in the
lab,» says the study's lead author, Sheikh Tamir Rashid.
These were released into tumour
cells that had been taken from glioblastoma patients and
grown in the
lab.
A team led by animal scientists Steven Stice of Advanced
Cell Technology Inc. and James Robl, an animal scientist at the University of Massachusetts, both
in Amherst, added foreign DNA to
lab -
grown cow fetal
cells.
Clinical research scientists routinely
grow muscle
cells in the
lab.
Bloch's colleagues at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences tested the oils
in gene expression studies on
lab -
grown human breast cancer
cells and found that they could mimic estrogens, the primary female sex hormones, and inhibit androgens, the primary male sex hormones.