Sentences with phrase «cells in a lab setting»

Studies about the benefits of Resveratrol have typically looked at how it affects cells in a lab setting.

A group of researchers at the Baylor College of Medicine has published the results of a study in the journal PLoS ONE demonstrating that a concentrated form of the compound sulforaphane found in broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables has been shown to reduce the number of acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells in a lab setting.

This study found that turmeric extract reduced the growth of certain types of cancer cells in a lab setting.

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She was always ready to learn new techniques, and she diversified her skill set by working in the animal facility, cell culture room, and also in a mass spectrometry lab.

The two - part approach netted a set of mutations seen only at relapse that enabled the team to sift and sort leukemic and normal stem cells using tools developed in the Dick lab a few years ago to zero in on specific cell types fated to relapse.

So Welham's team set out to engineer vocal fold mucosae in the lab using the two main cell types that make up the tissue — connective fibroblasts, which form the main body, and epithelial cells, which line the surface.

Set up experiments for whole week: Start cell cultures, book microscopes, make buffers, and even find time over the bacterial incubator for a spot of eyelash fluttering at the sexy postdoc in the lab next door.

Dr. Gabriel Ferguson, a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Martinez - Agosto and first author of the study, built upon the lab's previous research that utilized the blood system of the fruit fly species Drosophila, showing that a specific set of signals must be received by progenitor cells to activate their differentiation into cells that can work to fight infection after injury.

With this in mind, Tonks and a team that included Mathangi Ramesh, a Ph.D. student in his lab and first author of the new paper, set out to find weaknesses «downstream» of the HER2 receptor, inside breast cancer cells.

Thorold Theunissen, a postdoctoral fellow in Jaenisch's lab and co-first author of the study, says «Our work provides a rigorous set of criteria for comparing naïve human stem cells to their counterparts in the early human embryo.

In 1983, Beddington set up her own lab at Oxford and became one of the first scientists to demonstrate that embryonic stem cells can give rise to any tissue found in a developed bodIn 1983, Beddington set up her own lab at Oxford and became one of the first scientists to demonstrate that embryonic stem cells can give rise to any tissue found in a developed bodin a developed body.

Dr. Welsbie's lab has screened through thousands of proteins and drugs and identified a set of proteins that seem to play a central role in retinal ganglion cell death.

In the new research, Pollen and co-first author Tomasz Nowakowski, PhD, also a postdoctoral researcher in the Kriegstein lab, partnered with Fluidigm Corp. to develop a microfluidic approach to map out the transcriptional profile — the set of genes that are actively producing RNA — of cells collected from the VZ and SVZ during embryonic developmenIn the new research, Pollen and co-first author Tomasz Nowakowski, PhD, also a postdoctoral researcher in the Kriegstein lab, partnered with Fluidigm Corp. to develop a microfluidic approach to map out the transcriptional profile — the set of genes that are actively producing RNA — of cells collected from the VZ and SVZ during embryonic developmenin the Kriegstein lab, partnered with Fluidigm Corp. to develop a microfluidic approach to map out the transcriptional profile — the set of genes that are actively producing RNA — of cells collected from the VZ and SVZ during embryonic development.

In 2010, the lab made the exciting breakthrough that dopamine neurons could be grown from human iPS cells and transplanted effectively to mitigate disease, setting the stage for forthcoming clinical trials in humanIn 2010, the lab made the exciting breakthrough that dopamine neurons could be grown from human iPS cells and transplanted effectively to mitigate disease, setting the stage for forthcoming clinical trials in humanin humans.

The following questions and answers have been paraphrased from a conversation with Prof. Lorenz Studer on October 11th, 2017 discussing the stem cell trials his lab is set to begin in 2018.

She set up the wetlab of the research group, and she oversees molecular and cell biology research in the Lappalainen lab.

At an experimental mine at the Missouri University of S&T in Rolla, scientists are setting off explosives around lab mice and cell cultures to study how exposure to blasts in combat damage the brains of military personnel.

«Before, you could in principle test chemical compounds of interest against hundreds of cell lines, but it would require a lab member going to a freezer, taking out hundreds of vials — one for each cell line — and setting up hundreds of tissue culture plates.

Swanton's new lab set out to identify specific genes that, when inhibited, result in the death of tumor cells that displayed aneuploidy, meaning they had more or less than the normal set of 46 chromosomes.

«Correct protein folding is critically important, which is why we are focusing on the diverse set of complex cellular mechanisms, including molecular chaperones, that promote efficient folding and prevent toxicity,» says Dr. Adrian Israelson, who heads the Cellular and Molecular Neurodegeneration Lab in the BGU Department of Physiology and Cell Biology.

Solar technology has come a long way, with some solar cells able to achieve conversion efficiencies of close to 50 percent in lab settings, but researchers at Vanderbuilt University found that combining both the power of photosynthesis in spinach with the photovoltaic power of silicon could create a solar cell that packs an extra punch.