Sentences with phrase «cells in culture for»

Researchers have discovered a gene in zebrafish so powerful it can be used to redirect the fate of cells in the developing embryo to become beating heart cells, suggesting that a similar gene in humans could be used to generate heart cells in culture for transplant in ailing people.

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Some reports, such as the Open Philanthropy Project's Animal Product Alternatives report and Van der Weele & Tramper (2014) suggest it is unlikely that cultured meats will become cost - competitive with conventional meat.98, 99 One important contributing factor in this conclusion, which is cited in these reports, is the minimum costs of the growth medium necessary for culturing the desired cells.

In fact, these dead starter culture cells and debris are an important food source for subsequent generations of microbes, referred to as non-starter lactic acid bacteria (NSLAB).

He has more than fifteen years» experience in the life science industry, including the product development, market development and commercialization of cells, scaffolds, cell reprogramming tools and cell culture media for regenerative medicine and bioprocessing applications.

In addition to managing the cell bank, the facility makes culture media and maintains a resale storeroom for laboratory products.

Shukla and colleagues discovered that a small drug molecule called BX795, which is sold to labs for use in experiments, helped clear HSV - 1 infection in cultured human corneal cells, in donated human corneas, and in the corneas of mice infected with HSV - 1.

For instance, to make a rod with collagen fibers aligned along its length (like a tendon) they cultured chondrocyte cells in a dog bone - shaped mold with loops on either end.

The team pumped around 50 million rat liver cells into each of five bare scaffolds, then incubated the organs in culture for two weeks.

The researchers — James Robl, a developmental biologist and his colleagues at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Steve Stice at Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Massachusetts — inserted a marker gene fused with a gene for resistance to the chemical neomycin into a culture of connective tissue cells called fibroblasts.

Now researchers at the University of Plymouth, working in partnership with pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, have for the first time successfully cultured and maintained cells from the guts of rainbow trout, a recommended fish species for toxicological studies.

New developments include reaction systems for catalysis research, sampling from reactors, systems for high - throughput applications in synthesis, the handling of microorganisms or cell - culturing procedures, and more.

There will be several rounds of recruitment, and «specifically at this time, we are accepting applications for both junior / senior postdoctoral researchers and recent graduates wishing to enroll in our Ph.D. program as well as personnel with extensive expertise in cell culture and one expert in flow cytometry to fill in the position of manager of the flow - cytometry platform.»

One of the 12 audience members was Ben Chao, a chemical engineer with a Ph.D. — not at all qualified to make a judgment on Scott's abilities in the area of «Approaches to Developing Serum - Free Media Formulations for Mammalian Cells in Culture.»

For example, cultured cells exhibit rhythmic oscillations in gene expression where there is no input from the master clock.

Although the bulk of the commercial manufacturing uses cultures of bacteria, such as Escherichia coli or Chinese hamster ovary cells, a few biotech companies are trying to produce therapeutic proteins in the milk of transgenic mammals (such as GTC Biotherapeutics, which is using goats; PPL Therapeutics, which is using sheep; and BioProtein Technologies, which is working with rabbits), transgenic chicken eggs (such as Avigenics or Vivalis), or even in transgenic crops (such as ProdiGene or Meristem Therapeutics); but it is early days for these «pharming» methods.

Oncologists William Hahn, Robert Weinberg, and colleagues at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, mutated the gene for one part of the enzyme and inserted it into cultured human cells from colon, ovary, and breast tumors.

Sicor, for example, has recently acquired a plant in Vilnius, Lithuania, and Genentech a cell culture manufacturing facility in Porriño, Spain.

Until recently, Ain was renowned for a highly prized repository of 18 immortal cancer cell lines, which he developed by harvesting tissue from his patients» tumors after removal, carefully culturing them to everlasting life in vials.

In addition, cell culture studies lasted two days in Gentzsch's study, whereas the clinical studies lasted for monthIn addition, cell culture studies lasted two days in Gentzsch's study, whereas the clinical studies lasted for monthin Gentzsch's study, whereas the clinical studies lasted for months.

Researchers have videotaped cultures in which embryos develop but found no visual pattern that hints at which cells are about to sprout, and staining for certain patterns of gene expression has been inconclusive.

In 2009, from experiments at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan, he found that when culture conditions are right, adding a single ingredient — bone morphogenetic protein 4 (Bmp4)-- with precise timing is enough to convert embryonic cells to PGCIn 2009, from experiments at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan, he found that when culture conditions are right, adding a single ingredient — bone morphogenetic protein 4 (Bmp4)-- with precise timing is enough to convert embryonic cells to PGCin Kobe, Japan, he found that when culture conditions are right, adding a single ingredient — bone morphogenetic protein 4 (Bmp4)-- with precise timing is enough to convert embryonic cells to PGCs.

Using a labor - intensive cell culturing technique for hunting retroviruses that he had pioneered in the 1970s, Ruscetti had transmitted the pathogen from patients» T - cells to uninfected T - cells in the laboratory.

In a previous related study published in the Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, the same team of NTU scientists found that fish scale - derived collagen would induce human umbilical vein endothelial cells to express 2.5 times more of a specific type of collagen responsible for blood vessel formation, as compared to endothelial cells cultured on bovine collageIn a previous related study published in the Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, the same team of NTU scientists found that fish scale - derived collagen would induce human umbilical vein endothelial cells to express 2.5 times more of a specific type of collagen responsible for blood vessel formation, as compared to endothelial cells cultured on bovine collagein the Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, the same team of NTU scientists found that fish scale - derived collagen would induce human umbilical vein endothelial cells to express 2.5 times more of a specific type of collagen responsible for blood vessel formation, as compared to endothelial cells cultured on bovine collagein Medicine, the same team of NTU scientists found that fish scale - derived collagen would induce human umbilical vein endothelial cells to express 2.5 times more of a specific type of collagen responsible for blood vessel formation, as compared to endothelial cells cultured on bovine collagen.

«The concentrations of anabasine tested here are 100-fold lower than those required to inhibit growth of parasite cell cultures,» Palmer - Young says, «and we did not find any evidence for variation in anabasine sensitivity across parasite strains.

You can look for efficacy in cell cultures, but that tells you almost nothing about what's going to happen when you test in a mouse or a human.

The Mount Sinai study found that harmine drove the sustained division and multiplication of adult human beta cells in culture, a feat that had eluded the field for years.

«First we established an efficient method for culturing dinoflagellate cells in our lab,» said Shinichiro Maruyama, an assistant professor at Tohoku University.

The former Speaker — now a leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination — talked to DISCOVER in 2006 about evolution, stem cells, Washington's two cultures, and why kids should be paid to take science and math.

«Then we cultured the cells in the presence of various drugs and screened for spontaneous drug - resistant mutants to isolate clones useful for symbiosis experiments.»

Results suggest that cells grown in the device exhibit more natural behaviors than when grown in traditional culturing methods, and the filtration by the glomerulus is necessary for healthy cell function.

Adoptive cell transfer procedures are mimicking exactly this process in a culture dish by taking T cells from patients, multiplying them, sometimes genetically modifying them, and then returning them to patients so that they can, for example, locate and kill cancer cells.

In 2016, the U.S. National Cancer Institute launched a scheme to develop more than 1000 cell culture models, including organoids, for researchers around the world to use, together with Cancer Research UK in London, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Hinxton, U.K., and HUIn 2016, the U.S. National Cancer Institute launched a scheme to develop more than 1000 cell culture models, including organoids, for researchers around the world to use, together with Cancer Research UK in London, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Hinxton, U.K., and HUin London, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Hinxton, U.K., and HUin Hinxton, U.K., and HUB.

Using novel culture conditions Dr. Reimer's team has shown it is now possible to maintain the cells for 16 days in vitro.

«In the last few years, it has become possible to order cultures of human cells for testing, but they're grown on a plate, a two - dimensional environment,» says Radisic.

In this study, she and her colleagues used cell cultures collected from 16 patients in the United States and Europe to search for drugs that could kill or stop the growth of DIPG cellIn this study, she and her colleagues used cell cultures collected from 16 patients in the United States and Europe to search for drugs that could kill or stop the growth of DIPG cellin the United States and Europe to search for drugs that could kill or stop the growth of DIPG cells.

Around the same time, Yoshiki Sasai of the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan, cultured the first brain organoids, starting not with adult stem cells but with embryonic stem cells.

The researchers were able to demonstrate, for instance, that factors responsible for hypertrophy — enlargement of cardiac cells for instance in athletes and pregnant women — also led to a growth in volume in the cardiac cells that had been cultured on a film of eADF4 (κ16).

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.

To determine whether L1CAM has a role in cancer, the researchers looked for its protein in normal skin cells, cultured noncancerous cells, and aggressive melanomas from 11 patients.

To test the suitability of guanabenz as a potential treatment for MS, Popko and his team exposed cultured oligodendrocyte cells to interferon gamma — a molecule that increases inflammation — resulting in greatly increased myelin loss and cell death.

The team then cultured the cells for several months in a bath of growth - promoting proteins, trying to get the cells to reverse course and become more like stem cells.

Now in the future they would love to be able to use the person's own cells — let's say scar repair later — but for the short - term applications these would be commercially available cells that are kept in cell culture ready to go.

Kass developed the midstream urine test (still used when you pee in a cup) and set a numerical cutoff for the number of bacteria in normal urine: not more than 100,000 colony - forming units (cell clusters on a culture dish) per milliliter of urine.

Using quantitative mass spectrometry to search for proteins that contained these stable isotope labels, researchers were able to determine the cell of origin of both intracellular and secreted proteins identified in multicellular culture.

Because hers were the first human cells cultured continuously for use in research, Lacks» identity was revealed in a scientific journal in 1971 in reference to the landmark accomplishment.

The researchers activated the TRPV1 receptor in the cell culture with capsaicin or helional, by adding the substances to the culture for a period of several hours or days.

In contrast to other cultured cells, such tumor cells can divide indefinitely and a cell line can therefore be cultured for many years.

That has led scientists in the last decade or so to look for ways of culturing cells in laboratory settings that are a bit more complex.

For example, cell culture or biological analysis, which are conducted in biology laboratories, can be performed on a microfluidic chip.

The scientists say their gadget provides a quicker diagnosis that today's typical method, in which a cell sample is taken and cultured in the lab to look for the presence of the Candida albicans fungus.