Sentences with phrase «cells in laboratory culture»

Studies in animals, and human cells in laboratory culture, indicate that CLA may protect against certain types of cancer (6, 7, 8).

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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.
While other papers have examined these mutations using expensive and time - consuming experiments on live ferrets and laboratory cell cultures, Deem and Melia Bonomo used the pEpitope method to rapidly calculate how much the egg - passage mutations would decrease vaccine efficacy in humans.
In addition to managing the cell bank, the facility makes culture media and maintains a resale storeroom for laboratory products.
Researchers from Duke University had previously used CRISPR to correct genetic mutations in cultured cells from Duchenne patients, and other labs had corrected genes in single - cell embryos in a laboratory environment.
When these cultured cells were exposed to an air / liquid interface in the laboratory, they stratified, generating what the authors referred to as a multi-layered, «skin - like organoid.»
Since the algae reproduces by cell division about once per day in the laboratory, numerous genetically identical cultures could be derived from the isolate.
Dr. Zubair already grows such cells in his Mayo Clinic laboratory using a large tissue culture and several incubators — but only at a snail's pace.
The mutated, drug resistant H7N9 virus, however, was still able to infect cultured human cells and spread between laboratory animals as efficiently as nonmutated strains, researchers report December 10 in Nature Communications.
«As a biologist, I needed simple yet tunable cell - culture gels that would give me a defined system to study metabolites in the laboratory.
They also suggest it may soon be possible to mature the cells in a laboratory dish simply by adding a cocktail of microRNAs to the cell culture.
«To put this into perspective, reprogramming to induced pluripotency in cell culture takes several days to weeks whereas reprogramming to totipotency in zygotes occurs in less than 24 h,» says Kikuë Tachibana - Konwalski, who devotes her laboratory's research to understanding the molecular secrets of egg cells and zygotes.
These early studies were in laboratory - cultured cells.
At the Galveston National Laboratory, which houses a biosafety level 4 lab, researchers shut down experiments, euthanized infected animals, put pathogens in cold storage, and autoclaved cell cultures.
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.
Barnes's team went on to show last year that soya extracts could also inhibit the growth of prostate cancer cells in laboratory tissue cultures.
According to Spradling, these cells «likely arise by dedifferentiation in culture,» and «the same safety and reliability concerns would apply as to any laboratory - generated cell type that lacks a normal counterpart» in the body.
When the researchers used gene engineering techniques to knock out DDX3 expression in laboratory - grown cell cultures that highly expressed this protein, cell proliferation was half that of cell cultures with high DDX3 expression.
The treatment did a lot to prevent cell migration, a key mechanism in metastasis, in experiments on laboratory cultures (in vitro) of cancerous human cells.
In the monkey, when we tried injecting 20 or 30 laboratory - cultured pluripotent stem cells, nothing happened.
An experimental drug that targets abnormally high levels of a protein linked to cancer growth appears to significantly reduce the proliferation of prostate cancer cells in laboratory cell cultures and animals, while also making these cells considerably more vulnerable to radiation, according to results of a study led by Johns Hopkins scientists.
However, both types of pancreatic cells have been extremely difficult to culture in the laboratory.
Recently, the Lerner laboratory developed an advanced technique in which hundreds of millions of distinct antibodies are produced artificially within very large cultures of mammalian cells.
The specificity of this DNA cutting activity has made CRISPR - Cas the darling of gene therapy researchers, who have modified it to make precise changes in the genomes of cultured cells, laboratory animals, and even humans.
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.
She thinks that data from embryos cultured for nearly two weeks in the laboratory will provide more useful information than Egli's stem cell studies.
Sheltzer, who began his project in the laboratory of Dr. Angelika Amon at MIT and carried it to conclusion in his own research group at CSHL, placed two sets of otherwise identical cells in culture dishes, side by side.
Traditionally, mAbs are manufactured outside of the body, in costly, large - scale cell culture laboratory.
«Our stem cells also survive outside of mice, in a culture, so we can also manipulate them in a laboratory,» said Abad, adding that: «The next step is studying if these new stem cells are capable of efficiently generating different tissues such as that of the pancreas, liver or kidney.»
Now I am cooperating with the Laboratory of Cell Cultures and Biotechnology in the Bulgarian Academy of Science.
In the new eLife study, the researchers compared RNA from the cells of five different groups: salamander cells with algae, salamander cells without algae, the algal cells living in salamander cells, the algae living in the egg capsules, and algae cultured in the laboratorIn the new eLife study, the researchers compared RNA from the cells of five different groups: salamander cells with algae, salamander cells without algae, the algal cells living in salamander cells, the algae living in the egg capsules, and algae cultured in the laboratorin salamander cells, the algae living in the egg capsules, and algae cultured in the laboratorin the egg capsules, and algae cultured in the laboratorin the laboratory.
«First, we must bear in mind that the study was done on human cancer cells cultured in the laboratory, since it would be unethical to do it in humans.
Most of these were invalidated when challenged with experimental data generated in Smith's laboratory, which measured gene expression of ESCs across 23 different cell culture conditions, all of which maintained pluripotency.
«The region selective - state of these stem cells is entirely novel for laboratory - cultured stem cells and offers important insight into how human stem cells might be differentiated into derivatives that give rise to a wide range of tissues and organs,» says Jun Wu, a postdoctoral researcher in Izpisua Belmonte's lab and first author of the new paper.
Using cell culture and laboratory mouse experiments, the researchers showed that the enzyme, aldose reductase, is essential to a process known as goblet cell metaplasia that is seen in both asthma and COPD.
A review in the journal Cell Stem Cell by two Jackson Laboratory (JAX) scientists reports on the latest efforts to isolate and culture the elusive populations of stem cells that most closely resemble very early (two - cell stage) totipotent ceCell Stem Cell by two Jackson Laboratory (JAX) scientists reports on the latest efforts to isolate and culture the elusive populations of stem cells that most closely resemble very early (two - cell stage) totipotent ceCell by two Jackson Laboratory (JAX) scientists reports on the latest efforts to isolate and culture the elusive populations of stem cells that most closely resemble very early (two - cell stage) totipotent cecell stage) totipotent cells.
In collaboration with several drug companies and academic laboratories, we developed furin inhibitors active both in the test tube and in cell culturIn collaboration with several drug companies and academic laboratories, we developed furin inhibitors active both in the test tube and in cell culturin the test tube and in cell culturin cell culture.
The Cravatt laboratory soon developed powerful inhibitors of the newly discovered enzymes, and the two labs began working together, using the inhibitors and genetic techniques to explore the enzymes» functions in vitro and in cultured cells.
Amongst these were genes that were lost when endothelial cells were removed from the body and cultured in the laboratory, which potentially explains the previous failure to identify them.
culture (in microbiology) To grow cells outside the body or their normal environment, usually in a beaker, a laboratory dish or some big vessel.
To grow the stem cells, scientists remove them from the blastocyst and culture them (grow them in a nutrient - rich solution) in a Petri dish in the laboratory.
culture (v. in microbiology) To grow cells outside the body or their normal environment, usually in a beaker, a laboratory dish or some big vessel.
The extract was tested in laboratory studies using colon cancer cells grown in culture.
In the laboratory, they isolated and cultured mesothelial cells and fibroblasts, two of the predominant cell types found in omental tissuIn the laboratory, they isolated and cultured mesothelial cells and fibroblasts, two of the predominant cell types found in omental tissuin omental tissue.
Cell culture studies involve removing tissue (or even individual cells) from a plant or animal and growing them in a laboratory environment.
And while the human and T cells they studied in the laboratory were not specifically skin T cells they were isolated from mouse cell culture and from human blood — the skin has a large share of T cells in humans, he says, approximately twice the number circulating in the blood.
Cells from these embryos can be used to create pluripotent stem cell «lines» — cell cultures that can be grown indefinitely in the laboratory.
In the November 6 Nature Methods, the team led by Bing Lim and Massimo Nichane of the Genome Institute of Singapore and Kyle M. Loh of Stanford University School of Medicine, and including Siva V, Ph.D., of The Jackson Laboratory's Single Cell Biology Lab, showed that mouse Sox9 + multipotent embryonic lung progenitors can be isolated and expanded long - term in 3D culturIn the November 6 Nature Methods, the team led by Bing Lim and Massimo Nichane of the Genome Institute of Singapore and Kyle M. Loh of Stanford University School of Medicine, and including Siva V, Ph.D., of The Jackson Laboratory's Single Cell Biology Lab, showed that mouse Sox9 + multipotent embryonic lung progenitors can be isolated and expanded long - term in 3D culturin 3D culture.
Cortical development and cortical stem cells The laboratory uses neural stem cell culture, transgenic model systems and retroviral vectors to study signalling pathways that are central in mouse cortical development and in particular in cortical stem cells.
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