Sentences with phrase «cells in the lab do»

«But cancer cells in the lab don't necessarily indicate the response of human tumors,» Håkansson reminds the group.

Not exact matches

«We suspected that the young are most vulnerable because of their immature immune systems, but we didn't have a lot of hard evidence to show that before,» said study lead author Bo Hang, a Berkeley Lab staff scientist who previously found that thirdhand smoke could lead to genetic mutations in human cells.

Now in 2018, I don't want to project that everything was negative in 2017: we've seen such individuals as Nimrod May from Sirin Labs, individuals like Mikhail Mironov from ICORating, who are having one of the most successful ICOs of 2017, and now is coming out with one of the first cell phones that has an encrypted wallet included on an Android platform, which I think a phenomenal piece of technology moving forward.

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.

It didn't take her long to decide that she missed lab work; in 1985 she joined IFR with an in - house fellowship, investigating how gut epithelial cells interact with microbes.

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.

«While there is much work to be done, these findings imply the possibility of taking a patient's Th17 cells, expanding them in the lab and then reinfusing them as a treatment,» adds Chen Dong, also of MD Anderson, who supervised the work.

In his second semester, he started doing research in three different labs, including that of Carolyn Decker, a molecular biologist who was investigating how the cell controls gene expression through the destruction of messenger RNIn his second semester, he started doing research in three different labs, including that of Carolyn Decker, a molecular biologist who was investigating how the cell controls gene expression through the destruction of messenger RNin three different labs, including that of Carolyn Decker, a molecular biologist who was investigating how the cell controls gene expression through the destruction of messenger RNA.

In the lab, they also did an experiment to see if wash water from tunnels affected the protein activity in liver cells, or reduced the growth of an algae called Pseudokirchneriella subcapitatIn the lab, they also did an experiment to see if wash water from tunnels affected the protein activity in liver cells, or reduced the growth of an algae called Pseudokirchneriella subcapitatin liver cells, or reduced the growth of an algae called Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata.

Starting in 2007, in the same French Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) lab where he did his Ph.D., Catelain worked to harness the potential of embryonic stem cells for treating cardiac diseases.

A comparable study, she says, may find that lab rats also do not lose hippocampal cells — and thus redeem them as a research tool in studies on the link between alcoholism and memory loss.

And once you have the DNA that tells you how to build that device, all you have to do is keep amplifying it and basically passing it on to your offspring, which say this is how to build a solar cell or this is how to build a battery, and that's what is the main driving force in our labs.

If the lead - based particles work inside solar cells as well as they do in the lab, they could boost the solar conversion efficiency from a best of about 32 % today to perhaps as much as 66 %, enough to slash the cost of solar power.

Another is that the transplanted bits of tumor act nothing like cancers in actual human brains, Fine and colleagues reported in 2006: Real - life glioblastomas grow and spread and resist treatment because they contain what are called tumor stem cells, but tumor stem cells don't grow well in the lab, so they don't get transplanted into those mouse brains.

The researchers also observed that 6 - week - old germ cells created in the lab do not match a 6 - week - old human germ cell, suggesting that there is a blockage in the development of lab cells that scientists are failing to understand.

Cantley's lab and collaborators found that large doses of vitamin C did indeed kill cultured colon cancer cells with BRAF or KRAS mutations by raising free radical levels, which in turn inactivate an enzyme needed to metabolize glucose, depriving the cells of energy.

But despite these two tracks being completely separate, two recent rounds of interviews for clients on either side of this divide helped me recognize what a successful Indian plant breeder has in common with an equally first - rate American cell biologist: The passion they have for what they do still drives their career success a decade after leaving the academic lab.

Single - cell biopsy procedures are done routinely in infertility labs and do not destroy the embryo, which «takes away the president's last excuse to oppose the research,» ACT's vice president of research, Robert Lanza, told reporters.

The team reports that ELP hydrogel can be digested overtime by naturally - occurring enzymes and does not appear to have toxic effects when tested with living cells in the lab.

Since SPLiT - seq can be done with basic equipment in any lab it may lead to wider adoption and standardization of single cell transcriptomics.»

Who needs whole animals when you can grow burgers and sausages from their cells alone, in the lab — and do your bit for the environment too

To read more in detail about research on stem cells done in different labs around the world (the Netherlands, UK, US, and elsewhere) click here.

He says that the extracts from their fibroblasts do contain the sticky substance, but that in spalacids it does not seem to play a key role in the animals» natural resistance to cancer or activity against cancer cells in the lab.

«While investigating how p300 functions in MDS cells, we found that MDS cells do not grow well in the lab,» said Nimer.

The existence of cancer stem cells has already been reported in a number of human cancers, explains Professor Jacobsen, but previous findings have remained controversial since the lab tests used to establish the identity of cancer stem cells have been shown to be unreliable and, in any case, do not reflect the «real situation» in an intact tumour in a patient.

Traditionally, cell culture in the lab has been done in petri dishes and on other flat surfaces.

It is possible to force human skin cells to turn back into embryonic stem cells in the lab, but this doesn't seem to be something we are able to achieve without intervention.

The Norwegian analysis was done after researchers at Harvard University found these effects of the medicines in animal tests and in experiments with brain cells in the lab.

These cells seem to have similar abilities as ES cells in the lab, and iPS cells don't rouse the ethical objections of ES cells.

In theory, silicon - based solar cells are capable of converting up to 30 percent of sunlight to electricity — although, in reality, the different kinds of loss mechanisms ensure that even under ideal lab conditions it does not exceed 25 In theory, silicon - based solar cells are capable of converting up to 30 percent of sunlight to electricity — although, in reality, the different kinds of loss mechanisms ensure that even under ideal lab conditions it does not exceed 25 in reality, the different kinds of loss mechanisms ensure that even under ideal lab conditions it does not exceed 25 %.

To the scientists» surprise, the cells didn't desynchronize, and their behavior in the lab reflected the behavior of the humans they came from.

The cell cultures in the petri dishes are of human origin, and in some aspects resemble human brains more than the brains of lab animals such as rats or mice do.

Unlike stem cells, the newly discovered cells, referred to as progenitors, do not reproduce repeatedly in the lab.

Anyone who does, say, research in my lab isolating cells and isolating DNA and sequencing them, they can continue that work in some other laboratory because the laboratories need technician [s], so someone can do a part - time job while still taking course [s].

The Berkeley Lab team has done previous studies establishing the formation of harmful thirdhand smoke constituents by reaction of nicotine with indoor nitrous acid, showing that nicotine can react with ozone to form potentially harmful ultrafine particles, and finding that thirdhand smoke can cause genetic damage in human cells.

Unlike many other stem cell treatments, such as heart patches, the procedure Taylor and his colleagues used did not require any advance culturing or growth in the lab.

In a May 2014 study, Nagrath and colleagues found that highly aggressive ovarian cancer cells were glutamine - dependent and that depriving the cells of external sources of glutamine — as some experimental drugs do — was an effective way to kill late - stage ovarian cancer cells in the laIn a May 2014 study, Nagrath and colleagues found that highly aggressive ovarian cancer cells were glutamine - dependent and that depriving the cells of external sources of glutamine — as some experimental drugs do — was an effective way to kill late - stage ovarian cancer cells in the lain the lab.

Often unrecognized are the countless folks who work in the spaces between the lab and the clinic — people responsible for doing everything from manufacturing CAR T cells to gaining federal approval for new trials.

If the marriage of stem cells and CRISPR follows a similar path, it might not be long before pigs have enough Homo sapiens in them not only to grow human hearts, lungs, livers, and kidneys for transplant but also to model human diseases more closely than current lab animals do and to test experimental drugs.

In May 2010, the J. Craig Venter Institute announced that its lab had built the first synthetic, self - replicating bacterial cell — that is, researchers inserted a synthetic genome, which did not exactly match the DNA sequence of any natural genome, into an existing working cell; the cell accepted the synthetic genome and reproduced.

«By getting me involved in the project, not only could we do these biological, cell - based functional assays that Roy's lab carries out, but we could also purify the integrins or parts of (them) and do both structural and biophysical characterization of interactions — how the different subunits stick together,» he said.

Research in the lab of Edward P. Feener, Ph.D., Investigator in the Section on Vascular Cell Biology and Director of the Proteomics Core at Joslin Diabetes Center and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, now has shown that a substantial percentage of patients with DME do not have high levels of VEGF in the fluid inside their eyes but do have high levels of a protein called PKal (plasma kallikrein) and associated molecules that are key players in an inflammatory molecular pathway involved in the disease.

«We compiled a list of the proteins we thought Zika and similar viruses like dengue were using to get inside of cells, and then we looked to see which of these proteins were abundantly present in the different cell types of the developing brain,» said Pollen, who did the work with Tomasz Nowakowski, PhD, and a UCSF graduate student Carmen Sandoval - Espinosa, BS, both in Kriegstein's lab.

«We knew that TET proteins were involved in human cancer but we didn't know how they regulated T cell development,» says Angeliki Tsagaratou, Ph.D., an instructor in the Rao lab and the study's first author.

Young said Celltex did a study in which it injected lab mice with 73 times the normal dose of 200 million cells that Celltex gives its clients, and none of the mice died, developed toxic organs or grew tumors.

He is a cell biologist who did his Post Doc in a microbiology lab.

«The problem is that brain cells from actual people don't survive well in a dish, so we need to engineer human cells in the lab,» explained Gan, senior investigator at the Gladstone Institutes.

Inspired by XBP - 1's roles in maintaining a homeostatic ER, the lab began to examine the role of XBP - 1 in B - cell leukemia whose progression does not require dramatic ER expansion like that in multiple myeloma.

And to do so, Ottersbach and her team are trying to understand how the disease might begin, even before birth, by looking at cells in the lab as well as young mice with the disease.

From a biologist's standpoint, this is a really unique thing, as we don't usually know who is behind the cell lines we grow in the lab.