Sentences with phrase «cells in the lab exposed»

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Brainlike cell bundles grown in a lab may expose some of the biological differences of autistic brains.

«When we analyzed tissue samples in the lab, we found that exposing white fat to macrophage cells from the immune system inhibited the transformation.»

Heller's team produced the inner - ear hair cells by exposing embryonic cells in the lab to chemical factors which steer the natural development of hair cells.

Experiments showed that HIFs controlled the production of GSTO1 in breast cancer cells when they were exposed to chemotherapy; if HIF activity was blocked in these lab - grown cells, GSTO1 was not produced.

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.

He would spend his Saturday mornings in the lab conducting microbiology experiments and got exposed to the science of DNA during a summer internship at the university's Center for Sickle Cell Disease.

Those tests will answer basic questions about changes in cells and genes; they are not the elaborate, years - long studies exposing lab animals or examining humans that can answer most important health questions.

Previous evidence for a breast cancer link has been mixed — one study found increased risk in women exposed before age 14, whereas others found no association — but in a lab dish, DDT has been shown to activate the HER2 gene in human breast cells, which is expressed in some breast cancers.

To anticipate how resistance might arise, Rosen's team exposed breast cancer - derived cells that they grew in the lab to either rapamycin or to a second - generation mTOR inhibitor, ADZ8055, for three months.

The Vacanti lab's technique includes what they call an «extremely important step» that was not described in the Nature paper or updated protocol published earlier: forcing the mature cells through very small pipettes for at least 25 minutes before exposing them to the acid solution.

They cultured the cells in the lab for a day, then exposed them for 3 days to a virus which contained the normal gene for the receptor.

When human lung and bladder cells are grown in the lab, they turn cancerous at a higher rate if exposed to nicotine compounds found in e-cigarettes

Recent work from Fousteri Lab revealed a novel metabolic function of active transcription that is rapidly switched on globally in human cells to promote genetic accuracy, and reduce the mutation burden in genotoxins - exposed tissues, such as skin and lung, thus actively participating in lowering oncogenesis.

In this 2005 study, 1,500 lab rats were exposed to radio frequency electromagnetic radiation equivalent to that emitted by cell phones.

In lab cultures of human and yeast cells, the scientists stopped the harmful clumping of FUS proteins by exposing them to phosphorylation, a process that makes precise changes to the amino acid building blocks of proteins, increasing their negative electric charge.