Sentences with phrase «cells taken from»

SuperMeat's goal is to create cultured chicken meat, using cells taken from a single chicken who was not harmed in the process.

Seldon's San Francisco - based company, Finless Foods, is using cellular agriculture to grow fish in a lab, using progenitor cells taken from a small piece of fish meat.

She also points out that there is a lack of scientific support for different therapies that are requested by owners and a need for more careful assessment of the value of stem cells taken from the patient.

Leukemia cells taken from cancer patients are killed by phytates.

Sulforaphane has been used in treating oral cancer cells taken from humans by upregulating the Nrf2 pathway and reducing signs of oxidative stress and damage.

A study funded by the US Public Health Service studied the effects of pomegranate juice on prostate cancer cells taken from patients and determined that pomegranate extract was able to slow down the growth of cancer in these cells.

* Oddly enough, however, the experiments with fresh pancreatic islets and fat cells taken from the mice suggested that the positive effects of uncarboxylated osteocalcin on insulin only occurred at concentrations extremely low compared to those of undercarboxylated osteocalcin normally present in mice, while the effects on adiponectin and energy expenditure only occurred at normal to high concentrations.

The Pap test involves cells taken from the cervix.

In some cases, astragalus stimulated the damaged cells to greater activity than found in normal cells taken from healthy individuals.»

(Like Pap smears, HPV tests are conducted on a swab of cells taken from your cervix.

Researchers took stem cells taken from these dogs and corrected the mutated gene before injecting back into the dogs» muscle tissue.

«The scientists at the University of Michigan Center for Pluripotent Stem Cell Research monitor the cells daily and have learned that cells taken from bipolar patients fire more intensively and in a way that is significantly different than cells from an individual who doesn't have bipolar disorder,» said Melvin McInnis, M.D., the Prechter Fund research director.

Scientists have successfully used gene editing to repair 20 to 40 percent of stem and progenitor cells taken from the peripheral blood of patients with sickle cell disease, according to Rice University bioengineer Gang Bao.

The team conducted tests on three different samples of cells aged in different ways: cells taken from aged donors, cells aged in culture in the lab, and those isolated from patients suffering from Hutchinson - Gilford progeria syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that ages sufferers at an accelerated rate.

Also studied were cells taken from tail arteries of mice genetically altered to no longer express a protein called Rap1A, which the authors hypothesized would interact with a2C - AR.

Ethics is also involved, along with politics and religion, especially when it comes to stem cells taken from embryos.

Pawlenty, Bush and other critics of the research propose funding studies on stem cells taken from adults rather than destroying embryos to harvest the cells.

The reprogrammed cells originally taken from schizophrenia patients showed the same transcriptional signatures (or underlying biology) as cells taken from postmortem patients, indicating that the stem cell - derived brain cells successfully recapitulated the disease and identifying possible biological variants that contribute to its onset.

Salk researchers reprogrammed skins cells taken from a sickle cell disease patient into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), immature cells capable of developing into any type of bodily tissue.

The researchers examined cells taken from the prostate glands of mice lacking the BRCA2 gene, which is involved in DNA repair.

However, cells taken from an individual are not necessarily safe for use in or as therapy for that same individual.

In a study using human muscle tissue, scientists in Children's Stem Cell Research Center - led by Johnny Huard, PhD, and Bruno Péault, PhD - isolated and characterized stem cells taken from blood vessels (known as myoendothelial cells) that are easily isolated using cell - sorting techniques, proliferate rapidly and can be differentiated in the laboratory into muscle, bone and cartilage cells.

Scientists have successfully used gene editing to repair 20 to 40 percent of stem and progenitor cells taken from the peripheral blood of patients with sickle cell disease, according to Rice... Read more

If a patient is injected with stem cells taken from a donated embryo, his or her immune system may see the cells as foreign invaders and launch an attack against them.

Lanza's team figured out how to coax stem cells taken from human embryos into becoming the RPE cells that die off along with photoreceptors in macular degeneration, and in 2011 the team began injecting these manufactured cells into patients» eyes.

The FDA classifies stem cells taken from a person and expanded in large quantities as drugs, and requires long - term clinical trials before it will approve treatments with them.

Embryonic stem cells can be created from cells taken from the inner cell mass (Stem Cell Basics: What are embryonic stem cells?

But it did work for 7 to 9 percent of cells taken from newborn mice.

Surprisingly, the scientists discovered that they could create more iPSCs from cells taken from FOP patients than those taken from healthy individuals.

Instead of using whole animals, these models used cells taken from live animals and grown in Petri dishes.

Dolly is very different from earlier sheep clones produced from cells taken from embryos.

Racing against the clock, since rod cells lose their viability after one to two hours, the researchers measured ten rods cells taken from ten different frogs.

The researchers knew that the cancer - causing mutations had arisen spontaneously in the women's ovaries because healthy cells taken from the same women contained normal copies of BRCA1.

Experimental therapies using T cells taken from the bloodstream have not, however, worked very well against solid tumors.

Then they stripped the valves of rejection - provoking cells, leaving only an elastin - and - collagen matrix, and seeded the valves with stem cells taken from a vein in the leg or arm.

Colonies of genetically corrected cells taken from Fanconi anemia patients show red and yellow, markers associated with pluripotency.

The same was true of cells taken from the chickens» breast muscles and wattles.

Pentao Liu at the Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK, and his team developed the stem cells from cells taken from early mouse embryos.

The team has already revealed a huge amount of genetic diversity between cancer cells taken from different sites within each man's prostate.

To explore the potential for application, the group then attempted a similar experiment using human blood stem cells taken from umbilical cords, which they transfected with a vector encoding human Id3.

Instead, they found, in quiescent satellite cells taken from the younger mice, copious instances in which histones in the vicinity of genes ordinarily reserved for other tissues were marked with both «stop» and «go» signals, just as genes associated with development to mature - muscle status were.

To confirm that the missing mutations were important for generating an immune response, the researchers cultured a subset of the neoantigen protein fragments containing the tumor mutations with immune cells taken from three patients» blood samples.

The New York Yankees» Bartolo Colon has emerged as the exception this season after receiving injections of adult stem cells taken from his own fat and bone marrow.

The enzyme, called α - duronidase, will be produced in skin cells taken from the babies themselves.

The team seeded pig intestine grafts with adult stem cells taken from fat tissue in rats.

Previously, only stem cells taken from early embryos had this kind of flexibility, called pluripotency.

The same trio transformed skin cells taken from healthy adults and people with Parkinson's (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature10284).

She and colleagues examined DNA from individual brain cells taken from three donated human brains and tested bulk samples from the hippocampus (an area important for learning and memory) and the frontal cortex (where most thinking and decision making is thought to happen).

Dr. Eric Olson (right) shows the dystrophin protein (red) produced in gene - edited heart muscle cells taken from a DMD patient's blood.

If heart muscle cells — cardiomyocytes — could be repaired by cells taken from one's own body, the patient's recovery improves.