Sentences with phrase «coaxing human»

In September a European team reported coaxing human embryonic stem cells from an «arrested» IVF embryo — one that had stopped dividing before it reached the blastocyst stage and thus died a natural death.

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have discovered an easy and efficient way to coax human pluripotent stem cells to regenerate bone tissue — by feeding them adenosine, a naturally occurring molecule in the body.

Researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA have, for the first time, coaxed human stem cells to become sensory interneurons — the cells that give us our sense of touch.

by Paroma Basu Scientists grow critical nerve cells MADISON, WI — January 31, 2005 — After years of trial and error, scientists have coaxed human embryonic stem cells to become spinal motor neurons, critical nervous system pathways that relay messages from the brain to the rest of the body.

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CEDAW is one of two ostensible human rights treaties that the «international community» has been trying to coax the United States Senate into ratifying for years.

Philippe Durand and Marie - Hélène Perrard at the biotechnology company Kallistem in Lyon, France, say that their method coaxes seminiferous tubules — tissue that produces sperm in the testes — taken from humans, rats or monkeys into producing mature sperm cells.

To do this, the researchers coaxed three fluorescent molecules into the mitochondria of living human skin cells.

The stem cells, derived from human umbilical cord - blood and coaxed into an embryonic - like state, were grown without the conventional use of viruses, which can mutate genes and initiate cancers, according to the scientists.

However, cancer cells may instead be coaxed to turn back into normal tissue simply by reactivating a single gene, according to a study that found that restoring normal levels of a human colorectal cancer gene in mice stopped tumor growth and re-established normal intestinal function within only 4 days.

In an advance that could lead to new fertility treatments, researchers have coaxed immature human egg cells to fully develop in the lab for the first time.

Human farmers have yet to reliably coax the thick - footed morel, one of several culinary morel species, into sprouting the mushrooms that chefs prize.

The researchers coaxed white blood cells from humans and other apes into forming stem cells, from which they grew organoids.

With the help of an Egyptology professor, he obtained soft - tissue samples from several Egyptian mummies and, in 1984, coaxed scraps of human genetic material from them.

But making chimeras with human organs whose development can be studied is more likely to succeed than the technique researchers have been trying for years: coaxing stem cells growing in lab dishes to become three - dimensional, functional tissues and organs.

Globs of human fat removed during liposuction conceal versatile cells that are more quickly and easily coaxed to become induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, than are the skin cells most often used by researchers, according to a new study from Stanford's School of Medicine.

Not only can organoids potentially offer a better model for human disease, they can also be surprisingly easy to coax into being.

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.

Researchers had developed the technologies needed to create organoids years before — how to grow cells in culture, how to isolate stem cells from human tissue, and how to coax the stem cells, undifferentiated and immature, to become specific types of cells at later stages of development.

Susie - Belle's journey through life has been a hard one, tougher than most humans would dare to think about, but far from remaining imprisoned by her past she has allowed herself to be coaxed, cuddled and loved into her new life, one that she now enjoys fully as a free, much loved dog, not something to make money from.

A few cats actually use the toilet (or attempt to) without any coaxing or training from a human.

The short answer is they receive lots of gentle patient coaxing and attention, hand feeding, playing and gentle handling to get them used to human contact.

What Anthony et al have shown with the surface stations project is that cherries used to be forbidden but are now welcomed, as they serve as «enablers» that show that human (biased) judgment must intervene to coax out the «true» data.