Sentences with phrase «collecting cell samples»

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But researchers barely tried to protect Lacks» identity, treating her cells as no different from a sample collected from a lab rat.

Power has not been fully restored, affecting Garcia - Arraras» own samples of monoclonal antibody cell lines collected for organ regeneration research.

The researchers collected samples of indoor dust from 11 homes in North Carolina and tested extracts from the samples in a mouse pre-adipocyte cell model, 3T3 - L1 cells, often used to test compounds for potential effects on the accumulation of triglycerides, a type of fat.

Users simply collect a blood sample from a patient, feed it into the device, and retrieve any purified tumor cells a few hours later.

Since then, Freeze's lab has created cell lines using samples collected from 10 NGLY1 patients, and he hopes the crowdsourcing campaign will yield testable new hypotheses.

[Chinedu Nwokoro et al., «Inhaled black carbon in the lower airways of London cyclists»] Researchers at the London School of Medicine collected sputum samples from healthy non-smokers who walk or bike to see how much black carbon was in airway macrophages — a type of white blood cell that takes in foreign material.

It allows doctors to collect cells from all along the gullet, whereas standard biopsies take individual point samples.

Then they collected the fluid that those Fam20C - deficient cancer cells and non-manipulated cancer cells were grown in and analyzed the proteins each sample contained.

By collecting samples from three different groups of patients, the researchers were able to compare the health of the precursor fat cells of the three groups.

«The use of whole genome sequencing and the sheer number of samples we collected gave us a detailed picture of how the var gene repertoire changes continuously within red blood cells.»

For the new study, described in the October 23rd issue of Nature Communications, scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston collected tissue samples containing normal cells, ovarian cancers, metastases that had spread elsewhere, and small cancers found in the fallopian tubes, which included single cell layers of cancer called «p53 signatures» and serous tubal intraepithelial carcinoma, or STIC lesions.

Both amniocentesis and chorionic villus sampling (another invasive procedure that collects placental cells from within the womb) carry a 1 percent risk of miscarriage.

The team collected two small skin samples from each, and then cultured the cells in the lab and inserted the gene that makes fireflies glow into the gene that regulates the cells» clock.

Searching for T cells that had infiltrated the tumors, they collected as many as 50 T cell samples from a single tumor; next, the team tested each batch of T cells against other tumor samples from the same patient.

TNGB collects, stores and distributes high quality biological materials (nucleic acids, cell lines and tissue samples) linked to relevant clinical and genetic data from patients affected by inherited diseases.

The researchers conducted their study by using a highly sensitive probe to scrutinize minute numbers of leukemia cells in blood samples previously collected from newborns who during childhood were diagnosed with leukemia.

We investigated differences in cell composition between blood samples collected pre - and post-mortem.

Since most data to date has been collected from post-mortem samples, the preferential usage of a single major isoform in living cells may be even more prevalent than previously reported.

Along with the sequences, we collected data on environmental parameters in the samples (chlorophyll a, bacterial production, salinity, nutrients, bacterial cell numbers, and particulate organic carbon and nitrogen).

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Human Research Program (Biochemical Profile and Repository): A 53S crewmember collected blood and urine samples for his FD120 sessions of the Biochem Profile, Repository and Cell Free Epigenome investigations.

The Georgetown team's preliminary data demonstrates that they collected sequenced DNA over 68,000 base pairs long from 10,000 year - old microbial samples, meaning that the DNA came from viable cells.

Oocytes, cumulus cells and frozen embryos were collected from Stanford Fertility and Reproductive Medicine Center after approval by the Stanford Institutional Review Board (IRB); all samples were obtained with written informed consent from all participants involved in the study.

Stem cells allow researchers to collect blood or skin samples from living patients and turn them into the brain cells affected by the disease — neural progenitor cells (NPCs) and neurons.

Dr. Lanteri now serves as Director Scientific Affairs at Cerus Corporation while remaining an Affiliate Investigator at BSRI, participating in ongoing research with the REDS - III group of investigators on: i) Zika virus persistence using samples collected longitudinally from ZIKV - infected donors and ii) the red blood cell storage lesion through the RBC - Omics project.

Methods: We collected samples of peripheral blood mononuclear cells and intestinal tissues from healthy individuals (controls, n = 13 - 30) and patients with inflammatory bowel diseases (n = 119; 59 with ulcerative colitis and 60 with Crohn's disease).

Samples were incubated at 37 °C for 30 minutes before centrifugation to collect the cell pellet.

Besides the fat stem cells, fat samples were also examined, which were collected from obese individuals who were consuming low - calorie sweeteners.

Cell samples are collected from the dog to be cloned, preferably from a live host or one that has been dead for no more than five days.

Also, when collecting the sample, the architecture of how the cells are interacting with each other can be destroyed.

This simple procedure allows the veterinarian to determine the nature of the growth by collecting a sample of cells and viewing them under a microscope.

Cell samples can also be collected by conducting a bronchial wash.

One means of determining the type of cells involved in a mass is to do a fine needle aspirate (a needle is attached to syringe and inserted into the mass to collect a tiny tissue or fluid sample) and cytology (microscopic evaluation of the cells).

To avoid the risk of tumor seeding (spillage of tumor cell clusters and their subsequent growth at a site adjacent to the original tumor) through cystosyntesis (a procedure in which needle is inserted into the urinary bladder of an animal through the abdomen and a sample of urine is removed), urine may be collected by free catch or catheterization.

Seroneutralisation on puppy kidney cell cultures (collection in dry tube (no anticoagulant) of two samples of the mother's serum at 10 - 15 day interval, the first sample being collected in the days following abortion or stillbirths).

Red blood cells may be normal if the sample was collected by a catheter or needle.

The RVT can do an array of treatments, here are a list of most of them: collect blood and urine samples, wound management, anesthesia, pain management, triage and emergency care, intravenous catheters, urinary catheters, radiographs, pre and post-surgical care, medication administration, nail trims, ear cleaning, cytology (looking at cells under a microscope to help determine diagnosis), urinalysis.

She collects DNA (blood draw) or relevant tissue samples at surgical biopsy time or at definitive surgical correction, and processes the sample (prepares for RNA extraction, flash freeze or cell culture).

I will collect tissue samples for phylogenetic studies, I will collect cells for San Diego Zoo's Frozen Zoo initiative (perhaps one day it can be cloned?)

Performed various test for collected patients blood samples by analyzing body fluids, blood typing, micro organism screening, chemical analyses, cell count of human body, etc..