Sentences with phrase «create specific cell types»

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Researchers at Penn State have combined the two approaches by taking biodegradable polymer nanoparticles encapsulated with cancer - fighting drugs and incorporating them into immune cells to create a smart, targeted system to attack cancers of specific types.

Other researchers have already loaded hollow origami structures with drugs to target specific types of cancer cells, created DNA «robots» that walk across surfaces, and mimicked the shape of viruses.

This is particularly important as it indicates the method can be used in a variety of cell types to create disease models and contribute to the discovery of new disease - specific therapeutics.

Labeled antibodies, which bind to specific cell types, allowed the researchers to determine which types of neuron were being created at which times.

The researchers also have yet to determine the specific recipe of growth factors that would coax stem cells to create other types of sensory interneurons.

In this edition, we're going to take a look at a very interesting tool that can be used for creating (excuse the pun) specific, targeted DNA modifications in transgenic animals, embryonic stem cells, and / or tissue - specific cell types: Cre - lox recombination.

We can obtain iPS cells from an individual's skin or blood and program them into different tissue types to create patient - specific Organ - Chips.

Following the delineation of some of the basic principles behind bud formation, the researchers then whether they could extend this strategy beyond the liver, and create other organ buds using tissue specific cell types.

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.

Our objective is to generate a resource that facilitates research into human immune - related diseases by creating a comprehensive database of cell type - and allele - specific epigenomic and transcriptomic data for the immunology community.

CReM's research using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), which self - renew indefinitely as undifferentiated cells that become specific adult cell types, has helped create an inexhaustible source of disease - or patient - specific stem cells.

Creating human lung epithelial cells in the lab has been a challenge, and lineage - specific reporters, which indicate each cell's specific type, are key to understanding lung epithelial stem cell development.

Since joining Gladstone, McDevitt's lab has created a new method to generate three - dimensional clusters of specific types of cells that can be used to form and maintain tissue constructs.

During development, genes within specific cell types are turned on and off to trigger the necessary expression patterns that create a whole animal.