It's essentially the same process used in medicine to
cultivate human cells and tissues.
Not exact matches
In
humans, the goal of SCNT is «nonreproductive cloning» — making embryos, then removing stem
cells from the embryo and
cultivating them to grow into tissues that could cure diseases, replace organs and heal injuries.
After running the simulations at IU Bloomington, Bacallao confirmed the cyst growth predictions seen in the virtual cysts in experiments using real
human cells cultivated from polycystic kidneys from patients at the IU School of Medicine.
The researchers tested their technique on such
cultivated stem
cells of both a mature and immature type, and on donated
human embryos left over from IVF treatments.
They
cultivated human muscle
cells and artificially synchronised them in the absence of a master clock, using a signal molecule normally secreted in the body.
The researchers studied tumour tissue from patients,
cultivated human tumour
cells and tumours in mouse models for neuroblastoma.
That made working with the mini-brains expensive, given the high cost of the nutrients needed to
cultivate human stem
cells in the lab, he says, as well as the expense of chemical growth factors that guide the tissue to organize itself like a real brain.
The results were obtained from mice and
human stem
cells in
cultivated brain tissue, and from a series of rodent models for
human neurodegenerative diseases and acute brain injuries.
It has a huge number of
cells in the nose that it can use to pick up odors (about 4 billion compared to 5 million in the
human) The slacker can use it to chase lost kids around the neighborhood, find lost objects around the house, or even search for car keys lost out in the fields when
cultivating.