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Another option is to take a skin sample, culture cells called fibroblasts and freeze them.

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Producing «clean» meat by culturing cells — instead of raising or slaughtering animals - is a new frontier in food production, but will it require a new regulatory framework, and what should we call it?

In giant vats, muscle and fat cells will be cultured then made into so - called «clean meat», without, if the technology progresses, a single animal having to die.

Shukla and colleagues discovered that a small drug molecule called BX795, which is sold to labs for use in experiments, helped clear HSV - 1 infection in cultured human corneal cells, in donated human corneas, and in the corneas of mice infected with HSV - 1.

Working in cell cultures and mice, researchers at Johns Hopkins have found that an experimental drug called fostamatinib combined with the chemotherapy drug paclitaxel may overcome ovarian cancer cells» resistance to paclitaxel.

Researchers then tested cell cultures and mouse models by using a gene editing process called CRISPR - Cas9 to demonstrate how the presence or absence of myomaker and myomerger — both individually and in unison — affect cell fusion and muscle formation.

The researchers — James Robl, a developmental biologist and his colleagues at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Steve Stice at Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Massachusetts — inserted a marker gene fused with a gene for resistance to the chemical neomycin into a culture of connective tissue cells called fibroblasts.

By studying the same process in cultured cells, the scientists found that the light stimulated a molecular chain reaction that activated a normally dormant protein called TGF - beta 1.

They added the modified adrenaline compound, called CP - 331679, to cultured human fat cells, and saw that the receptors were activated and were triggering a biochemical cascade inside the cell.

They hit upon a small organic compound called SB 247464 that stimulated the growth of mouse white blood cells in culture and in living mice.

The enzyme, called tankyrase, may prove useful for extending the lives of cultured cells grown to repair burned skin and other damaged tissue.

The study team removed fibroblasts (skin cells) from DBA patients, and in cell cultures, using proteins called transcription factors, reprogrammed the cells into iPSCs.

Writing in the May 4 online issue of the journal Scientific Reports, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine used a powerful statistical tool called «design of experiments» or DOE to determine the optimal cell culture formula to grow and produce hPSCs.

In the lab, the herbicide 2,4 - dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (sold as weed killer and called 2,4 - D) can prompt cells in culture to elongate, build a new cell wall, and start dividing to form embryos.

Three types of colon cancer cells grew faster, producing about 50 to 60 percent more cells within 24 hours, with the bacteria than they did when cultured with no bacteria or with a harmless, milk - fermenting bacterium called Lactococcus lactis.

In this study, Nicchitta and his colleagues treated tissue culture cells with a stress - inducing agent called thapsigargin.

Her team decided to try a cell - growing approach, called 3D cultures, that's been successful for other types of cells that need to form complex structures as they grow.

Drugs that activate this novel stress response pathway, which they call the mitochondrial - to - cytosolic stress response, protected both nematodes and cultured human cells with Huntington's disease from protein - folding damage.

To replicate these cell culture results, Rani used human stem cells to grow neurons into what is called a mini brain.

In the current issue of Nature Medicine, John Pezzuto of the University of Illinois at Chicago and his colleagues report that a compound called betulinic acid triggers apoptosis or programmed cell death, in cultured melanoma cells.

The researchers, working with cell cultures, first observed how individual tumour cells kill specific cells in the vascular wall, called endothelial cells.

Next, Grima looked at cell death in cultured neurons with a healthy or a mutant form of Huntingtin, or with a mutant form of Huntingtin that was treated with small amounts of an experimental drug called KPT - 350, one that prevents a nuclear export protein, Exportin - 1, from shuttling proteins and RNA out of the nucleus.

Cells from her malignancy were cultured and used to start a cell line, called HeLa, which lives on to this day in research labs around the world.

Using her new culture system, she joined forces with colleagues to research which cells in an embryo contribute to which parts of the adult animal, a process called fate - mapping.

To investigate, a team led by Gerburg Wulf, MD, PhD, a physician scientist in the Hematology / Oncology Division at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, cultured breast cells called primary mammary epithelial cells (MECs) in the presence of EBV.

Previous attempts to maintain cultures of the so - called nephron progenitor cells often failed, as the cells died or gradually lost their developmental potential rather than staying in a more medically useful precursor state.

The team conducted additional experiments in which mouse breast tumors were sampled to generate so - called organoids — spheres of cells that grow in three - dimensional culture.

They diluted the microbial sample such that they could add a single cell per culture well filled with their new media via a technique called dilution - to - extinction.

The research builds on the team's previous work with a technique called three - dimensional culture, which involves incubating stem cells in a floating ball - shaped aggregate, unlike traditional cell culture in which cells grow in a flat layer on the surface of a culture dish.

The researchers removed the organ of Corti, which is housed within a seashell - shaped cavity called the cochlea and contains sensory hair cells, from newborn mice and kept the cells alive in culture plates.

In culture dishes, ramping up the expression of just four genes can turn skin and other cells into so - called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells.

Further, when TILs have been used for such purposes, the proportion of what Harari calls the «juiciest» T cells — those recognizing mutations on cancer cells — tends to decline significantly when the cells are expanded in culture.

In their recent study, the UCSF team reports the discovery that a class of commonly prescribed Type - 2 diabetes drugs, called TZDs (thiazolidinediones, such as Actos and Avandia), promoted the conversion of white fat cells into brown (in mice and culture dishes) by stabilizing the PRDM16 protein.

This protocol video demonstrates how to surface - coat cell culture plates and transwell inserts with Cultrex ® Basement Membrane Extract, also called Cultrex ® BME.

According to Dr. Burgess, the team is now working to extend the period that sperm cells can be cultured, so there is more time to select cells that have the foreign gene inserted in specific areas of the genome in what is commonly called a «targeted gene knockout.»

Working with prostate cell cultures, Meier and two students, Ze Liu and Mandi Hopkins, found the fatty acids bind to a receptor called FFA4, for «free fatty acid receptor 4.»

While learning how to culture rhinovirus C, Palmenberg's research team discovered the virus only infects certain lung cells that express a particular genetic form of a cell - surface molecule called cadherin - related protein 3 (CDHR3).

Once isolated these cells can be grown in a liquid medium of nutrients, called culture.

After a two - day culture period, liver cells formed tightly packed cellular aggregates, called spheroids, and took on a liver - like appearance.

The most well - known of these are so - called «senescent» cells, originally characterized by Leonard Hayflick as mitotic cells that reached growth arrest after a limited replicative lifespan (later associated with telomere attrition) under unphysiological conditions in culture.

Recently, Drs. Nociari and Boulan have identified a family of cyclic sugars, called beta - cyclodextrins (beta - CDs), that bind and reduce bisretinoid - lipofuscin levels from cultured cells.

By activating a gene called Ras in cells bathed in a very specific culture medium, scientists were able to cause embryonic stem cells — which originate from the inner cell mass of the blastocyst — to become more like the trophoblastic stem cells that give rise to the placenta from the outer portion of the blastocyst.

The cells are called lung spheroid cells for the distinctive sphere - like structures they form in culture.

(A) Different biomolecules on the surface of prepared silver nanoparticles (linker not shown); (B) in cell culture media the nanoparticle - water interface is composed of ligands and ions but also of proteins, the so - called protein corona.

Using a mouse model for this disease, which in humans involves the destruction of white matter in the brain, a research team led by Albee Messing, director of the UW — Madison Waisman Center, found that a protein behind the symptoms of the disease, called GFAP, is broken down more rapidly in the body than researchers previously found in cell culture studies.

A flavorful component of cinnamon oil, called cinnamaldehyde, may help prevent colon cancer, according to a tissue culture study of human colon cancer cells published in the May 2010 issue of the journal «Molecules.»

Three capsules per day provide a 15 billion live cell count ** of 13 species of beneficial cultures including soil - based probiotics called Homeostatic Soil Organisms (HSOs).

The educational force of the wider culture is now the primary site where education takes place, what I have called public pedagogy — modes of education largely produced, mediated, and circulated through a range of educational spheres extending from the new media and old broadcast media to films, newspapers, television programs, cable TV, cell phones, the Internet, and other commercial sites.

While banning cell phones and calling in the cops might be options of last resort, they won't do much to improve a school's culture.

«Among other things, the NAS Report calls for the Environmental Protection Agency to implement a toxicity testing strategy that is based on non-mammalian systems and human cells in culture [in vitro],» Rene explains.