Sentences with phrase «cultured cells from»

Dr. Huizing demonstrated that elimination of the single mutant allele using a synthetic small interfering RNA (siRNA) rescued the abnormal phenotype in cultured cells from sialuria patients.
The Krainer team, in collaboration with a team at Isis Pharmaceuticals, surveyed a large number of antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) and found that some of these ASOs are able to correct the mRNA splicing defect in cultured cells from SMA patients.
Hendrik is preparing the publication of the most complete woolly mammoth genome yet, and Harvard geneticist George Church's team is already working to introduce specific DNA variants — genes for hair, tusks, subcutaneous fat and cold resistance — into cultured cells from Asian elephants (right).
The two French scientists cultured cells from lymph nodes of patients.
At the meeting, team member Koffi Konan, a plant molecular biologist, showed how the plants were made by inserting shortened or backward versions of each of the genes — Ara h1, Ara h2, and Ara h3 — into cultured cells from peanut plants.
To find out, the researchers injected a cloned telomerase gene into cultured cells from retina, skin, and blood vessels, all of which are associated with degenerative, aging - related diseases.
Researchers from Duke University had previously used CRISPR to correct genetic mutations in cultured cells from Duchenne patients, and other labs had corrected genes in single - cell embryos in a laboratory environment.

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One habit of Prince's they told me about struck me as so counter to our times that I came to see it as illustrating what set him apart from today's culture of celebrity: he allowed no one near him to use a cell phone.
Based on a 3D image such as an MRI scan, Aspect's machine builds relatively complex organic structures out of a «hydrogel» embedded within cells taken from the body and grown in a cell culture.
Animal cells are cultured from stem cells and incubated in a «bioreactor» into tissue that can be «harvested» and formed into familiar foods like meatballs, patties, and fish sticks.
Post, of MosaMeat, who created the first hamburger from cultured animal cells in 2013 with backing from Google billionaire Brin, believes some of his competitors have set unrealistic timelines to market in part because that's what tech investors want to hear.
Cultured meat producers still have to source the first set of cells from an animal — even if it's just a small biopsy that doesn't require slaughter.
GFI's scientists have identified the critical aspects of clean meat production, from the culturing of the initial cells all the way to distribution.
Rather than obtaining meat from animals raised on environmentally destructive factory farms and slaughtered in filthy slaughterhouses, clean meat is produced by taking a small sample of animal cells and replicating them in a culture outside of the animal.
If I have a bunch of cells from a throat culture or other medical swab, that isn't a human life.
Embryos are different from mere cell cultures in a number of important ways.
In both cases individual members may exercise some dominance over others, in particular by altering the patterns guiding further growth and development, but the social coordination stems from basic patterns embodied in the genetic makeup of the plant cells and in the laws and traditions of human culture.
A cell in my brain is different from a cell not in my brain but, say, in a culture of cells in a dish.
While some still object to cells being taken from animals and used by scientists to grow clean meat in laboratories — and some just don't like the idea of eating a «cultured» steak created by men and women in white coats — others see the lab - grown meat revolution as key to solving the environmental crisis linked to meat eating.
Rather than obtaining meat from animals raised on environmentally destructive factory farms and slaughtered in filthy slaughterhouses, clean meat is produced by taking a small sample of animal cells and replicating them in a culture outside of the animal.
The researchers experimented with inducing oxidative stress in a human cell line culture with and without VCOP (virgin coconut oil polyphenols) to observe how VCOP positively promoted catalase, a very important enzyme in protecting the cell from oxidative damage, and glutathione (GSH), a self - recycling antioxidant produced by the liver.
Tyson Ventures, the venture capital arm of Tyson Foods, Inc., has invested in food tech startup Memphis Meats, a leader in cultured meat produced directly from animal cells.
In 2010, researchers from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center published a study in the journal Clinical Cancer Research showing that sulforaphane had the ability to kill breast cancer stem cells in mice and in lab cultures, and it also prevented the growth of new tumor cells.
Transient Silencing of 14 -3-3sigma promotes proliferation of p63 - positive progenitor cells isolated from human breastmilk in mammary epithelial cell culture.
While scientists have previously had success in 3D printing a range of human stem cell cultures developed from bone marrow or skin cells, a team from Scotland's Heriot - Watt University claims to be the first to print the more delicate, yet more flexible, human embryonic stem cells (hESCs).
The team took small pieces of ear tissue from XXY and XYY mice, cultured them, and collected connective tissue cells known as fibroblasts.
The next step, Silber says, will be harvesting stem cells from around a «spermless» man's testicles, introducing them into cultures where the cells multiply, and then reimplanting those cells in the man's testicles, which then nurture them into fully mature sperm - producers.
The team tested whether overexpression of PGC1 - alpha could protect cultures of rat brain cells from the pesticide rotenone, which inhibits complex I of the electron transport chain in neuronal mitochondria and produces many symptoms similar to those of Parkinson's.
The most promising chemical — sulforaphane, a naturally occurring compound found in cruciferous vegetables — tamped down glucose production by liver cells growing in culture, and shifted liver gene expression away from a diseased state in diabetic rats.
«Our review brings together published literature and laboratory records from early research into GALV which is a known contaminant of laboratory cell culture.
The scientists also showed, in lab - cultured human cells, that an ALDH - blocking drug strips regulatory T - cells of their ability to grow and protect themselves from cyclophosphamide.
In addition, they found that PD - L1 blockade increased virus production in the cell culture from such patients.
It's almost impossible to culture naked mole rat cells in the lab, which made Andrei Seluanov and Vera Gorbunova from Rochester University, New York, wonder if this might be linked to their ability to resist cancer.
A team spearheaded by Dr. Markus Helfer and Prof. Dr. Ruth Brack - Werner from the Institute of Virology and Prof. Dr. Philippe Schmitt - Kopplin from the Analytical BioGeoChemistry research unit (BGC) performed a detailed investigation of the effects of PS extracts on HIV - 1 infection of cultured cells.
Potti and his colleagues began by testing chemotherapy drugs on cultured cell lines from human tumors, such as from the lung, breast, or ovary.
Now researchers at the University of Plymouth, working in partnership with pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, have for the first time successfully cultured and maintained cells from the guts of rainbow trout, a recommended fish species for toxicological studies.
Since the algae reproduces by cell division about once per day in the laboratory, numerous genetically identical cultures could be derived from the isolate.
Permafrost had preserved tissue from one species — a narrow - leafed campion plant — exceptionally well, so researchers at the Russian Academy of Sciences recently decided to culture the cells to see if they would grow.
Some of the leading non-animal tests are conducted on cell cultures, human and animal corneas from eye banks, corneal tissue cultures, and frozen corneas supplied by hospitals.
New developments include reaction systems for catalysis research, sampling from reactors, systems for high - throughput applications in synthesis, the handling of microorganisms or cell - culturing procedures, and more.
The company isolates, cultures and processes adult stem cells from a patient's bone marrow or synovial fluid.
One would culture thin sheets of meat, seeded by cells from a living animal, on a reusable polymer scaffold; the other would grow meat on small edible beads that stretch with changes in temperature.
High levels of the protein were also found in cultures of metastatic cells from tumours of the colon, breast, head and neck.
By analyzing chemical changes of the IRS - 2 protein in immortalized cultures of human white blood cells, it determined that IRS - 2 appeared in two different forms — «on,» which allows the signal to pass through, and «off,» which stops the signal from activating the cells into M2 macrophages.
For example, cultured cells exhibit rhythmic oscillations in gene expression where there is no input from the master clock.
The cells used to build the organs could be cultured from stem cells taken from fat or bone - marrow tissue, he says: «We could engineer a blood vessel from your own cells
What he showed is if he took the fluids from cultures of cells that lit up and squirted them on cells that were at a low cell density, they all turned on light.
As a graduate student at Princeton University, Moshe Pritsker tried in vain to grow a culture of embryonic stem cells from instructions laid out in the methods section of a journal article.
In other experiments, the protein blocked the virus from infecting cells in culture, and it even prevented mice from getting sick when administered either 1 day before or after viral exposure, they report today in Nature Biotechnology.
In cloning procedures generally, nuclei are extracted from cultured cells that might have come originally from an embryo, a fetus or an adult organism.
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