Sentences with phrase «cultured cells grown»

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

Not exact matches

The trial was actually supposed to launch back in August but was delayed because growing and culturing the genomically edited cells took longer than originally expected.

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.

Bethencourt and Shigeta figured they could use cell cultures to grow meat without slaughtering any cows or chickens — but why rely on those animals at all?

Just has reported that it has developed a method to grow cell cultured chicken without FBS, while Memphis Meats is validating methods to produce its meats without the ingredient.

Hanyu is providing Japanese high school students access to high - tech heated boxes that allow them to culture animal cells at home and grow them into meat - like products.

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.

Researchers hope the organoids will be better than lab animals or cells growing in culture at revealing how the human brain develops, both normally and when things go awry, and identify potential therapeutic or genome - editing targets.

Or did you think that cell culture would grow healthy without mommy feeding it regularly?

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.

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.

Using human fetal «mini-brains» grown in 3 - D cultures, scientists determined that a specific protein produced by the Zika virus changes the properties of neural stem cells in the developing brain of an infected fetus, potentially causing microcephaly in newborns (Ki - Jun Yoon, abstract 103.06, see attached summary).

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.

Dr. Zubair already grows such cells in his Mayo Clinic laboratory using a large tissue culture and several incubators — but only at a snail's pace.

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.

«It might be possible to grow these cells in culture then bank them so that if or when the mother develops some disease later in life, such as diabetes, her cells may be defrosted and differentiated into pancreatic beta cells,» says Lyle Armstrong of Newcastle University, UK, although he too, cautions that more tests are needed to determine exactly what these cells are.

As it can take weeks to grow human cells into intact differentiated and functional tissues within Organ Chips, such as those that mimic the lung and intestine, and researchers seek to understand how drugs, toxins or other perturbations alter tissue structure and function, the team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering led by Donald Ingber has been searching for ways to non-invasively monitor the health and maturity of cells cultured within these microfluidic devices over extended times.

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.

To find out, they put droplets of culture medium that cancer cells had grown in on one side of petri dishes.

The bacterium produced an antibiotic, dubbed lugdunin, which killed a slew of superbugs in cell cultures and mice with no signs yet of growing resistance.

The students used a 3 - D printer to design a smaller and more cost - efficient bioreactor — a miniaturized culture device where neural stems cells are grown and eventually become small laboratory brains for research.

The team used human embryonic stem cells — which can transform into any cell of the body — and cultured them in a mixture of chemicals to grow human brain cells.

Mackay - Sim's team has solved those problems by developing a method of removing the cells under a local anaesthetic and growing them in culture to produce larger numbers.

The cells are grown in the incubator in different concentrations in a culture medium.

In studies with human fibroblasts that make up connective tissue, Boger's team tested whether NOD1 activity could affect CMV replication in cultures of cells grown in the lab.

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.

The mistakes arise when fast - growing «rogue cells» contaminate cell cultures and swamp the correct cells.

This was observed in human ovarian cancer cells grown in culture, and then in mouse models of the disease.

It isn't clear exactly why the differences fade, Hochedlinger says, but it may be that the expression of embryonic genes is strengthened as the cells grow in culture, gradually overwriting the cells» old gene - expression patterns.

A human brain cell culture grown in vitro has spontaneously transformed, as determined by morphology, growth characteristics, and karyotype analysis.

The cells will enable researchers to use lab - grown cultures to study how the diseases develop.

«Signaling pathways and gene expression profiles are very different in cells that grow in 2D and 3D cultures,» says Oksana Sirenko, a research scientist at Molecular Devices in Sunnyvale, California.

«What made the difference are our unique cell culture conditions and 3 - D matrix, which allowed cells to grow and develop much faster and longer than the 2 - D culture approaches that are more typically used.»

They are also trying to culture the undifferentiated cells for longer before adding Sonic hedgehog, so that they can grow larger numbers of cells.

But while researchers have managed to culture other cell types, they have failed to grow the key dopamine cells needed by Parkinson's sufferers (This Week, 5 August).

Hsiao and colleagues carefully gathered skin samples from donors, and then grew the skin cells in culture before converting them into iPS cells using the methods created by Yamanaka.

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.

After reactivating the cells with an electric shock, the group grew several oocytes in culture to the blastocyst stage.

With the help of my colleagues I started growing retroviral vector - containing plasmids in bacterial cultures, isolating the plasmid DNA and transfecting special producer cell lines with these plasmids.

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.

Part of the trouble is the ingredients: Subtle variations in tissue - culture chemicals and Matrigel, or in different stem cell lines and how they are grown first in 2 - D culture, can have a big impact on how the organoids turn out, Novitch says.

Moving forward, he was able to place these taste stem cells in a culture dish and prompt them to grow into the different mature taste cell types, thus creating a taste bud in a dish — scientifically known as taste organoids.

The scientists transferred the clumps to cultures where other human ES cells, marked with green fluorescent protein, were already growing.

In cells grown on flat culture dishes, the expression of thousands of genes didn't match up with their normal patterns, explaining why the cells from those dishes had been unable to generate new hair follicles.

Results suggest that cells grown in the device exhibit more natural behaviors than when grown in traditional culturing methods, and the filtration by the glomerulus is necessary for healthy cell function.

So far, VTT has used cells from its own culture collection to grow Arctic bramble cells, cloudberry cells and stone bramble cells in the CellPod.

Microbiologists must wait for cell cultures to grow.

A Freiburg - based research group has developed a microfluidic chip where more than one hundred apidose - derived adult stem cell cultures can grow and divide.

«Next steps may include efforts to grow these viruses in cell culture and functional analyses to assess their risk of being transmitted to primate hosts.»

«In the last few years, it has become possible to order cultures of human cells for testing, but they're grown on a plate, a two - dimensional environment,» says Radisic.