Sentences with phrase «cultured cells so»

Like an eager first - grader playing show - and - tell, she's been known to pass around a flask of cultured cells so that visiting scientific reviewers can see the raw data and share her excitement.

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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.

(So far, the company's cell cultures are reported to be small, about the size of a postage stamp, and not fully functional.)

In my cell biology course, we investigate the biology and chemistry of a cell surface receptor that helps induce good feelings in us when it binds to a chemical compound found in incense; this may help explain why so many different cultures and religions have independently evolved the use of incense in their ceremonies and rituals.

Until the day when the One Cell had broken into small divisions, where each thinks he is the righteous more than any other, so here it is it went multiplying to unend to becoming to suit each culture and race???

If Christians believe that the church and the worship it offers to God ought in some ways to counter the norms and practices of the surrounding culture, then what does it mean that after spending so much of our time each week in front of computer monitors, cell phones, and sports bar TVs, we come to church on Sunday and happily position ourselves in front of the biggest screen of all?

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.

This allowed them to track changes in calcium ion concentrations in the cells around wounds in living tissue (as opposed to the cell cultures used in many previous wound response studies) and to do so with an unprecedented, millisecond precision.

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.

The team found several hundred that might do so and restore the protein to its functional shape; more than 30 did the job when tested in cell culture, although they don't know whether they attached to p53 in the pocket.

The process was so effective that 20 days later, the cell culture showed no evidence of any revival, suggesting that the tumour cells had been destroyed.

«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.

So Harkany and his colleagues cultured mouse embryonic brain cells that expressed cannabinoid receptor proteins (CBRs) and exposed them to gradients of synthetic cannabinoids.

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

We were able to use pharmaceuticals to induce cell self - eating effects and stimulate dedifferentiation though not as effectively as 3D culture, so we need to do more work on this.

Adoptive cell transfer procedures are mimicking exactly this process in a culture dish by taking T cells from patients, multiplying them, sometimes genetically modifying them, and then returning them to patients so that they can, for example, locate and kill cancer cells.

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.

The microbes rely on oxygen, carbon and other nutrients in their deep environment to live, but Røy's team found that carbon is so limited that the cells respire oxygen 10,000 times slower than bacteria in lab - grown cultures.

The next task will be to engineer neurons in cell cultures so that they manifest one or more of the variants.

That has led scientists in the last decade or so to look for ways of culturing cells in laboratory settings that are a bit more complex.

Investigations into human brain development using human cells in the culture dish have so far been very limited: the cells in the dish grow flat, so they do not display any three - dimensional structure.

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.

«Our stem cells also survive outside of mice, in a culture, so we can also manipulate them in a laboratory,» said Abad, adding that: «The next step is studying if these new stem cells are capable of efficiently generating different tissues such as that of the pancreas, liver or kidney.»

Cultured ACH - iPS cells showed promise, so the team observed statin treatment on transgenic mice that had the FGFR3 mutation and ACH symptoms, including short bones.

Previous research showed that COX - 2 inhibitors cut viral production in half in cultured cells, but how they did so was unclear.

In order to test possible treatment strategies, the scientists placed the affected cells into a three - dimensional cell culture and examined the drugs's effect ex vivo, so to speak.

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.

Spike and Gray grew the mammary stem cells in culture dishes and stained them so that new stem cells appeared a different color from differentiated mammary cells.

So the researchers needed cells that divided rapidly and, as a result, survived longer in culture.

So why, Taylor proposes, limit a stem cell implantation to only one kind of cultured, differentiated cell?

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.»

«BMP7 is active in stimulating brown fat development in cells in culture and in test animals, so we are very excited in having this opportunity to determine its potential as a new therapeutic approach for obesity and type 2 diabetes,» said Dr Ronald Kahn.

Researchers have discovered a gene in zebrafish so powerful it can be used to redirect the fate of cells in the developing embryo to become beating heart cells, suggesting that a similar gene in humans could be used to generate heart cells in culture for transplant in ailing people.

Embryonic stem cells — the subject of so much controversy (witness the new ruling blocking their use)-- were first cultured in the lab a little more than a decade ago; in 2006, there was another breakthrough when adult cells were coaxed into becoming induced pluripotent stem cells.

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.

Because the insertion can be placed so that it interrupts a protein's function, the insertion and repair system may be useful for producing certain pharmaceuticals or protein products, such as cancer drugs, in culture, which would otherwise kill the cell.

A study from Dr. Dusty Miller's laboratory indicates that Jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus (JSRV) infects both sheep and human cells cultured outside the body and does so by attaching to a receptor on the surface of lung cells.

Five years ago, the group reported that when they infected human tonsil cells with HIV in culture, 95 percent of the CD4 + T cells that died did so before the virus had a chance to reproduce within them.

To do de-extinction successfully we need the power to engineer large sections of DNA sequentially in a period of weeks / months rather than years, so primordial germ cells cell cultures will be the mainstay of our effort, but while we wait we could establish a stock of birds that have a few passenger pigeon mutations as a foundation.

When Po - Lin So contacted me about the position in Gladstone's Stem Cell core facility, I realized it was the perfect opportunity to use my experience with iPSC (induced pluripotent stem cell) culture and differentiation, as well as gain new skills and further my career groCell core facility, I realized it was the perfect opportunity to use my experience with iPSC (induced pluripotent stem cell) culture and differentiation, as well as gain new skills and further my career grocell) culture and differentiation, as well as gain new skills and further my career growth.

I firmly believe that basic knowledge is absolutely necessary; if we are going to be able to repair injured retinas, we need to know how different retinal cells are made normally, so we can remake them in a culture dish and use them to replace injured retinal cells.

That was actually a concern: The drug performed so well in cell cultures that the researchers assumed it would blindly kill mammalian cells along with bacteria.

Sheng Ding, a stem cell biologist at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and the University of California, San Francisco, pointed out that efficiencies are never 100 percent — meaning researchers end up with a heterogeneous culture of reprogrammed and not - so - reprogrammed cells.

Scientists have so far only achieved success in cell cultures and in mice.

Karyotyping, however, requires cells to be grown in culture and is often not possible in a stillbirth, so researchers have been seeking an alternative.

Bacterial gene regulation has so far been investigated largely using exposure to artificial environmental conditions or to in vitro cultured cells, and little information is available on how S. enterica adapts in vivo to sustain cell division and survival.

(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.

After injection, the embryos are put back into a cell culture dish, where they divide and develop; after 30 hours or so, the hatched larvae look recognizably fishy under a microscope.

Hyperactivity can be a result of the variety of cells trying to compensate for intestinal destruction while fighting pathogens in the gut, so I personally believe that pre and probiotics, but mainly food culture, can assist in helping the rebuilding, maintenance and battle - for - good in your gut.