Sentences with phrase «developed stem cell»

He's also the scientist who developed the stem cell therapy that enabled crippled rats to walk.

We are also active participants of Public Understanding of Science activities; we developed a Stem Cell Mountain with Winchester Science Park and Dr Nick Evans also hosts a science podcast called TheScienceShed with his friend Steve Lee and committees related to the Regenerative Medicine research (e.g. Tissue and Cell Engineering Society.

We (Dawson, Evans and Oreffo) developed a Stem Cell Mountain in partnership with Winchester Science Centre — The Stem Cell Mountain has been taken to over 30 Festivals (Glastonbury - Cheltenham, New Forest Show etc.) in the last four years; from the initial BBSRC GB Bioscience Festival in 2014 for which we were awarded funds to develop the Stem Cell Mountain.

Teams in the U.S. and the U.K. have developed stem cell — based models of Alzheimer's that behave the same way cells do in the human brain.

The researchers then developed the stem cells into something resembling liver cells.

She is currently at Rockefeller University, where she is studying the interactions between immune cells and stem cells in an effort to develop stem cell - based therapies for inflammatory disorders.

«Compared to other ways of trying to develop stem cells to treat blood diseases, this method is safer and quicker, because it does not involve using any artificial substances or any genetic modifications, merely a substance that already exists inside the body,» explains Kenichi Miharada.

«When it comes to developing stem cell treatments, seeing is half the battle.»

She is currently at Rockefeller University, where she is studying the interactions between immune cells and stem cells in an effort to develop stem cell — based therapies for inflammatory disorders.

Stem cell biologist Shinya Yamanaka said via e-mail that Dolly's cloning motivated him to begin developing stem cells derived from adult cells — an accomplishment that won him a Nobel Prize in 2012.

The findings are a major step towards developing a stem cell replacement therapy for muscle diseases including Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, which affects approximately 1 in 5,000 boys in the U.S. and is the most common fatal childhood genetic disease.

Pentao Liu at the Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK, and his team developed the stem cells from cells taken from early mouse embryos.

The biggest UK employers in industry are Smith & Nephew, a research company focused on wound care, and drug company Pfizer, whose research includes developing stem cell therapies for Crohn's disease.

«In the future, we'll be able to study how this changes as stem cells differentiate and how decisions are made in individual developing stem cells.

The Zeng lab is making great progress on developing a stem cell - derived treatment for Parkinson's disease for testing in humans.

While the vast majority of research in this field is focused on developing stem cell, gene and tissue engineering therapies, these approaches have not yet delivered on their promise despite nearly two decades of research.

Regenerative medicine R&D efforts are focused largely on developing stem cell and tissue engineering therapies as a means to regenerate, replace or repair damaged tissues and organs.

In an effort to save the species, scientists at the San Diego Zoo Global are developing stem cell technologies to create a new generation of northern white rhinos.

Phil Jones has a long - standing interest in stem dells and is an affiliated investigator in this important initiative to develop stem cell research in Cambridge.

For the past 15 years or so, much of heart repair research has focused on developing stem cell treatments and not making much progress.

San Diego, California, October 6, 2014 — ViaCyte, Inc., a privately - held regenerative medicine company developing a stem cell - derived islet replacement therapy for the treatment of diabetes, called VC - 01 ™, will give two presentations at the annual Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa Conference, being held at the Estancia La Jolla Hotel & Spa and The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, as follows:

Novocell is the Recipient of a Disease Team Award for $ 20 Million from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to Develop a Stem Cell Therapy for the Treatment of Diabetes

«CIRM was created to help develop stem cell treatments for diseases that are currently incurable with traditional approaches,» C. Randal Mills president and CEO of the stem cell agency, said in an agency statement.

The mission of Novocell's researchers continues to be to develop stem cell technology for clinical therapy.

The United Kingdom is developing a stem cell bank that would make a variety of characterized and newly derived stem cell cultures available to researchers.

NeuroStemcell, which comprises 13 academic partners and 2 SMEs and 1 Research Enterprise from 6 European countries and the United States of America, is formed to create a world - leading consortium that can develop stem cell based therapies for Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease toward clinical application... Read more»

Not exact matches

Instead, LaFlamme's research team in Toronto is taking a different approach through injecting a billion heart - muscle cells (otherwise known as cardiomyocytes) that have been developed from stem cells.

One way to enhance eggs, developed by the company OvaScience, involves supplementing an egg with mitochondria taken from stem cells found in the lining of a woman's uterus.

The concert benefits Summit for Stem Cell Foundation, a community initiative with patients, scientists and doctors to develop a Parkinson's treatment...

Case in point, the religious tries to halt stem cell research, which could mean that a cure for a disease that one of my kids develops might not be found.

I do not find Russell E. Saltzman's essay «Two Boats, a Helicopter, and Stem Cells» (October 1999) entirely satisfying, although I have absolutely no quarrel with the argument developed for his own decision to oppose the use of aborted fetuses for stem cell reseaStem Cells» (October 1999) entirely satisfying, although I have absolutely no quarrel with the argument developed for his own decision to oppose the use of aborted fetuses for stem cell reseastem cell research.

I came across these developing mainstream medical research programs using adult stem cell therapy for MS.. It looks interesting and promising, so I wanted to share in case you haven't seen it: These were the links I found:

(Some experts point out that a sick baby who receives his or her own stem cells during a transplant could very well just develop the disease all over again.)

It has historically been considered waste to discard, but research has developed to show that this blood contains important stem cells that have proven themselves useful in various health treatments.

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).

With cutting - edge techniques from genetics to stem cell therapy - and life - saving drugs to prevent, alleviate or cure conditions like Alzheimer's - likely to be developed in the years ahead, what seem medical miracles today will be medically routine tomorrow.

Lino Ferreira was able to overcome these difficulties and establish himself in his native Portugal thanks to a $ 1.7 million grant he received 5 years ago to develop nanomedicines using stem cells.

Instead, after several days, researchers harvest embryonic stem cells, which theoretically can develop into any type of cell and, according to many researchers, may someday be used to treat neurodegenerative diseases or other conditions.

In his first few years as a principal investigator (PI), working with stem cells and emerging nanotechnologies to develop nanomedicines, Ferreira was able to make do by licensing some of his technologies and securing industry funding and Portuguese government grants.

All the interdisciplinary skills and knowledge he had gathered during his scientific training — which had covered biochemistry, biotechnology, biomaterials, and stem cell biology — put him «in a very advantageous position to address this question» of how to develop nanoparticles that could modulate stem cell differentiation on demand, he says.

Since the first human brain organoids were created from stem cells in 2013, scientists have gotten them to form structures like those in the brains of fetuses, to sprout dozens of different kinds of brain cells, and to develop abnormalities like those causing neurological diseases such as Timothy syndrome.

Researchers chemically reprogrammed human stem cells into small bundles of functional brain cells that mimic the developing brain.

AA147 directed the stem cells to develop primarily into endothelial cells, which are essential for blood vessel formation.

To develop their «disease in a dish» model, the team took skin cells from patients with Allan - Herndon - Dudley syndrome and reprogrammed them into induced pluripotent stem cells, which then can be developed into any type of tissue in the body.

Injections of killed stem cells, designed to help the immune system recognise cancers, have been found to protect mice from developing tumours

By recreating the physical forces that developing cells experience, stem cells have been coaxed into forming microscopic beating hearts

A woman in the US has developed a tumour - like growth near her spine eight years after a failed stem cell treatment to cure her paralysis

The study also found that in addition to its role in determining the sex of somatic cells, Sxl regulation by m6A is required to initiate germline stem cell differentiation for developing eggs.

The South Korean debacle [in which scientist Hwang Woo Suk was found to have been conducting fraudulent stem cell research] was revealing because one of the basic technologies that we thought they had developed they were in fact unable to do, and so far nobody in the United States or elsewhere has been able to do it either.

The project's goals were to explore and describe the range of epigenetic changes that take place in bone marrow as stem cells develop into different types of mature blood cell.