Sentences with phrase «early cells use»

For years scientists thought that early cells use a common plan to build an animal from top to bottom.

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A veteran of digital imaging technology, in 1999 he founded Quantitative Imaging Corp. (QImaging), a manufacturer of digital cameras for scientific and industrial uses — the kind, for example, that can detect microscopic, early - stage cancer cells.

Wholesum Harvest was an early mover on solar power and obtains roughly a third of the electricity it uses from its own photovoltaic cells.

Well, in a sense — fundraising via SMS is still difficult, despite its success around the Haiti earthquake earlier this year, but a piece of techology called Square (developed by one of the founders of Twitter) physically plugs into a cell phone and lets someone use it to make a payment as though they'd swiped a credit card.

Well, in a sense — fundraising via SMS is still difficult, despite its success around the Haiti earthquake earlier this year, but a piece of techology called Square (developed by one of the founders of Twitter) physically plugs into a cell phone and lets someone use it to make a payment as...

3M Delivers Early Purification with New Hybrid Purifiers, Single - use functionalised media provides scalable purification performance in cell culture

«Earlier today a reporter was asked to comply with a rule prohibiting use of a cell phone in the Senate lobby.

Their first visit was to CytoCybernetics, where CEO Glenna Bett explained how her company has developed a system that uses computers and live human cells to screen drugs in their early stages of development, to determine whether they may cause any potentially deadly side effects.

A longtime Albany reporter was arrested early Wednesday afternoon after he used his cell phone in the lobby of the New York State Senate — a move that gave birth to a hashtag movement and saw Gov. Andrew Cuomo step in to free him.

«Earlier today a reporter was asked to comply with a rule prohibiting use of a cell phone in the Senate lobby,» Scott Reif, a spokesman for the Senate, said in a statement.

Explore how animals have evolved an amazing variety of eyes from early clusters of light - sensitive cells, along with often surprising ways to use them.

An immune response, triggered by foreign neural stem cells, could actually help attack tumors, says Evan Snyder, a stem cell biologist at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute in San Diego, California, and one of the early pioneers of the idea of using stem cells to attack tumors.

«There was this initial thought that [circulating tumor cells] are only present at late stage,» says Sollier - Christen, but she notes that in the past year, several studies using more sensitive techniques have found such cells much earlier in tumor development, even before the tumor becomes visible by conventional imaging techniques.

For the first time, researchers have made something resembling a mouse embryo without using an egg cell, allowing them to probe the early steps of development

Advanced Cell Technology, based in Santa Monica California, is developing embryonic stem cell therapies for macular degeneration and other conditions using cells obtained non-destructively from an early embryo called a blastocCell Technology, based in Santa Monica California, is developing embryonic stem cell therapies for macular degeneration and other conditions using cells obtained non-destructively from an early embryo called a blastoccell therapies for macular degeneration and other conditions using cells obtained non-destructively from an early embryo called a blastocyst.

So it makes you think that, well, maybe that could have been one contributing factor to why we actually use genetic materials that incorporate ribose, because early cells that relied on an external source of ribose would have had easier access to that material compared to competing the cells that we're looking for, a different sugar that had a harder time getting across the membrane.

Scientists investigating the earliest stages of cancer development used an exquisitely sensitive sequencing method capable of detecting DNA mutations present in as few as 1.6 per cent of blood cells, to analyse 15 locations in the genome, which are known to be altered in leukemia.

Some of the researchers at the centre will study the differentiation of stem cells into other cell types, one group by using human embryonic stem cell biology and another by studying early embryo development.

Now a University of Colorado Cancer Center study published online ahead of print in the journal Oncogene offers compelling evidence explaining this failure and offering a possible strategy for the use of retinoic acid or other retinoids against some breast cancers: Because early clinical trials are often offered to patients who have already tried other more established therapies, breast cancer cells may have been pushed past an important tipping point that offers retinoic acid resistance.

Earlier this year a group of researchers proved that a hacker could conceivably use a cell phone to unlock a car's doors and start its engine remotely, then get behind the wheel and drive away.

She also believes the PD - 1hiTIM - 3 + cells could be used to diagnose relapses earlier than is currently possible.

Using frozen samples of Nannochloropsis oculata, a type of single - celled ocean - dwelling algae, Dina Pasini (University of Kent) set out to test the conditions which early life would have had to survive if it did indeed travel through space.

Julian Dindas, a PhD student at Hedrich's department, used microelectrodes that register the electric voltage of the root hair's cell membrane, the so - called membrane potential, to study the early responses of the cell to a hormone pulse.

«I think Parkinson's will be the first disease in which these cells are used, and I would say that that's likely to happen as early as two years from now.»

To more accurately reflect the mechanisms driving oligodendrogliomas, the researchers used RNA sequencing to study directly, on a single - cell level, gene expression in samples from six early - stage human tumors.

And early stage startup Neochromosome, which includes Boeke, intends to raise money to design synthetic chromosomes for medicine that could be used in an off - the - shelf universal cell line in cell therapies and transplants with minimal risk of rejection from the immune system.

When the team used fragments of interfering RNA to sabotage the production of beta - catenin in these stem cells, the blood cells returned to an early leukaemic state.

Although the bulk of the commercial manufacturing uses cultures of bacteria, such as Escherichia coli or Chinese hamster ovary cells, a few biotech companies are trying to produce therapeutic proteins in the milk of transgenic mammals (such as GTC Biotherapeutics, which is using goats; PPL Therapeutics, which is using sheep; and BioProtein Technologies, which is working with rabbits), transgenic chicken eggs (such as Avigenics or Vivalis), or even in transgenic crops (such as ProdiGene or Meristem Therapeutics); but it is early days for these «pharming» methods.

(Wilmut's group published such a result using sheep cells last year, in the March 7, 1996, issue of Nature; that earlier result also produced some heated news coverage.)

Earlier, for his Ph.D., he used his physics training to study biological interactions at the molecular resolution — but for his postdoc he changed approaches dramatically, turning to cell biology and applying his skills to the development of high - resolution functional imaging of DNA transcription in living cells.

A team led by Ken Zaret, PhD, director of the Penn Institute for Regenerative Medicine and the Joseph Leidy Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, and Gloria Petersen, PhD, from the Mayo Clinic, identified a pair of biomarkers that physicians could soon use to discover the disease earlier.

The early version of the fuel cell uses an expensive material called an ionic liquid as the electrolyte, for example.

In order to survive, early single - celled organisms could have used that signal to direct repair, an evolutionary advance that he thinks survives today.

In the early 1990s HemoTech was used in Zaire to successfully treat nine children with sickle - cell anemia.

Early diagnosis could help doctors step in and use a new therapy to preserve brain cells, he says.

Until now, scientists were unable to prove that mammals use RNAi for killing viruses, but ironically, it was Ding's earlier research into plants, nematodes and fruit flies that helped him find the key: viruses have been outwitting that innate protection in our cells by using proteins to suppress our virus - killing mechanism.

The researchers compared the likelihood of being on the cell phone before the crash with cell phone use during an uneventful drive at the same time of day one week earlier.

«Dermal papilla cells give rise to hair follicles, and the notion of cloning hair follicles using inductive dermal papilla cells has been around for 40 years or so,» said co-study leader Colin Jahoda, PhD, professor of stem cell sciences at Durham University, England, and co-director of North East England Stem Cell Institute, who is one of the early founders of the ficell sciences at Durham University, England, and co-director of North East England Stem Cell Institute, who is one of the early founders of the fiCell Institute, who is one of the early founders of the field.

Early vaccines also used cells from other animals.

Then, earlier this year, Yamanaka had to apologize at a news conference after it was discovered that a reagent used to create iPS cells at CiRA was mislabeled, which could mean the wrong reagent was used.

Scientists want to be able to clone early human embryos, using cells from patients with various diseases, so they can study the diseases in the lab and develop new treatments for them.

Underpinning this is Conway Morris» claim that convergence is demonstrable at every major stepping stone in evolutionary history, from early cells, through to the emergence of tissues, sensory systems, limbs, and the ability to make and use tools.

This is already widely used to preserve certain kinds of mammalian cells, including blood cells, and will even preserve very early mammalian embryos, including humans, when the cells are all similar and have not yet taken specific functions.

Young - Pearse and colleagues believe that their strategy of using induced pluripotent stem cells to reprogram patient skin cells into neurons of interest could be used to predict which therapeutics will best help early onset Alzheimer's patients.

In this context, the research group of enotecUPM has developed a methodology that aims to exploit the high adsorption potential of volatile compounds that shows the yeast cell - walls used in early stages of its development.

He and his colleagues, including Janelia postdoc Fernando Amat, Janelia group leader Kristin Branson and former Janelia lab head Eugene Myers, who is now at the Max Plank Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, have used the methodto reconstruct cell lineage during development of the early nervous system in a fruit Cell Biology and Genetics, have used the methodto reconstruct cell lineage during development of the early nervous system in a fruit cell lineage during development of the early nervous system in a fruit fly.

They used their method to trace the lineages of 295 neuroblasts (precursors of nerve cells) and discovered that it is possible to predict the future fate and function of many cells based on their early dynamic behavior.

Gillis and colleagues used embryos of the little skate to track early gill development through cell tracing.

Dr. Lyons and his team used zebrafish to study the formation of myelin sheaths by oligodendrocytes because this laboratory animal is transparent at early stages of its development, which allows investigators to directly observe cells within the organism.

Earlier approaches to creating this growth environment, pioneered by study co-author Jason Spence, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan, had used a natural matrix derived from a tumor cell line.