Sentences with phrase «engineered cells from a patient»
«That's one of the big goals: to engineer these cells from patients and then use them to study those patients» diseases.»
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Recently, scientists have engineered cells from a patient's own immune system to fight blood cancers.
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«We concluded that stem cells used in cardiac therapy should be drawn from healthy donors or be better genetically engineered for the patient.»
To manufacture CAR T cells, scientists extract bone marrow from a patient, introduce genetic instructions for a CAR into the T cells, and then infuse those engineered immune cells back into the person's bloodstream.
CAR T cells are T cells that are removed from a patient, genetically engineered to grow a protein «sensor» that targets them to tumor cells, and then re-injected into the patient.
Since the 1970s tissue engineers have been figuring out how to grow skin, bone, cartilage, and even parts of vital organs using cells harvested directly from patients.
The researchers, led by University of California, San Diego neuroscientist Mark Tuszynski, took skin cells from the patients, grew them up in a culture dish and genetically engineered them to make human nerve growth factor (NGF).
Over the past two years, investigators from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have reported results from a human trial in GBM using chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy, through which patients» own T cells were engineered to track down and kill cancer cells that express a tumor - specific protein known as EGFRvIII.
If some of those cells could be removed from a person with AIDS, genetically engineered to be resistant, and then returned to the patient, they might spawn an immune system that is completely resistant to the disease.
T cells are collected from the patient's blood and genetically engineered to express cell - surface proteins called CARs, which recognize specific molecules found on the surface of cancer cells.
In the new work, the researchers added serum from Finnish narcolepsy patients who had received Pandemrix to cells that were engineered to display human hypo cretin receptor 2 on their surface.
A chip developed by mechanical engineers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) can trap and identify metastatic cancer cells in a small amount of blood drawn from a cancer patient.
«Circulating tumor cells — cells from a tumor that have escaped into the bloodstream with the potential to spread into other tissues — are extremely useful for assessing a patient's disease in order to select the most appropriate treatment,» said UBC mechanical engineering professor Hongshen Ma, the lead researcher.
Lead researcher Dr Gordana Vunjak - Novakovic said: «The availability of personalised bone grafts engineered from the patient's own stem cells would revolutionise the way we currently treat these defects.»
Dr. Sonntag studies this concept on the molecular and cellular level using a translational research approach that integrates the analysis of human material, such as postmortem brains, primary cell systems, and neural cell populations generated from patients» - or healthy individuals» - derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC), or induced neurons (iNs), in combination with molecular, biochemistry, and lentivirus - mediated gene - engineering technologies.
Now, patients with pancreatic cancer desperate for new treatment options will potentially benefit from a powerful new technology that uses genetic engineering to turn their own immune cells into «specially trained assassins» capable of finding, attacking, and eliminating pancreatic cancer tumors.
These drugs free a patient's immune system from cancer - induced suppression, while others engineer a patient's own white blood cells to attack cancer.
For the other adult patients that might still benefit from a cord blood donor, either two cord blood units are combined for a single transplant, or more recently, there are some exciting new graft engineering technologies that are emerging to expand stem or progenitor cells in the laboratory before infusion or modify the cells in some way to make them more potent at the time of transplant.
In addition to growing new skin for burn victims, cells from hair follicles could potentially be used to engineer vascular grafts and possibly regenerate cardiac tissues for patients with heart problems.
In the long run, scientists hope to use organoids and induced pluripotent stem cells to engineer tissue replacements in patients suffering from diseases that currently are treated with direct transplants of fetal tissue.
«As the only engineer in the U.S. Senate,» Sununu said, «I've been proud to protect funding for the National Science Foundation from political manipulation and fully support funding for adult and amniotic stem cell research — which has already resulted in a number of treatments that have proven to be successful in patient trials.»
CAR - T cell therapy is a specific form of adoptive T cell transfer in which T cells are removed from the patient, genetically engineered in the lab to recognize a cancer antigen, expanded to billions of copies, and then returned to the patient.
Other researchers are using CRISPR to engineer the genomes of heart cells created from the iPS cells of patients with cardiovascular disorders to study the genetic causes of the cardiomyopathies and congenital heart defects.
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A team of chemical and biomedical engineers from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, have discovered that HIV - infected patients experience a dysfunction in a certain type of immune cell: the follicular helper T (Tfh) cell.
Staff at the clinic will take these immune cells from a patient, have the cells specially engineered in a nearby Hutch cell - processing facility, and then re-infuse them to attack the patient's cancer.
His gene therapy — delivering nanoparticles could transform patients into their own T - cell engineering labs, allowing them to be treated with reprogrammed T cells almost from the moment of diagnosis, skipping the waiting period and high cost of current approaches.
As noted above, existing cancer vaccines that use dendritic cells require extracting cells from a patient's blood, treating them with an engineered protein or nucleic acid that combines tumor antigens with immune - stimulating molecules, and returning the activated dendritic cells to the patient.
Tactiva's lead platform is a unique approach to adoptive cell transfer (ACT), a form of immunotherapy in which a patient's own immune cells are drawn from blood, genetically engineered, multiplied and injected back into the patient in order to launch a powerful attack against cancer.