Sentences with phrase «engineered cells involved»

There are some genetically engineered cells involved — along with near - infrared LEDs, subdermal hydrogel capsules, and electromagnetic field coils.

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Some of the other projects involve the development of proton exchange membrane for fuel cell application, a gyroscope based on micro-electromechanical technology and research on innovative engineering materials to fabricate ceramic membranes that can partially oxidize methane to syngas used as feedstock in commercial methanol production.

Production involves genetic engineering and working with live cells, and it is still mostly done by hand, by highly trained technicians.

Defined as the harnessing of living processes to achieve healing and repair of damaged and diseased tissues by Tim Hardingham, director of the UK Centre for Tissue Engineering, it is a field that requires collaborative research involving cell and molecular biologists, chemical engineers, materials scientists, and surgeons.

So far, researchers have mostly turned on genes with CRISPRa in cells growing in lab dishes, says Charles Gersbach, a biomedical engineer at Duke University not involved in the new study.

Chemogenetics builds on optogenetics, which involves genetically engineering brain cells so that they fire in the presence of light.

A technique that involves genetically engineering brain cells so that they fire in the presence of certain drugs has been used to treat epilepsy in rats, and it could soon be tested in humans.

Now, with new kinds of technologies that are coming up, new types of tissue engineering and, you know, some of the hopes that people have for stem cells and [the] like, it may be interesting to see if there are other ways, alternatives to dealing with really badly damaged hearts that would involve growing a new heart or replacing or repairing the damage d to a badly damaged heart that might make artificial hearts less important in the somewhat more distant future.

The researchers are now looking at how ICOS signals can be altered to diminish autoimmune disorders and augmented for more effective vaccine development, and are beginning research on how ICOS signaling may benefit Chimeric Antigen Receptor - T cell (CAR - T) therapies, which involves engineering of patient's own immune cells to recognize and attack their cancers.

A technique that involves genetically engineering brain cells so that they fire in the presence of certain drugs has been used to treat an epilepsy - like condition in rats, and it could soon be trialled in humans.

Standard tissue engineering involves seeding types of cells, such as those that form ear cartilage, onto a scaffold of a polymer material called a hydrogel.

Tissue engineers are enthusiastic about a technique called decellularization that involves using detergent to remove all of the cells from an organ, leaving a scaffold consisting of the fibrous material between cells.

«They've done a really exceptional job turning DNA into readable, writable memory inside living cells,» says Ahmad Khalil, a biomedical engineer at Boston University who was not involved in the new work.

Far from a way to engineer smarter rodents, the work suggests that human brain evolution involved a major upgrade to cells called astrocytes.

The work involves using an engineered chunk of DNA instead of a virus to introduce factors into a cell that will turn on genes needed for pluripotency.

Such transplants were, however, included in this analysis if they involved significantly manipulated cells (selected, expanded, drug - treated, or genetically engineered).

Not so long ago, the advent of powerful genomic tools and genetic engineering techniques made it seem that studies involving mice engineered to carry human disease genes would be the best approach for exploring human disorders, superior to looking at cells isolated in a laboratory.

The «heart - on - a-chip,» which builds off previous successful iCHIP research on the peripheral and central nervous systems, involves the use of human cardiac cells cultured for up to nine days on the engineered chip.

Our primary experimental approach involves creation of engineered mouse strains with informative genetic mutations, characterizing these mice and their cells to elucidate molecular mechanisms underlying cancer phenotypes, and verifying these mechanisms in human cancer patient specimens.

He said that it will involve chemists, cell biologists, and engineers.

In 2013, Peterson and his colleagues Joanna Yeh and Keith Joung were first to use the new technology to engineer a new strain of animal — a zebra - fish missing the GSK3ß gene, which encodes an enzyme involved in energy metabolism and the development of cell and body structures as an embryo grows.

It only covers methods that involve introducing one or more reprogramming genes into an adult cell that has been genetically engineered to carry another pluripotency gene in its genome.

Clinical and Regenerative medicine refers to development and implementation of advanced therapeutic approaches that may involve the support of expertise in gene / cell therapy, tissue engineering, pharmacology and pharmacogenomics, development of novel molecular target therapy.

Even more distinct is the specific project that students in the program are involved in: They work with the state's transportation engineers and top auto designers on the next generation of fuel cell vehicles, benefiting from resources and advice from the California Fuel Cell Partnerscell vehicles, benefiting from resources and advice from the California Fuel Cell PartnersCell Partnership.

So far, most solar fabric innovations have involved either printing solar cells onto regular fabrics or weaving solar technology into or onto the fabrics, which are very cool breakthroughs, but a new project by an international team of scientists and engineers has found a way to make fibers that work like self - contained solar cells, meaning a resulting fabric would itself be the solar technology.