Sentences with phrase «entire organ»

Scientists say the finding brings them closer to growing entire organs in the lab, including eyes that could replace those damaged by injury or disease.

Researchers will see their achievement as a major step towards growing entire organs for transplant.

But researchers are working on a new technique to help bridge that gap: microchips that simulate the activities and mechanics of entire organs and organ systems.

«If you have a ready supply of these cells, you can treat almost any condition, and can theoretically regenerate entire organs using a scaffold,» Dr. Zubair says.

Scientists are already using the technique to make cell lines from patients with hard - to - study diseases, and ultimately they hope to grow genetically matched replacement cells and tissues — perhaps even entire organs.

«It could be,» he says, «that creating entire organs in a way that is reproducible may prove too difficult.»

Fashioning entire organs is another...

The work breaks new ground, says Anthony Atala, the only scientist to have grown and transplanted entire organs — bladders — in the lab.

Rogers says another application of the technology is to custom fit the «electronic skin» around entire organs, allowing doctors to remotely monitor changes in temperature and blood flow.

Although vitrification has yet to be successfully implemented for preserving entire organs, scientists are working to improve the process.

That's why doctors have some success transplanting pieces of pig organs — like skin and heart valves — into humans, but have yet to attempt entire organs.

Just a few of the mind - bending things that are already happening include bio-printing, where we are close to being able to repair damaged tissues or even print entire organs.

For example, the material's excellent biocompatibility could allow moisture - responsive graphene oxide to be used in organ - on - a-chip systems that simulate the mechanics and physiological response of entire organs and are used for drug discovery and other biomedical research.

Affecting as many as one in 20 Australians, autoimmune diseases occur when a person's immune system has an abnormal response against its own cells, tissues or even entire organs, resulting in inflammation and damage.

I am not trying to be an expert, however, with an array of virtually unheard of medical problems (including malignant hypothermia, and erythropoetic protoporphyria) I do not take injecting things into my body lightly, as my entire organ structure is a little differently.

The Nigeria Police Force on Monday barricaded the International Conference Centre, Abuja, venue of the scheduled Stakeholders meeting of the entire organs of the Peoples Democratic Party.

They have an unusual capacity to expand, allowing them to accommodate an entire organ.

Until the buds can be generated from the skin of each individual patient, recipients will have to rely on immune - suppressing drugs to avoid rejection, just as they would with the transplant of an entire organ.

As a result, most surgeons wait as long as possible to operate on an esophageal tumor, then remove the entire organ using a procedure that has an extremely high complication rate.

But what he realized there on the beach, all those years ago, is that he doesn't actually need to grow an entire organ at all.

These tissues don't replicate the entire organ, but they do perform many of its important functions.

Research into adult stem cells has been fueled by their abilities to divide or self - renew indefinitely and generate all the cell types of the organ from which they originate — potentially regenerating the entire organ from a few cells.

As a result of these advances, around 80 per cent of renal tumors are now detected so early that kidney - sparing treatment is possible without removal of the entire organ.

From an entire organ to a dose of embryonic stem cells, if the tissue's DNA came from anyone else, the transplant would be rejected without the aid of harsh immunosuppressive drugs.

«Rather than removing the entire organ, we are testing this less - invasive way of destroying just the cancer and leaving healthy tissue in place.»

Often, their behavior does not reflect their biological function within an entire organ or organism, which, for example, turns studying human liver cells into a big challenge.

Often, their behavior does not reflect their biological function within an entire organ or...

In some cases, only limited areas of the heart are affected; in others, the entire organ.

The best non-invasive method of liver sampling is by laparoscopic «key - hole» surgery as this offers the ability to examine the entire organ grossly, to sample selective lesions, and obtain adequately sized tissue samples.

The normal contractions in the stomach wall cease, and the entire organ rotates in the abdomen.

There are not two distinct sections of the pancreas responsible for these functions; rather, the endocrine and exocrine related cells are diffused throughout the entire organ.

MIT's news release calls this a «body on a chip,» but in the paper, published today in Science Advances, the researchers demur — they prefer the term microphysiological system, «to avoid the implication that an entire organ system is recapitulated in vitro.»