Sentences with phrase «exposing embryonic cells»

Heller's team produced the inner - ear hair cells by exposing embryonic cells in the lab to chemical factors which steer the natural development of hair cells.

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To create them, the skin cells need to be reprogrammed to an embryonic state by exposing them to extra amounts of four critical gene switches.

Scientists have focused for decades on the role of biochemical cues in embryonic development, Campàs said, because no techniques existed to measure the mechanical cues that cells are exposed to during the formation of tissues and organs.

By exposing a magnetically responsive droplet (purple) to a magnetic field, the scientists are able to exert pressure on the surrounding embryonic cells in order to study their response to mechanical forces

So Harkany and his colleagues cultured mouse embryonic brain cells that expressed cannabinoid receptor proteins (CBRs) and exposed them to gradients of synthetic cannabinoids.

They then exposed these cells to certain growth factors in - vitro to cause them to turn into liver - like cells, in a process that mimics embryonic development.

Current efforts, mostly conducted in animal models, involve attempting to derive and aggregate embryonic stem cells, exposing them to such factors as acetic acid, allowing them to differentiate, or specialize, and then sorting through these cells to extract the cell types of interest.

As a first step towards determining whether human glial progenitor cells (hGPCs) can generate functionally distinct astrocyte populations, we exposed embryonic hGPCs isolated from spinal cords of 9.5 week old abortuses to BMP or CNTF.