Sentences with phrase «first human bone»

Surgeons report success in first human bone growth procedure using fat stem cells — with no culturing necessary

The first human bone marrow transplant was performed in 1956 by E. Donnall Thomas.

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No available evidence shows that exceeding the amount of calcium retained by the exclusively breastfed term infant during the first 6 months of life or the amount retained by the human milk - fed infant supplemented with solid foods during the second 6 months of life is beneficial to achieving long - term increases in bone mineralization.

While scientists have previously had success in 3D printing a range of human stem cell cultures developed from bone marrow or skin cells, a team from Scotland's Heriot - Watt University claims to be the first to print the more delicate, yet more flexible, human embryonic stem cells (hESCs).

One of the most important early Neandertal sites was discovered in modern - day Croatia in 1899, when Dragutin Gorjanovic - Kramberger, Director of the Geology and Paleontology Department of the National Museum and Professor of Paleontology and Geology at Zagreb University, alerted by a local schoolteacher, first visited the Krapina cave and noted cave deposits, including a chipped stone tool, bits of animal bones, and a single human molar.

«This is the first anatomically shaped piece of fully viable human bone,» Vunjak - Novakovic says.

Dr. Zubair, medical and scientific director of the Cell Therapy Laboratory at Mayo Clinic in Florida, says the experiment will be the first one Mayo Clinic has conducted in space and the first to use these human stem cells, which are found in bone marrow.

The first Neandertal fossils were discovered in 1829 in Engis, Belgium, and in 1848 at Forbes» Quarry, Gibraltar, but were not recognized as an early human species until after the 1856 discovery of «Neandertal 1» — a 40,000 - year - old specimen, including a skullcap and various bones, found at the Kleine Feldhofer Grotte in the Neander Valley near Düsseldorf, Germany.

In a first step towards creating artificial sperm cells, researchers have turned human bone marrow tissue into primitive sperm cells.

Marrying that DNA data with archaeological findings, the context in which the bones were discovered, for example, may tell researchers more about when, where and how humans first engaged with plants and animals.

Tufts University biomedical engineers recently published the first report of a promising new way to induce human mesenchymal stem cells (or hMSCs, which are derived from bone marrow) to differentiate into neuron - like cells: treating them with exosomes.

That's where a team of archaeologists has found ancient stone tools and butchered mastodon bones that have been reliably dated to 14,550 years ago — more than 1000 years before scientists once thought humans first reached the New World.

Duhig?s first job was in the archaeology department at Cambridge University, where she worked with animal bones in the hope of working with humans later.

The shape of fossil hand bones found in Africa suggests the first toolmakers walked on Earth before humans did

Recent finds from a site in Russia about 250 miles south of Moscow suggest that the first humans in Europe were Eastern European.The discoveries include bone and carved ivory artifacts.

A team led by researchers at the Tufts University School of Engineering and the University of Pavia has reported development of the first three - dimensional tissue system that reproduces the complex structure and physiology of human bone marrow and successfully generates functional human platelets.

The first time was at least 80,000 years ago in the Near East, as evidenced by findings of both Neandertal and modern human bones in caves in Israel.

First, they drilled a 1 - millimeter hole into the tibia (in humans, the bone between the knee and the ankle) of anesthetized mice to simulate a bone break.

Trinkaus gained the clues to the Levantines» lifestyle from an unlikely combination of fossil evidence recovered by Israeli archaeologists; first, remains of the thigh bone (femur) and, secondly, remains of rodents that shared the caves with the two human populations, presumably nibbling their refuse.

After a fifteen minute exposure the first radiograph of a human being was obtained showing clearly the bones of the hand and the two rings she was wearing.

Led by Waisman Center and College of Agricultural and Life Sciences investigator Denise Ney and her graduate student Bridget Stroup, the study represents the first human clinical trial to compare how different PKU - specific diets affect the bone health of people living with the disease.

This is based on the first episode of the NOVA series In Search of Human Origins, where Johanson does make statements that could, for those of a conspiratorial turn of mind, be interpreted as an admission of having doctored the bones.

The bones of the first Neandertal, by contrast, were about 50 % thicker than those of the average modern human, and clearly belonged to an extraordinarily athletic and muscular individual.

Told with an eye for natural beauty and a keen understanding of human behavior, Granik's first narrative feature since her Oscar - nominated Ozarks thriller Winter's Bone is a more intimate, less grisly affair but it still packs an emotional wallop.

Declawing is a cruel and painful procedure that involves amputating the last bone on each of a cat's toes — the equivalent of cutting off a human's finger to the first knuckle.

But when our dogs become aggressive about keeping hold of their bones or toys or bed, the first thing we must do is not to see the issue as one of our dog engaging in «point scoring» with ulterior motives of longer term control of his human pack, but rather as one of safety for ourselves.

Rickettsia rickettsii is the causative agent of a relatively severe tick borne rickettsiosis, which is characterized by hyperthermia, cephalagia (headache), bone and muscle pain and a rash (humans), which first appears on the wrists and ankles and subsequently becomes generalized and may become hemorrhagic.

Alternatively, visit the Neanderthal Museum in Mettmann, located in the valley where the bones of an Ice Age human — a Neanderthal — were recovered for the first time.

Spotlit as you enter the first of three spaces in the exhibition, there's more automatons around the corner, this time a series of musical instruments ranging from a collapsing crutch with bells on to a one - string sitar plucked by a deer bone that resembles a human finger.