Sentences with phrase «from human stem»

This has many disadvantages, but now scientists in Germany have created bone material from human stem cells that could bring significant improvement to the patient's welfare.
Now, scientists at the Salk Institute have studied a 3D «mini-brain» grown from human stem cells and found it to be structurally and functionally more similar to real brains than the 2D models in widespread use.
Our lab uses both cardiomyoctes derived from human stem cells (iPS cell - derived cardiomyocytes) and mouse models harboring the human mutation to study which exact changes occur during the onset and development of the disease.
The scientists tested their technique in animal models and cardiomyocytes derived from human stem cells.
Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital are leveraging these new technologies to study the effects of DISC1 mutations in cerebral organoids - «mini brains» - cultured from human stem cells.
Our therapy is based on the encapsulation and implantation of pancreatic beta cell progenitors (Pro-Islet-1) derived from human stem cells which secrete insulin in patients.
Scientists from Cardiff University say they have found a way of restoring sight by growing tissue from human stem cells
The mini brains are derived from human stem cells thus, may be used instead of animal models to test new drugs, revolutionizing the way lab experiments work.
Researchers from the Buck Institute report one of the first demonstrations of long - term vision restoration in blind mice by transplanting photoreceptors derived from human stem cells and blocking the immune response that causes transplanted cells to be rejected by the recipient.
The findings support a path to improving clinical applications, specifically for restoring vision in humans by allowing photoreceptors derived from human stem cells to integrate and thrive in the eye.
To achieve this goal, ViaCyte has differentiated pancreatic precursor cells from a human stem cell line.
Dr. Lamba earned his medical degree from University of Mumbai, India, his Master's in Bioengineering from University of Illinois, Chicago, and a Ph.D. from University of Washington in Seattle for his work on generating and transplanting retinal cells derived from human stem cells.
In recent years, researchers in various fields have begun to grow tiny organs from human stem cells to get a better view of development and disease, and speed the search for new drugs.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes created a special type of neuron from human stem cells that could potentially repair spinal cord injuries.
As stem cells continue their gradual transition from the lab to the clinic, a research group at the University of Wisconsin — Madison has discovered a new way to make large concentrations of skeletal muscle cells and muscle progenitors from human stem cells.
In the current study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers produced V2a interneurons from human stem cells for the first time.
Scientists have demonstrated a method for generating several key types of eye tissue from human stem cells in a way that mirrors whole eye development.
Now, scientists at Boston University's Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM) have announced two major findings that further our understanding of this process: the ability to grow and purify the earliest lung progenitors that emerge from human stem cells, and the ability to differentiate these cells into tiny «bronchospheres» that model cystic fibrosis.
«Investigators create complex kidney structures from human stem cells derived from adults: New technique offers model for studying disease, progress toward cell therapy.»
«Skin layer grown from human stem cells could replace animals in drug, cosmetics testing.»
The mice benefited from human stem cells called glial progenitors, immature cells poised to become astrocytes and other glia cells, the supposed support cells of the brain.
This image shows an implanted graft of cardiac cells derived from human stem cells (green) meshed and beat with primates» heart cells (red).
Working with Skeletal Biologists at Southampton General Hospital, Catarina is investigating new optical techniques to monitor the development of the cells, used in new regenerative medicine approaches — in this case, to create and grow cartilage from human stem cells.

Not exact matches

I think many practices of many religions stem from human OCD tendencies.
That's because compassion can stem directly from the human heart as well as from Jesus Christ.
We can assume that all the Justices sitting on the Court today, like other humans, have their own preferences and biases about religion, but the judicial opinions of one of them, Justice John Paul Stevens, raise more than a slight suspicion that some of his actions on the bench stem from animosity, if not to animal sacrifice, at least to certain less exotic religious beliefs and practices.
The view that we must «cook» the world to achieve God's purposes may stem from a confusion of the nature of human nature.
Our present day bully - pulpit abusive religions stem from the Neolithic Revolution, which, as Jared Diamond put it, was The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race.
While convergence does happen in religion from the perspective of the human psyche being adapted through its self - deceptive capabilities (e.g., as a coping mechanism), we didn't land in the new world with the discovery of the same kind of scripture stemming from a singular God.
-- Offer support FIRST to those who have suffered the abuse that stemmed from or was abetted by troublesome theology (whether it be formal volunteering, donating money or goods or even just validating that a victim is not crazy, not sinful and is a worth human being and that their abuser was in the wrong.
The porous self stems from the social imaginary of an enchanted world; its primary trait is an openness toward the world as a causal matrix filled with other humans, spirits, demons, and cosmic forces that produce meaning.
Ernst Cassirer in his Essay on Man designates man as «animal symbolicum,» and shows that all of the typically human functions stem from this fundamental ability to formulate and communicate meanings.
His statements about priest and king being bound to the land and the people ultimately point back toward a view that sees social and moral responsibility for the common welfare as stemming from a prior relational view of human persons.
The difficulties associated with obtaining nerve tissue at the correct stage of development and differentiation from aborted embryos means that foetal tissue transplantation is no longer in favour, but the creation of human embryos specifically as sources of stem cells, and the push to use «spare» embryos from IVF treatments is gatheringmomentum.
Our self - awareness, though it helps define what is unique and precious about being human, also renders us prey to guilt and to the anxiety stemming from our existential aloneness and our mortality.
In mythological language, this means that he stems from eternity, his origin is not a human and natural one.
The dropping of the atomic bomb, however, and the killing of birdlife by DDT, documented by Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, introduced a new problem: the presence of totally unpredicted (and probably unpredictable) harmful effects on the environment and on human life stemming from actions taken specifically to produce certain benefits.
At its base, Pannenberg's compatibility (of divine all - determination with human responsibility) stems from the unique nature of a determining activity that has its locus in the future.
It stems from human immaturity and insecurity using their religion as an excuse.
When I reflect on the infinite pains to which the human mind and heart will go in order to protect itself from the full impact of reality, when I recall the mordant analyses of religious belief which stem from the works of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud and, furthermore, recognize the truth of so much of what these critics of religion have had to say, when I engage in a philosophical critique of the language of theology and am constrained to admit that it is a continual attempt to say what can not properly be said and am thereby led to wonder whether its claim to cognition can possibly be valid — when I ask these questions of myself and others like them (as I can not help asking and, what is more, feel obliged to ask), is not the conclusion forced upon me that my faith is a delusion?
Scientists looking for new methods to make human tissue have successfully used cloning technology to create embryonic stem cells from skin cells.
In the forthcoming Victories of Reason he will go even further, contending that the most significant advances in knowledge, liberty, human rights and material well - being — what we like to call progress — stem not from Greece or the Enlightenment or modernity but from Christianity itself.
The elemental necessity for work and its fundamental standard of rightness stem from this basic human requirement for the active exercise of native capabilities.
But the destruction of trust in human existence is the inner poisoning of the total human organism from which this sickness stems.
As we read this history, the furor over stem cells was fueled by numerous factors: the near - universal human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now do anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn human life.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has allowed a contract for the dissemination of embryonic stem cell lines approved for US government funding to lapse, shuttering a key stem cell bank, and doubling the price researchers pay for samples of some human embryonic stem cell (hESC) line... from $ 500 per vial of frozen cells to $ 1,000.
The very foundations of the religion stem from a man who loved his fellow humans so much he was willing to die for them.
Religious dogma stems from a time in which human rights and moral norms were far different from today.
While our rights tradition stems from a belief in a moral order independent of government, a strong case can be made that our system of limited and dispersed power depends even more profoundly upon an appreciation of human imperfectibility.
The flaws in Walzer's analysis of the liberationist project stem from his inclination to see religious and conservative countermovements as problems to be solved rather than as expressions of genuine and worthy human aspirations.
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