Sentences with phrase «from umbilical cord blood of»

The data set, one of the largest of its kind, includes primary data and associated metadata from nearly 530,000 immune cells from umbilical cord blood of newborns and bone marrow of adults.

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Stem cells can be obtained licitly, without loss of human life — for example, from an adult organism or from the blood of the umbilical cord at the time of birth.

The bones of the middle ear and the nerve endings from the brain are developing so that your baby will hear sounds such as your heartbeat and blood moving through the umbilical cord.

The bones of the inner ear and the nerve endings from the brain have developed enough so that your little one will hear sounds such as your heartbeat, your stomach growling and blood moving through the umbilical cord.

From ads in parenting magazines, direct mailings, and flyers in their obstetrician's office, expecting parents are repeatedly told of their «once - in - a-lifetime chance» to save their baby's umbilical cord blood for possible use later to save his life.

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In one of the most recent studies to document the extraordinary exposure and accumulation of pollutants and toxins in children today, the umbilical cord blood of babies from around America was tested for toxins at the time of their births.

Instead of tossing it aside, some doctors, scientists and parents are choosing to bank this fetal blood — harvesting it from the baby's umbilical cord and placenta, freezing it and storing it away for later.

But the factor that may make the discovery very significant is that umbilical cord blood can be saved, stored and multiplied without any of the ethical dilemmas facing embryonic stem cell use, which are derived from human fetuses.

Investigators found that the presence of cotinine, which results from the breakdown of nicotine in the body, in the umbilical cord blood of newborns increased their risk of developing asthma by age 7 years.

The amount of blood that can be milked from an umbilical cord is not huge.

The stem cells, derived from human umbilical cord - blood and coaxed into an embryonic - like state, were grown without the conventional use of viruses, which can mutate genes and initiate cancers, according to the scientists.

Stem cells from umbilical cord blood are highly prized for their ability to change into the cells of other tissues.

To assess risk, Thomas Adamkiewicz, codirector of the Hemoglobinopathy / Genomics Training Program at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, surveyed four medical centers and found that seven children with sickle - cell disease had been treated with umbilical cord blood from unrelated donors.

Using stem cells from umbilical cord blood, researchers are growing clusters of real liver cells in the lab.

In the new study, scientists compared weight gain for 325 expectant mothers from Avilés, Spain, with the levels of 35 chemicals in their babies» umbilical cord blood.

The technology to grow NK cells from umbilical cord blood was developed by Nina Shah, M.D., assistant professor and Elizabeth J. Shpall, M.D., professor in the department of Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

«Our group pioneered the development of cell culture technology for harvesting large numbers of stem cells from human bone marrow and human umbilical cord blood,» Dr. Yeh said, noting that stem cells from these two sources are abundant and can be guided into different types of cells using tissue engineering.

In general, founder cells are easy to acquire from a donor and come in one of four types: fibroblasts, keratinocytes, peripheral and umbilical cord blood, and dental pulp cells.

So beginning in 2000, the University of Minnesota began a new approach: using stem cells from two umbilical cord blood sources, which increased the chances of engraftment in adults to 90 percent.

While still attached to its mother via the umbilical cord, the baby received a temporary pacemaker, which stabilized its dangerously low and irregular heart rate and ensured enough blood flow from the heart to the rest of its body for delivery.

Won Soon Park, MD, PhD, and colleagues from Samsung Medical Center and Biomedical Research Institute, Seoul, Republic of Korea, conducted a phase I, single - center trial of intratracheal transplantation of human umbilical cord blood - derived mesenchymal stem cells to nine very preterm infants (24 - 26 weeks gestational age) who were at high risk of developing BPD.

Blood from the umbilical cord «is one of the best measures of contaminants being transferred from mother to fetus,» said Sharon Sagiv, lead author of the study and an epidemiologist who now works at Boston University.

Additional data * of immune cells from umbilical cord blood and adult bone marrow was provided by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

At that key point, Takebe added two more types of cell known to help to recreate organ - like function in animals: endothelial cells, which line blood vessels, taken from an umbilical cord; and mesenchymal cells, which can differentiate into bone, cartilage or fat, taken from bone marrow.

An innovative experimental treatment for boosting the effectiveness of stem - cell transplants with umbilical cord blood has a favorable safety profile in long - term animal studies, report scientists from Dana - Farber Cancer Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), and Children's Hospital Boston (CHB).

In late 2015, the company also launched its MagCloudz streptavidin cell - separation kit and partnered with the University of Massachusetts Medical School in research toward the enrichment and purification of CD3 + T cells from human umbilical cord blood.

Allogeneic cell transplantation enables the use of «younger» cells, from fetal origins (e.g., umbilical cord blood, placenta) or healthy donors, which are considered to be effective due to higher regenerative potential and plasticity.

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Unlike embryonic stem cells from earlier in development, fetal stem cells from umbilical cord blood are multipotent - they can develop into a limited number of cell types.

One type of stem cell transplant, autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, uses stems cells from your own bone marrow, or from external umbilical cord blood.

In a study of umbilical cord blood from New York City children, researchers found a change in a gene called ACSL3 that is associated with prenatal exposure to chemical pollutants called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which are byproducts of incomplete combustion from carbon - containing fuels, resulting in high levels in heavy - traffic areas.