Sentences with phrase «grow cells from the patient»

This acts as a template on which to grow cells from the patient's body.

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«Scientists say they have replaced a 65 - year - old patient's upper jaw with a bone transplant cultivated from stem cells isolated from his own fatty tissue and grown inside his abdomen.»

In November the Lancet published the results of an international research project whereby a Colombian lady received a new trachea (windpipe) which had been grown from a donor trachea (as it were, a «scaffold») repopulated with stem cells, for the very first time, from the patient's own body.

In 1999, Anthony Atala grew a colony of bladder cells, taken from a biopsy and seeded on a «scaffold» in the shape of a patient's own bladder.

Lab - grown tissues derived from patients» stem cells may also allow researchers to screen drugs and test their effectiveness on diseases like cancer.

Unlike conventional chemotherapies and radiation that indiscriminately eradicate fast - growing tissues and ravage people's bodies with side effects, new therapies specifically target tumors using tailored cells from individual patients.

STOP SIGNS Brainlike structures grown from autistic patients» stem cells (right) produced greater numbers of brain cells that make other brain cells less active (green and red) compared with structures grown from the cells of a non-autistic family member (left).

At an early stage of development, the miniature organs grown from autistic patients» stem cells also showed faster cell division rates than those grown from the cells of non-autistic relatives.

Now, doctors at the University of Kiel in Germany have neatly bypassed the initial bone removal procedure and instead grown the required bone from stem cells in the patient's own bone marrow.

Beginning in the 1970s, physicians learned how to harvest skin stem cells from a patient with extensive burn wounds, grow them in the laboratory, then apply the lab - grown tissue to close and protect a patient's wounds.

«I'm working with Professor Richard Oreffo and Dr Rahul Tare from the University's Centre for Human Development, Stem Cells and Regeneration who are trying to create and grow cartilage in the lab using a patients» own (autologous) stem cells to then be implanted back into the patient if they have a cartilage defect,» she explCells and Regeneration who are trying to create and grow cartilage in the lab using a patients» own (autologous) stem cells to then be implanted back into the patient if they have a cartilage defect,» she explcells to then be implanted back into the patient if they have a cartilage defect,» she explains.

In the future the researchers see using stem cells taken from patients to grow new bones.

These were released into tumour cells that had been taken from glioblastoma patients and grown in the lab.

Abba Zubair, M.D., Ph.D, believes that cells grown in the International Space Station (ISS) could help patients recover from a stroke, and that it may even be possible to generate human tissues and organs in space.

Mice transplanted with cells grown from a patient suffering from Huntington's disease (HD) develop the clinical features and brain pathology of that patient, suggests a study published in the latest issue of Acta Neuropathologica by CHA University in Korea, in collaboration with researchers at Université Laval in Québec City, Canada.

For the past several years, researchers have been modifying T cells so they can attack leukemia, but the cells must be painstakingly isolated from the patients themselves and grown in a lab.

The new technique can also be used to grow muscle cells from iPS cells from patients with neuromuscular diseases like ALS, spinal muscular atrophy and muscular dystrophy.

Because neural crest cells can also be isolated from skin and hair follicles, OECs could potentially be grown from a patient's own cells.

Blood vessels grown from a person's own cells may soon help kidney dialysis patients.

Researchers could, in theory, fix genetic malfunctions in the induced pluripotent stem cells derived from a patient and then grow small patches of completely healthy muscle.

Labs could rejuvenate cells from patients and perhaps then grow them into new tissue that could repair parts worn out by old age or disease.

Yamanaka's technique may enable doctors to grow stem cells from adult cells of patients needing treatment.

The initial experiments made use of cancer cells that Quiñones - Hinojosa and his team removed from willing patients and grew in the laboratory until they formed little spheres of cells, termed oncospheres, likely to be the most resistant to chemotherapy and radiation, and capable of creating new tumors.

From tissue and cell samples from five glioblastoma patients, the scientists obtained 33 individual cancer cells capable of reproduction, which grew into very different tumors in the From tissue and cell samples from five glioblastoma patients, the scientists obtained 33 individual cancer cells capable of reproduction, which grew into very different tumors in the from five glioblastoma patients, the scientists obtained 33 individual cancer cells capable of reproduction, which grew into very different tumors in the lab.

But he also has a team working on the model that occurred to him on the beach: Harvest and grow some healthy cells from a patient's damaged kidneys.

Growing mini tumours in the lab from a patient's own cells could help doctors discover the best way to treat each person, homing in on the right drugs to use

According to his unpublished findings, when he puts glioblastoma cells from patients into lab dishes with brain organoids, the cells attach to the surface of the organoids, burrow into them, and within 24 to 48 hours grow into a mass that eventually «looks exactly like what happened in the patient's own brain,» Fine said.

What could be more «like» a patient's own brain than a miniature one grown from her own cells, and therefore containing DNA identical to hers?

CAR T cells are T cells that are removed from a patient, genetically engineered to grow a protein «sensor» that targets them to tumor cells, and then re-injected into the patient.

Since the 1970s tissue engineers have been figuring out how to grow skin, bone, cartilage, and even parts of vital organs using cells harvested directly from patients.

During an early clinical trial at the Miami Project last year, researchers took Schwann cells from an easily accessible sensory nerve in a patient's leg, grew them in culture and injected them at the point of the spinal cord injury.

In practice, however, lung cells — especially from older, ill patients — won't grow well enough in culture, but will have to be produced from stem cells or induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, she says.

In fact, the new approach is similar to an established treatment for severe burns, in which sheets of healthy skin are grown from a patient's own cells and grafted over wounds.

They did this by packaging CasRx into a virus and delivering it to neurons grown from an FTD patient's stem cells.

Treating the potentially blinding haze of a scar on the cornea might be as straightforward as growing stem cells from a tiny biopsy of the patient's undamaged eye and then placing them on the injury site, according to mouse model experiments conducted by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Isolated and grown from the patients» fat, these specialized cells have the potential to develop into several different types of tissue.

Salk scientists developed a new technique to grow aged brain cells from patients» skin.

A section of a tumor organoid grown from cells derived from a patient with high - grade serous ovarian cancer (left) and a mini-tumor treated with ReACp53, resulting in extensive cancer cell death.

The researchers isolated tumor cells from patients and grew them to reproduce small tumors in the lab dish.

Then he'd paint cells grown from the patient's bladder onto the frame with a custom 3 - D printer — a technique Discover detailed in a profile of Atala last year.

Moreover, nowadays beta cells can be grown from stem cells derived from a patient's adipose tissue.

The researchers, led by University of California, San Diego neuroscientist Mark Tuszynski, took skin cells from the patients, grew them up in a culture dish and genetically engineered them to make human nerve growth factor (NGF).

To do this, they switched from using dead tumour cell samples to patient - derived tumour cell lines, in which fresh samples of a person's tumour are grafted onto mice and grown to the required volumes.

Anthony Atala, a surgeon and director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston - Salem, North Carolina, reported that artificial bladders can be grown in the lab from a patient's own cells and successfully implanted.

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Atala wondered whether it would instead be possible to remove bladder cells from a patient and use them to grow a replacement organ, thus eliminating the risk of transplant rejection.

For the first time, researchers have been able to grow, in a lab, both normal and primary cancerous prostate cells from a patient, and then implant a million of the cancer cells into a mouse to track how the tumor progresses.

To treat hereditary blood diseases, doctors could take a sample of bone marrow cells from a patient, correct the faulty gene, and then grow healthy cells in the bioreactor and transplant them back into the patient.

«This is the only system that can grow healthy and cancer cells as if they were just extracted from a patient, and expand them — a million new cells can be grown in a week — as long as needed,» he says.

Scientists had high hopes for reprogrammed stem cells, which could be derived from a patient's own tissue and grown into any type of cell in the body.