Sentences with phrase «grow damaged cells»

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Once the hair cells are damaged, they don't grow back.

By exploiting new molecular and genetic insights, the research, done in collaboration with Pierre de Wit from Wageningen Agricultural University in the Netherlands, provides a better understanding of the defense system of crop plants against the damaging pathogens that grow in the spaces between plant cells.

But scientists say they may one day be able to insert microscopic carbon nanotubes into injured joints — such as knees — encouraging new, stronger cartilage cells to grow in place damaged or thinning ones.

The Champalimaud Center for Translation Eye Research (C - TRACER), part of the LV Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad, India, will continue research begun by LV Prasad scientists, who use eye stem cells from living adults to grow new cells that are then implanted into damaged eyes.

The embryos lacking functional BRCA2 genes probably stopped growing because molecular «checkpoints» in the developing embryo either halt the division of cells with damaged DNA, so that the damage can be repaired, or kill the cells outright.

The enzyme, called tankyrase, may prove useful for extending the lives of cultured cells grown to repair burned skin and other damaged tissue.

Now, with new kinds of technologies that are coming up, new types of tissue engineering and, you know, some of the hopes that people have for stem cells and [the] like, it may be interesting to see if there are other ways, alternatives to dealing with really badly damaged hearts that would involve growing a new heart or replacing or repairing the damage d to a badly damaged heart that might make artificial hearts less important in the somewhat more distant future.

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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.

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

Since embryonic stem cells can differentiate into any type of tissue, they have the potential to treat an almost unending array of medical conditions — replacing damaged or lost body parts or tissues, slowing degenerative diseases, even growing new organs.

Arising from the Schwann cells of the vestibular (balance) nerve, these tumors can grow to the point of damaging nearby structures — and can lead to death by compressing the brainstem.

Such cells could be grown into new neurons for treating people who have suffered some form of brain damage,...

«We believe that high nutrients are pushing cells to grow and proliferate even when the cells should not, e.g. with damaged DNA.

For a damaged nerve to regain function, its long, signal - transmitting extensions known as axons need to grow and establish new connections to other cells.

(When damaged cells continue to grow they may become cancerous.)

As more saturated fatty acids enter the cell, those islands grow in size, creating increasing inelasticity of the membrane and gradually damaging the entire cell.

Before scientists and engineers can realize the dream of using stem cells to create replacements for worn out organs and battle damaged body parts, they'll have to develop ways to grow complex three - dimensional structures in large volumes and at costs that won't bankrupt health care systems.

Six months ago, Michal Schwartz and her team at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, showed that another type of white blood cell called a macrophage can help damaged spinal nerves grow back.

Shape is thought to play an important role in the effectiveness of cells grown to repair or replace damaged tissue in the body.

To find methods for stemming the tide of liver - damaging microbes, Schnabl and team tried experimentally bumping up copies of the REG3G gene in intestinal lining cells grown in the lab.

When such DNA damage occurs, proteins known as PARPs move to the site of damage and begin to mend these broken strands of DNA, allowing cancerous cells and tumors to recover, grow and proliferate, thereby escaping the effects of treatment.

One of the primary goals of stem - cell research is to be able to replace damaged body parts with tissues grown from undifferentiated stem cells.

Studying a new type of pinhead - size, lab - grown brain made with technology first suggested by three high school students, Johns Hopkins researchers have confirmed a key way in which Zika virus causes microcephaly and other damage in fetal brains: by infecting specialized stem cells that build its outer layer, the cortex.

This allows it to have enough energy to grow new cells and repair damaged ones.

Other plants like poplars and birches grow very narrow water transport cells in order to prevent serious damage and blockages when cold weather hits them.

Some plants, such as hickories and oaks, avoid freezing damage by dropping their leaves before the winter chill sets in - effectively shutting off the flow of water between roots and leaves - and growing new leaves and water transport cells when warmer weather returns.

Clarke notes that this kind of work — reprogramming normal cells to replace damaged tissues or organs in regenerative medicine, or even growing cells from an individual's cancer to determine what the best treatment is — speaks to the doctrine rather than challenges it.

While we do have a few theories about why we, and other species we share the planet with, have evolved to grow old and die, we understand very little about the mechanism that makes living cells lose their ability to mend broken and damaged DNA.

They hope the stem cells will grow into new, healthy tissue and repair any damage.

Although they continue to grow, the inability to proliferate renders the heart unable to regenerate cells after they have been damaged as occurs in heart attacks.

After growing enough cells, the scientists attached them to a thin natural membrane of collagen which they surgically placed onto the rat's pancreas without damaging the organ itself.

Regenexx involves harvesting a patient's cells from bone marrow, growing more in a lab and then injecting the tissue - repairing cells into damaged joints or even lumbar discs.

This line of investigation could eventually lead to artificial blood vessels, grown with patients» own cells or «off the shelf,» or biological / pharmaceutical treatments that promote the regeneration of damaged blood vessels.

It is now almost routine to grow skin cells from a patient with, say, a neurological disease; turn them into pluripotent cells in a Petri dish; convert the cells into nerve cells to study the disease process; and contemplate using the cells to repair the same patient's damaged brain.

Since zinc promotes cell reproduction, tissue growth and repair, not having enough in your system can definitely damage your strands» ability to grow.

Noise exposure can damage these hair cells, and they don't grow back.

During deep sleep, your skin grows cells, builds proteins, and repairs damage from stress and sun.

Oxidative damage to cells is often associated with increased risk of cancer, an adverse condition where cells grow beyond their normal boundaries and into other tissues.

Keratin protects cells from damage, which helps hair grow stronger, healthier, and even reduces frizz.

At the same time, the protein Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) stimulates blood supply for the damaged tissue, Fibroblast Growth Factor - 2 (FGF - 2) stimulates the damaged cells to grow and reproduce themselves, Transforming Growth Factor - beta (TGF - beta) stimulates cartilage to grow, and Stem Cell Factor (SCF) stimulates your native inactive stem cells to become activated and assist in the repair of the damaged tissue.

Once the free radicals are stopped, the oxidation process is stopped, and the cells aren't damaged or affected in such a way as to cause cancer to grow and spread within the body.

This damage activates a special repair process that eventually forces individual muscle cells to grow.

Later studies found that chemotherapy caused critical damage to the DNA of healthy cells and that some cancer - treatment drugs actually caused cancer tumors to grow, sometimes at an alarming rate.

Cancer occurs when there is a problem with this signal; the damaged cell keeps growing and multiplying.

/ consuming Animal proteins cause numerous proteins as it is not designed for us / may be designed to grow that animal at a rate much faster than we are designed for / and also feeds the growth of Cancer cells / damages the Endothelial cells / ala Dr. Esselstyn and others.

However, if both copies of either BRCA1 or BRCA2 are damaged, your body loses a tool for stopping cancer cells from growing.

The new cells repair damaged tissue and enable a body to grow.

It is a parvo virus that causes its damage by attacking rapidly growing cells such as the intestinal tract, bone marrow, lymphatic system, and neurological system.

Cells in the body are constantly growing old or becoming damaged, and new cells that are exact replicas replace Cells in the body are constantly growing old or becoming damaged, and new cells that are exact replicas replace cells that are exact replicas replace them.