Sentences with phrase «grow different cell»

But it's with the sponge that pre-animals began to take shape, Sogin believes, because the sponge was first to grow different cell types.

Some scientists believe the ability to grow different cell types started animals on the evolutionary road to becoming humans.

Not exact matches

Yes, it's just a clump of cells, they just grow in a different pattern than nail keratin.

Okay, that little millimeter is growing three different cell...

Jason Mills, a gastrointestinal pathologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, envisions growing thousands of such organoids, each from a different person's cells, and infecting them with a pathogen to study the role of individual genetics.

They looked at three different sets of lab - grown liposarcoma cells — a cancer of fat and connective tissues.

The only way the team can be sure they have grown the equivalent of a fetal brain would be to genetically test individual cells from different regions of the organoid, and compare them to those of human fetus, says Christof Koch at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle.

The protein is now known to interact with and control dozens of different genes and proteins, and it helps regulate the cycle of molecular events by which cells grow and reproduce.

Sure enough, 6 - HAP stopped DNA formation in different tumor cells grown in the lab.

«You take a biopsy of those cells, you put it into this device, grow them and see how they respond to different treatments.»

«Growing stem cells on synthetic surfaces with different levels of compliance showed that stem cells would become a different cell type depending solely on the mechanical environment they perceive.

Cancer cells may produce unique metabolic profiles, in part because they grow very rapidly and have metabolic activity very different from normal cells.

The cells are grown in the incubator in different concentrations in a culture medium.

These cells «talk» to developing bone cells using different communication channels, instructing them to grow and mature.

Two kinds of mouse glial brain cells, microglia and astrocytes, making different versions of the APOE protein were grown with brain nerve cells, or neurons, that make disease - causing forms of tau.

PTEN prevents tumor cells from growing uncontrollably, and mutations in the gene encoding this protein are commonly found in many different types of cancer.

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 lab.

Human epidermal equivalents representing different types of skin could also be grown, depending on the source of the stem cells used, and could thus be tailored to study a range of skin conditions and sensitivities in different populations.»

«Signaling pathways and gene expression profiles are very different in cells that grow in 2D and 3D cultures,» says Oksana Sirenko, a research scientist at Molecular Devices in Sunnyvale, California.

Xu and colleagues grew S. gallolyticus in lab dishes with several different types of human cells.

To test whether the new spheroids were a better mimic for functional dermal papilla cells than those that had been grown in typical dishes, Christiano and her team determined what genes were turned on and off in different sets of dermal papilla cells.

«Same cancer, different time zone: Cancer cells each grow at different speeds, study shows.»

They tested these drugs one at a time for lethal interaction with 112 different tumor - suppressor gene mutations in human cancer cells growing in the lab.

Part of the trouble is the ingredients: Subtle variations in tissue - culture chemicals and Matrigel, or in different stem cell lines and how they are grown first in 2 - D culture, can have a big impact on how the organoids turn out, Novitch says.

Moving forward, he was able to place these taste stem cells in a culture dish and prompt them to grow into the different mature taste cell types, thus creating a taste bud in a dish — scientifically known as taste organoids.

In fact, depending on the tumor cell, they grow at dramatically different speeds, according to a study led by Nicholas Navin, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Genetics at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

The skin's ability to grow back after a wound led scientists to assume that it must contain stem cells, immature cells that can rapidly differentiate into many different types of tissue.

Researchers have grown them from many different organs; they have also created organoids from tumor cells to mimic cancers.

«Going forward, we want to investigate the environmental factors — particularly the nutrient conditions — that cause different adipose cell types to grow,» explains biophysicist Dr. Matthias Meier.

It plays an important role in how cells sense their neighbors and, by controlling gene expression, determines which cells should develop into different types and how much they should grow - like a master controller.»

When researchers inserted the LAMB3 gene, it landed in different places in each lab - grown stem cell.

«We can engineer microbial cells to produce many different chemicals from simple sugars, but the cells would rather use those sugars to grow and reproduce.

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

By functionally linking the signal transduction of melanopsin to the control circuit of the nuclear factor of activated T cells, we have designed a synthetic signaling cascade enabling light - inducible transgene expression in different cell lines grown in culture or bioreactors or implanted into mice.

To show their program's promise beyond plant roots, the researchers also used it with a different microscope to watch groups of cells move around in growing zebrafish (Danio rerio) embryos.

«This would promote different cell types developing next to each other — which would lead the way for growing micro-organs from scratch within the lab.»

As a growing plant extends its roots into the soil, the new cells that form at their tips assume different roles, from transporting water and nutrients to sensing gravity.

The study used a well - known line of pancreatic cancer cells (AsPC - 1) in the laboratory and assessed how well this grew when treated with either the chemotherapy drug gemcitabine or different levels of commercially available chokeberry extract alone, and when treated with a combination of gemcitabine and chokeberry extract.

«There is growing evidence that breast cancer consists of different subtypes of cells including non-cancer stem cells and cancer stem cells,» said Ince, who is also associate professor of pathology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

Sheltzer's team proposes that these cells rapidly evolved to acquire different mutations that would confer a survival benefit — perhaps enabling them to grow in new environments, just as cancer cells that become metastatic evolve so as to be able to detach from their tissue of origin and grow at different sites in the body.

Stem cells are renowned for their regenerative capacity, able to grow into many different kinds of cells in the body.

An asymmetric cell division in non-stem cells can instead result in two daughter cells with very different fates, such as one large cell that reinitiates cell division prematurely and a much smaller cell that either grows very slowly or dies.

Spike and Gray grew the mammary stem cells in culture dishes and stained them so that new stem cells appeared a different color from differentiated mammary cells.

How do you get the different cell types you want or get them to grow at the rate you want?

In the new study, the researchers explored the role of cell shape in two vastly different types of epithelial cells — human bronchial epithelial cells grown in the lab and cells within the living embryo of the fruit fly — and observed them as they matured over time.

Few labs could afford to grow enough mini-brains to be useful for research, Song says, and those that did produced tissues with cells specialized for different parts of the brain mixed together at random.

Christofk studies the genes and proteins behind the way cancer cells use sugars to live and grow, which is different from how normal cells do.

«We were able to observe that the initial assembly of both MTs and F - actin are disrupted upon fertilization of the egg cell, and the growing zygote gradually aligns these fibers in a different pattern from those in the egg cell.

For many microbes, the expansion of growing cell groups toward a source of limiting nutrients tends to promote the spontaneous segregation of different strains due to genetic drift along the advancing group front [36].

As cells grow and multiply, by chance there can be uneven distribution of normal vs. abnormal DNA to different cells.