Sentences with phrase «grow embryonic cells»

«If we can grow embryonic cells and keep them alive, this technology could be important in battling those coral diseases.»

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To make the HSCs, the Harvard group used human skin cells to create induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), adult cells researchers genetically reprogram to an embryonic - stem - cell state, where they can grow into any kind of cell.

Da Cruz and his team grew replacement RPE cells from human embryonic stem cells on a thin plastic scaffold, before transplanting the tissue into the back of each volunteer's eye.

Two people with severe sight loss can now see well enough to read after receiving tissue grown from human embryonic stem cells.

The researchers say that they can grow the stomach organoids from both embryonic stem cells and skin cells induced to pluripotency.

To get more cells, researchers from Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Mass., grew clusters of human embryonic cells in a precise cocktail of growth factors and other cell - regulating chemicals that took several years to work out, says Robert Lanza, the firm's vice president of research and scientific developmCell Technology in Worcester, Mass., grew clusters of human embryonic cells in a precise cocktail of growth factors and other cell - regulating chemicals that took several years to work out, says Robert Lanza, the firm's vice president of research and scientific developmcell - regulating chemicals that took several years to work out, says Robert Lanza, the firm's vice president of research and scientific development.

In addition, where cells derived from embryonic stem cells are great at proliferating — a potentially critical feature if one wants to grow sufficient numbers of cells for clinical use — ones from the iPS lines were much feebler.

Yoshiki Sasai at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan, and colleagues encouraged embryonic stem cells to develop into retinal cells, and then grew them alongside a protein matrix to promote the formation of tissue.

Stem cells from breast milk can grow into many other kinds of human tissue, raising hopes of an ethical source of embryonic - like stem cells

As a graduate student at Princeton University, Moshe Pritsker tried in vain to grow a culture of embryonic stem cells from instructions laid out in the methods section of a journal article.

Also participating in this research were Prof. Jacob Hanna, who assisted with growing the embryonic stem cells, and research student Aditya Kshirsagar in Prof. Reiner's group.

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.

But it seemed unlikely, because the body coverings were thought to grow differently: Feathers and hair develop from specialized plates of thickened ectoderm — an embryonic cell layer — called anatomical placodes, structures not seen in reptiles.

The team used human embryonic stem cells — which can transform into any cell of the body — and cultured them in a mixture of chemicals to grow human brain cells.

A molecular switch that seems to be essential for embryonic heart cells to grow into more mature, adult - like heart cells has been discovered.

It isn't clear exactly why the differences fade, Hochedlinger says, but it may be that the expression of embryonic genes is strengthened as the cells grow in culture, gradually overwriting the cells» old gene - expression patterns.

Because burgeoning teeth depend on information from the budding embryonic jaw, work toward generating replacement teeth from dental stem cells focuses on growing them in the desired location in the recipient's mouth — but scientists are not yet sure the adult jaw can provide the necessary signals to shape made - to - order teeth.

Melton's ultimate goal is to discover how embryonic stem cells grow into special cells called islets in the pancreas.

Starting in the mid-2000s, Yoshiki Sasai's team at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan, demonstrated how to grow brainlike structures using embryonic stem cells, first from mice and then humans.

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.

You know, ideally you'd be able to take embryonic stem cells or adult stem cells and grow them, you know, ideally they just double and redouble infinitely, in the case of embryonic stem cells.

EYE CANDY Researchers grew primitive retinas (one shown, with proteins that collect and transmit light signals in green and red) by embedding mouse embryonic stem cells in a gel.

The researchers placed an embryonic rat brain cell in each well; as the cells grew, they sent out long dendrite arms through the tunnels toward neighboring wells.

It performs this critical service in embryonic development, growing organisms and in a few specialized adult cell lines, including stem cells.

Other researchers grew organoids from induced pluripotent stem cells, which resemble embryonic stem cells but are grown from adult cells.

The work was led by Dan S. Kaufman, a hematologist, and James A. Thomson, the first scientist to grow human embryonic stem cells in culture.

A tooth grown from embryonic cells has been successfully transplanted into the jaw of a mouse.

THE world's first cloned human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) are here, but they can't yet be used to grow tissues for transplant because they have an extra set of chromosomes.

Ottmar Wiestler and Oliver Brüstle intend to grow neural transplantation cells using human embryonic stem cells, in a project that has been scientifically approved.

Twenty percent of the cells cloned in this way grew into early embryos, called blastocysts, and 5 percent of them yielded embryonic stem cells, which is comparable with results obtained from unfertilized eggs.

When he injected mice with embryonic stem cells genetically identical to the mice's own tissues, the new cells thrived, growing into a large clump of adult tissues.

Scientists have already reported progress in growing precursor cells for eggs and sperm from both iPS and embryonic stem cell lines.

In the decade since the first human embryonic stem cells were isolated, the science surrounding stem cells has grown dramatically.

These are images of mouse embryonic stem cells which grow in a round colony of cells (A) and express Sox2 (B), shown in red.

Scientists have suggested that such embryonic stem cells could be used for learning about genetic diseases, testing new drugs on cells grown in the lab, or growing healthy cells for therapeutic transplantation.

But when physiologist H. Lee Sweeney of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia and his colleagues put this faulty gene into embryonic quail muscle cells growing in lab dishes, the cells made a shortened version of the protein and incorporated it into their contractile machinery.

Other researchers had successfully used a similar process to turn skin cells into embryonic - like cells called induced pluripotent stem cells, and then grow those iPS cells into nerve cells, but Wernig's lab was the first to convert skin cells directly into nerve cells without the intermediate iPS cell step.

The group reported growing multiple parthenogenetic embryonic stem cell lines by incubating eggs in a warm, low - oxygen culture medium.

Tooth development is the complex process by which teeth form from embryonic cells, grow, and erupt into the mouth.

In previous experiments, Isacson and his colleagues had found that undifferentiated embryonic stem cells, when injected into animals, seemed eager to become neurons; the problem was they frequently grew out of control and formed tumorous growths.

In a series of studies published since 2009, researchers in Wells» laboratory used human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) to grow embryonic - stage small intestines with a functioning nervous system, and the antrum and fundus regions of the human stomach.

Muscle cells are stained green in this micrograph of cells grown from embryonic stem cells.

In 2009, Reijo Pera showed that it is possible to generate functional, sperm - producing germ cells from human embryonic stem cells grown under certain conditions in the laboratory.

by Paroma Basu Scientists grow critical nerve cells MADISON, WI — January 31, 2005 — After years of trial and error, scientists have coaxed human embryonic stem cells to become spinal motor neurons, critical nervous system pathways that relay messages from the brain to the rest of the body.

NeuroStemcell is focused on the identification and systematic comparison of progenitor cell lines with the most favourable characteristics for mesDA and striatal GABAergic neuronal differentiation, generated either directly from human embryonic stem (ES) cells, from Neural Stem (NS) cells derived from ES cells or fetal brain, from induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) cells or from in vitro short - term expanded neural progenitors from ventral midbrain grown as neurospheres (VMN, Ventral Midbrain Neurospheres) 4, and perform rigorous and systematic testing of the most prominent candidate cells in appropriate animals models.

Then there are stem cells, which tantalize with their myriad possibilities: allowing diabetics to throw away their insulin, growing healthy cardiac tissue after a heart attack, restoring function to people with spinal cord injury (for which the Food and Drug Administration just approved the first embryonic stem cell trial).

About 10 years ago, Zhang was the first in the world to grow motor neurons from human embryonic stem cells.

Tensions are growing in Berlin ahead of a parliamentary vote that medical scientists say will determine whether or not Germany can continue to participate effectively in embryonic stem cell research.

Something about the environment of the egg again turned on all of the genes in what had been a differentiated nucleus, reprogramming the adult DNA to its embryonic state, and the newly pluripotent cell was able to grow into a tadpole.

For the first time since the linkurl: National Institutes of Health; http://www.nih.gov/ released its new guidelines for the derivation of human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines last summer, a line approved under the Bush administration has been recommended for inclusion into the growing federal registry of lines eligible for federal funding.