Sentences with phrase «grow into brain cells»

Even cooler, scientists are now able to «reprogram» human skin cells from patients with neurological disorders and grow them into brain cells [source: Kavli Foundation].

By adding the proper nutrients, the researchers could not only spur these stem cells to grow into brain cells — done for more than a decade — but to form little balls.

Not exact matches

Our brains are remarkably resilient, even growing new brain cells deep into adulthood, but even this incredible organ eventually ages.

Published in the February 27 issue of Cell, the study found that tumor cells that reach the brain — and successfully grow into new tumors — hug capillaries and express specific proteins that overcome the brain's natural defense against metastatic invasion.

The researchers tinkered with the voltage in cell membranes of developing African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis) and found that electric charge plays a role in how big the brain grows and what kind of tissue developing cells grow into.

They then encouraged the stem cells to grow into neurons, a type of brain cell.

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 group of really brainy scientists have moved closer to growing «therapeutic» brain cells in the laboratory that can be re-integrated back into patients» brains to treat a wide range of neurological conditions.

According to his unpublished findings, when he puts glioblastoma cells from patients into lab dishes with brain organoids, the cells attach to the surface of the organoids, burrow into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.

Another is that the transplanted bits of tumor act nothing like cancers in actual human brains, Fine and colleagues reported in 2006: Real - life glioblastomas grow and spread and resist treatment because they contain what are called tumor stem cells, but tumor stem cells don't grow well in the lab, so they don't get transplanted into those mouse brains.

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

To replicate these cell culture results, Rani used human stem cells to grow neurons into what is called a mini brain.

Investigations into human brain development using human cells in the culture dish have so far been very limited: the cells in the dish grow flat, so they do not display any three - dimensional structure.

«We showed that the presence of the maternal gut microbiota during late pregnancy blocked the passage of labeled antibodies from the circulation into the brain parenchyma of the growing fetus,» says first author Dr. Viorica Braniste at the Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology at Karolinska Institutet.

To grow larger brains, the stem cells would also have to differentiate into blood vessels to supply nutrients to the growing organoid.

Some of the injected cells grow into mature neurons and form connections with other neurons in the brain, suggesting the injected cells are functional.

The findings may even have implications for studying glioblastoma, a common brain cancer whose ability to grow, migrate and hack into the brain's blood supply appears to rely on a pattern of gene activity similar to that now identified in these neural stem cells.

These cells make brain; some will turn into dopamine cells and others will want to become forebrain — but if you already have a forebrain, growing another one is not going to help you!

The focus now is on getting better at growing the cells and turning them into the right kind of brain cell before starting new trials in patients.

Embryonic stem cells with identical genomes grow into distinctive tissues, such as heart, bone, and brain.

Human embryonic stem cells grown at the University of Wisconsin - Madison randomly changed into cell types found in the A) gut B) brain C) bone marrow D) cartilage E) muscle F) kidney Scientists haven't learned to control the development.

Thomson still supports lifting Bush's restrictions, he said, because no one knows whether the new iPS cells can match embryonic cells» knack for growing into any kind of tissue — brain cells, heart muscle, insulin - producing cells and dozens of others — in mass quantities.

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.

Brain Tumor What it is: Abnormal cells grow into a mass that interferes with brain actiBrain Tumor What it is: Abnormal cells grow into a mass that interferes with brain actibrain activity.

All carbohydrates are eventually broken down by the body into glucose, which is: — A universal fuel for most organs and tissues in our bodies — The only fuel source for our brain, red blood cells and a growing foetus, and — The main source of energy for our muscles during strenuous exercise

Scientists recently figured out that they can grow stem cells that turn into those parts of your brain.