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Read about the latest in quantum computing, advancements in
growing organs from stem cells, the discovery of Earth's biggest volcano and signs of life on Mars — just a few of the top science stories of 2013.
Not exact matches
Waiting lists for
organ transplants always seem to
grow and, even when transplanted,
organs from another person's body may be rejected, so there is a real need for alternatives to traditional transplants.
Are they going to deny people
from receiving custom
grown organ replacements because its «not part of God's plan»?
The blood travels quicker
from the
organs to the muscles, providing a steady stream of nutrients, helping the muscles regenerate themselves and
grow.
As your baby
grows inside you, you'll feel the increased pressure
from the baby's weight on your internal
organs every time you sleep on your back.
This
organ is built up of cells
from Mom and baby and it is the conduit with which baby is fed, nourished and through which it
grows in utero.
It comes
from the uterus, the
organ inside a woman's body where a baby
grows.
As well as allowing the use of stem cells
grown from established cell lines, the technology could enable the creation of improved human tissue models for drug testing and potentially even purpose - built replacement
organs.
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.
«The researchers have taken a technique that most in the field thought would be impossible for complex
organs such as the kidney, and have painstakingly developed a method to make it work,» says Jamie Davies at the University of Edinburgh, UK, who was part of a team that last year made some headway in their attempts to
grow kidneys
from scratch in the lab.
It now turns out that Yushchenko was probably saved by the benign but ugly lumps called hamartomas that
grew on his face and body — seen in the December 2004 photo below — which helped isolate the dioxin
from his vital
organs.
«If this technology can be scaled to human - size grafts, patients suffering
from renal failure, who are currently waiting for donor kidneys, could theoretically receive an
organ grown on demand,» says Harald Ott, head of the team that developed the rat kidneys at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
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.
The same observations were made in organoids (artificially
grown masses of cells that resemble an
organ) created
from unique basal progenitor cells that were isolated
from the gastroesophageal junction in mice and humans.
The material — made
from nanosized whiskers of cellulose — is also lighter than conventional paper and could provide sturdy scaffolds for
growing replacement tissues and
organs.
Some are even trying to
grow organs in vitro
from single cells.»
In humans, the goal of SCNT is «nonreproductive cloning» — making embryos, then removing stem cells
from the embryo and cultivating them to
grow into tissues that could cure diseases, replace
organs and heal injuries.
Two weeks later,
organs and intracardiac blood were collected
from the mice and
grown in dishes.
Human cells extracted
from an
organ can be
grown on the polymer or on the membrane.
Although the organoids don't
grow enough to replicate entire human
organs, these mini-versions can mimic the 3 - D cellular infrastructure of everything
from our guts to our lungs.
The strand of DNA clues leads him to an in vitro fertilization clinic, where a genius embryologist, suffering
from multiple
organ dysfunction syndrome, gene - edited the unborn babies of his patients to
grow a stock of compatible transplant
organs for himself.
«Transplant tourism
from the United States is
growing in direct correlation to the
organ shortage,» says Mt. Sinai liver doctor Thomas Schiano, who published H. Q.'s case in Liver Transplantation in 2010.
Then she read a newspaper article about a child with CF named Fabian whose life had been saved after scientists
grew a «mini-
organ»
from a tissue sample snipped
from his colon, one
organ that CF affects.
Researchers have
grown them
from many different
organs; they have also created organoids
from tumor cells to mimic cancers.
Placentas support the fetus and mother, but those
organs grow according to blueprints
from dad, according to new research at Cornell University.
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.
Soon, the lab began culturing LGR5 - positive cells and
growing organoids
from the stomach, liver, and other
organs.
New research raises hopes that someday this problem could be skirted with customized
organs grown from the recipient's own stem cells.
These masses of blood cells can
grow big enough to choke off veins and arteries, preventing oxygen
from flowing to critical
organs.
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 example, there is a huge amount of interest and excitement globally in
growing cerebral organoids» — miniature brain - like
organs that can be studied in laboratory experiments — «
from stem cells to model human brain development and disease mechanisms.
Macchiarini produced artificial windpipes by taking a polymer scaffold and «seeding» it with stem cells
from the recipient, which he claimed colonized the scaffold and eventually
grew into a living
organ.
«Our dream is to be able to
grow complete
organs as a way of overcoming the current shortage
from donors.»
In recent years, researchers in various fields have begun to
grow tiny
organs from human stem cells to get a better view of development and disease, and speed the search for new drugs.
With Belcher's nanoparticles, surgeons should be able to spot and remove tiny clusters of just a few cells, even when they're hidden behind other
organs, thus preventing those seeds
from growing into major malignancies.
Single - cell technologies will be applied to experimental model systems such as organoids, miniature
organs grown in the petri dish
from one or more cells.
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.
He has a grant
from a private foundation for the research, but the NIH award would have let him move more quickly toward the ultimate goal:
growing human
organs in pigs for transplantation.
Pluripotent stem cells,
from a slightly later stage, can give rise to any specific tissue, but they fail to support more fundamental development such as
growing organs for transplantation or building new mouse models.
Scientists in Japan said Wednesday they had
grown human liver tissue
from stem cells in a first that holds promise for alleviating the critical shortage of donor
organs.
An organoid is a simplified version of an
organ grown from a single human cell.
Organoids — miniature versions of
organs grown in vitro
from tissue - specific progenitor cells — were first produced in 2013.
As inaugural director of the Transplantation Institute, Fung will work with faculty
from multiple academic departments to
grow UChicago Medicine's programs in solid
organ transplantation.
At the
growing tip of plants sits a reservoir for stem cells, called the meristem,
from which new
organs, such as leaves, arise.
These foods were all rich in the fat - soluble activators (vitamins A, D and K) and included liver and other
organ meats, butter
from cows eating rapidly
growing spring grass, fish liver and fish liver oils, raw milk, fish eggs and other seafood, and certain animal fats.
It is found in certain fatty parts of animals that feed on young green
growing plants or microorganisms, such as
organ meats, fish and shellfish, fish eggs and butter
from cows eating rapidly
growing green grass of spring and fall pasturage.
By activators, he was referring to vitamins A and D, and what he called Activator X (now believed to be Vitamin K2), found only in certain sea foods such as shellfish, fish livers and fish eggs, in butterfat and
organ meats
from animals eating rapidly
growing green grass, and in lesser amounts in eggs
from pastured chickens and the fat of certain animals such as the guinea pig.
Price found the X Factor in butter
from cows eating rapidly
growing green grass, fish eggs, some (but not all) samples of cod liver oil and certain animal fats and
organ meats.
Dr. Price discovered an additional fat - soluble nutrient, which he labeled Activator X, that is present in fish livers and shellfish, and
organ meats and butter
from cows eating rapidly
growing green grass in the spring and fall.