Sentences with phrase «growing blood stem»

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It's a rich source of stem cells, particularly those that can grow into tissues, organs, and blood vessels.

They found 60 per cent fewer blood vessels surrounding tumour - like tissue grown from Down's stem cells than those from other volunteers.

«Our work illustrates that this exquisite control mechanism — regulated by PUS7 and pseudouridine — is critical to adjusting the amount of proteins needed for human stem cells to grow and produce blood,» says Cristian Bellodi.

The researchers also found that arteries and veins from the macaques» hearts grew into the new heart tissue, the first time it has been shown that blood vessels from a host animal will grow into and nurture a large stem - cell derived graft of this type.

Enabling scientists to grow the stem cells artificially from pluripotent stem cells could also lead to the development of personalized blood therapies, researchers say.

I couldn't resist composing this after the mention of the charmingly misspelled word «hematopoetic» in your story on blood grown in the lab from stem cells (12 November, p 8):

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.

Transplants grown from stem cells in the lab can help replenish the blood and have been used to cure anaemia in mice.

As expected, white blood cells grown from these altered stem cells were resistant to HIV upon testing.

As expected, white blood cells grown from these altered stem cells were resistant to HIV (PNAS, doi.org/s5t).

The researchers coaxed white blood cells from humans and other apes into forming stem cells, from which they grew organoids.

Using stem cells from umbilical cord blood, researchers are growing clusters of real liver cells in the lab.

Induced pluripotent stem cells grown from blood (left) are nearly identical to those grown more easily from skin (right).

The technology to grow NK cells from umbilical cord blood was developed by Nina Shah, M.D., assistant professor and Elizabeth J. Shpall, M.D., professor in the department of Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

And from those stem cells, scientists were able to grow nerve cells, blood cells and heart muscle cells.

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

Researchers found that the tiny amount of stem cells harvested from one cord blood source was not enough to serve a full - grown adult.

Bone marrow contains immature stem cells that can grow into three types of cells: red blood cells, to transport oxygen; white blood cells, for fighting infections; and platelets, to facilitate clotting when needed.

Eight weeks after the Northwestern researchers implanted the hyperelastic bone, they found that new blood vessels had grown into their scaffold — a necessary step to keep bone - forming tissue alive — and calcified bone started to form from the rats» existing stem cells.

To solve that problem, the researchers started with patients» blood cells and reprogrammed them into so - called induced pluripotent stem cells, which can make any other cell in the body and grow indefinitely in the laboratory.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins have successfully corrected a genetic error in stem cells from patients with sickle cell disease, and then used those cells to grow mature red blood cells, they report.

«Once again we used the stem cells of the patients to grow a new blood vessel that would permit the two organs to collaborate properly,» Professor Olausson says.

Cheng notes that to become medically useful, the technique of growing blood cells from stem cells will have to be made even more efficient and scaled up significantly.

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.

«Stem Cells From Hair Follicles May Help «Grow» New Blood Vessels.»

These reinfused stem cells grow into (and restore) the body's blood cells.

Umbilical cord blood can be harvested and the embryonic stem cells grown in culture.

Though our understanding of why these cancers occur is still evolving, we believe these MPNs can arise from a common cause: genetic alterations within the stem cell that change the way these blood cells grow and divide.

«Our method not only uses soluble factors that guide kidney development in the embryo but, by growing and differentiating stem cells on extracellular matrix components that are also contained in the membrane separating the glomerular blood and urinary systems, we more closely mimic the natural environment in which podocytes are induced and mature,» said Musah.

After a very extended childhood spent dividing in a culture dish, even stem cells tend to grow up and assume adult roles as workaday nerve, muscle, or blood cells, never to return to their youthful state.

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 tisStem Cell Factor (SCF) stimulates your native inactive stem cells to become activated and assist in the repair of the damaged tisstem cells to become activated and assist in the repair of the damaged tissue.

Because the problem stems from blood supply problems, and because the animal is still growing, hip replacement is not typically an option.