Sentences with phrase «growing cell in our body»

Her doctor suggested Erbitux — a proven cancer drug that targets cancer cells exclusively, unlike conventional chemotherapies that more crudely kill all fast - growing cells in the body — and Aucoin went to a clinic to begin treatment.

Every growing cell in our body is provided with oxygen and nutrients via our blood vessels.

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Based on a 3D image such as an MRI scan, Aspect's machine builds relatively complex organic structures out of a «hydrogel» embedded within cells taken from the body and grown in a cell culture.

In November the Lancet published the results of an international research project whereby a Colombian lady received a new trachea (windpipe) which had been grown from a donor trachea (as it were, a «scaffold») repopulated with stem cells, for the very first time, from the patient's own body.

As a physics teacher, I teach the therapeutic effects of gamma radiation in radiotherapy, along with the associated dangers (radiation can cause cells to become cancerous as well as kill cells that are already cancerous), but a common misconception among students is that cancer cells are rather like viruses or bacteria, a sort of alien cell that has entered the body, growing out of control with little relation to the surrounding cells.

Fetal stem cells, which may turn out to be useful for treating conditions like Parkinson's, need to be cloned — that is, researchers need to take a cell from a body, put it in an embryo, and grow that embryo to a certain small size before harvesting the stem cells.

Cell replication allows our bodies to grow and develop, yet can result in cancer when natural processes misfire.

As parents gaze at their newborn; talk gently; use soft, higher - pitched voices; and are positive, warm, and encouraging, their brain's gray matter, or cell bodies, actually grow in the emotion and thought regions that support parenting behaviors.

Amino acids are the building blocks of protein and your body breaks down protein from animal and plant sources in your diet to provide the amino acids required for your cells and your growing baby.

Endometriosis occurs in women when cells from the lining of the womb grown in other areas of the body.

This formula is fortified with iron, which is crucial to your baby's development, especially in the production of more red blood cells to transport the oxygen through your baby's growing body.

A growing body of research indicates that the B2M - MHC I complex, which is present in all cells in the body except red blood cells and plasma cells, can act in the brain in ways not obviously related to immunity — guiding brain development, shaping nerve cell communication, and even affecting behavior.

Cancer cells can break away from a primary tumor, penetrate into lymphatic and blood vessels, circulate through the bloodstream, and grow in a distant focus (metastasize) in normal tissues elsewhere in the body.

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Growing to just one millimeter in length, these simple creatures have only 302 neurons, or nerve cells, in their bodies, a tiny fraction of the 80 billion or so neurons in the human brain.

Dr Claudia Wellbrock, study author and Cancer Research UK scientist at The University of Manchester and a member of the Manchester Cancer Research Centre, said: «We used to think that cancer cells spread by first specialising in invading other parts of the body and then change in order to grow rapidly.

We found that the inflammation unfortunately gets hijacked by tumor cells that are able to grow faster and penetrate deeper because the blood vessels in the brain are more permeable than in any other part of the body.

When the scientists inserted human colorectal cancer cells into zebrafish embryos and allowed them to grow for 4 days, the resulting tumors showed three hallmarks of human solid tumors: rapid cell division, formation of blood vessels to supply nutrients, and the ability to spread to other locations in the body.

By studying infected cells grown in a laboratory, the team found that a large number of CMV's genes help it hide from the immune system by allowing it to destroy many of the proteins produced by the body during virus infection and preventing them from activating immune cells to destroy the virus.

During the active disease stage of JIA, these cells expand, grow in number, re-circulate through inflamed areas of patients» body, and migrate to the connective tissue of patients» joints.

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.

By that stage, cells from the fungus have grown even more numerous in the ant's body.

«Starting with pluripotent stem cells that are not muscle cells, but can become all existing cells in our body, allows us to grow an unlimited number of myogenic progenitor cells,» said Nenad Bursac, professor of biomedical engineering at Duke University.

It's fairly easy to make iPSCs from a person's cells, which then have the potential to grow into any type of cell in the body.

While T cells can not prevent infection, they reduce the virus» ability to grow and spread in the body.

Those genetically corrected skin cells grew into sheets that surgeons grafted onto the boy's body in two surgeries in October and November 2015.

So although it is possible to get mouse heart cells to twitch with an electrical jolt, it is not yet possible to grow the necessary connections to the rest of the body while the new heart is put in place.

The work, funded by national charity Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund, uncovers new evidence that PAK4 plays a key role in enabling cancer cells to grow and to spread from the pancreas into other areas of the body, a process called metastasis.

This neural highway might be especially important in pancreatic cancer, they say, because it grows fewer blood vessels that can carry cancer cells to the rest of the body.

«I think that we've produced a 3 - D microenvironment which is much more like that found in vivo for growing embryoid body, which explains the higher levels of cell proliferation.»

«Because the primary Small Intestine Chip recapitulates the physical microenvironment that cells experience inside the human body, such as fluid flow and cyclic peristalsis - like stretching motions, it exhibits a genome - wide gene expression profile that comes closer to its in vivo counterpart than that of the same intestinal cells grown as 3D organoids,» said first - author Magdalena Kasendra, Ph.D., a former Postdoctoral Fellow on Ingber's team and now Principal Scientist at Emulate, Inc. in Boston.

Using a technique that introduces tiny wrinkles into sheets of graphene, researchers from Brown University have developed new textured surfaces for culturing cells in the lab that better mimic the complex surroundings in which cells grow in the body.

Scientists had high hopes for reprogrammed stem cells, which could be derived from a patient's own tissue and grown into any type of cell in the body.

The experiment shows that precursor cells can develop into functional organs when placed within the body of an adult mammal, says Takebe, who hopes to use the technique to grow organs in nonhuman primates and eventually in humans.

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.

Before scientists and engineers can realize the dream of using stem cells to create replacements for worn out organs and battle damaged body parts, they'll have to develop ways to grow complex three - dimensional structures in large volumes and at costs that won't bankrupt health care systems.

These cancer cells tend to be slow growing, and so the cancer does not spread to other sites in the body as quickly.

The study, funded by the Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund, examined the role of Hedgehog, whose usual job is to send signals to cells in embryos to divide and grow into the correct body parts.

Shape is thought to play an important role in the effectiveness of cells grown to repair or replace damaged tissue in the body.

In the new research, Prins and Liau used a technique called adoptive cell transfer, which involves extracting and growing immune cells outside of the body, then reprogramming them with a gene known as New York Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma, or NY - ESO cell transfer, which involves extracting and growing immune cells outside of the body, then reprogramming them with a gene known as New York Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma, or NY - ESO Cell Carcinoma, or NY - ESO - 1.

From directing the fate of stem cells to determining how tall we grow, the genes in our body act in complex networks.

IPS cells are grown in culture from body cells, through the addition of genes that cause them to revert to pluripotency — the stage in which they can potentially develop into any type of body cell.

The biggest problem for transplanted stem cells, Bulte says, is that they're initially grown in a dish with ready access to oxygen, then put in the body, where levels are relatively low.

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.

«A growing body of evidence suggests that exosomes can facilitate crosstalk between cancer cells and other types of cells that are nearby in the microenvironment that surrounds the tumor,» said Hongyun Zhao, the first author of the eLife study.

The altered cells are then reinfused into the patient's body, where they disperse and multiply in order to identify and destroy rapidly growing tumor cells.

The therapeutic promise of stem cell research rests on using pluripotent stem cells, which can be grown into many of the types of cells found in the human body.

Usually cells from different animals can't grow in each other's» bodies.