Sentences with phrase «growing in culture dishes»

One major roadblock, Miglietta told me, is that most of the work on transcription factors has been done on cells grown in a culture dish.

Figure 1: New progenitor cells produced from existing cells in the eye growing in culture dish.

The researchers showed that inhibiting SIRT1 increased levels of both the acetylated tau and the p - tau in neurons grown in culture dishes.

The scientists explored this possibility in mouse neurons grown in culture dishes.

Manipulating genes and then sorting through many cells to find the desired alterations wasn't possible with these cells because scientists couldn't grow them in the culture dishes where such maneuvers would take place.

Not exact matches

A California native, Christina grew up in a culture that placed emphasis on dishes created around a diversity of fruits and vegetables with a wide variety of flavors.

For nearly 100 years, the only microbes that biologists could study in detail were those that could be cultured — grown in a petri dish.

To grow these microorganism cultures in the lab, researchers house samples in petri dishes lined with a nourishing gel mixture derived from algae called agar growth media.

Scientists at KU Leuven (University of Leuven), Belgium, have succeeded in growing three - dimensional cultures of the endometrium, the uterus» inner lining, in a dish.

To find out, they put droplets of culture medium that cancer cells had grown in on one side of petri dishes.

Traditional techniques for identifying microbes rely on growing them in Petri dishes, but gut bacteria are particularly tricky to culture.

They then grew the mammary buds in culture dishes for five days.

In one study, published today in PLoS ONE, the researchers grew rat neurons in a culture dish and then attached them to a sheet of stretchy polymeIn one study, published today in PLoS ONE, the researchers grew rat neurons in a culture dish and then attached them to a sheet of stretchy polymein PLoS ONE, the researchers grew rat neurons in a culture dish and then attached them to a sheet of stretchy polymein a culture dish and then attached them to a sheet of stretchy polymer.

Moving forward, he was able to place these taste stem cells in a culture dish and prompt them to grow into the different mature taste cell types, thus creating a taste bud in a dish — scientifically known as taste organoids.

In cells grown on flat culture dishes, the expression of thousands of genes didn't match up with their normal patterns, explaining why the cells from those dishes had been unable to generate new hair follicles.

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Petri - dish cultures grew into flat cell sheets, while those in a weightless chamber grew into 3 - D spheres.

The researchers, led by University of California, San Diego neuroscientist Mark Tuszynski, took skin cells from the patients, grew them up in a culture dish and genetically engineered them to make human nerve growth factor (NGF).

Cultured in petri dishes, foreign - specific cells grew easily whereas self - specific cells languished.

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.

Scientists at the Institute of Reconstructive Neurobiology at the University of Bonn applied a recent development in stem cell research to tackle this limitation: they grew three - dimensional organoids in the cell culture dish, the structure of which is incredibly similar to that of the human brain.

All human cell lines growing in tissue culture dishes, and about 95 % of cells in a human being, split evenly, resulting in daughter cells of equal size.

The research builds on the team's previous work with a technique called three - dimensional culture, which involves incubating stem cells in a floating ball - shaped aggregate, unlike traditional cell culture in which cells grow in a flat layer on the surface of a culture dish.

Spike and Gray grew the mammary stem cells in culture dishes and stained them so that new stem cells appeared a different color from differentiated mammary cells.

Immature sympathetic neurons were seeded into the central chamber in the presence of NGF and allowed to send out growing fibers under the silicon barriers along scratches made on the bottom of the culture dish.

«We can take human brown fat precursor cells, grow them in Petri dishes and then culture them to become energy - dissipating cells,» says Dr. Tseng.

Because neurodegenerative disorders like PD are largely diseases of aging, modeling them in a culture dish using neurons grown from iPS cells has been thought to be exceedingly difficult, if not impossible.

As part of one of his projects Shain tried to culture neurons, which means he tried to grow them in a petri dish (or, if you want to sound scientific you can say he was growing them in vitro, which is Latin for «in glass»).

culture (in microbiology) To grow cells outside the body or their normal environment, usually in a beaker, a laboratory dish or some big vessel.

To grow the stem cells, scientists remove them from the blastocyst and culture them (grow them in a nutrient - rich solution) in a Petri dish in the laboratory.

culture (v. in microbiology) To grow cells outside the body or their normal environment, usually in a beaker, a laboratory dish or some big vessel.

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.

Making a dish like this as Christmas approaches is a fun way of looking at different lives in different places, as well as exploring the food cultures of countries like Uganda and what is eaten and grown there.