Sentences with phrase «growing in lab dishes»

But making chimeras with human organs whose development can be studied is more likely to succeed than the technique researchers have been trying for years: coaxing stem cells growing in lab dishes to become three - dimensional, functional tissues and organs.

While testing that idea, the researchers noticed something peculiar about cancerous cells that had been removed from leukemia patients and were growing in lab dishes.

But when physiologist H. Lee Sweeney of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia and his colleagues put this faulty gene into embryonic quail muscle cells growing in lab dishes, the cells made a shortened version of the protein and incorporated it into their contractile machinery.

A key difference, however, is that Dolly's donor cell came from adult udder cells growing in lab dishes (see ScienceNOW, 24 February), while the donor cells used to create the monkey clones came from early embryos.

So far, researchers have mostly turned on genes with CRISPRa in cells growing in lab dishes, says Charles Gersbach, a biomedical engineer at Duke University not involved in the new study.

The Salk team therefore took human brain organoids that had been growing in lab dishes for 31 to 50 days and implanted them into mouse brains (more than 200 so far) from which they had removed a tiny bit of tissue to make room.

Bits of kidney, liver, brain and intestine have previously been grown in a lab dish using this technique.

In experiments in human cells grown in a lab dish, the researchers showed that they could accurately label mRNA molecules and determine how frequently they are being translated.

Already, researchers have used CRISPR / Cas9 to edit genes in human cells grown in lab dishes, monkeys (SN: 3/8/14, p. 7), dogs (SN: 11/28/15, p. 16), mice and pigs (SN: 11/14/15, p. 6), yeast, fruit flies, the worm Caenorhabditis elegans, zebrafish, tobacco and rice.

Mouse brain nerve cells (green) making a disease - causing version of the tau protein were grown in lab dishes with supporting brain cells called glia.

Researchers took cells from leaves of the most productive trees and grew them in a lab dish to produce cloned seedlings.

And because CRISPR works so well in cells growing in a lab dish, some tests can forgo using animals altogether.

However, most of these efforts failed, even though the antibody - IL - 2 combination usually works very well against cancer cells grown in a lab dish.

Researchers have previously demonstrated that yeast, fruit fly cells and some types of human cells grown in lab dishes divvy up proteins unequally.

For example, researchers have demonstrated that the method can be used to treat muscular dystrophy and glaucoma in mice, render human cells grown in lab dishes resistant to HIV, and help create food crops and livestock with desirable traits.

Not exact matches

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.

Xu and colleagues grew S. gallolyticus in lab dishes with several different types of human cells.

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.

In another experiment, in lab - dish conditions, the researchers colonized roots of sterile - grown normal Arabidopsis plants with a set of 35 bacterial species isolated from roots of plants grown previously in the same native soiIn another experiment, in lab - dish conditions, the researchers colonized roots of sterile - grown normal Arabidopsis plants with a set of 35 bacterial species isolated from roots of plants grown previously in the same native soiin lab - dish conditions, the researchers colonized roots of sterile - grown normal Arabidopsis plants with a set of 35 bacterial species isolated from roots of plants grown previously in the same native soiin the same native soil.

Researchers realized that they could cut open the top of the trunks of their highest - yielding trees, extract stem cells and grow up clones by the thousands in lab dishes.

The researchers isolated tumor cells from patients and grew them to reproduce small tumors in the lab dish.

The plants grow around the lab in soil - filled flowerpots, on solid substrate in petri dishes, and on pieces of paper immersed in nutritional broth inside test tubes on racks.

To precisely map how glucose and lactate move around in the eye, Hurley and colleagues grew human RPE in a lab dish and studied its biochemistry along with that of isolated mouse retinas.

The researchers then extracted stem cells from the embryos and grew the cells in dishes in the lab.

In lab dishes with the bacterium and the fungus, P. putida grew six times as dense as did a mutant strain of the bacterium that couldn't swim.

Once they knew that AXL was present in the right locations to cause the damage that had been observed in babies, two other lab members, Elizabeth Di Lullo, PhD, and Marina Bershteyn, PhD, looked to see if the «mini-brains» — cerebral organoids that scientists grow in a dish to study neurological diseases — were also programmed to express AXL and found that they were.

Understanding this process enables Canals» lab to grow a huge number of neurons in dishes in the lab - useful both for basic research and also as a source of healthy cells for experimenting with cell transplantation.

Now biologists have used stem cells from these patients, who have a devastating disorder called Timothy syndrome, to grow their brains a second time — in miniature, in a lab dish.

They grew pancreatic cancer cells in lab dishes and fed them both glucose and fructose.

The bacteria that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum, is difficult to study in the lab, as it can't be grown in a test tube or Petri dish.