Sentences with phrase «growing new organs»

Humans might not want spare eyeballs on their backs, but the same technique could be useful for growing new organs to replace damaged ones, or for developing therapies to repair damaged nerve connections.

Since embryonic stem cells can differentiate into any type of tissue, they have the potential to treat an almost unending array of medical conditions — replacing damaged or lost body parts or tissues, slowing degenerative diseases, even growing new organs.

The secret to repairing our tissues and growing new organs is getting all touchy - feely with cells

The eight - episode run includes shows like «Robot Revolution,» detailing the rise of robots in search - and - rescue and battlefield missions, and «Re-Gen Revolution,» a look at how scientists will grow new organs and tissue in the lab.

Not exact matches

Our brains are remarkably resilient, even growing new brain cells deep into adulthood, but even this incredible organ eventually ages.

Using the gene - editing tool CRISPR - Cas9 to turn off certain genes in a mouse zygote as well as other new techniques to enrich the pluripotent stem cells of a rat, the group managed to grow various rat organs (a pancreas, heart, and eyes) in a mouse embryo.

Because, as Belmonte rightly explains, the new «precisely targeted» tools can help us «study species evolution, biology and disease, and may lead ultimately to the ability to grow human organs for transplant.»

Adult stem - cells are now being used to grow new body - parts that can be implanted with no risk of rejection, the latter being the single largest cause of organ rejection and subsequent death.

Others bury the placenta under a new tree, as a symbol for the placenta acting like the «tree of life» for the baby and believing the organ will bring richness to the soil to help the tree grow.

Your body is going through so many changes during pregnancy; your hormone levels are rising, you're developing a whole new organ, and of course growing another human being!

«Each year the waiting list for organ transplants grows longer, with nearly 10,000 New Yorkers currently awaiting a transplant in this state alone,» said Senate Health Committee Chairman Kemp Hannon.

Senate Health Committee Chair Kemp Hannon said, «Each year the wait list for organ transplants grows longer, with nearly 10,000 New Yorkers currently awaiting transplant.

Lagasse, based at Pitt's McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, has discovered how to turn any one of the body's 500 lymph nodes — the small, oval - shaped organs where immune cells gather to fight invading pathogens — into an incubator that can grow an entirely new liver.

«Using a new layer - by - layer fabrication process, we created a microfluidic environment in which TEER - measuring electrodes are integral components of the chip architecture and are positioned as close as possible to the tissues grown in one or both of two parallel running channels,» said Olivier Henry, Ph.D., a Wyss Institute Staff Engineer who was the driving force behind the new Organ Chip designs.

The new cells grow around the protein scaffold, building a complete organ.

A group of rats in New Haven, Connecticut, have offered living, breathing proof that scientists are learning how to grow replacements for vital organs.

An ear scaffold, left, provides the structure to grow human cells.A kidney stripped of cells, right, awaits an injection of human kidney cells, part of the process of engineering a new organ.

Placentas support the fetus and mother, but those organs grow according to blueprints from dad, according to new research at Cornell University.

New research raises hopes that someday this problem could be skirted with customized organs grown from the recipient's own stem cells.

The work breaks new ground, says Anthony Atala, the only scientist to have grown and transplanted entire organs — bladders — in the lab.

To achieve this, the researchers needed new equipment — a platform that would allow tissues to grow and interact with each other — as well as engineered tissue that would accurately mimic the functions of human organs.

More broadly, the biggest change that I think will come is the ability to grow new tissues and organs, combined with the ability to implant machines in people.

That means they have the potential to repair damaged tissue and even grow into new organs.

«Human inner ear organs grown: Could lead to new therapies for hearing, balance impairments.»

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.

«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.

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.

Although they conjure up images of science fiction, organoids are actually the quirky new name for mini, lab - grown models of human organs.

At the growing tip of plants sits a reservoir for stem cells, called the meristem, from which new organs, such as leaves, arise.

They could also be used in medical and surgical applications, like new flexible endoscopes that are able to steer and grow in delicate human organs.