Sentences with phrase «growing stem cells»

As part of this effort, Xu and her team discovered that growing stem cells under «simulated microgravity» for a few days stimulates the production of cardiac muscle cells, several times more effectively than regular conditions.

To get a better grasp on the problem, bioengineer Christopher Chen and colleagues at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore played with the shape of growing stem cells.

Treating the potentially blinding haze of a scar on the cornea might be as straightforward as growing stem cells from a tiny biopsy of the patient's undamaged eye and then placing them on the injury site, according to mouse model experiments conducted by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Suzuki has developed a new method of growing stem cells into muscle cells that could be more suitable for treating disease.

«Growing stem cells on synthetic surfaces with different levels of compliance showed that stem cells would become a different cell type depending solely on the mechanical environment they perceive.

Lab - grown stem cells can make the hormone EPO, which has notoriously been used in sports doping.

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

Yamanaka's technique may enable doctors to grow stem cells from adult cells of patients needing treatment.

An overarching research question is how to grow stem cells on a large enough scale to ethically treat thousands or even millions of individuals.

Nikolce Gjorevski, the first author of the study, and his colleagues used the hydrogel to grow stem cells of the gut into a miniature intestine.

When researchers inserted the LAMB3 gene, it landed in different places in each lab - grown stem cell.

The study's lead authors, Florian Merkle and Sulagna Ghosh, collaborated with Eggan and McCarroll to test whether laboratory - grown stem cells might be vulnerable to an analogous process.

Verfaillie and colleagues were trying to grow stem cells extracted from rodent mesenchyme, a component of bone marrow that contributes to fat, skeleton and muscle.

«Likely biological link found between Zika virus, microcephaly: Discovery with lab - grown stem cells could be used to identify potential therapies.»

The problem for patients with sickle cell disease is that lab - grown stem cells with their genetic material would have the sickle cell defect.

The lab - grown stem cells would also need to be tested for safety.

It took place in a controlled environment, with lab - grown stem cells.

That led to experimental attempts to grow stem cells on printed graphene and then to electrical stimulation experiments.

Human embryonic stem cells, shown growing in a «colony» in the middle of the picture above, have been an essential addition to the ever - growing stem cell family.

The HUB is founded on the pioneering work of Hans Clevers, M.D., Ph.D., who discovered methods to grow stem cell - derived human epithelial mini-organs from the tissues of patients with various diseases.

News about the 1998 discovery at the University of Wisconsin of how to extract and grow stem cells can be found at www.news.wisc.edu/packages/stemcells/3327.html (University of Wisconsin).

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.

Scientists recently figured out that they can grow stem cells that turn into those parts of your brain.

An RNA gene called Xist was spliced into lab - grown stem cells with Down's.

Not exact matches

For example, using 3 - D bioprinters — which can print the structure of human tissue with biodegradable material — and stem cells, which are used to populate the 3 - D printed structure, researchers can grow actually human tissue.

The embryos, which were genetically modified to prevent them from growing their own pancreases, were injected with mouse pluripotent stem cells that formed into a pancreas.

A research group at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center used human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) to grow human stomach tissue (paywall)-- and, notably, the part of the organ that produces digestive enzymes.

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.

«Scientists say they have replaced a 65 - year - old patient's upper jaw with a bone transplant cultivated from stem cells isolated from his own fatty tissue and grown inside his abdomen.»

His brother was a doctor and they used STEM cells to grow his finger back.

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.

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.

The thief is going to extract DNA from the heart - maybe even stem cells - are grow a new, cloned Laurence O'Toole.

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.

But more worrisome is the fact that once you've cloned the embryo to get its stem cells, you could instead decide to grow it to full term — to produce an actual clone.

The egg then grew into an early - stage embryo whose stem cells, a genetic copy of the original, were then harvested.

According to Stanford Medicine Ludwig Center, «cancer stem cells are similar to weeds in a garden — if their roots aren't taken out, the weeds are able to grow back».

Dietary laws exist in many religions, but came about so long ago that not even their prophets could have imagined a ready - to - fry beef patty grown in - vitro from the stem cells of a cow.

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

As well as allowing the use of stem cells grown from established cell lines, the technology could enable the creation of improved human tissue models for drug testing and potentially even purpose - built replacement organs.

Lab - grown tissues derived from patients» stem cells may also allow researchers to screen drugs and test their effectiveness on diseases like cancer.

To make the HSCs, the Harvard group used human skin cells to create induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), adult cells researchers genetically reprogram to an embryonic - stem - cell state, where they can grow into any kind of cell.

Famous for: Uses stem cells to grow human bone - potentially changing how surgeries are performed.

Stomach switch The key to turning pluripotent stem cells into stomach cells was a pathway of interactions that acts as a switch between growing tissues in the intestine and in the antrum, a part of the stomach near its outlet to the small intestine.

Da Cruz and his team grew replacement RPE cells from human embryonic stem cells on a thin plastic scaffold, before transplanting the tissue into the back of each volunteer's eye.

The team found that mini-brains grown using stem cells from children with autism form fewer neural connections, while those from Williams syndrome children have an abnormally high number.

STOP SIGNS Brainlike structures grown from autistic patients» stem cells (right) produced greater numbers of brain cells that make other brain cells less active (green and red) compared with structures grown from the cells of a non-autistic family member (left).

At an early stage of development, the miniature organs grown from autistic patients» stem cells also showed faster cell division rates than those grown from the cells of non-autistic relatives.

Two people with severe sight loss can now see well enough to read after receiving tissue grown from human embryonic stem cells.

Toxicologist Thomas Hartung described these minibrains, grown from stem cells derived from people's skin cells, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.