Sentences with phrase «growing such an organ»

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«The researchers have taken a technique that most in the field thought would be impossible for complex organs such as the kidney, and have painstakingly developed a method to make it work,» says Jamie Davies at the University of Edinburgh, UK, who was part of a team that last year made some headway in their attempts to grow kidneys from scratch in the lab.

It has been particularly difficult to measure changes in electrical functions of cells grown within Organ Chips that are normally electrically active, such as neuronal cells in the brain or beating heart cells, both during their differentiation and in response to drugs.

As it can take weeks to grow human cells into intact differentiated and functional tissues within Organ Chips, such as those that mimic the lung and intestine, and researchers seek to understand how drugs, toxins or other perturbations alter tissue structure and function, the team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering led by Donald Ingber has been searching for ways to non-invasively monitor the health and maturity of cells cultured within these microfluidic devices over extended times.

This suggests someday it may be possible to grow a human organ, such as a pancreas, inside a pig and then transplant it into a diabetic patient.

The heart is an amazingly adaptable organ, responding to the needs of the organism throughout life, such as through periods of increased demand by pumping harder, faster, and also growing to accommodate longer - term requirements such as that experienced in pregnancy or as a response to intense exercise.

As tumors grow and develop, they shed micro-metastases, clusters of a few cells that take up residence in far - flung organs such as the brain, liver and bone.

Problems arise, however, when low - birth - weight babies are fed diets rich in sugars or fat, which stress their smaller organs, such as pancreases, for example, leading to diabetes — or when fast - growing children face famine.

But piecing together how and where growing tubes branch has proved complicated — not least because such organs are difficult to observe while they are growing.

Single - cell technologies will be applied to experimental model systems such as organoids, miniature organs grown in the petri dish from one or more cells.

These human - pig «chimeras» were not allowed to develop past the fetal stage, but the experiment suggests such creations could eventually be used to grow fully human organs for transplant, easing the fatal shortage of organs: 120,000 people in the United States are waiting for lifesaving transplants, but every day two dozen die before they get them.

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.

It stimulates the stem cells to grow and form more stem cells, or to change into different cells that form complex organs, such as the breast.

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

To summarize, traditional fermented soy products such as miso, natto and tempeh - which are usually made with organically grown soybeans - have a long history of use that is generally beneficial when combined with other elements of the Oriental diet including rice, sea foods, fish broth, organ meats and fermented vegetables.

It is found in certain fatty parts of animals that feed on young green growing plants or microorganisms, such as organ meats, fish and shellfish, fish eggs and butter from cows eating rapidly growing green grass of spring and fall pasturage.

In the first recorded volume of my Latest in Nutrition series back in 2007, we learned that meat is so packed with sex steroid hormones that when pregnant women eat meat, it may affect the development of their sons» genital organs while still in the womb — such that when they grow up, they have decreased fertility.

This helps organs, joints and vessels «stretch» for a growing child, such as the rapid growth of the uterus.

By activators, he was referring to vitamins A and D, and what he called Activator X (now believed to be Vitamin K2), found only in certain sea foods such as shellfish, fish livers and fish eggs, in butterfat and organ meats from animals eating rapidly growing green grass, and in lesser amounts in eggs from pastured chickens and the fat of certain animals such as the guinea pig.

Eating a nourishing, traditional diet while pregnant and breastfeeding and ensuring that growing children receive regular and sufficient quantities of optimal growth encouraging foods such as cream, butter, ghee, egg yolks, fish eggs, grassfed and organ meats for development of a sturdy intestinal system is the best insurance policy against ever needing any sort of special diet to combat allergy or other autoimmune issues.

These mixes are packed with vitamins and nutrients, such as calcium, that help bones, muscles, organs and joints grow.

Tumors can grow on both anal sacs, but they more commonly only affect one, and often spread to other organs, such as the liver and lungs.

In addition, the bacteria that grow and multiply in this environment can cause problems for major organs such as the heart and kidneys.

These organoids, once built, will in the future be able to grow inside the body of a sick patient and take over when an organic organ, such as a kidney or liver, fails.