Sentences with phrase «grown human stem»

Working with lab - grown human stem cells, scientists found that the virus selectively infected cells forming the brain's cortex, the thin outer layer of folded gray matter.

Working with lab - grown human stem cells, a team of researchers suspect they have discovered how the Zika virus probably causes microcephaly in fetuses.

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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

Working with Skeletal Biologists at Southampton General Hospital, Catarina is investigating new optical techniques to monitor the development of the cells, used in new regenerative medicine approaches — in this case, to create and grow cartilage from human stem cells.

TWO types of human ear cell have been grown in the lab from fetal stem cells.

«Our work illustrates that this exquisite control mechanism — regulated by PUS7 and pseudouridine — is critical to adjusting the amount of proteins needed for human stem cells to grow and produce blood,» says Cristian Bellodi.

«I'm working with Professor Richard Oreffo and Dr Rahul Tare from the University's Centre for Human Development, Stem Cells and Regeneration who are trying to create and grow cartilage in the lab using a patients» own (autologous) stem cells to then be implanted back into the patient if they have a cartilage defect,» she explaStem Cells and Regeneration who are trying to create and grow cartilage in the lab using a patients» own (autologous) stem cells to then be implanted back into the patient if they have a cartilage defect,» she explastem cells to then be implanted back into the patient if they have a cartilage defect,» she explains.

In August 2006, Lanza and his co-authors published a paper in Nature showing that a single cell could be plucked from an 8 -10-cell human embryo and grown into stem cells.

Using human fetal «mini-brains» grown in 3 - D cultures, scientists determined that a specific protein produced by the Zika virus changes the properties of neural stem cells in the developing brain of an infected fetus, potentially causing microcephaly in newborns (Ki - Jun Yoon, abstract 103.06, see attached summary).

Stem cells from breast milk can grow into many other kinds of human tissue, raising hopes of an ethical source of embryonic - like stem cStem cells from breast milk can grow into many other kinds of human tissue, raising hopes of an ethical source of embryonic - like stem cstem cells

The team found that exposing samples of human glioblastoma tumours grown in a dish to the Zika virus destroyed the cancer stem cells.

Several studies have supported a role for cancer stem cells in the aggressive brain tumors called glioblastoma, but those studies involved inducing human tumors to grow in mice, and as such their relevance to cancer in humans has been questioned.

Wells's team first turned human skin cells into pluripotent stem cells, which can grow into any type of tissue.

Scientists can't yet grow spare parts of the human brain to fix neurological injuries or defects, but they have recently used stem cells to create brain organoids, formations of cells that mimic some of the brain's regions.

In humans, the goal of SCNT is «nonreproductive cloning» — making embryos, then removing stem cells from the embryo and cultivating them to grow into tissues that could cure diseases, replace organs and heal injuries.

The stem cells, derived from human umbilical cord - blood and coaxed into an embryonic - like state, were grown without the conventional use of viruses, which can mutate genes and initiate cancers, according to the scientists.

Stem cell researchers at UConn Health have reversed Prader - Willi syndrome in brain cells growing in the lab, findings they recently published in the Human Molecular Genetics.

The team used human embryonic stem cells — which can transform into any cell of the body — and cultured them in a mixture of chemicals to grow human brain cells.

The human version of the cells, called region - selective pluripotent stem cells, or rsPSCs, can also grow inside a mouse, something other human stem cells can't do, says Jun Wu, a research associate involved in the work, published in May in Nature.

Stem Cell Future — This year, we saw stunning advances in growing spare parts for humans.

The new epidermis, grown from human pluripotent stem cells, offers a cost - effective alternative lab model for testing drugs and cosmetics, and could also help to develop new therapies for rare and common skin disorders.

«Skin layer grown from human stem cells could replace animals in drug, cosmetics testing.»

Human epidermal equivalents representing different types of skin could also be grown, depending on the source of the stem cells used, and could thus be tailored to study a range of skin conditions and sensitivities in different populations.»

Starting in the mid-2000s, Yoshiki Sasai's team at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan, demonstrated how to grow brainlike structures using embryonic stem cells, first from mice and then humans.

Now, scientists at Boston University's Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM) have announced two major findings that further our understanding of this process: the ability to grow and purify the earliest lung progenitors that emerge from human stem cells, and the ability to differentiate these cells into tiny «bronchospheres» that model cystic fibrosis.

Another is that the transplanted bits of tumor act nothing like cancers in actual human brains, Fine and colleagues reported in 2006: Real - life glioblastomas grow and spread and resist treatment because they contain what are called tumor stem cells, but tumor stem cells don't grow well in the lab, so they don't get transplanted into those mouse brains.

ALMOST BRAIN A cross section of an immature lab - grown approximation of a human brain reveals neurons (green) and neuron - producing stem cells (red).

Today stem cells have been used to grow ears, tracheae, and bladders; tomorrow it will be just about any tissue, any structure, of the human body.

The work was led by Dan S. Kaufman, a hematologist, and James A. Thomson, the first scientist to grow human embryonic stem cells in culture.

THE world's first cloned human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) are here, but they can't yet be used to grow tissues for transplant because they have an extra set of chromosomes.

To replicate these cell culture results, Rani used human stem cells to grow neurons into what is called a mini brain.

Ottmar Wiestler and Oliver Brüstle intend to grow neural transplantation cells using human embryonic stem cells, in a project that has been scientifically approved.

Usually human stem cells that we grow in the lab have already begun to differentiate, but last year my team provided the first evidence that we can maintain them in a more naive state.

The researchers coaxed white blood cells from humans and other apes into forming stem cells, from which they grew organoids.

«Human stem cells successfully transplanted, grown in pigs.»

In the decade since the first human embryonic stem cells were isolated, the science surrounding stem cells has grown dramatically.

«For example, there is a huge amount of interest and excitement globally in growing cerebral organoids» — miniature brain - like organs that can be studied in laboratory experiments — «from stem cells to model human brain development and disease mechanisms.

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.

These astrocytes and neurons grew out of stem cells that originally came from a dead human brain.

Although a clause in the law that funds NIH prevents the agency from funding research that would harm or destroy an embryo, a lawyer at the Department of Health and Human Services ruled in 1999 that because stem cells — which can grow ad infinitum in culture — are not themselves embryos, the NIH could fund work with cells that were derived by privately funded researchers or researchers overseas.

When the mice received no treatment or were treated with imatinib alone, the human leukemia stem cells propagated and grew to relatively large numbers.

Stem cells from human ears have successfully been grown into chunks of cartilage that could replace the synthetic materials currently used in surgery.

«Lab - grown human colons change study of GI disease: Stem cell derived organoids fill gap in modeling common ailments.»