Sentences with phrase «grown in a lab»

Unlike Morningstar or Boca Burgers, clean meat really is meat; it just grows in a lab instead of being part of an animal.

Human eggs have been fully grown in a lab for the first time and a Christian bioethics consultant says there are not ethical problems yet.

Human eggs have been fully grown in a lab for the first time and a Christian bioethics consultant says... More

Most of the baked products in our culture are «quick» breads leavened with either commercial yeast that's grown in a lab or chemical leaveners.

This may entail making small holes in the bone to allow new cartilage to grow (microfracture), taking cartilage from another part of the athlete's knee and transplanting it into the defect (osteochondral autograft transfer), taking cartilage cells from the knee and then having them grown in a lab for later re-implantation (autologous chondrocyte implantation), or taking cartilage from a person who has passed away and placing it in the defect (osteochondral allograft transfer).

Chen Gu and colleagues at The Ohio State University discovered that they could induce the formation of axonal varicosities in hippocampal neurons grown in the lab by «puffing» them with bursts of liquid from a small pipette.

Researchers at Tufts Medical School noticed that cancer cells being grown in the lab multiplied more quickly in polyester test tubes than in glass.

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.

But he has never been able to see any bacteria moving around, or grow them in the lab.

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

Brainlike cell bundles grown in a lab may expose some of the biological differences of autistic brains.

Almost fully - formed brain grown in a lab.

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

Promisingly, another drug called imipramine, which belongs to the second main class of antidepressants, had similar effects on miRNA - 1202 to citalopram, when applied to neurons grown in the lab.

This might allow skin and long, thin nerve grafts to be grown in the lab.

In theory, tissue grown in the lab can repair the damage, but this doesn't always integrate well into the body.

Mini-brains 3 to 4 millimetres across have been grown in the lab before, but if a larger brain had been created — and the press release publicising the claim said it was the size of a pencil eraser — that would be a major breakthrough.

The bacteria were grown in a lab and stained with a green fluorescent.

At the same time, researchers have found that much smaller protein clusters called oligomers — made of only a few copies of these proteins — can be highly toxic to motor neuron - like cells grown in the lab and thus are more likely to be the chief causes of brain - cell death in these diseases.

«It's particularly encouraging in this study that even at relatively low concentrations the liver drug still had an effect on Parkinson's cells grown in the lab.

These were released into tumour cells that had been taken from glioblastoma patients and grown in the lab.

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.

Sure enough, 6 - HAP stopped DNA formation in different tumor cells grown in the lab.

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.

For the past several years, researchers have been modifying T cells so they can attack leukemia, but the cells must be painstakingly isolated from the patients themselves and grown in a lab.

Screening bacteria for pollution - gobbling prowess is difficult, in part because about one out of every 10,000 species can be grown in the lab.

But they're more difficult to grow in the lab, and testing is right now limited to animals.

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.

«Womb lining grown in lab could reveal secrets of menstrual cycle and early pregnancy.»

I couldn't resist composing this after the mention of the charmingly misspelled word «hematopoetic» in your story on blood grown in the lab from stem cells (12 November, p 8):

Prior tests found that high concentrations of the soccer ball — shaped buckyballs can kill pure strains of bacteria growing in the lab.

Acidianus doesn't grow in the lab, so Alice Springs in Yellowstone Park's Crater Hills became her laboratory, Lawrence said.

So far Kajander and his colleagues have found the nanobacteria in cattle blood, in 80 % of samples of commercial cow serum in which mammalian cells are grown in the lab, and in the blood of nearly 6 % of more than 1000 Finnish adults tested.

The boy received grafts of sheets of genetically - altered skin grown in the lab

Starting in three weeks, he and his colleagues will collect cutaneous bacteria from mountain yellow - legged frogs in the isolated Dusy basin area of the Sierras: «We'll go in with skin swabs, take samples, culture bacteria, grow it in the lab at San Francisco State, then wait a week, go back out and inoculate a bunch of frogs,» Vredenburg says.

One approach would be to identify immune cells in a tumour, grow them in a lab, and then infuse them back into the patient — a technique called adoptive cell transfer.

Prior to Lacks's death, Hopkins researcher George Gey found that HeLa cells could easily be grown in lab glassware and kept alive indefinitely.

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.

«Prader - Willi syndrome reversed in brain cells growing in the lab.»

In studies with human fibroblasts that make up connective tissue, Boger's team tested whether NOD1 activity could affect CMV replication in cultures of cells grown in the lab.

«Retinal nerve cells grown in the lab: Work could eventually lead to cell transplants for people blinded by glaucoma, MS.» ScienceDaily.

Other groups are experimenting with taking such tissue from the nose, growing it in the lab to isolate the desired cells and transplanting them.

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.

David Macauley, the CEO of Virgin Health Bank QSTP, cited the encouraging example last November of a woman in Spain whose diseased windpipe was replaced with one grown in the lab from her own cells.

They found lots of completely unknown organisms, unrelated to anything that has ever been grown in a lab.

Neil Shay, a biochemist and molecular biologist in OSU's College of Agricultural Sciences, was part of a study team that exposed human liver and fat cells grown in the lab to extracts of four natural chemicals found in Muscadine grapes, a dark - red variety native to the southeastern United States.

They tested these drugs one at a time for lethal interaction with 112 different tumor - suppressor gene mutations in human cancer cells growing in the lab.

Scientists can't yet grow them in the lab.

A HUMAN ovary grown in the lab from slivers of ovarian tissue has been able to turn an immature egg into one that is ready to be fertilised.

They plan to grow it in a lab — no animals required.