Sentences with phrase «grown organ into»

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

ReInnervate, a start - up in Durham, England, is developing a tiny, three - dimensional plastic scaffolding on which human cells can be grown into artificial tissue, and perhaps eventually into replacements for organs.

By 40 weeks, a baby's lungs are matured, the kidney and other vital organs are doing their thing, the brain has grown enough soft tissue that will set it up for the rest of life, and the neurological instincts that tell the baby to suck and swallow are kicked into gear.

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

Endometriosis occurs when tissue lining the uterus forms and grows outside of the organ, most often into the abdomen.

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.

He found that the frogs» bladder tissue responded to a foreign object by growing out, surrounding it and pulling it into the organ.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In future, Radisic envisions her lab - grown tissues being implanted into the body to repair organs damaged by disease.

The stem cells are supposed to grow over the scaffold and eventually develop into a living organ.

The experiment shows that precursor cells can develop into functional organs when placed within the body of an adult mammal, says Takebe, who hopes to use the technique to grow organs in nonhuman primates and eventually in humans.

Macchiarini produced artificial windpipes by taking a polymer scaffold and «seeding» it with stem cells from the recipient, which he claimed colonized the scaffold and eventually grew into a living organ.

View the video A tiny cluster of lab - grown human cells that sprouts into liver tissue could one day nix the need for organ donors.

In humans, somatic cells — the generic cells that grow into muscle, bone, and organs — start off unisex.

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

Most researchers expect that artificial organs will grow normally when implanted into bodies, he says, and this work suggests that bone will too.

Our scientists were the first in the world to engineer laboratory - grown organs that were successfully implanted into humans.

With Belcher's nanoparticles, surgeons should be able to spot and remove tiny clusters of just a few cells, even when they're hidden behind other organs, thus preventing those seeds from growing into major malignancies.

In theory, a transplanted organ could hack into its host's nervous system by growing axons that connect with the host's cells.

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.

All carbohydrates are eventually broken down by the body into glucose, which is: — A universal fuel for most organs and tissues in our bodies — The only fuel source for our brain, red blood cells and a growing foetus, and — The main source of energy for our muscles during strenuous exercise

«Colorectal cancer... is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States,» and it «arises from [what are called] neoplastic adenomatous polyps» — meaning colon cancer starts out as a benign little bump, called a polyp, that then grows into cancer that can eventually spread to other organs, and kill us.

The possibility of growing organs for transplanting them into body allows to cure terminal diseases and save lives of people experiencing results of accidents and natural disasters.

There they grow some more before they begin their final migration into the viscera (the organs in the abdominal cavity), the nervous system, or the eye.

Eventually, it grows into worms that can be up to a foot long, and which will infest your dog's organs, particularly the heart and lungs.

You just know little Biggs had to swell into that name as he grew; and, of course, he did, shunning the piccolo and choosing instead the organ as his instrument.