Sentences with phrase «heart cells in a dish»

«By studying the patients» heart cells in a dish, we were able to figure out why their hearts were not pumping properly,» explained Srivastava.

To do this, human stem cell lines could be treated to differentiate into human heart cells in a dish.

Not exact matches

The researchers report they were able to transform about one in 5,000 cells — enough to get several iPS cells from a single culture dish — and then coax them to become nerve cells or heart tissue on the benchtop.

Part of the issue was settled when Cecilia Riquelme, a postdoc in Leinwand's lab, drew blood from recently fed pythons and applied it to a dish of living rat heart cells.

With our new technology, we can quickly create billions of these cells in a dish and then transplant them into damaged hearts to treat heart failure.»

«They are the closest precursor to functional heart cells, and, in a single step, they can rapidly and efficiently become heart cells, both in a dish and in a live heart.

Isolated salamander heart cells will divide in a culture dish, and scientists are trying to understand the mechanics of this cell division.

And because we are reprogramming cells directly in the heart, we eliminate the need to surgically implant cells that were created in a petri dish.»

So for instance, at Children's Hospital Boston we see a number of children who have heart problems, and it might be possible to take these cells directly from a skin biopsy and then in a dish turn them into heart cells.

«Over the course of time, the cells interact with each other and the collagen to form pieces of artificial heart that beat on their own in a Petri dish,» Elson says.

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For example, the same cellular signals that guide early heart development can be used to direct stem cells to become the different heart cell types needed for modeling disease in a dish.

Complementing the work of my colleagues in the Roddenberry Center for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine at Gladstone, our efforts to learn more about how the heart forms can improve methods for creating heart cells from stem cells, either in a petri dish or inside a patient after a heart attack.

The means to this end is an expertly poised scene as mother and son dance in each other's arms to Soft Cell's «Tainted Love» before a clever jump cut leads us towards a harrowing confession that really pushes the prowess of the proceedings, especially Reynor and Collette's quietly chaotic heart to heart, a world away from the dish throwing teeth baring savagery of prior scenes and yet all the more powerful.

Her lab even turned those stem cells into nerve cells and beating heart cells in a petri dish, she says.