Genetic profiles of
human and mouse cells have now been posted on the Human Cell Atlas online portal.
The new MIT system appears to work for many cell types — so far, the researchers have successfully tested it with more than a dozen types, including
both human and mouse cells.
Newcomb and her colleagues looked at
human and mouse cells to further study the trend in gender differences that they had observed.
The study, conducted in both
human and mouse cells, shows that cancer genomes lose copies of repetitive sequences known as ribosomal DNA.
He found that each of the probes fastened to hundreds of distinct proteins in
human and mouse cells.
Antoine E. Karnoub, another researcher at Whitehead, performs experiments on living
human and mouse cells that are kept in a freezer packed with liquid nitrogen.
«There's good reason to believe the rules will be the same» for
human and mouse cells, says stem cell biologist Kevin Eggan of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI).
Our side by side analysis uncovers the dynamics of epigenetic programming occurring in germ cell development at single base resolution in
human and mouse cells.»
Once the vector is ready, the Baylor team wanted to be able to guide it to a certain part of the genome every time, so they turned to a technique called ΦC31, which was known to work in
human and mouse cells.
Yesterday's ruling effectively said that Feng Zhang's adoption of the technique in
human and mouse cells was, in fact, a new and patentable invention rather than an «obvious» extension of Doudna's and Charpentier's work.
The RNAs of enhancers are expressed before the genes they regulate during
human and mouse cell differentiation.
To overcome this, researchers from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Johns Hopkins University stabilized pri - miRNAs by expressing a dominant negative form of DROSHA, the RNase III enzyme responsible for pri - miRNA cleavage, in a variety of
human and mouse cell lines.
The assay has been validated for use with
human and mouse cell lysates and tissue homogenates, such as peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) lysates, and will be marketed through Enzo's worldwide sales and marketing group.
Furthermore, sgRNA targeting GPI anchor protein pathway genes induced loss of function mutations in
human and mouse cell lines measured by FLAER labelling.
Not exact matches
Hoping to learn something about how the
human body defends itself against cancer, he had zeroed in on a complex regiment of lymphocytes called T
cells, common to the immune systems in both
mouse and man.
Compared with
mice with
cells from healthy people as well as non-chimera
mice, those whose brains had
human schizophrenia
cells were more afraid to explore a maze, more anxious, more antisocial, less able to feel pleasure (from sipping sugar water), worse at remembering,
and more sleepless — all of which characterize people with schizophrenia, too.
But scientists published in
Cell Reports that they've discovered a way to regenerate those
cells in
mouse, primate
and human tissue samples.
Introducing
human prostate cancer
cell lines into
mice, Wu
and his colleagues saw a particular enzyme called MAOA activate a cascade of signals that made it easier for tumor
cells to invade
and grow in bone.
Mouse and human skin
cells can be reprogrammed to hunt down tumors
and deliver anticancer therapies.
First
mouse cells were turned into «totipotent» stem
cells,
and now early work suggests the same might have been achieved with
human cells
In that paper, Weitzmann, Ofotokun,
and their colleagues described bone loss similar to that observed in
humans following the reconstitution of the T
cell population in immune - compromised
mice (similar to T -
cell expansion following ART).
Shukla
and colleagues discovered that a small drug molecule called BX795, which is sold to labs for use in experiments, helped clear HSV - 1 infection in cultured
human corneal
cells, in donated
human corneas,
and in the corneas of
mice infected with HSV - 1.
In
human cells and in
mice, the virus infected
and killed the stem
cells that become a glioblastoma, an aggressive brain tumor, but left healthy brain
cells alone.
Recent collaborative work between UCR
and Cedars - Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles demonstrated that in animal models of
human breast cancer,
mice treated with 123B9 that was conjugated with paclitaxel had significantly fewer circulating cancer
cells in the blood compared to
mice that were not treated or even treated with paclitaxel alone.
«We've been hearing about their potential for more than a decade, but the results have always been in
mice and rats,
and no one has shown they're safe or effective in
humans long term,» says Robert Lanza of Advanced
Cell Technology in Marlborough, Massachusetts, the company that carried out the stem cell intervent
Cell Technology in Marlborough, Massachusetts, the company that carried out the stem
cell intervent
cell intervention.
«Our research is the first to study Zika infection in a
mouse model that transmits the virus in a way similar to
humans,» explains Alysson R. Muotri, Ph.D., professor
and director of the Stem
Cell Program at UC San Diego
and co-senior author of the study.
Then the team injected the
mice with
human liver
cells and withdrew the drug.
They transplanted the hepatocyte - like
cells into
mice; 14 days later, some of the corrected
cells had integrated into the rodent liver
and were able to produce
human A1AT.
To see whether this also applies to
humans, the team engineered stem
cells from people with
and without Down's syndrome
and injected them into
mice.
The research, conducted in
human and mouse immune
cells, appears online in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Like the Rosetta Stone that scholars used to decode hieroglyphics, researchers trained the algorithm with more than 4,600 T
cell receptors
and then used it to correctly assign 81 percent of the
human T
cells and 78 percent of
mouse T
cells to one of 10 different viral epitopes.
And the transformed cells proved to be very similar to actual stem cells from both mice and huma
And the transformed
cells proved to be very similar to actual stem
cells from both
mice and huma
and humans.
The system is effective in both
mouse and human cells as well as in
mouse embryos.
Liver
cells carry out hundreds of different functions, only some of which Lagasse has tested in
mice,
and it is unlikely that transplanted
cells could fulfill all of them in
humans.
Shih, Wang
and their colleagues tested fostamatinib's power to reduce tumor size in
mice implanted with
human ovarian cancer
cells that were resistant to paclitaxel.
Using the modified system,
human melanoma
and breast cancers as well as
mouse melanoma
cells were diagnosed with greater ease
and efficiency.
A study published by
Cell Press October 16th in
Cell now reveals that gut microbes in
mice and humans have circadian rhythms that are controlled by the biological clock of the host in which they reside.
In today's issue of
Cell, a team reports that it has found in
mice and humans a close relative of a fruit fly clock gene — the first evidence that some of these genes may have been conserved over the course of evolution.
A decade ago, he replicated the entire
human leukemia disease process by introducing oncogenes into normal
human blood
cells, transplanting them into xenografts (special immune - deficient
mice that accept
human grafts)
and watching leukemia develop — a motherlode discovery that has guided leukemia research ever since.
The researchers have compared various processes involved in gene expression, such as gene transcription
and chromatin modification,
and have repeated this in different tissues
and cell types from both
humans and mice.
It works in
cell studies
and in
mouse studies, but so far has proved frustratingly ineffective in
human patients.
Although the researchers emphasized that laboratory results involving
cell lines
and mice do not necessarily translate to
human treatment, they say their findings show that new mTOR inhibitors combined with chemotherapy could become a new treatment strategy for T - ALL.
An unknown component of breast milk appears to kill HIV particles
and virus - infected
cells, as well as blocking HIV transmission in
mice with a
human immune system.
The findings, in
mice and in
human stomach
cells, also raise questions about how cancer
cells may evade treatment.
The investigators report that trapping virus - loaded stem
cells in a gel
and applying them to tumors significantly improved survival in
mice with glioblastoma multiforme, the most common brain tumor in
human adults
and also the most difficult to treat.
In addition, they injected
mice with
human cancer
cells and found that the tumors grown in
mice could be inhibited with PD173074.
Shah
and his team loaded the herpes virus into
human MSCs
and injected the
cells into glioblastoma tumors developed in
mice.
The study involved laboratory
cell lines of
human leukemia
and mouse models of the disease.
But it was another three decades before Klassen — who has used retinal progenitor
cells to restore vision in
mice, cats, dogs
and pigs — could conduct
human trials involving retinitis pigmentosa.
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.