Sentences with phrase «human kidney cells»

The technique also helps scientists examine the effects of drugs on human kidney cells.

So the scientists inserted the taste genes into human kidney cells that were growing in dishes.

To upgrade their DNA «switches,» Wong and his colleagues steered clear of transcription factors and instead switched human kidney cell genes on and off using scissorlike enzymes that selectively cut out snippets of DNA.

An ear scaffold, left, provides the structure to grow human cells.A kidney stripped of cells, right, awaits an injection of human kidney cells, part of the process of engineering a new organ.

The researchers inserted the genes for the 25 subtypes into human kidney cells (an easier feat than working with real taste cells).

The human kidney cell involved survived the experience, and though we are a long way from the laser eyes of Cyclops from the X-Men franchise, the achievement suggests that «living lasers» might be created inside live animals.