Sentences with phrase «human organs by»

Over the last few years, scientists have been able to recreate accurate models of human organs by embedding living tissue onto chips, allowing them to study the effects of drugs and diseases without testing on animals or humans.

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By printing multiple lung airways — or any other afflicted organ — from a human patient and testing drugs on them, pharma companies can bypass the ethically challenged practice of testing on animals and proceed to human clinical trials with greater confidence the drugs will actually work, according to Wadsworth.

Yet surely the Church's role in any possibly humane Chinese future will be built around its steadfastness under persecution and its forthright defense of the human rights of all (including Uighurs, Tibetans, and Falun Gong devotees), not by reaching agreements with those who may well have harvested organs from Catholic dissidents, pioneering a new form of martyrdom.

The situation is only made worse by the increased trafficking in human beings, new forms of slavery, and trafficking in human organs for the sake of transplants.

By combining two Greek words for feminine and masculine traits, viz., thelis (female, fruitful, prolific, nourishing, tender, delicate) and arrhen (male, masculine, manly, strong), the word «thelarrheny» can be invented.3 Thelarrheny expresses the view that humans combine the traits (but not physical sex organs) of both female and male.

First x object was created out of nothing, then combined with other things created out of nothing, then magically an atom, yhen a cell, a molecule, then bacteria, single cell creatures, followed by simple sea creatures with organs, then more advanced creatures, next red blooded mammals, then primates, and finally human.

Aristotle described human being as a layered hierarchy of informed matter, the elements fusing together under the impress of a higher - level form to compose tissues, tissues serving as the proximate matter for a yet more complex organizing form at the level of organs, and organs bound into the active, dynamic organism by the yet higher form of soul.

The building block electronic and protonic actual occasions are, in the case of human beings, swept into vastly more complex, Chinese box - like sets of containing societies within which there are social levels that can be identified with cells, others which answer to Aristotle's levels of tissues and organs, and which finally are presided over by what Whitehead refers to as the regnant nexus, a social thread of complex temporal inheritance which, Whitehead suggests, wanders from part to part of the brain, is the seat of conscious direction of the organism as a whole, and answers to what in Plato and Aristotle is called the soul.

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Because the practice of transfusion and of organ transplantation are heavily regulated by medicine (and for good reason), a culture that considers human milk to be another regulated bodily substance can only conceive of milk sharing as an activity that occurs rarely and under medical supervision.

«Similarly, the supremacy of the constitution including on all organs of government, and the sanctity of international human rights obligations imply that the Senate has no power to ignore the conditions of law - making that are imposed by the instrument which itself regulates its power to make law.»

«SERAP argues that limitations to the legislative powers of the Senate can be implied not only from the chapters two and four of the 1999 Nigerian constitution (as amended) relating to the obligations of all organs of government to promote transparency, accountability and combat corruption and recognition of citizens» fundamental human rights but also by voluntary acceptance of international human rights obligations by Nigeria.»

A bold approach to genome editing by biologist Luhan Yang could alleviate the shortage of organs and ease human suffering.

By allowing the operator to manipulate routine, two - dimensional images in an open three - dimensional space, VR provides a look into a patients» organs and tissues that had not been possible outside of the human body, until now.

Now, a team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University co-led by Wyss Institute Founding Director Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., and Wyss Core Faculty member James Collins, Ph.D., has leveraged the Institute's proprietary human - organs - on - chips technology to microengineer a model of human intestinal inflammation and bacterial overgrowth in a human - gut - on - a-chip.

A research team led by scientists from Brigham and Women's Hospital has developed a novel technology platform that enables the continuous and automated monitoring of so - called «organs - on - chips» — tiny devices that incorporate living cells to mimic the biology of bona fide human organs.

Soon after, physicians approached Church about using CRISPR to alter the genomes of pigs so their organs would not be rejected by the human immune system.

An additional study, currently available at bioRxiv, led by the researchers from the CRG and Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory, highlights the fact that a substantial part of human and mice genes have maintained an essentially constant expression throughout evolution, in tissues and various organs.

One gene, she said, would shield its organs from attack by the human immune system; another would revamp its coagulation system to reduce the risk of clots.

These techniques include: human tissue created by reprogramming cells from people with the relevant disease (dubbed «patient in a dish»); «body on a chip» devices, where human tissue samples on a silicon chip are linked by a circulating blood substitute; many computer modelling approaches, such as virtual organs, virtual patients and virtual clinical trials; and microdosing studies, where tiny doses of drugs given to volunteers allow scientists to study their metabolism in humans, safely and with unsurpassed accuracy.

Soker and his colleague Pedro Baptista built the livers by taking ferret livers and stripping them of all their native cells, leaving just the collagen «scaffold» of the organ, which they then filled with human liver cells.

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.

A sophisticated chemical which acts like antifreeze is being developed by American researchers who believe it could soon preserve human organs outside the body indefinitely.

The same printer technology that sits on your desk could soon be a common fixture in rebuilding human tissue, treating burns by laying down layers of a patients» own skin or even rebuilding whole organs.

«If human organs on chips can be shown to be robust and consistently recapitulate complex human organ physiology and disease phenotypes in unrelated laboratories around the world, as suggested by early proof - of - concept studies, then we will see them progressively replace one animal model at a time.

«Over the past 300 years,» Fogel says, «humans have increased their average body size by over 50 percent, average longevity by more than 100 percent, and greatly improved the robustness and capacity of vital organ systems.»

2) While most human senses are concentrated in the head, what rhyming exclave of the main sense organs was discovered this year at the University of Maryland and reported by us on 30 October?

Comparing humans and other primates, they saw little difference in basal metabolic rate, which reflects the total calories used by our organs while we are at rest.

«Body on a chip» could improve drug evaluation: Human tissue samples linked by microfluidic channels replicate interactions of multiple organs..»

In May, a second team, led by Ali Khademhosseini, reported building tiny blood vessels that branch or merge in three dimensions, as blood vessels do in human organs.

Aside from dietary issues, the CMAH gene also proves to be a major factor in whether or not a transplanted organ from an animal would be accepted by a human because of the gene.

For the first time, there will be penalties for trafficking in human organs, acting as an intermediary for surrogate motherhood, which is to be banned, and carrying out gene tests not authorised by a court of law.

The scientists improved their model by analyzing slices of three additional human tongues, whose translucency helped reveal the complex interweaving of muscles throughout the organ.

In an effort to overcome these limitations, a team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering led by its Founding Director, Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., had previously engineered a microfluidic «Organ - on - a-Chip» (Organ Chip) culture device in which cells from a human intestinal cell line originally isolated from a tumor were cultured in one of two parallel running channels, separated by a porous matrix - coated membrane from human blood vessel - derived endothelial cells in the adjacent channel.

The printer enables Atala to scale up the technology, eliminating the time it takes to create new organs by hand and the possibility of human error.

Those capable organs, just by coincidence, also help parrots utter greetings in words that even humans can understand.

A new bio-ink that may support a more efficient and inexpensive fabrication of human tissues and organs has been created by researchers at UBC's Okanagan campus.

Some experts have traced estrogen - like chemicals to increased rates of human breast cancer, and there is even more evidence that they endanger animals by feminizing the sex organs of male frogs and fish living downstream from sewage treatment plants.

Our work has implications for two human genetic diseases, which are caused by mutations in the ATP7B and ATP7A genes and lead to copper overload in the liver (Wilson Disease), due to the failure to excrete copper into the bile, and copper deficiency in many organs (Menkes Disease), due to the failure to deliver intestinal copper to the blood.

The major theme of Bio-X is to unlock the secrets of the human body by treating body and brain as a whole assembly of complex organ systems that interact with each other dynamically.

Organ - on - a-chip technology may in part overcome this limitation, as exemplified by the «breathing» lung - on - a-chip that recapitulates the alveolar - capillary interface by co-culturing human alveolar epithelial cells and capillary endothelial cells on opposite sides of a flexible, porous, ECM - coated membrane.

Proposed IOM definitions state that «sex» is a biological construct dictated by the presence of sex chromosome and in animals and humans the presence of functional reproductive organs.

Building on that project, the researchers have now designed a machine that smokes cigarettes in a very human - like manner, and hooked it up to organs - on - chips lined by human lung small airway cells so the smoke interacts with these cells in a realistic way.

The most potent of these, known as effector memory T cells, are activated by a group of proteins known as human leukocyte antigens (HLAs) on the surface of endothelial cells lining the donated organ's blood vessels.

You could start by looking for the one who has the rare ability to visualize a human organ in three dimensions from little more than a scan.

The work not only would help solve a long - standing mystery, but also could provide insights into certain potentially fatal syndromes caused by severe birth defects in humans including, in some cases, the reversal of organs.

Given the critical shortage of donor organs to replace those damaged by accident or disease, it has long been a goal of science to create human organs from stem cells.

Scientists using CRISPR to edit pig organs so they'll be accepted by human bodies think a breakthrough is coming that will end the organ - donation waiting list.

How a 45 % change in organ size might be achieved by either of these genes, each of which has a conserved homologue in the human genome, remains to be determined.

For this reason, the in vivo studies on the human metabolism must be flanked by in vitro and ex-vivo analyses on organ physiology and cellular mechanisms.