The Skin I Live In revolves around Ledgard's attempt to construct a new type of
human skin using the beautiful Vera (Elena Anaya) as a human guinea pig.
Immunohistochemical of paraffin - embedded
human skin using 11708 -1-AP (SMN antibody) at dilution of 1:100 (under 40x lens)
Not exact matches
And improvements to eyes,
skin, and hair help bridge the uncanny valley, a term
used to describe how digital
humans who appear almost, but not quite
human, evoke a feeling of unease in viewers.
Global cosmetics giant L'Oréal is giving its product testing process a high - tech facelift,
using 3 - D printed
human skin.
In a rare appearance Dr. Chandan Sen, Director, OSU Center for Regenerative Medicine & Cell - Based Therapies will explain how this breakthrough came about and how the technology is leading to other medical discoveries and how the principle can be
used to generate any tissue out of
skin or fat which is abundant in
human body.
Well if we
use SCIENCE and assume Jesus was a real
human being then he was a hebrew of the time period which means he most probably had tan olive
skin, dark brown eyes, a black beard and black curly hair.
It
uses the most universal instrument, the
human voice, and sounds created by earthy things like catgut and
skin and wood and brass.
Unlike the controversial method of tissue harvesting that requires some
human embryos to be destroyed, the new cloning technique can
use a patient's own
skin cells — combined with an unfertilized
human egg — to create tissue with a DNA match.
Scientists looking for new methods to make
human tissue have successfully
used cloning technology to create embryonic stem cells from
skin cells.
The concept of race (based on phenotype — such as the amount of melanin in the
skin — this is what Chad means when he
uses the word) has largely been discredited and discarded due to our recent understanding of the
human genome.
I am however prone to spots and cant
use it on my face as much as I would love to as it is fairly comedogenic but I found that olive oil has the same pH balance as
human skin and therefore perhaps, is the ideal moisturiser for those with spots.
In 2016, 1.34 million kangaroos were killed for the commercial industry.2 Some
skins and meat products are
used domestically (a proportion of kangaroo meat goes into the Australian pet food market), and the rest is exported to other countries (two thirds to Europe) as leather or meat for
human consumption.3 Kangaroo leather is widely
used in the manufacture of sporting shoes and gloves as well as in dress shoes and accessory manufacture.
We, as a
human culture of mammals,
used to pick up on our babies» signals and feed, provide rest, provide a sanitary disposal of their feces (off their
skin, into the bushes), and provide sleep.
She
uses nylon for the
skin, glass or acrylic for the eyes and
human hair for eyelashes and hair.
To make the HSCs, the Harvard group
used human skin cells to create induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), adult cells researchers genetically reprogram to an embryonic - stem - cell state, where they can grow into any kind of cell.
Using viral gene insertion and regulatory proteins, researchers turned adult
human skin cells directly into adult
human blood cells, without first returning them to a fully pluripotent state.
Anand and his colleague Susan McKay started with
human skin cells, which they turned into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)
using a tried - and - tested method.
The wedge is
used for parting or separating materials, and its first
use by early
humans might have been in
skinning animals — separating a hide from flesh.
Using a mathematical model known as the Ising model, invented to describe phase transitions in statistical physics, such as how a substance changes from liquid to gas, the Johns Hopkins researchers calculated the probability distribution of methylation along the genome in several different
human cell types, including normal and cancerous colon, lung and liver cells, as well as brain,
skin, blood and embryonic stem cells.
Franzosa and colleagues
used publicly available microbiome data produced through the
Human Microbiome Project (HMP), which surveyed microbes in the stool, saliva,
skin, and other body sites from up to 242 individuals over a months - long period.
The resulting visage, created
using software that superimposed facial features on a photograph and assigned
skin thicknesses based on a database of
human faces, strongly resembles known paintings of Copernicus.
Besides its potential application in
human patients, the newly developed
skin tissue also could be
used as an alternative to testing cosmetics on animals, the researchers said.
Prior to the new study, researchers had already developed a more basic type of
skin substitute that had been
used successfully in
human patients, said Takashi Tsuji, a team leader at RIKEN Center forDevelopmental Biology in Japan.
«Our results demonstrate for the first time that
human adult
skin cells can be
used to efficiently and rapidly generate functional pancreatic cells that behave similar to
human beta cells,» says Matthias Hebrok, PhD, director of the Diabetes Center at UCSF and a co-senior author on the study.
14 Cities have long been gold mines for recyclers: Beginning in ancient times, tanners collected
human urine to
use in turning animal
skins into leather.
In May 2013, Mitalipov was the first scientist in the world to demonstrate the successful
use of somatic cell nuclear transfer, or SCNT, to produce
human embryonic stem cells from an individual's
skin cell.
A glue which is produced naturally by marine bacteria could be
used to repair ships» hulls without taking them into dry dock, and to seal wounds in
human skin and delicate tissue.
Human epidermal equivalents representing different types of
skin could also be grown, depending on the source of the stem cells
used, and could thus be tailored to study a range of
skin conditions and sensitivities in different populations.»
The advancement,
using a new kind of synthetic polymer (a polymer is a large molecule composed of many repeated smaller molecules) has self - healing properties that mimic
human skin, which means that e-
skin «wounds» can quickly «heal» themselves in remarkably short time — less than a day.
«One day, the self - healing sensor could serve as a platform for biosensors that monitor
human health
using electronic
skin.»
The advancement has many potential applications, including electronic
skin (thin electronic material that mimics
human skin, often
used in robotic and health applications), bendable display screens and electronic paper.
A California company reported today that it has, for the first time, cloned
human embryos
using DNA from adult
skin cells.
Steve McMahon at Kings College London and colleagues
used ultraviolet - B radiation to burn a small patch of
skin in rats and 10 healthy
humans.
When
using KAIST's TE generator (with a size of 10 cm x 10 cm) for a wearable wristband device, it will produce around 40 mW electric power based on the temperature difference of 31 °F between
human skin and the surrounding air.
The research team from the National
Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), both parts of NIH, extended their recent genome sequencing study of
skin bacteria,
using DNA sequencing techniques optimized for identifying fungi.
The organic - based TE generators
use polymers that are highly flexible and compatible with
human skin, ideal for wearable electronics.
The scientist tested their set - up
using frozen
human skin cells, segments of pig heart tissue, and sections of pig arteries in volumes almost 20 times larger than previously attempted samples.
The heating element that generates constant heating power is
used to simulate
human skin, and the «
skin temperature» is measured with the thermocouple.
«Our aim with this project was to
use this method to demonstrate the feasibility of making 3D in - vitro pigmented
human skin constructs, with uniform
skin pigmentation.»
One
uses primary hepatocytes obtained from livers donated for transplant; the second
uses stem cells derived from
human skin samples and guided into hepatocyte - like cells, Bhatia says.
The study carried out at the University of Eastern Finland
used the induced pluripotent stem cell technology, which enables the generation of pluripotent stem cells from
human skin fibroblasts.
For the new study, the team
used a cell - reprogramming technique (similar to those
used to reprogram
skin cells into stem cells) to generate
human DRG - type sensory neurons from ordinary
skin cells called fibroblasts.
Chemical imaging has until now mainly been
used for earth sciences and cellular imaging, but with access to
human skin from operations the researchers have come up with this new area for the technology.
This tells us it's not just the mechanoreceptors in the
skin, but receptors in the ligaments, knuckles, wrist, elbow and shoulder that could be enabling
humans to sense minute differences
using touch,» he added.
Using a two - ply of flexible, thin plastic, scientists have created novel electronic sensors that send signals to the brain tissue of mice that closely mimic the nerve messages of touch sensors in
human skin.
These offspring crosses have been
used to study
skin cancer in
humans.
«It appeared we wouldn't be able to create enough
human OPCs for widespread therapeutic
use, so we began to wonder if we could create them directly from
skin cells.»
Although the teams
used different technologies for their devices, each produced a flexible grid of sensors capable of registering pressures of just a few kilopascals, corresponding to a light touch on
human skin.
«We
used human skin cells that we obtained from patients affected with ALS and converted them into neurons via a technology called induced pluripotent stem cell production,» she explains.
Using a process called cellular reprogramming, the researchers take a patient's
skin cells, convert them into so - called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, which can differentiate into all the cells within the
human body.