Sentences with phrase «if human 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.

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If one considers cloning, the storing of human fetuses for research purposes and organ harvesting, and the whole field of genetic manipulation, no one can fail to have noticed the slow erosion of human dignity that threatens us.

[13] This said, in animals lower than humans it is morally permissible to thwart the purposes of bodily organs, so that the Church fully permits the sterilisation of animals (if it doesn't cause unreasonable cruelty to them or damage to the material environment).

And if you don't deny it, then why discredit the fact that food, the very substance that all humans need in order to keep organs functioning, blood pumping, toxins dispelling, cells forming, could be causing severe effects on our health if the wrong foods are eaten?

The human breast is an amazingly adaptive organ, and that adaptability can come into play if you find yourself in such a disaster.

Inside Wade's dim, windowless office stands a large Styrofoam replica of an Egyptian sarcophagus, and, but for a few replicas of human organs, the room looks as if it belonged to an Egyptologist at the British Museum.

BUILDING artificial tissue could become child's play, if Lego - like blocks made of human cells can be assembled into working organs.

If the procedure works in humans, it would enable donated livers from humans, and possibly even from pigs, to be re-coated with a patient's own cells, reducing the likelihood of organ rejection.

«If this technology can be scaled to human - size grafts, patients suffering from renal failure, who are currently waiting for donor kidneys, could theoretically receive an organ grown on demand,» says Harald Ott, head of the team that developed the rat kidneys at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

The finding, reported in next month's issue of Nature Medicine, raises new questions about whether people could contract exotic diseases if animal organs become routinely transplanted into human patients.

If she has her way, animal farms will raise herds of bioengineered pigs, designed to produce kidneys, livers and other organs that could be transplanted into humans.

Biologists are checking to see if they have overlooked a second human organ too.

If the gas can be shown to have the same effect on humans, it might revolutionize organ preservation and general anesthesia and let wounded soldiers survive long enough to reach a hospital.

Will we one day pipe the latest blog entry or NASCAR highlights directly into the human brain as if the organ were an outsize flash drive?

Lipton went on to state, «It will be important to see if HIV / AIDS acts similarly on stem cells for other organs in the human body, as this may impact on the disease process as a whole.»

He and other scientists questioned how soon, if ever, chimeras would serve as sources for human organs, however.

«If we can tell the human iPSCs in an animal host to develop into a kidney or other organ, for example, it could provide an entirely new source for transplant tissues,» says Izpisua Belmonte.

If the human body is in a state of homeostasis, meaning that it is balanced, with all organs functioning properly, it is getting the right foods, it is well exercised, it is getting enough rest, and there is little stress, it will thrive.

Human cells, tissues, and organs function optimally if they are provided what they need when they need it.

Our brain uses fatty acids for a huge variety of processes including organ function and hormone production; in fact fatty acids are critical to human life and we will die quickly if we don't eat any of them for an extended period of time.

The question to ask is if pointing a camera at this family is cynical, and that's an issue compounded by their being followers of Grigory Grabovoy, a Russian faith healer who claims that human organs can be regenerated at will.

So the first time you see her, there's no doubt about what she is, but also the mesh — there's mesh over her — so the way to make sure that she seems like she's a machine is having these missing sections of her body which, if that was a human, they'd be dead cause they'd have no internal organs.

Seeing a keen sportsman stuff his Birdcage Maserati into a hay bale the previous day, along with the lack of a seatbelt and my utter unfamiliarity with the hill - climb route, led me to drive the D - type as if I were transporting human organs to an operating theater rather than keeping pace with Jackie Stewart, Stirling Moss, and some of the other accomplished wheelmen who'd pound the pavement that weekend like they meant it.

It is also good to read packages carefully to see if the food contains meat by - products, which are the parts of an animal not fit for human consumption (heads, necks, stomach contents, organs).

I would avoid feeding raw ingredient diets if a human member of your family is HIV positive or has had an organ transplant — but that is something for your physician to decide.

Just as with humans, if bacteria from an oral infection spreads into the bloodstream, it could cause permanent damage to major organs.

It is particularly important not to give puppies much, if any, human food to make sure they get the vitamins and minerals for proper development of bones, muscles, and organs.

The hope is that Dr. Taylor's research is an early step toward being able to grow a fully functional human heart in the laboratory, which would revolutionize the field of organ transplantation if achieved.

HTA 2004, s 32 (1) prohibits commercial dealings in human material, including obviously organs, for transplantation, and provides: «(1) A person commits an offence if he: (a) gives or receives a reward for the supply of or for an offer to supply, any controlled material; (b) seeks to find a person willing to supply any controlled material for reward; (c) offers to supply any controlled material for reward; (d) initiates or negotiates any arrangement involving the giving of a reward for the supply of, or for an offer to supply, any controlled material; (e) takes part in the management or control of a body of people corporate or unincorporate whose activities consist of or include the initiation or negotiation of such arrangements.»

There are various roles performed by a radiologist such as examination of internal and external organs of the human body, diagnosis of diseases if any present in the organs, assists in treatment of organs that are found infected, administers radioactive substances injected into the organs of the patient etc..