Sentences with phrase «immune cells in laboratory»

A research team led by Michal Schwartz of Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science grew these immune cells in a laboratory and implanted them into rats, and the transplants of the cells caused the axons to regenerate.

Working with human immune cells in the laboratory, Johns Hopkins researchers report they have identified a critical cellular «off» switch for the inflammatory immune response that contributes to lung - constricting asthma attacks.

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By studying infected cells grown in a laboratory, the team found that a large number of CMV's genes help it hide from the immune system by allowing it to destroy many of the proteins produced by the body during virus infection and preventing them from activating immune cells to destroy the virus.

The personalized vaccine is made from patients» own immune cells, which are exposed in the laboratory to the contents of the patients» tumor cells, and then injected into the patients to initiate a wider immune response.

The team also compared the animals» responses to the therapy's effects in laboratory cell samples and found that in vitro studies did not predict how well the viral therapy and immune response would fight tumor cells in vivo.

In laboratory studies, daratumumab caused the targeted killing of CD38 - carrying tumor cells by several distinct and potent mechanisms, including some that involve the immune system.

Orit Matcovitch - Natan, a graduate student in the laboratories of both Amit and Schwartz, and other members of the two teams, studied the sole immune cells present in the brain — the microglia, which contribute to the brain's development and maintenance.

I was supporting myself with night - shift laboratory work analysing immune cells in blood samples flown in by helicopter, often arriving after midnight... nothing related to my thesis.

Lo's laboratory has for more than a dozen years studied immune responses in the gut and airways, focusing particularly on cells which function as an early warning in the immune system.

Research in the UCR School of Medicine laboratory of David Lo found that certain cells of the epithelium have a potentially important role in immune surveillance — creating an electrostatic repulsion field to microbial invasion.

In collaboration with researchers at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, Ahmed's laboratory is looking for immune cells with similar characteristics in cancer patientIn collaboration with researchers at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, Ahmed's laboratory is looking for immune cells with similar characteristics in cancer patientin cancer patients.

X-ray studies at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, combined with Stanford biological studies and computational analysis, revealed remarkable similarities in the structure of binding sites, which allow a given T cell to recognize many different invaders that provoke an immune response.

Researchers can grow these lymphocytes in the laboratory with the help of substances, such as interleukin 2, that are produced by cells of the immune system.

In laboratory experiments, Dr. Weinberger and his team inserted a green fluorescent protein, or «vector,» into the DNA of Jurkat T lymphocytes — a type of white blood cell that helps maintain a healthy human immune system.

Recently, our laboratory discovered that fungi secrete sugars that can act as a glue in order to help fungi attach to human lung cells and hide from the immune system during lung infections.

Our laboratory has assembled a comprehensive set of tools for doing this, including mice with conditional ablation of the Btla gene in different subsets of immune cells.

Our laboratory is interested broadly in the interface between the innate and adaptive immune systems, and the unique subsets of T lymphocytes that bridge these systems by adopting properties that are very characteristic of innate immune cells.

After working on innate immune signaling at a Biotech startup company she studied mechanisms of signaling specificity as a postdoc in Dr. Alexander Hoffmann's laboratory at the University of California, San Diego before joining the Molecular Cell editorial team in 2013.

The findings have implications for the design of cancer vaccines and what are called adoptive T cell therapies; when T cells are collected from a patient and grown in the laboratory, increasing in number before they are given back to the patient to help the immune system fight disease.

«How can we determine what the immune system is going to do, and then how can we control that response, not only with cells in the laboratory, but also in an animal or a patient.»

Hedrick, whose laboratory will focus on the role of cholesterol and LDL in reprogramming specific subsets of immune cells as part of the Program Project Research grant, has assembled a high - powered, multi-institutional team, including investigators from UC San Diego and the University of Virginia.

It uses cells and molecules, either manufactured naturally by the body or created in a laboratory, to improve and restore the immune system function.

«Having a very efficient and practical way of generating patient - specific stem cells, which unlike human embryonic stem cells, wouldn't be rejected by the patient's immune system after transplantation brings us a step closer to the clinical application of stem cell therapy,» says Belmonte, PhD., a professor in the Gene Expression Laboratory and director of the Center of Regenerative Medicine in Barcelona, Spain.

Dr. Locksley's laboratory focuses on tracking cytokine expression in model systems, as a mechanism to investigate complex functional interactions between innate and adaptive cells in the immune system.

In the future, scientists may be able to modify human stem cell lines in the laboratory by using gene therapy or other techniques to overcome this immune rejectioIn the future, scientists may be able to modify human stem cell lines in the laboratory by using gene therapy or other techniques to overcome this immune rejectioin the laboratory by using gene therapy or other techniques to overcome this immune rejection.

Laboratory model of immune system overcomes ethical constraints on studies of hematopoietic stem cells in humans.

My laboratory aims to identify, characterize and validate lncRNA - driven pathways active in allergy - driving helper T cells and airway epithelial cells that could hold promise as therapeutic targets in altering the aberrant immune responses underlying asthma.

According to the researchers, some existing data shows inflammatory markers can be increased and immune cells activated when sleep is curtailed for a limited time in a laboratory setting.

The findings were made in laboratory cell cultures and do not prove that similar results would occur as a result of dietary intake, the scientists said, but do add more interest to the potential of some foods to improve the immune response.

Re-directed Autologous T cell Therapy for drug resistant or refractory CD20 + B cell lymphoma Overview: In this approach, immune cells (known as T cells) are taken from the peripheral blood, genetically modified in the laboratory to express a receptor that recognizes B cells, and then expanded to produce large numbers of tumor specific T cells outside -LSB-..In this approach, immune cells (known as T cells) are taken from the peripheral blood, genetically modified in the laboratory to express a receptor that recognizes B cells, and then expanded to produce large numbers of tumor specific T cells outside -LSB-..in the laboratory to express a receptor that recognizes B cells, and then expanded to produce large numbers of tumor specific T cells outside -LSB-...]