Sentences with phrase «inserted into cells»

In normal cells, very little of the target lipid could be detected when the toxin was inserted into the cells, meaning the lipid was being flipped and immediately consumed by the toxin.

The antisense genes were inserted into the cells» nuclei by a modified lentivirus that had been crippled to ensure it was incapable of reproducing.

They pick up fluorescent signals from particles inserted into cells and tissues that are illuminated with specific wavelengths of light.

In addition, they developed a specialized infection apparatus, the polar tube, which they use to insert themselves into the cells of their host.

Doing the screen involves using short pieces of RNA, called small hairpin RNAs, which are inserted into the cell and are able to halt messages from specific genes, keeping the genes from making proteins.

The researchers found that CtBP can cause normal human cells to become cancerous when inserted into the cell's DNA.

«Once inside the cell, cadmium inserts itself into the cell's metal sensing machinery causing it to malfunction and pump out the wrong metal ions while still bringing in more cadmium.

Gene therapy offers the possibility of replacing the function of the defective or missing gene with that of a therapeutic gene inserted into the cell.

One strategy scientists have developed is to engineer proteins to serve as tiny research tools that can be inserted into the cell.

The material Jiang and colleagues developed is one - half of an electronic device that spontaneously creates itself when one of the silicon particles is inserted into a cell culture, and eventually, the body.

Molecules of curcumin insert themselves into cell membranes and make the membranes more stable and orderly.

Researchers have found that curcumin molecules insert themselves into cell membranes making them more stable and orderly.

Not exact matches

Basically, CAR - T therapy involves taking a patient's own immune «killer» T - cells, inserting new genetic code into those cells which turn them into cancer - hunters that can home in on malignant B - cells (another kind of immune cell), and then pumping these specialized leukemia - busting cells back into the patient.

Immune cells modified by CRISPR - Cas9 were inserted into a lung cancer patient at the West China Hospital in Chengdu in the hopes that they'll be able to fight tumors, and 10 people total will receive injections of CRISPR re-engineered cells in order to assess the method's safety.

Researchers from the Sichuan University in Chengdu inserted the re-engineered cells into a lung cancer patient participating in a clinical trial at the West China Hospital on October 28th, according to Nature.

Science has inserted a synthetic copy of DNA into a living cell membrane.

I'm amused your critique was that it was an existing parental cell, because mine was that it was an existing (but modified) genome inserted into it.

The cell nuclei are removed from both sets of embryonic cells, as shown in the diagram, the donor's nuclei and the remains of the parents» embryo are destroyed and the parents» nuclei are then inserted into the donor or «host» embryo, still containing its healthy mitochondria.

Well, if you put a few brain cells to work it's quite possible to realize there are other sayings associated with OMG like «Oh My Goodness» and «Oh My Gosh»... It's very possible to not always insert «God» into it... Just saying...

Like attempting to insert religion into the school system, stymie medical research aka stem cells, restrict a woman's reproductive rights... etc..

They tested this by inserting mutations into the KRAS gene in the DNA of cells exposed to the cigarette smoke condensate for six months as well as those exposed for 15 months.

The scientists found that the inserted mutation transformed cells into cancer in only the 15 - month cells, where methylation was fully established, but not in the six - month - exposed cells.

The researchers inserted 25 foreign genes into the one - celled fungus to turn it into an efficient factory for producing the drug.

As reported in Nature in May, the team inserted the two into a bacterial cell, a strain of E. coli.

A viral epitope inserted into the complementarity - determining region 3 (CDR3) loop of the heavy chain of a self immunoglobulin (Ig) molecule was generated from the Ig context and was presented by I - Ed class II molecules to virus - specific, CD4 + T cells.

This DNA will insert randomly into the DNA of the cells, disrupting any gene it happens to hit.

In 2006, he used retroviruses to insert four genes into the chromosomes of mouse skin cells.

The researchers — James Robl, a developmental biologist and his colleagues at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Steve Stice at Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Massachusetts — inserted a marker gene fused with a gene for resistance to the chemical neomycin into a culture of connective tissue cells called fibroblasts.

The cell was created by stitching together the genome of a goat pathogen called Mycoplasma mycoides from smaller stretches of DNA synthesised in the lab, and inserting the genome into the empty cytoplasm of a related bacterium.

But scientists say they may one day be able to insert microscopic carbon nanotubes into injured joints — such as knees — encouraging new, stronger cartilage cells to grow in place damaged or thinning ones.

Scientists from Harvard University, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Missouri at Columbia devised another solution: inserting into pig cells a gene that codes for an enzyme that converts omega - 6s to omega - 3s.

Using their nuclei to exert force, they insert themselves between — as well as into — the cells (called endothelial cells) in the vessel walls.

When the modified genome was inserted into the recipient cell it was immediately recognised and degraded.

The modified cell nuclei were then inserted into unfertilized eggs to create engineered pig embryos, which were implanted in a normal sow.

«With Rudolph,» Farber says, «the coral DNA got inserted into a gene that is normally expressed in the nasal epithelial cells, the cells of his nose.

«We're looking at bacteria that make magnetic nanoparticles, so we can insert their genes into brain cells in the same way,» Pralle says.

The first step in the process involves inserting into those brain cells a gene that makes a light - sensitive protein.

A membrane — designed to support the cultivation and differentiation of human nasal epithelial stem cells — was inserted into a small chamber on the device and fresh or contaminated air was fed through a tiny channel.

Next, a copy of the homing endonuclease gene with its surrounding DNA inserts itself into the gap as the cell heals the breach.

The team inserted this «magnet» into mouse embryonic stem cells, next to a gene that promotes a protein called p16.

After fishing stem cells from each individual's own blood, the researchers inserted a normal version of the ABCD1 gene into some of the cells and transplanted them back into the kids.

Oncologists William Hahn, Robert Weinberg, and colleagues at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, mutated the gene for one part of the enzyme and inserted it into cultured human cells from colon, ovary, and breast tumors.

Next, the team inserted a gene that makes a light - sensitive protein into the cells of the arcuate sulcus.

The nuclei are inserted into egg cells which have had their original nucleus removed, a process called nuclear transfer.

This is the idea of inserting a gene into cells and that gene is light controlled, so that you can use light to manipulate the cell.

When the scientists inserted human colorectal cancer cells into zebrafish embryos and allowed them to grow for 4 days, the resulting tumors showed three hallmarks of human solid tumors: rapid cell division, formation of blood vessels to supply nutrients, and the ability to spread to other locations in the body.

One day, doctors might be able to insert such devices into a cancer patient to tally how many times a cell divides and flag when to shut the cancer down.

In one such study by Ronald Evans and colleagues, the gene for rat growth hormone is stably inserted into mouse cells by a retrovirus.

The process enables some viruses to insert their genetic material into the DNA of healthy human cells, which can lead to tumors and other diseases.

After just a single dose, rat intestinal cells pumped out bacterial lactase for up to 6 months — showing that the gut cells had inserted the gene into their DNA and were using it to manufacture the enzyme.