Sentences with phrase «into human tissue»

... It's just very unusual that the parasite's cells became cancerous inside a human and then invaded into human tissue,» Bobbi Pritt, director of clinical parasitology at the Mayo Clinic, said in an interview.

To demonstrate how infrared light can help surgeons to see and remove tumors, he shows how a laser pointer penetrates deep into human tissue causing it to glow red.

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have for the first time shown that it is possible to derive from a human embryo so - called «naïve» pluripotent stem cells — one of the most flexible types of stem cell, which can develop into all human tissue other than the placenta.

The near - infrared light that causes the nanotubes to fluoresce can penetrate about eight centimeters into human tissue, so physicians could potentially shine the light through skin and flesh to look for fluorescence from nanotubes signaling the presence of cancer cells.

The Inquiry into Human Tissue Analysis in U.K. Nuclear Facilities was launched in 2007 and led by lawyer Michael Redfern.

Can we expect an ethical God to punish us for our injustices through vengeance upon the innocent with a surging tsunami or a ravaging cancer encrypted into human tissue?

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ReInnervate, a start - up in Durham, England, is developing a tiny, three - dimensional plastic scaffolding on which human cells can be grown into artificial tissue, and perhaps eventually into replacements for organs.

On a normal diet, the human body breaks down carbohydrates into glucose, which are used for energy or stored as glycogen in liver and muscle tissue.

The silk allows the device to integrate with the human body, and after some time, slowly dissolve into the surrounding tissue.

* The slightest reflection would have suggested that non-human or semi-human blobs of tissue do not magically turn into human beings.

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.

A fact sheet from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), indicates that about 90 % of exposure for humans is due to eating contaminated food, since dioxins and furans typically accumulate in the fatty tissues of fish and animals that are exposed when these by - products are released into the water and air during manufacturing.2 Dioxin is not metabolized in our bodies, and is passed to our children through the placenta and breastfeeding.3 Sodium Polyacrylate - Super Absorbent Polymers While actual contact with disposable diapers does not contribute to dioxin accumulation in your baby, your baby's bottom does come in contact with chemicals used to increase the absorbency of the diapers.

Research into the biology of human lactation has been seriously impeded by the impracticality and ethical concerns of obtaining systematic samples of mammary tissue from lactating woman.

The Salk team therefore took human brain organoids that had been growing in lab dishes for 31 to 50 days and implanted them into mouse brains (more than 200 so far) from which they had removed a tiny bit of tissue to make room.

Da Cruz and his team grew replacement RPE cells from human embryonic stem cells on a thin plastic scaffold, before transplanting the tissue into the back of each volunteer's eye.

Philippe Durand and Marie - Hélène Perrard at the biotechnology company Kallistem in Lyon, France, say that their method coaxes seminiferous tubules — tissue that produces sperm in the testes — taken from humans, rats or monkeys into producing mature sperm cells.

An associate professor in Northwestern University's medical school in Chicago and its engineering school in Evanston, Illinois, Ameer studies properties of materials that can mimic human tissue, particularly materials that prevent rejection or scarring when implanted into humans.

PDX models are created by implanting cancerous tissue from a human primary tumor directly into immunodeficient mouse or rat models, enabling acceleration of oncology research or drug discovery and development programs.

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.

To investigate, Walker Jackson of the Whitehead Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, and his colleagues created mice with a mutation associated with the human prion disease Fatal Familial Insomnia and injected some of their brain tissue into the brains of mice without the mutation.

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

«We wanted to investigate whether human adults had the ability to transform some white fat deposits into beige fat when they were exposed to cold,» said one of the study's authors, Philip A. Kern, MD, of the University of Kentucky School of Medicine in Lexington, KY. «Browning fat tissue would be an excellent defense against obesity.

Stem cells from breast milk can grow into many other kinds of human tissue, raising hopes of an ethical source of embryonic - like stem cells

Wells's team first turned human skin cells into pluripotent stem cells, which can grow into any type of tissue.

At a neuroscience meeting, two teams of researchers will report implanting human brain organoids into the brains of lab rats and mice, raising the prospect that the organized, functional human tissue could develop further within a rodent.

Sen and his colleagues tested sucralose, a popular low - calorie sweetener, on stem cells — cells that could change into mature fat, muscle, cartilage or bone cells — taken from human fat tissue.

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.

By using a range of tissue stains, they were able to assess levels of oestrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR) and HER2 — human epidermal growth factor — in order to divide the samples into four subtypes.

In a first step towards creating artificial sperm cells, researchers have turned human bone marrow tissue into primitive sperm cells.

In humans, the goal of SCNT is «nonreproductive cloning» — making embryos, then removing stem cells from the embryo and cultivating them to grow into tissues that could cure diseases, replace organs and heal injuries.

The latter type of research, in which human cells or tissue are integrated into animals, was given the green light in the United Kingdom in October 2008, when the British House of Commons approved a bill that expanded the country's rules governing work with human embryos.

Critics have long argued that transplanting animal tissue into even a small number of immune - suppressed patients could allow obscure pathogens to jump from animals to humans.

During the Second World War, between 8000 and 10 000 American soldiers were put into gas chambers and exposed to mustard gas and Lewisite, which cause blisters on human tissue.

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.

The technology has evolved from a caged - ball design into valves with artificial flaps, pig valves processed for human use, and hand - sewn biologic valves made from cow tissue.

However, cancer cells may instead be coaxed to turn back into normal tissue simply by reactivating a single gene, according to a study that found that restoring normal levels of a human colorectal cancer gene in mice stopped tumor growth and re-established normal intestinal function within only 4 days.

While tissue engineering exists for restoring normal sexual function, such as lab - grown vaginas, this would take the practice into the arena of human enhancement.

In a new study, researchers injected human gum tissue extracted during oral surgery into the molars of fetal mice.

Derrickson also skillfully provides an explanation for why Klaatu would be a bipedal hominid (an unlikely product of independent evolution on another planet)-- genetic engineering of placental tissue surrounding his original alien body, with embryological development sped up hundreds of times to transform him into a being recognizably human.

In a new study the PhD students Jan Hoeber, Niclas König and Carl Trolle, working in Dr.Elena Kozlova's research group transplanted human stem cells to an avulsion injury in mice with the aim to restore a functional route for sensory information from peripheral tissues into the spinal cord.

To track down the location of proteins inside human tissues, Uhlén's team of about 100 scientists breaks the problem into two parts — finding antibodies that target individual proteins and then using those antibodies to hunt for proteins inside tissues.

The program is tasked with creating 3 - D human tissue chips and combining them into an integrated system that mimics the complex functions of the human body, so that promising pharmaceuticals can be better tested before entering human trials.

Subsequent transplant of millions of human T - ALL cells into normal mice that were then treated with an anti-CXCR4 drug induced remission within two weeks, with diseased spleen and bone marrow tissue nearly returning to normal.

But with humans, she is using iPS cells and has been working to develop the correct protocols to induce her stem cells to differentiate into different kinds of lung tissue.

Whatever the source of pluripotent cells, Thomson says, researchers face the same scientific challenges — namely, understanding how to convert them into key tissues such as the beta islet cells that are impaired in diabetics, and then how to introduce them safely and effectively into humans.

Taking advantage of this, researchers can insert therapeutic genes into a virus, then use the viruses to shuttle the genes to the appropriate cells or tissues inside a human body.

Their study, published Nov. 4 in the journal Science, could generate new leads into tissue repair in humans.

A HUMAN ovary grown in the lab from slivers of ovarian tissue has been able to turn an immature egg into one that is ready to be fertilised.

They've even injected white blood cells into the vessels and watched as they squeezed through gaps in the vessel wall to reach the tissue on the other side, just as they do in the human body.