Sentences with phrase «into organ cells»

These can then be made into any organ cell type specific to the individual.

Cedars - Sinai scientists can harvest cells from the blood or skin of an individual and reprogram them into induced pluripotent stem cells, which can be made into any organ cell (such as those from the lung, liver or intestine), each bearing the unique genetic fingerprint and characteristics of the person.

These cells can then be reprogrammed into induced pluripotent stem cells, which can be made into any organ cell, each bearing the unique genetic fingerprint and characteristics of the individual.

Not exact matches

Our brains are remarkably resilient, even growing new brain cells deep into adulthood, but even this incredible organ eventually ages.

Researchers also are developing techniques for assembling living cells into working biodevices — which could mean a solution for damaged internal organs, such as livers, bladders, and kidneys.

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.

Given the tension and consequent ambiguity built into the fabric of Whitehead's portrayal, it only extenuates the competing claims between organ / cells, cell / molecules, molecule / nuclei / electrons, and also crystal / atoms, metal / electrons, quarks / universe.

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.

Also, why do cancer cells transplanted into healthy organs often not develop into tumours.

The «Cancerous Growths» of charitous - ladled organs within society's fleshy parchments deprives many celled critters a resonating board from which to dive from and into the sea of freedoms» treasure troves.

The news is particularly relevant in light of the fact that many common health issues with newborns are linked to developmental problems with their organs, a situation that might be aided by the infusion of stem cells, which can mature into any organ in the body.

It will consist of two layers of cells, the epiblast and the hypoblast, that will later on develop into the essential organs and body parts that your baby requires to function on their own.

It's a rich source of stem cells, particularly those that can grow into tissues, organs, and blood vessels.

The feat, reported in this week's Nature, offers a window to how cells in human embryos morph into organs.

The team has already successfully repopulated pig kidneys with human cells, but Ott says further studies are vital to guarantee that the pig components of the organ do not cause rejection when transplanted into humans.

«If we fed the fish a specific type of fat, our technique allowed us to determine into what molecules these lipids were reassembled after they were broken down in the small intestine and in which organs and cells these molecules ended up,» Farber explained.

The inner ear comprises the hearing organ or cochlea, together with the five balance organs (the saccule, utricle and three semicircular canals), which contain the sensory cells, or hair cells, that detect mechanical vibrations and convert them into electrical signals.

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

The team pumped around 50 million rat liver cells into each of five bare scaffolds, then incubated the organs in culture for two weeks.

Remarkably, given the complexity of the kidney, the cells differentiated into exactly those required in the different compartments of the organ.

Lagasse, based at Pitt's McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, has discovered how to turn any one of the body's 500 lymph nodes — the small, oval - shaped organs where immune cells gather to fight invading pathogens — into an incubator that can grow an entirely new liver.

Until now, cows have been cloned almost exclusively from embryonic cells, which are difficult to maintain in the lab and are less amenable than fetal cells — which have not specialized into distinct organs — to genetic tinkering.

They focused on the role of monocytes, immune cells that normally pass along the blood vessels and in response to a local infection move quickly into the affected organ and contribute to the localized immune defense there.

In 2015, she and colleagues in Church's lab used CRISPR to eliminate from pig cells 62 genes so potentially dangerous their very existence nixed previous efforts to turn pigs into organ donors.

«We believe that small subsets of metastatic tumor cells have the ability to adopt the mechanisms used by immune cells to exit the blood vessels into the lungs, the bone marrow, the brain, and other organs.

«Our conclusion is that by pushing the mice into an extreme state and then bringing them back — by starving them and then feeding them again — the cells in the pancreas are triggered to use some kind of developmental reprogramming that rebuilds the part of the organ that's no longer functioning,» says senior author Valter Longo of the University of Southern California School of Gerontology and Director of the USC Longevity Institute.

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.

These damaged cells fail to carry glucose into cells; instead glucose builds up in the blood and can damage nerves, blood vessels and organs unless insulin is administered.

The scientists» findings have wide implications in the effort to understand how organs are sculpted into their shapes and how cells respond to their native mechanical environment both in healthy tissues and during disease.

To get into the blood vessels, the cell needs to penetrate tissue, both when it leaves the tumour and when it is attaching to a new organ.

The embryonic cells can develop into replacement organs in the lab or be injected into an egg, where they develop as a viable embryo and are literally born.

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.

In multiple myeloma, normal plasma cells transform into malignant myeloma cells and produce large quantities of toxic abnormal immunoglobulin called monoclonal protein that can damage multiple organs.

Badylak's debut paper on ECM went to press right around the time scientists first coined the term «tissue engineering» to describe what was then considered a small but burgeoning field — the far - out - there efforts to coax cells into tissue to restore, maintain, or improve tissue function or whole organs.

The brain is protected by a barrier of cells that tightly regulates the transport of substances into this organ in order to prevent infection.

One likely reason for this is that animals undergo cellular differentiation; human life begins as a single cell that differentiates into the various cell types needed for different organs, body parts, blood, the immune system, etc..

The electric eel generates large electric currents by way of a highly specialized nervous system that has the capacity to synchronize the activity of disc - shaped, electricity - producing cells packed into a specialized electric organ.

Stem cells could likewise be reprogrammed into differentiated organ cells.

Because the cells are oriented inside the electric organ like a series of batteries piled into a flashlight, the current generated by an activated cell «shocks» any inactive neighbor into action, setting off an avalanche of activation that runs its course in just two milliseconds or so.

These rare, damage - repairing cells are found in many organs (including the brain), but the cells can transform into only a limited range of cell types.

Understanding exactly how stem cells form into specific organs and tissues is the holy grail of regenerative medicine.

As humans develop, each cell divides into two, leading to many more cells in subsequent generations as organs form.

The spiral - shaped organ of Corti, found in the cochlea, houses the sensitive hair cells that convert sound vibrations into nerve impulses.

Hilde Mangold (1898 - 1924) Under the guidance of Hans Spemann, she carried out the experiments that led to the discovery of the organizer effect, which directs the development of embryonic cells into tissues and organs.

Since embryonic stem cells can differentiate into any type of tissue, they have the potential to treat an almost unending array of medical conditions — replacing damaged or lost body parts or tissues, slowing degenerative diseases, even growing new organs.

Adult stem cells: They have less flexibility and «stemness» to change into different cell types, but they can still produce new cells, specialized to become part of a particular organ or tissue, such as muscle cells or neural cells.

The H225 antibody proved itself very efficient, decreasing the transit of cancerous cells into the organs of the lymphatic system by over 50 %.

The material, KOD, mimics natural collagen, a fibrous protein that binds cells together into organs and tissues.

Scientists have found some serious loot in that bemoaned organ, including a vigorous population of flexible stem cells that can be coaxed into acting as new cartilage or tendons for damaged joints.

Because previous work in rats and monkeys has found that proteins that block the costimulatory signal can hold T cells at bay, Kim Olthoff, a transplant surgeon at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in Philadelphia, thought her team could achieve a targeted immune suppression by getting the transplanted organ itself — rather than proteins injected into the bloodstream — to block the costimulatory signal.