Sentences with phrase «kind of tissue developing»

The researchers tinkered with the voltage in cell membranes of developing African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis) and found that electric charge plays a role in how big the brain grows and what kind of tissue developing cells grow into.

Not exact matches

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.

In 1991, Robertson and her colleagues reported an unusual discovery involving a gene called Igf2, which is responsible for producing a protein known as insulin - like growth factor II (IGF - 2), important for the growth of many kinds of tissue in the developing fetus.

They are working on all kinds of projects: a less energy - intensive way to make solar panels, a cheap water purification device for the developing world, and materials that mimic eye and liver tissue to substitute for live animals in toxicity testing.

The application is on hold, the agency has told him, as NIH reconsiders its rules for the kind of experiments he wants to do: mixing human stem cells into very early animal embryos and letting them develop, a strategy that could produce tissues or organs for transplantation.

We are developing a new kind of medicine: regenerative therapies that remove, repair, replace, or render harmless the cellular and molecular damage that has accumulated in our tissues with time.

And so again, kind of using what the embryo normally does to develop but transferring that into an adult fibroblast and making that tissue - and it's very, very fascinating research.

While it has long been known that embryonic stem cells have the ability to develop into any kind of tissue - specific cells, the exact mechanism as to how this occurs has heretofore not been demonstrated.

I don't know of having highly developed, or even overdeveloped, stomach muscles would necessarily cause a problem, but there is something there that we should discuss, which is if people have had abdominal trauma, meaning maybe a hernia surgery, or a C - section, or an ovarectomy, or any kind of abdominal trauma that may cause scarring or damage, or even if a woman has really bad uterine fibroids, for example, which can cause pelvic obstruction, anything in the abdominal pelvic area that creates scar tissue, whether it be surgical, or impact trauma, or what have you, has the potential, because the abdomen and pelvis rest up against your intestines, has the potential to impede the movement of stuff through the intestines.