Sentences with phrase «like cells in the dish»

One metabolite featured in the study is cholesterol sulfate, which was found to be used up during osteogenesis on a rigid matrix and in turn could be used to convert stem cells into bone - like cells in a dish.

He also notes that the fluorescence imaging meant to demonstrate the presence of PGC - like cells in the dish doesn't seem to show proteins necessary for that type of cell, meaning the authors may not really have created the PGC - like cells they would need to generate sperm.

Not exact matches

Growing cells in Petri dishes sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but the basic elements of the science are actually decades old.

People who include dishes like carrot soup in their diets on a regular basis also enjoy reduced cholesterol levels, healthy teeth, and gums, wrinkle prevention, the slowing down of aging of the cells in your body, as well as a clean colon.

But the next big question was whether these cells could home in on tumors in lab dishes, and in animals, like neural stem cells.

«They are a bunch of cells in a dish, like a soup,» he says.

Scientists we sent Anand's poster presentation to said that although the team has indeed grown some kind of miniature collection of cells, or «organoid», in a dish, the structure isn't much like a fetal brain.

«They are more true - to - life than cells in dishes and more human - like than animal models,» said Hamilton.

In many important respects they behave just like other human cells, and they live indefinitely in lab dishesIn many important respects they behave just like other human cells, and they live indefinitely in lab dishesin lab dishes.)

According to his unpublished findings, when he puts glioblastoma cells from patients into lab dishes with brain organoids, the cells attach to the surface of the organoids, burrow into them, and within 24 to 48 hours grow into a mass that eventually «looks exactly like what happened in the patient's own brain,» Fine said.

Rather than stick the isolated cells on a flat culture dish, they mixed the cells with liquid, then let the mixture hang in tiny droplets from a plastic lid, like condensation on the roof of a container.

Their stem cells, which can mature into any type of tissue, were isolated and cultured in a dish around dots of gel - like growth medium.

They then combined these cells in a special dish shaped like a tiny dog bone.

When you create them in a dish, they behave like fetal cells.

Yet in 2006, Shinya Yamanaka at Kyoto University in Japan reported a «crazy» experiment (Hochedlinger's word) to show that mouse skin cells in a petri dish, aided by four genes and viruses that inserted the genes into the cells» DNA, could achieve something like the newt's developmental reversal, becoming just about any cell in the mouse's body.

Because neurodegenerative disorders like PD are largely diseases of aging, modeling them in a culture dish using neurons grown from iPS cells has been thought to be exceedingly difficult, if not impossible.

Adding to its treachery, norovirus, although it replicates like a madman in your gut, can't be grown in cells in a dish, which makes finding a drug to stop it very much more difficult to find (2).

But compared to a homogeneous material like water or a magnet — or even a collection of identical cells in a dish — cancer is a hot mess.

For definitive endoderm differentiation, spontaneously formed EBs on day 6 were plated onto matrigel - coated dishes and maintained in a low concentration of fetal bovine serum (FBS) in combination with a high concentration of recombinant Activin A. Scale - like cells appeared (Figure 5A), which were positive for definitive endoderm markers such as Foxa2, Sox17 and Gata4.

In dishes in the laboratory, scientists have already turned stem cells into heart cells, which gather into a group and throb in synch with one another, just like cells do in your hearIn dishes in the laboratory, scientists have already turned stem cells into heart cells, which gather into a group and throb in synch with one another, just like cells do in your hearin the laboratory, scientists have already turned stem cells into heart cells, which gather into a group and throb in synch with one another, just like cells do in your hearin synch with one another, just like cells do in your hearin your heart.

NSG mice have impaired immune systems, so they can accept and grow human cancer cells like those grown in glass dishes.

There are a number of specific compounds in plant foods that look promising, but that's based on in vitro studies like this, where they basically just drip some plant compound on bone cells in a petri dish and see a boost in bone builder cells, or a drop in bone eater cells.

«In the dish, you only have a select subgroup of immune system cells versus the mouse, where all of these cells were interacting and living in correct tissues and developing in different areas like bone marrow and spleen.&raquIn the dish, you only have a select subgroup of immune system cells versus the mouse, where all of these cells were interacting and living in correct tissues and developing in different areas like bone marrow and spleen.&raquin correct tissues and developing in different areas like bone marrow and spleen.&raquin different areas like bone marrow and spleen.»

Also in Encounters, Korean artist Yeesookyung's ceramic shards rejoined with golden epoxy were gathered together in Thousand (2014), appearing like mutating cells in a petri dish.

I like to make the bed, make sure there aren't any dishes in the sink, open the blinds, check my cell phone to see if it is turned on and i can find it if it rings, and get the trash and dirty clothes off the floor.