Sentences with phrase «living human tissue»

Why would beings who are capable of interstellar travel and able to disguise themselves with living human tissue need to ride around in a minivan and on motorcycles to carry out their mission on Earth?

But it required a leap of faith that what was happening in the test tube could be extrapolated to what might actually happen in living human tissue.

These mice «allow» scientists to do research on living human tissue without it being human enough to worry the bioethicists.

«We could develop new endoscopes that are soft and able to grow inside living human tissues without damage.

Not exact matches

Pro-choice euphemisms like «pre-embryo,» «foetal tissue,» and «ball of cells» are materialistic and reflect fully the diminishment of human life as chance — easy come, easy go.

Riordan & Wambach (2012) state, «Human milk is similar to unstructured living tissue, such as blood, and is capable or transporting nutrients, affecting biochemical systems, enhancing immunity, and destroying pathogens.»

Riordan & Wambach (2012) state, «Human milk is similar to unstructured living tissue, such as blood, and is capable or transporting nutrients, affecting biochemical systems, enhancing immunity, and destroying pathogens» They they go on to say, «Breastmilk, like all other animal milks, is species - specific.

Three - dimensional models of living tissue will advance understanding of human breast development as well as the growth of breast cancer.

Scientists are forced either to experiment on whole animals, which is expensive, raises ethical issues and may not predict effects in humans, or to perform tests on microscopic human cells found in tissue cultures, which have been altered to live forever and bear little relation to actual living, breathing people.

An analysis of the HPV16 genome from 5,570 human cell and tissue samples revealed that the virus actually consists of thousands of unique genomes, such that infected women living in the same region often have different HPV16 sequences and variable risks to cancer.

WHAT THEY DO BEST: In real life, human tissues are not so neatly color - coded as they are in such iconic texts as Gray's Anatomy, and they can be extraordinarily difficult to distinguish.

There are moments of pure nature - channel gore, such as when McAuliffe delineates the life cycle of a guinea worm, a parasite that migrates from a human's intestinal muscle through the tissues of the body all the way to the lower limbs or sole of the foot where it — no, that's enough.

Rutgers engineers have invented a «4D printing» method for a smart gel that could lead to the development of «living» structures in human organs and tissues, soft robots and targeted drug delivery.

The method must now be tested on larger animals before it can be tried in humans, but the hope is that tissue - engineered repairs for congenital diaphragm malformations will be at least as effective as current surgical options with the added benefit of growing with children throughout their lives.

Researchers from KTH Royal Institute of Technology's Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab) research center and Gothenburg University employed the biological networks generated for 46 major human tissues in order to identify the liver - specific gene targets.

The team hopes to apply this method to the nerve cells, bone marrow, and brain tissue of living animals and humans.

The use of cell surface markers to isolate specific cell populations is one common method for separating cells; however, isolating live cells based on their RNA expression is a powerful new way enabling the study of small cell niches in nongenetically modified animal models and human tissue.

Historically, animal models — from fruit flies to mice — have been the go - to technique to study the biological consequences of aging, especially in tissues that can't be easily sampled from living humans, like the brain.

«Our research provides the first direct evidence that exposure to BPA during development, at the levels we see in our day - to - day lives, increases the risk for prostate cancer in human prostate tissue,» Prins said.

The nano - hydrogels have shown very good characteristics of biocompatibility with the human organism, due to their physical properties, which make them resemble living tissues, especially by its high water content, its soft and elastic consistency, and its low interfacial tension which prevents them from absorbing proteins from body fluids.

Of the motivation behind the ground - breaking study, Miss Restrepo - Schild said: «I have always been fascinated by the human body, and want to prove that current technology could be used to replicate the function of human tissues, without having to actually use living cells.

The study of human astrocytes has faced issues related to access (samples of living tissue must be obtained from brain cancer or epilepsy surgeries or fetal tissue) and purification (breaking apart astrocytes away from other cells often killed them and many experiments ended in failure).

We can foresee cloned herds as living factories: Cows and pigs will churn out valuable human proteins in their milk or blood, and tissues and organs for transplantation.

Along with the studies in live animals, the research team also studied human brain tissue from Northwestern's Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center.

That's because most studies on single human brain cells use dead rather than living tissue, and many others rely on cells from common laboratory animals, especially mice.

Scientists from Cedars - Sinai and Emulate Produce Human Intestinal Lining That Re-Creates Living Tissue Inside Organ - Chip

Today, Griffith is a leader in a burgeoning subfield of tissue engineering that does just that: creates microversions of living human organs.

Whereas the derivation of stem cell lines from human embryos is subject to specific regulation by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), UK law does not distinguish between fetal tissue and other tissue from living patihuman embryos is subject to specific regulation by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), UK law does not distinguish between fetal tissue and other tissue from living patiHuman Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), UK law does not distinguish between fetal tissue and other tissue from living patients.

Biochemist Thomas Baldwin, president of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, in a letter to the House and Senate appropriations committees, wrote that «research using fetal tissue and embryonic stem cells advances scientific knowledge, improves human health, and saves lives.»

Over the last few years, scientists have been able to recreate accurate models of human organs by embedding living tissue onto chips, allowing them to study the effects of drugs and diseases without testing on animals or humans.

Usually, because of the inaccessibility of brain tissue in living humans, epigenetic studies are carried out using blood samples.

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Investigators from Cedars - Sinai and Emulate demonstrated how cells of a human intestinal lining created outside an individual's body mirror living tissue when placed inside Emulate's Intestine - Chips, opening the door to personalized testing of drug treatments.

And to read more about a paper that has been published as part of this partnership, please see: Scientists from Cedars - Sinai and Emulate Produce Human Intestinal Lining That Re-Creates Living Tissue Inside Organ - Chip.

In addition, each human life begins in the watery environment of its mother's womb, our cells and tissues are mostly water, and most of the chemical reactions that are part of life's processes take place in water.

To date, scaling up human tissues built of a variety of cell types has been limited by a lack of robust methods for embedding life - sustaining vascular networks.

Human beings possess the same genes required for tissue regeneration and long life found in these animals.

The Sanger Institute uses human tissue samples, DNA and RNA donated by the living and the deceased in its research.

Each of Emulate's proprietary Organ - Chips — such as the lung, liver, brain, intestine or kidney — contains tiny hollow channels lined with tens of thousands of living human cells and tissues, and is approximately the size of an AA battery.

Organ - Chips — such as the lung, liver, brain or kidney — are micro-engineered environments lined with living human cells and tissues.

In dramatic contrast to the poor repair outcomes for humans and rodent models such as mice, salamanders are able to completely regenerate heart tissue, whole limbs and many other tissues following injury, at any life stage.

1) Phytonutrients: * Occur naturally in fruits and vegetables * Promote the function of the immune system * Help fight off viruses as well as reduce inflammation * Associated with the treatment and / or prevention of cancer and cardiovascular disease 2) Enzymes: * Responsible for metabolic processes that occur within a cell and are necessary for sustaining life * Assist and play a large role in digestion, energy production, blood coagulation and contraction of muscles 3) Amino Acids: * The basic building blocks of protein * Absorption of amino acids is essential for your metabolism 4) Essential Fatty Acids: * Reduce the risk of heart disease and some forms of cancer * Improve mood * Decrease inflammation 5) Vitamins: * Essential for the normal growth and development of all human beings * Healthy maintenance of cell tissues and organs * Help process proteins, carbohydrates and fats required for utilization 6 & 7) Macro and Trace Minerals: * Involved in electrolyte balance of body fluids * Essential for normal cellular activity * Provide hardness to bones and teeth

Human beings don't have the ability to digest fiber, so this is the beauty of the cycle of life: Cows consuming fresh grass on pasture accumulate nutrients in their tissues all day long — this is why meat, and particularly organ meats, are the most nutrient dense foods in all of nature.

When consumed by humans, these molecules help to protect brain function and tissue from the aging process, repair DNA damage and increase life span.

Infrared light has the ability to penetrate human tissue which in turn produces a host of anti-aging health benefits making infrared saunas one of the «hottest» home therapies for overall healthier living.

«We are still exploring the themes of memories and empathy, that's still in the deeper tissue of what the movie is about and the relationship to what it means to be human,» says director Denis Villeneuve in the Facebook Live Q&A that helped launched the trailer, before feeling happy that he hadn't been shot for giving away any spoilers.

Tissues of Life Not Kleenex the four types of tissue of the human body.

Ivivi Health Sciences is a leading innovator in pulsed electromagnetic field (PEMF) therapy and has demonstrated its ability to target pulsed electromagnetic field signals (tPEMF) to affect specific processes in living tissue (animal and human).

«In addition to live prey, eviscerated tissues (gut piles) from hunted deer and black bears would be a source of infection for wild cats... Prevalence of T. gondii in wild game and venison in the USA is very high and hunters need to be aware of the risk of transmission of infection to humans and, more importantly, spread of infection in the environment.

In «Soft Tissue», Chou reinterprets the meaning and function of living organisms, from the levels of cellular structures to human beings, while exploring both an Eastern and Western philosophical approach to their significance.