Sentences with phrase «lost tissue»

As the cells divide, they can also replace lost tissue such as bone and cartilage.

Her team is engaged in engineering technologies to repair lost tissues.

These natural agents have been shown to effectively induce healing and regeneration of lost tissue.

A remarkable substance extracted from pigs enables the body to regenerate lost tissue, including fingertips and big chunks of muscle.

First, working organ cells that normally don't divide can multiply and grow to replenish lost tissue, as occurs in injured salamander hearts.

Although missing bone can be replaced by titanium, «there is no better substitute for lost tissue than living tissue,» bioengineer Gordana Vunjak - Novakovic at Columbia University explains.

The newt can regenerate lost tissue, including heart muscle, components of its central nervous system and even the lens of its eye.

That suggests the cells are producing factors that promote regeneration, not just replacing lost tissue.»

This paradigm of harnessing cells in nearby areas of damage to replenish lost tissue is not just applicable to the heart; it may be useful in many other organs in the body that have support cells like fibroblasts.

The chemical compounds contained in these herbs are natural agents that induce the healing and regeneration of lost tissue.

But the biological secrets inside their arm regeneration feat do hold the promise of learning more about how we might better regenerate our own diseased or lost tissue.

If a sea turtle takes a bite out of a jellyfish, the injured animal can quickly grow new cells to replace the lost tissue.

A research team at York has adapted the astonishing capacity of animals such as newts to regenerate lost tissues and organs caused when they have a limb severed.

In four out the five patients, periorbital transplantation was successfully performed, reconstructing the lost tissue while restoring critical functions, such as voluntary and reflexive blinking.

That's one of the distinguishing features between stem cell therapy, which is to regenerate lost tissue, and gene therapy, which at the moment is there to sustain cells that would otherwise die.»

«But what we are trying to do is to give the human body the necessary tools to regenerate lost tissue — all on its own.»

Cell transplantation can replace diseased or lost tissue, thereby providing restorative therapy for these conditions.

The goal of her lab is to engineer technologies to repair lost tissues.

«Much or most of Mr. Hunt's brain had lost tissue and shrank,» a psychiatrist testified at the trial, while a doctor said Mr. Hunt was «increasingly malleable and easily influenced using cuing and emotional simulation, including sexual relations.»