In 2008 the National Institutes of Health launched the $ 190 - million Roadmap Epigenomics Project with the goal of cataloguing the epigenetic marks in
the major human cell types and tissues.
Not exact matches
Trials of
cells made from
human embryonic stem
cells are also poised to begin in people with
type 1 diabetes and heart failure, the first time embryonic stem
cells have been used in the treatment of
major lethal diseases.
Decades after they were discovered,
human embryonic stem
cells are being trialled as a treatment for two
major diseases: heart failure and
type 1 diabetes
In the second
Cell paper, researchers collaborated with scientists at the University of Cambridge, McGill University in Canada and several UK and European institutions to explore the role that epigenetics plays in the development and function of three major human immune cell types: CD14 + monocytes, CD16 + neutrophils and naïve CD4 + T cells, from the genomes of 197 individu
Cell paper, researchers collaborated with scientists at the University of Cambridge, McGill University in Canada and several UK and European institutions to explore the role that epigenetics plays in the development and function of three
major human immune
cell types: CD14 + monocytes, CD16 + neutrophils and naïve CD4 + T cells, from the genomes of 197 individu
cell types: CD14 + monocytes, CD16 + neutrophils and naïve CD4 + T
cells, from the genomes of 197 individuals.
The results suggest that drugs capable of targeting similar molecular pathways in
human fat
cells could one day become
major tools for fighting the growing worldwide epidemics of obesity and
type 2 diabetes, according to senior investigator Shingo Kajimura, PhD, an assistant professor of
cell and tissue biology in UCSF's School of Dentistry.
Experiments in three
major types of biological organisms —
human cells, algae, and fungi — found in each case that levels of magnesium in
cells rise and fall in a daily cycle.
The Polonis lab has also employed both
cell line - based model systems, as well as primary
cell types from uninfected
humans, to investigate virus - antibody - host
cell interactions and cross-subtype reactivities amongst the
major subtypes of the HIV pandemic.