Sentences with phrase «make specific cell types»

«It can help us to eventually answer the question of how our body knows how to make specific cell types that can fight infection.»

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«Use of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology» — which involves taking skin cells from patients and reprogramming them into embryonic - like stem cells capable of turning into other specific cell types relevant for studying a particular disease — «makes it possible to model dementias that affect people later in life,» says senior study author Catherine Verfaillie of KU Leuven.

The specific pattern of epigenetic marks in a cell type specifies identity and this epigenetic control is vital to what makes our cells different, for example a skin cell from a liver cell, when they all contain the same genetic instructions.

The researchers found that Zika targeted two specific cell types in mice: spermatogonia, which make sperm, and Sertoli cells, which are involved in helping sperm develop and sheltering them from the blood and immune system, building what's called the blood - testis barrier.

These can then be made into any organ cell type specific to the individual.

During development, cells have to integrate different types of molecular and physical information to proliferate, and to make decisions such as whether to maintain pluripotency or trigger differentiation and acquire specialisation for tissue - specific functions.

Making use of cell and animal models, my laboratory group addresses some of the fundamental questions of how ethanol exposure injures the liver, with a goal ofidentifying the individual targets of ethanol - induced injury and the specific responses of the key cell types within the liver, as well as the integrated, organismal response to this ethanol - induced injury.

The thymus is the small organ in the lymphatic system that makes T - cells, [29] which are highly specialized immune cells that target specific types and strains of microbes, like viruses.

The immune system is made up of a team of different types of cells that, while each having their own specific function, work together to protect the body from foreign invaders: B - cells produce antibodies; T - cells conduct surveillance for potentially dangerous molecules and kills dangerous cells such as disease - causing bacteria; and macrophages are the scavenger cells of your body acting like garbage trucks, cleaning up residue and removing potentially dangerous substances.