Sentences with phrase «to manipulate cells»

We have a limited amount of product available for trial by users tired of the limitations of magnetic beads or who want to manipulate cells in a new way.

By manipulating the cells at this early stage of development, scientists aim to get the modified ES cells to contribute to the germ line, and give rise to sperm.

Doing so would involve manipulating the cell's natural protein - elimination system.

If one could reliably manipulate these cells, the theory goes, damaged organs could be replaced with new, made - to - order organs.

The researchers are manipulating cells so that they can look at direct contact between two cell membranes or precisely control and maintain a variety of distances between cells and determine how cells communicate.

Doctors in the US have already begun their first tests of genetically manipulated cells in patients with cancer; comparable treatments for immune deficiency or Duchenne muscular dystrophy are much further off.

Instead of manipulating the cells with a virus, as other researchers had done, the Wisconsin team used so - called circular DNA, loops of DNA that exist outside of the primary genome.

He notes, however, that other attempts to stimulate bone growth in mice by manipulating cell signaling proteins have produced denser than normal bones — and he's surprised that Helms's team didn't see the same.

He admitted that the light he referred to could have come from one of the car's interior lights or its radio and not necessarily from a communication device, so at best it is an ambivalent factor that could equally well have an explanation apart from manipulating a cell phone or similar device,» wrote Howden in assessing the Crown's evidence.

Lambs produced from the genetically manipulated cells produce foreign proteins; such animals may be able to manufacture large quantities of medically valuable human proteins in their milk.

When the researchers manipulated the cell's genetics to increase levels of ALKBH5 without exposing them to low oxygen, they found this also decreased methylation of NANOG mRNA and increased the numbers of breast cancer stem cells.

The more researchers learned, the more they understood that successful gene therapy depended as much on manipulating cells, including immune cells, as the genes within.

An initial drug test suggested that the virus manipulates the cell's internal skeleton, so the team stained the skeleton and videotaped the viral assault on a live kidney cell of a green African monkey.

Strict drug - style regulation seems appropriate for extensively manipulated cells.

«Acoustic tweezers manipulate cell - to - cell contact.»

Sound waves can precisely position groups of cells for study without the danger of changing or damaging the cells, according to a team of Penn State researchers who are using surface acoustic waves to manipulate cell spacing and contact.

«The method enables us to manipulate cells into producing proteins that are suspected to be involved in the immune system.

Designed by Gabriel Nistor, a scientist in Keirstead's laboratory, the quarter - million dollar system housed at the Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center will allow scientists to dissect single cells using lasers, manipulate cells using robotic instruments, and control the climate in the work area.

Such transplants were, however, included in this analysis if they involved significantly manipulated cells (selected, expanded, drug - treated, or genetically engineered).

They then manipulated those cells» decision - making machinery by introducing different amounts of PU.1.

The latest study, published in Cell Stem Cell, offers a third way to turn skin cells into stem cells by directly manipulating the cells» genome using CRISPR gene regulation techniques.

They can form colonies in which they work together to manipulate our cell surfaces with their retracting appendages until they're allowed entry inside, where they can surreptitiously multiply.

Researchers have sped up bone healing in mice by one - third by manipulating cell signaling proteins.

Henikoff's team genetically manipulated the cells in their plants so that the cells they wanted to study — and only those cells — produced a particular protein that protruded from the nucleus.

In this course, you'll learn everything from manipulating cells, to the difference between functions and subroutines, to how to fix an error.

In this study, they genetically manipulated cells and mice to produce 3D8.

If we knew what those functions were, then maybe we'd have a better way of manipulating these cells, so I'd be keen on performing some experiments to explore what these other genes do.

By manipulating these cells, the researchers were able to flip those switches in the waking brain, too: Sleep - deprived mice were suddenly better at finding food when TRN cells were set to waking mode, and well - rested mice did poorly at the same task when TRN cells mimicked their sleeping function.

Ethics are an issue; most of these companies are manipulating cells or DNA in some way, and some potential customers have concerns.

This is the idea of inserting a gene into cells and that gene is light controlled, so that you can use light to manipulate the cell.

Differences in the numbers and activities of these lung TRM cells may be responsible for the increased susceptibility of young children and older adults to pneumonia and manipulating these cells may provide novel treatment options for curing pneumonia.

«Manipulating cell signaling for better muscle function in muscular dystrophy.»

«The models, based on experimentally derived data on real cells, allow the researchers to manipulate the cells» characteristics to see which ones cause blood blockages.

«In the future we are hoping to manipulate these cells to replenish any lost retinal neurons, either in diseased or physically damaged retinas,» he noted.

Chang got a genetic foothold on this sensory system by labeling GPCRs in mice and engineering them to produce channelrhodopsin, a molecule that allowed the scientists to use light to manipulate the cells» function and study the neurons sorted by different GPCRs.

Once researchers identify a population of cells implicated in a particular activity using Cal - Light, they can use optogenetics to manipulate those cells.

These cells survived for at least six months after the mice received the transplant of manipulated cells (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol 87, p 439).

Cells from mice bred in Singh's lab to lack PU.1 allowed the researchers to manipulate the cells» decision - making machinery by introducing different amounts of PU.1.

Scientist use light to manipulate cells in the body in a technique that could drive regenerative medicine to new heights.

Just as antibiotics conquered infectious diseases and vaccines eliminated the scourges of polio and smallpox, the ability to manipulate our cells and genes is supposed to vanquish everything from terrible inherited disorders, such as Huntington's and cystic fibrosis, to widespread conditions like cancer, diabetes, and heart disease.

Hold onto those terms, because HA and the peptides are about to manipulate the cell's natural mechanisms against itself.

In the late 1990s, a group of engineers and biologists came together to try to manipulate cells the way they might manipulate the circuits in computer.

Adding the chemical to prostate cells or manipulating cells» biochemical pathways so they produced more sarcosine on their own caused benign prostate cells to become cancerous and invasive.

Understanding the pathways that allow the cells to divide or proliferate could also be used to manipulate cells in a particular aspect of the nervous system.