Sentences with phrase «medical holding cell»

Mark Cannon, 24, is transported to an Albany County Correctional Facility medical holding cell after falling ill.

Mark Cannon, 24, is observed by a nurse in an Albany County Correctional Facility medical holding cell after falling ill.

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There is plenty of anecdotal evidence out there claiming a link between cell phone use and cancer: Keith Black, chairman of neurosurgery at Cedars - Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, says that the brain cancer (malignant glioma) that killed O. J. Simpson's attorney, Johnnie Cochran, was the result of frequent cell phone use, based on the fact that the tumor developed on the side of the head against which he held his phone.

Because previous work in rats and monkeys has found that proteins that block the costimulatory signal can hold T cells at bay, Kim Olthoff, a transplant surgeon at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in Philadelphia, thought her team could achieve a targeted immune suppression by getting the transplanted organ itself — rather than proteins injected into the bloodstream — to block the costimulatory signal.

Stem cells hold great promise for transforming medical care related to a diverse range of conditions, but the cells often lose some of their therapeutic potential when scientists try to grow and expand them in the laboratory.

Reprogramming holds great potential for new medical applications, because reprogrammed pluripotent stem cells (or induced pluripotent stem cells) can be made from a patient's own cells and embryos will not be needed.

«This is another great example of how using a synthetic «bottom - up» engineering approach and leveraging the power of biological design — this time at the scale of individual molecules interacting on cell membranes — can lead to breakthrough technologies for medicine that overcome limitations that hold back more conventional approaches,» said Wyss Institute Founding Director Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children's Hospital and Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

A patent held by the clinic's medical director, Geeta Shroff, from 2007 suggests that the cells offered by Nutech Mediworld could be helpful for over 70 types of conditions, from Down's syndrome to Alzheimer's disease, and even vegetative states.

Robert Lanza, vice president of medical and scientific development at the privately - held biotechnology company Advanced Cell Technology (ACT), says that without scientific data, he is extremely skeptical of the group's claim.

«Understanding how Cas9 is able to locate specific 20 - base - pair target sequences within genomes that are millions to billions of base pairs long may enable improvements to gene targeting and genome editing efforts in bacteria and other types of cells,» says Doudna who holds joint appointments with Berkeley Lab's Physical Biosciences Division and UC Berkeley's Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Department of Chemistry, and is also an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).

Such research on the basic processes of cell differentiation holds out the promise of dramatic new medical interventions and cures.

Neuroscientists led by Qin Shen and Sally Temple, both of Albany Medical College in New York, wanted to see if the same holds true for vertebrate neural progenitor cells.

When Georgia Tomaras of Duke University Medical Center opened this year's HIV Vaccines Keystone symposium last night, she said this is the first ever HIV Vaccines meeting that is held jointly with a meeting on B cell development and function.

«Not only have we shown that we can reprogram skin cells, but we have also demonstrated that these reprogrammed cells can be differentiated into insulin - producing cells which hold great therapeutic potential for diabetes,» said study lead author Yi Zhang, Ph.D., Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, professor of biochemistry and biophysics at UNC and member of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Dr. Masayo Yumoto, team leader of Regenerative Medicine Research & Planning Division, Rohto Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., has been holding a leadership role in the joint research lab at the Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Tokyo, to develop next generation cell culture method using human mesenchymal stem cells.

Stem cell research holds tremendous promise for medical treatments, but scientists still have much to discover about how stem cells work and their capacity for healing.

Peter Friedl holds the chair for Microscopical Imaging of the Cell at the RIMLS since October 2007, which includes the Core Facility for Microscopy at the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center.

But the central nervous system, meaning the brain and spinal cord, is different, and medical wisdom held that no new brain cells, neurons, are made after early childhood.

Our body is composed of around 100 trillion cells, and each of those cells hold our DNA; that means that individual cells contain information about inherited disease and conditions, among a host of things [source: Coriell Institute for Medical Research].

In light of these interests, I contacted Dr. Alfred Goldberg, a molecular biologist at Harvard Medical School, which I attended, to help us better understand research in apoptosis or programmed cell death, a real area of burgeoning interest not only to biologists but also to physicians, because it may hold the answers in treating and curing cancer.

The officers allegedly asked the inmate whether he wanted to get medical treatment for his hand, but when he responded in the affirmative, they told him «There's no getting out of here» and returned him to a holding cell.

He holds a Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Biology & Cell and Developmental Biology from the University of Michigan Medical School, a postdoctoral fellowship in Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences from the University of Michigan W.K. Kellogg Eye Center, and a J.D., cum laude from Michigan State University.