Sentences with phrase «neurons in a petri dish»

IBM developed a technique for making carbon nanotubes emit light, paving the way for new fiber optics; Harvard scientists figured out how to deposit tiny wires on glass or plastic, opening the door for the development of supercheap computers; and at the University of Central Florida, neuroscientist Beverly Rzigalinski discovered a nanomolecular fountain of youth effect: When Rzigalinski applied cerium oxide nanoparticles to rat neurons in a petri dish, the particles seemed to strip out the free radicals that make tissues age and kept the neurons alive and functioning up to six times their normal life span.

Then they added the engineered virus to a culture of rat neurons in a petri dish.

The newfound protein might eventually help patients who suffer from the untreatable prion diseases: When the group mixed their artificial protein fragment with a fragment of the PrP protein that usually kills neurons in petri dishes, the mixture killed only half as many cells as the prion fragment alone.

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The «neurochip,» a silicon rectangle about 4 centimeters wide immersed in a petri dish, may be the forerunner of bionic eyes or other medical devices engineered from combinations of silicon and living neurons.

The encouraging news is that turning stem cells into auditory neurons can be controlled — at least in a Petri dish, said Kelvin Y. Kwan, senior author of the study and an assistant professor in the Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience in the School of Arts and Sciences.

A team at Harvard University has built a computerized system to manipulate worms — making them start and stop, giving them the sensation of being touched, and even prompting them to lay eggs, as seen in the video above — by stimulating their neurons individually with laser light, all while the worms swim freely in a petri dish.

After treating the IPS cells in a petri dish to set them on a path to mature into dopaminergic neurons, the cells were grafted into the dopamine - deficient hemispheres of the parkinsonian rats» brains.

As part of one of his projects Shain tried to culture neurons, which means he tried to grow them in a petri dish (or, if you want to sound scientific you can say he was growing them in vitro, which is Latin for «in glass»).

«If we can pinpoint which genes control the development of each neuron type, we can generate them in the petri dish from a single sample of human skin cells,» said Dr. Huang.

In a petri dish, the researchers artificially prevented microglia from secreting progranulin and monitored how these modified microglia interacted with neurons.