Sentences with phrase «new kind of cell»

It had been thriving for well over a billion years when a new kind of cell appeared on the scene, one that harvested the sun's energy using a process that generates a highly toxic by - product — oxygen.

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Basically, CAR - T therapy involves taking a patient's own immune «killer» T - cells, inserting new genetic code into those cells which turn them into cancer - hunters that can home in on malignant B - cells (another kind of immune cell), and then pumping these specialized leukemia - busting cells back into the patient.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Novartis» Kymriah, the first drug for a new kind of cancer treatment called CAR - T cell therapy.

This new kind of approach to fighting blood cancers is truly personalized; immune T - cells are extracted from patients, genetically tinkered to home in on an destroy cancerous cells, multiplied in a lab, and then jolted back into the patient's body within about two weeks.

«The event, the fourth of its kind, seeks to raise global awareness and create a forum for collaboration around the wide array of powerful and promising cell therapies, gene therapies, and immunotherapies emerging from medical institutions around the world, as well as the impact new technology will have on humanity and society,» a press release by the Cure Foundation explains (h / t Christian Post).

You can't pick out what you want... and it deffinetly condems gays, the bible says also, if you don't work you don't eat... and its a shame for someone not to take care of their familys... and yes we are to feed the poor... but the poor need to be taught how to take care of themselves... Your not poor if you have a big screen tv, car, extra jewlery, free cell phone, etc.... So there is no new kind of Christianity...!

«What we have described as globalization is remarkably close to Teilhard de Chardin's planetization, in which «[mankind, born on this planet and spread over its entire surface, come [s] gradually to form round its earthly matrix, a single, major, organic unity, enclosed upon itself.4 Thus the globalization of humankind could lead to the formation of a new kind of living entity — a social organism — on the same cosmic principle as that by which atoms join to form molecules, molecules join to form mega-molecules, mega-molecules unite to form living cells, and innumerable cells constitute an organism.

While much of Bush's original order was devoted to the exciting discoveries being made for «less morally problematic alternatives» to embryos as a source of stem cells, Obama fails to mention these, or that his new Executive Order also revokes Bush's encouragement for exploring them, choosing to support «promising research of all kinds», problematic and otherwise.

Growing demand for cellular data by smartphones, tablets and other devices has led wireless carriers across the country to deploy a new kind of wireless transmitter called «small cells» to provide better coverage in densely populated areas.

According to a new survey report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 88 percent of registered voters have some kind of cell phone, and of those, over half are smartphone users.

Carlos Filipe, a chemical engineer at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, and colleagues have developed a new kind of flexible film that's coated in molecules that glow when they touch E. coli cells.

«Because BX795 targets a common pathway that many viruses use to replicate inside the cell, it could be a new kind of broad - spectrum antiviral that might be used to treat other viral infections, including HSV - 2, which primarily affects the genitals, and HIV, although we have not yet tested it on viruses other than HSV - 1.»

The new technique also offers the hope that other kinds of cells can live a second life.

In a groundbreaking study that provides scientists with a critical new understanding of stem cell development and its role in disease, UCLA researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research led by Dr. Kathrin Plath, professor of biological chemistry, have established a first - of - its - kind methodology that defines the unique stages by which specialized cells are reprogrammed into stem cells that resemble those found in the embcell development and its role in disease, UCLA researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research led by Dr. Kathrin Plath, professor of biological chemistry, have established a first - of - its - kind methodology that defines the unique stages by which specialized cells are reprogrammed into stem cells that resemble those found in the embCell Research led by Dr. Kathrin Plath, professor of biological chemistry, have established a first - of - its - kind methodology that defines the unique stages by which specialized cells are reprogrammed into stem cells that resemble those found in the embryo.

A new kind of cellular alchemy may allow cells to be converted into other tissues to treat injuries.

The science is still too new to know for sure which types of stem cells will be best suited to which kinds of research and treatments.

The induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) that the new method produces have the same ability as embryonic stem cells to turn into any kind of tissue.

Other evidence shows that miR - 7 can halt cancer cells that operate like stem cells, turning them into new kinds of tissue before they spread.

NEW ROLE A kind of brain cell called an astrocyte (shown) may help nerve cells in the hippocampus form traumatic memories, a study in rats suggests.

«If you tried to put any kind of life - form you can imagine on Earth in a brine solution of that sort, the water would be sucked out of the cells,» mission leader Peter Smith told New Scientist.

Soon he and Janeway discovered a new class of sensor on the surface of a certain kind of immune cell.

Get a cut on your finger and your skin can make new cells to heal the wound; lose your tail — if you are a particular kind of lizard — and tissue regeneration may produce a new one.

Now, with new kinds of technologies that are coming up, new types of tissue engineering and, you know, some of the hopes that people have for stem cells and [the] like, it may be interesting to see if there are other ways, alternatives to dealing with really badly damaged hearts that would involve growing a new heart or replacing or repairing the damage d to a badly damaged heart that might make artificial hearts less important in the somewhat more distant future.

«There is still a lot of work to be done before this approach might be used in the clinic, but we're hopeful that it will pave the way for new kinds of treatment for patients with sickle cell disease.»

Even short - term blockages of this kind can lead to remarkable changes in the auditory system, altering the behavior and structure of nerve cells that relay information from the ear to the brain, according to a new University at Buffalo study.

Advances in understanding the cells and molecules that transmit pain signals are providing new targets for drugs that could relieve various kinds of pain — including those poorly controlled by existing therapies

But these light - sensitive neurons get some help from a much rarer kind of cell, according to a new study.

Fox aims to turn these diamond films into a new kind of solar cell, one that generates electricity by absorbing heat rather than visible - light wavelengths.

The perforated spheres are biodegradable and together serve as a kind of structure for new cells to grow on.

A team of engineers at MIT has harnessed viruses to make components for a remarkable new kind of battery, half the size of a human cell and far more efficient than your usual AAA.

By comparison, that's about 15 times smaller than a red blood cell, and Zhang said shrinking an infrared light source to such a small scale could open doors to new kinds of chemical sensing and molecular imaging that aren't possible with today's state - of - the - art nanoscale infrared spectroscopy.

Researchers looking at the white blood cells called eosinophils found a new weapon in the immune arsenal: toxic webs of DNA flung in less than a second by a kind of cellular catapult.

A new study in animal models, led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), suggests that the eye's lacrimal glands can be repaired by injecting a kind of regenerative «progenitor» cell.

The analysis was made possible by a new method of collecting and purifying the nuclei of specific kinds of cells.

The arrangement establishes a precedent in cell line research ethics, granting Lacks a new legacy — itself a kind of immortality.

In the latest twist in the story of STAP cells, a new kind of stem cell described in two Nature papers in January, a scientist is live - blogging his latest attempt to generate the cells.

Vitamin C is known to keep some kinds of cell replication in check, so Benjamin Neel at the New York University School of Medicine probed its effects in mice engineered to have low TET2 activity and a high resulting cancer risk.

New images suggest that 570 - million - year - old, many - celled blobs from China are not animal embryos as once thought, but rather some kind of spore - releasing cyst.

These tumors might yield to a new kind of drug known as a PARP inhibitor that kills cancer cells by hijacking the cell's ability to mend DNA breaks.

Adult stem cells keep dividing throughout life to make various kinds of cells, like new blood cells and germ cells.

It's that same kind of morning as well — warm and cool, four - dimensionally blue, girded with arches of towering light — the kind of perfect fall morning that New Yorkers of a certain generation will always associate with disbelief and poor cell phone reception and showstopping acts of mass murder.

The focus now is on getting better at growing the cells and turning them into the right kind of brain cell before starting new trials in patients.

The new cells, which Yamanaka called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, looked and behaved like embryonic stem cells, which are prized for their ability to transform themselves into almost any kind of tissue and, perhaps, someday cure disease — a more distinct possibility now that President Barack Obama has loosened restrictions on stem cell research.

This new ability to edit RNA opens up more potential opportunities to recover that function and treat many diseases, in almost any kind of cell.»

Now, researchers at Osaka University, in an international collaboration with Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, have redesigned one of their previously reported polymers to make a new kind of solar cell that needs no extra special treatments.

While these kinds of engineered cells are not new, the new light - based technique promises much greater control over how much insulin is delivered at any given time.

Thomson still supports lifting Bush's restrictions, he said, because no one knows whether the new iPS cells can match embryonic cells» knack for growing into any kind of tissue — brain cells, heart muscle, insulin - producing cells and dozens of others — in mass quantities.

Cancer cells have the extraordinary ability to adapt to new environments quickly, which includes surviving to any kind of attack from the immune system.

Dr. Gazit is focusing on how to develop targeted treatment of cancer cells using hematopoietic stem cells — stem cells used in cancer treatment because of their ability to divide and form new and different kinds of blood cells.

Because Syk is expressed in many kinds of hematopoietic lineage cells and involved in various ITAM - mediated signal transduction pathways (45), our current finding that RhoH facilitates Syk activation will shed new light on ITAM - based immune responses.