Sentences with phrase «new kinds 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.

Not exact matches

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

Last June, in a paper published in the journal Tissue Engineering, an international team of researchers proposed a new kind of food handmade for sensitive carnivores (and maybe even vegetarians): meat that comes from a laboratory instead of a farm.

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.

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.

Coming soon: new medicines designed to treat the flu by halting viral replication in human tissues The drugs may also serve as a novel kind of preventive

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.

A new study led by Carsten Daub, Karolinska Institutet / SciLifeLab, Mikael Ryden, Karolinska Institutet and Peter Arnér, Karolinska Institutet, now shows that this kind of «harmless» adipose tissue probably does not exist.

We are developing a new kind of medicine: regenerative therapies that remove, repair, replace, or render harmless the cellular and molecular damage that has accumulated in our tissues with time.

Engineers have turned tissue paper — similar to toilet tissue — into a new kind of wearable sensor that can detect a pulse, a blink of an eye and other human movement.

University of Washington engineers have turned tissue paper — similar to toilet tissue — into a new kind of wearable sensor that can detect a pulse, a blink of an eye and other human movement.

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.

This makes room for the regeneration of new, healthier cells and tissues, which affects longevity and helps reverse diseases of all kinds.

As long as your diet / training is at least kind of good, some of the calories will go towards creating new muscle tissue.

«In this stage there is evidence of tissue wasting, the same kind that you would observe in anorexic patients,» said Erin Vogel, an evolutionary anthropologist at Rutgers University and lead author of the new study.

A new collaborative research program pairs James experts who treat certain kinds of bone and tissue cancers, called sarcomas, with OSU veterinary experts who manage the same cancers in canine patients.

It's nothing new to do this with a handful of tissues, but to have 10 tissues stable for weeks, as the researchers» paper demonstrates, is unprecedented and represents a huge jump in the capabilities of this kind of system.