Sentences with phrase «new type of cell»

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Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have discovered how to make a new type of cell that is in between embryonic stem cells and adult heart cells, and that may hold the key to treating heart disease.

In an effort to solve this problem, a team of scientists from Israel and the United States have created a new type of cell that doesn't exist in nature — human stem cells with only half of our naturally occurring chromosomes.

We're manipulating genes in the cell nucleus to produce specific proteins, changing the normal recipe for growth and maturation, and transforming adult cells into a new type of cell with the ability to morph into any other cell type,» said Cooke, senior author and chair of the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences.

This research reveals a new type of cell fusion that is initiated to destroy a particular cell, and enlightens the evolution of sexual reproduction in flowering plants.

«Why should you have to take a cell and turn it all the way back to the beginning, erase all its memory, when you are still left with the problem of telling it how to become a new type of cell?»

Researchers developed a new type of cell transplantation to treat mice mimicking a rare lung disease that one day could be used to treat this and other human lung diseases caused by dysfunctional immune cells.

Since pancreatic cells are gone, the researchers needed a new type of cell to take over the pancreas's job.

«ENCODE is a living project and the maps that are generated are constantly updated and improved, with information being added on new types of cells and tissues or new complementary genome assays.

Although the GP - write project could spur the development of brand - new types of cells that could make valuable fuels and drugs, it has come under scrutiny for its initial secrecy and the potential ethical issues that could arise as a consequence of the research, such as the creation of unnatural life forms.

This better understanding of how the network functions could allow scientists to engineer new types of cells, says Hiroshi Tanaka, a bioinformaticist at Tokyo Medical and Dental University.

Not exact matches

So researchers, with limited success, have tried to build such a GPS directly into a new type of biological assassin called a «CAR - T cell.»

Construction is underway for an on - site recycling facility that will safely reprocess all types of Tesla battery cells, modules, and packs for reuse in new cells or non-toxic solid waste by - product.

The heterogeneous progeny of the zygote interact in a coordinated manner to generate new cell types and to form organized multicellular structures.

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The existing patterns of physical feeling in my brain cells have to be deflected repeatedly by fresh novelty — now this way, now that way, in a tedious sequence of trial - and - error, before these tiny bodily societies learn the new patterns which enable them to respond to my aims to type.

She says, «Our new findings show that in the absence of embryonic movement the cells that should form articular cartilage receive incorrect molecular signals, where one type of signal is lost while another inappropriate signal is activated in its place.

«Our new findings show that in the absence of embryonic movement the cells that should form articular cartilage receive incorrect molecular signals, where one type of signal is lost while another inappropriate signal is activated in its place,» Paula Murphy, a professor of zoology at Trinity College Dublin who co-led the study, says.

«You should be able to convert any cell to the cell type you like,» says the creator of a new biotech trick.

A new type of human stem cell, never seen in nature, should be better at making replacement organs than existing stem cells

These cells, which can become several different types of blood cells, are similar to the specialized stem cells found in bone marrow that can churn out new blood cells.

In a new study published in Cell Reports, scientists at the Gladstone Institutes identified different types of neurons in a brain region called the reticular thalamus.

We wanted to understand what types of differences are always there, what is causing them, and what they mean,» says Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, a professor in Salk's Gene Expression Laboratory and co-senior author, with Kelly Frazer of the University of California, San Diego, on the new paper, which was published in Cell Stem Cell in April 2017.

The study provides a new understanding of how, billions of years ago, the complex cell types that comprise plants, fungi, but also animals and humans, evolved from simple microbes.

Working with human breast tissue, the new study's authors attempted to induce EMT in normal cells; they figured they would just get fibroblasts, a type of connective tissue that is important in wound healing.

«We hope that these new insights will make it possible to modulate the differentiation of stem cells — causing them to generate cells of a particular type,» says Carell.

The origin of these complex cell types has long been a mystery to the scientific community, but now researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden have discovered a new group of microorganisms that represents a missing link in the evolutionary transition from simple to complex cells.

Dr. Bellodi's laboratory uncovered a new important function of pseudouridine, the most common type of RNA modification in human cells.

The researchers also found that arteries and veins from the macaques» hearts grew into the new heart tissue, the first time it has been shown that blood vessels from a host animal will grow into and nurture a large stem - cell derived graft of this type.

New methods will have to be developed for coaxing cells to swap in tailored DNA for each type of organism, but Church and his colleagues say that progress has already been made in yeast and mammalian cells.

This could include amino acids that do not exist in nature, opening the door to new types of chemistry in living cells.

«Maybe the invention of this new type of stem cell was important in driving brain evolution,» says Mueller.

This new type of power source is modeled after rows of cells called electrocytes in the electric organ that runs along an electric eel's body.

A host can often be infected with more than one type of virus and, as viruses replicate in the host's cells, the genetic segments of the progeny viruses can be shuffled into new combinations.

The new findings build on prior research from the Dhodapkar lab demonstrating that patients with Gaucher disease, an inherited lipid storage disorder, have a significant increased risk for developing myeloma; and the discovery of a subset of lipid - reactive immune cells, called type II NKT - TFH, that promote the development of plasma cells.

In this study, the research team used a new technique developed at the University of North Carolina to study a type of glial cell known as an astrocyte.

The findings — published today in Nature — provide significant insights into cell types fated to relapse and can help accelerate the quest for new, upfront therapies, says Dr. Dick, a Senior Scientist at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, and Professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto.

Now, by harnessing advances in genome editing to slice and dice genes in donor T cells, researchers have created a new type of cancer immunotherapy.

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.

In the first practical application for the machine learning, the team worked with Assistant Professor Jim Cahoon, Ph.D., in the UNC Department of Chemistry to design a new electrode material for a type of low - cost solar cells.

It is the stuff of dreams for flu scientists, but it could be within reach if a new type of vaccine that elicits an immune response from white blood cells is combined with traditional vaccines.

While visiting prospective graduate programs, I found just the project I was looking for: creating a radically new type of solar cell using low - cost electrochemistry techniques.

Dr Matthew Hobbs, Head of Research for Diabetes UK, said: «We know that preserving or restoring even relatively small levels of insulin secretion in Type 1 diabetes can prevent hypoglycaemia (low glucose levels) and reduce complications and therefore much research has focused on ways to make new cells that can be transplanted into the body.

Rewinding skin cells back to their origins in the womb could provide a powerful new vaccine against multiple types of cancer.

Through this study there is a prospect of a new type of antibiotics «turning off» the oxygen only to the harmful bacteria cells, not to human cells.

A new study suggests that certain types of the energy - saving lightbulbs can become damaged and then may hurt skin cells

The phenomenon can be used for small and flexible digital memories of the future, and for completely new types of solar cells.

Qingdong Zheng, a materials scientist at John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, suggests that such biolasers could find uses in new types of sensors or in light - based therapeutics, in which light is used, for example, to kill cancer cells by triggering drugs into action that have already been administered.

This allows the cells to create a new zygote that is capable of forming all cell types.

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.