Each of Emulate's proprietary Organ - Chips — such as the lung, liver, brain, intestine or kidney — contains tiny hollow channels lined with tens of thousands
of living human cells and tissues, and is approximately the size of an AA battery.
Each chip, which is approximately the size of an AA battery, features tiny channels lined with tens of thousands
of living human cells, recreating the smallest functional unit of an organ.
Now, scientists at the Salk Institute and the University of California, San Diego, have for the first time provided an unprecedented view of the 3D structure of human chromatin — the combination of DNA and proteins — in the nucleus
of living human cells.
Not exact matches
One
of the most remarkable facts about the
human body — indeed, about the great mass
of living things — is that nearly every
cell carries the complete genetic blueprint for the entire organism.
While we thrive thanks to lightning speed Internet connections,
cell phones that are smarter than the average
human being and other neat gadgets that make our
lives feel and seem easier, we are exhausting a number
of non-renewable resources.
If I have a bunch
of cells from a throat culture or other medical swab, that isn't a
human life.
But since you and I both know God is the ultimate authority and thus sets the standard, and God clearly is against abortion, and the atheists are erroneously calling very early
human life nothing but «a bunch
of cells,» isn't it up to us to fight for those
lives?
Francis Crick famously asserted that
human life is «no more than the behavior
of... nerve
cells and their associated molecules.»
They probably wanted to redefine «person» so that they could weasel their way into applying the rights we have as
living breathing
human beings to clusters
of cells (fetus) not viable outside the uterus.
«In its 4.6 billion years circling the sun, the Earth has harbored an increasing diversity
of life forms: for the last 3.6 billion years, simple
cells (prokaryotes); for the last 3.4 billion years, cyanobacteria performing ph - otosynthesis; for the last 2 billion years, complex
cells (eukaryotes); for the last 1 billion years, multicellular
life; for the last 600 million years, simple animals; for the last 550 million years, bilaterians, animals with a front and a back; for the last 500 million years, fish and proto - amphibians; for the last 475 million years, land plants; for the last 400 million years, insects and seeds; for the last 360 million years, amphibians; for the last 300 million years, reptiles; for the last 200 million years, mammals; for the last 150 million years, birds; for the last 130 million years, flowers; for the last 60 million years, the primates, for the last 20 million years, the family H - ominidae (great apes); for the last 2.5 million years, the genus H - omo (
human predecessors); for the last 200,000 years, anatomically modern
humans.»
When a women eliminates a clump
of living,
human cells from a part
of her body she is doing it because those
cells are a part
of her body that she doesn't want.
No, you say that microscopic
human life is worthless in sperm and sacred when combined with a different type
of cell a couple inches away.
If this had been an attempt to clone a
human being, would there have been 276 losses
of cells and DNA material or 276 lost
human lives?
One involves a clump
of cells that couldn't survive outside the
human body, the other involves actual
living beings.
A clump
of cells with no brain, and no neural tube is no more «a
human life» than
cells from your skin layer, or a sperm
cell with no change
of fertilizing an egg.
Only 10 %
of the
cells in and on your body are
human, the other 90 % is the trillions
of life forms that inhabit and
live on your body... some
of them can kill you if they get too numerous.
Evidence
of the fact that union differentiates is to be seen all round us — in the bodies
of all higher forms
of life, in which the
cells become almost infinitely complicated according to the variety
of tasks they have to perform; in animal associations, where the individual «polymerises» itself, one might say, according to the function it is called upon to fulfil; in
human societies, where the growth
of specialization becomes ever more intense; and in the field
of personal relationships, where friends and lovers can only discover all that is in their minds and hearts by communicating them to one another.
This depends upon there being a brain, an arrangement
of cells in a particular part
of the body which by reason
of its peculiar coordination makes the given routing able to «know» in a distinctively
human manner — quite different from, although certainly continuous with, the sort
of «knowing» that is possible for the higher grades
of animal
life.
(1)
human life (2) animal
life (3) vegetable
life (4) single
living cells (5) large scale inorganic aggregates
of occasions (6) energy - events disclosed by modern physics
As we read this history, the furor over stem
cells was fueled by numerous factors: the near - universal
human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face
of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now do anything; the reluctance
of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact
of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness
of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections
of unborn
human life.
Examples are 9/11 hijackings, The holding back
of stem
cell research that could save countless
human lives, Aids being spread due to religious opposition to the use
of condoms, Christians legally fighting this year to teach over 1 million young girls in America that they must always be obedient to men, the eroding
of child protection laws in America by Christians, for so called faith based healing alternatives that place children's health and safety at risk, burning
of witches, the crusades, The Nazi belief that the Aryans were god's chosen to rule the world, etc... But who cares about evidence in the real world when we have our imaginations and delusions about gods with no evidence
of them existing.
Well it seems like Ivan can relax, Michael Peroski has just solved all
of our problems: Proceeding from ideology - driven inquiry entails starting from an answer: «Research on
human embryonic stem
cell should be forbidden because embryos are equivalent to
human lives» and working....
Such
human social organization may be compared with the
life of plants, whose individual
cells may be highly specialized and interdependent.
No doubt it is true, scientifically speaking, that no distinct center
of superhuman consciousness has yet appeared on earth (at least in the
living world) for which it may be claimed or predicted that one day it will exercise a centralizing function, in relation to associated
human thought, similar to the role
of the individual «I» in relation to the
cells of the brain.
Stem
cells can be obtained licitly, without loss
of human life — for example, from an adult organism or from the blood
of the umbilical cord at the time
of birth.
Pro-choice euphemisms like «pre-embryo,» «foetal tissue,» and «ball
of cells» are materialistic and reflect fully the diminishment
of human life as chance — easy come, easy go.
It is the same when the artificial creation
of a
human cell is considered: «Nothing more than reproducing those conditions in which under the Law
of Control and Direction,
life emerges.»
If
life can evolve from a single
cell to complex
humans, why couldn't a similar process effect
life outside
of this dimension?
We in our
human way share in the subhuman emotional
life of cells; they in their subhuman way share in our emotional
life.
------------- And if 90 %
of dust particles are made up
of human skin
cells, then I think there's a naked man
living under my bed... And he's HAIRY!
The objects
of his study range from a class
of molecules that have the basic self - duplicating property
of living things, through
cells which suggest purely physical systems, through animals which give increasing evidence
of having minds, to
human beings in whom streams
of consciousness seem to involve continual choices
of action, at the opposite pole from control by impersonal laws
of nature.
Just as our conscious
human experience unconsciously feels the unconscious feelings
of the
cells of the brain and achieves a unity
of its own
life of feeling, so the Totality that is God feels our feelings in the unity
of perfect experience.
Unfortunately, at this formative stage in their
lives one viewpoint is pushed to the fore on campus, and that's the opinion that euthanasia, abortion, embryonic stem
cell research and a host
of other practices which strip
humans of their most fundamental right are good things.
This account
of «
life» as a characteristic
of cells means that in the
human organism there are billions
of centers
of life, not one.
If we say such
cells have the potential
of becoming
human life, then Catholics are right to argue that the unjoined sperm and egg also have a similar potential for
life, and anything that stops them joining (such as a condom or withdrawal) is morally equivalent to abortion.
Instone - Brewer's own narrowing
of the question
of individual
life -LRB-»... when does an embryo change from being a bundle
of undifferentiated
cells into a
living human individual?»)
It is,
of course, simpler to say that individual
life begins at conception, but this is problematic because a single
cell can not be said to be a
human.
«Brain scientists have invented, established and patented a method to obtain long -
living cell lines derived from fungiform taste papillae
of the
human tongue.
So he let me
live in a heartbreaking jail
cell of forced celibacy and denial
of human touch / intimacy for years because he was «embarrassed?»
The components
of human milk, especially
live cells from the baby's mum, can not be replaced from artificial sources.
By the 4 - 8
cell stage
of life,
human embryos have to «turn on» their own genes and start making their own proteins.
Their first visit was to CytoCybernetics, where CEO Glenna Bett explained how her company has developed a system that uses computers and
live human cells to screen drugs in their early stages
of development, to determine whether they may cause any potentially deadly side effects.
«Advancements in science and research have moved faster than the debates among politicians in Washington, D.C., and breakthroughs announced in recent years confirm the full potential
of stem
cell research can be realized without the destruction
of living human embryos,» House Minority Leader John Boehner, R - Ohio, said Sunday.
Former Senator Rick Santorum (R — PA) is a strong backer
of adult stem -
cell research, and opposed to embryonic stem -
cell research because he views destruction
of embryos as destruction
of human life.
In November 2010 Japanese researchers announced online in Analytical Chemistry that they had built a chip that simultaneously tests how liver, intestine and breast cancer
cells respond to cancer drugs, and in February 2010 scientists publishing in the Proceedings
of the National Academy
of Sciences USA developed a microscale replica
of the
human liver that allowed them to observe the entire
life cycle
of hepatitis C, a virus that is difficult to observe in cultured
cells.
If
life can grow out
of the formal chemical substrate
of the
cell, if consciousness can emerge out
of firing neurons, then so too will computers attain
human intelligence.
As reported June 13 in
Cell Reports, a topical drug penetrated and tanned laboratory samples
of live human skin, absent the sun.
The man responsible for one
of the original sequences
of the
human genome as well as the team that brought you the first
living cell running on
human - made DNA now hopes to harness algae to make everything humanity needs.
«The discovery
of the microbiome and its significance represents a huge paradigm shift in our understanding
of human health — there are more microbes
living on us and in us than our own
cells,» said Ingber, 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 the Harvard John A. Paulson School
of Engineering and Applied Science.
Yet, whereas the
cells of bacteria and other microbes are small and simple, all visible
life, including us
humans, is generally made up
of large and complex
cell types.