Sentences with phrase «only small numbers of cells»

Despite this, only small numbers of cells are dividing at any one time, so the treatment is not helpful in all cases.

Not exact matches

That summer, President George W. Bush had approved federal funding for human ES - cell research, but only for a small number of cell lines that had already been created.

The other possibility is that only a small number of long - lived stem cells — known as holoclones — give rise to short - lived progenitor cells that are forerunners to mature skin cells.

Cell transplantation as a treatment for diabetes is still essentially experimental, uses cells from cadavers, requires the use of powerful immunosuppressive drugs, and has been available to only a very small number of patients.

The actual number is almost certainly much higher, because the method can only visualize virus particles surrounding the host cell within a relatively small part of the tissue.

Yet only a small number of egg cells are produced by the female body, so they are the limiting factor in many aspects of reproductive science.

By whatever means they are infused into the body, such vectors seem to reach and alter the DNA in only a frustratingly small number of cells.

There are billions of red blood cells, tens of thousands of white blood cells, and, perhaps, only a small number of tumor cells floating among them.

«Work continues to identify the other factors, including small molecules, necessary to not only promote the maturation and survival of the newly generated hair cells, but also increase their number,» Zuo said.

The latitudinal averages for HadCRUT4 closely match C&W (as you'd hope) but there are only a small number of filled grid cells in the highest latitudes.