Sentences with phrase «other cell»

The ability of scientists to convert human skin cells into other cell types, such as neurons, has the potential to enhance understanding of disease and lead to finding new ways to heal damaged tissues and organs, a field called regenerative medicine.

«Our research revealed how small RNA molecules can work with other cell signals called transcription factors to generate specific types of neurons, in this case motor neurons.

Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have, for the first time, taken chimpanzee and bonobo skin cells and turned them into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), a type of cell that has the ability to form any other cell or tissue in the body.

Studying mouse embryonic stem cells, they removed Grb2, a protein essential to the ability of the stem cell to transform into other cell types, from the cells.

But we had no other cell line to go with, so we all agreed that we'd use these mammary - gland cells and just see what happened, gain some experience.

When the researchers tested the circuit in vitro, they found that it was able to detect ovarian cancer cells from amongst other noncancerous ovarian cells and other cell types.

Not only muscle cells, but also all other cell types continually generate forces in the human body.

Yet also all other cell types in our body continually generate forces, aided by muscle - like structures present in every human cell.

Senior toxicologists say the field of toxicology is undergoing a big change as pressure mounts to reduce animal use and genomics, proteomics, and other cell - based and molecular techniques supersede whole - animal studies.

«This technique could be applied to other cell types of the immune system — anywhere the receptors on the membrane are renewed often,» says Griessinger.

Induced pluripotent stem cells can be generated from various types of cells in the body, and they can in turn be coaxed to develop into nearly any other cell type.

Cells able to generate virtually all other cell types have recently been isolated.

Nishizawa expects this work to act as a basis to evaluate cell lines for the preparation of other cell types.

Normally, they open and close very quickly and in sync with other cell functions to make the heart work.

It's uncertain whether other cell types, such as the immune cells that enter the lungs after an attack, have adenosine receptors — and scientists don't even know the source of the adenosine.

One potential treatment involves injecting the wound with stem cells, which can change into other cell types, such as skin cells like keratinocytes, to help with the healing process.

This approach is also being used to reverse engineer even more complex gut environments by integrating other cell types, such as immune cells, neuronal cells, and commensal microbes into the device.

Due to the build - up of toxic glycogen clumps in neurons and other cell types, patients with this disease commonly experience severe epileptic seizures, motor impairment, muscle spasms, and dementia.

This division has to be «asymmetric,» meaning that only one of the two cells generated during the stem cell division goes on to differentiate, while the other cell remains a stem cell.

When SIRPA contacts CD47 on any other cell, it serves as a safeguard that prevents the macrophage from engulfing the other cell, even if it's cancerous.

Those plaques are dense deposits of protein and other cell material that attach themselves to and eventually kill neurons responsible for memory and decision making.

Further examinations of the inactive X in lymphocytes found that it lacked the heterochromatic marks found on the inactive X in other cell types.

«The silencing of the X chromosome doesn't seem to be as tight in them as it is in other cell types.»

They found that when a bacterium divides into two, the pump proteins are distributed so that one cell inherits more of the pump proteins than the other cell.

These cells can develop into any other cell in the body.

A potential solution to this problem is to reprogram other cell types into functional beta - like cells, which can produce insulin but are distinct from beta cells and therefore are not recognized or attacked by the immune system.

In principle, we hope to engineer T cells or other cell types to reside in the body long - term and produce therapeutics if they recognize disease or recurrence of disease.

Previously, researchers have verified that the O - GlcNAcylation process provides ample protection for the heart, in addition to many other cell types and tissues.

Rather, the fragility of genes, proteins and other cell components may reflect exposure to their environment.

If you clone from the other cell type, you'll get an orange and white cat.

«If we want to treat patients with liver disease, we only want to silence targets in the liver, not other cell types.»

A cell biologist delivering a talk at an academic meeting would likely be presenting only to other cell biologists.

To create different cell types in the lab, stem cells must be coaxed down the road of determination — the branching paths that fetal cells normally travel to become neurons, skin cells, muscle cells, or any number of other cell types.

In contrast to other cell - movement systems in which cells migrate along fibers or reorganize the extracellular matrix, the «hand - over-hand» pulling causes the shortening and bending of platelet - attached fibers.

With this discovery, DYRK1A, known from past studies to drive cell division in other cell types, becomes a drug development target.

If Kazufumi Goto and Akira Iritani come back to Japan with sperm and viable DNA from some other cell of a mammoth, they'll face a choice: they can try to create either a hybrid or a clone.

The stem cell model says that tumor growth is more hierarchical, mainly driven by a subset of cells that can make new copies of themselves and give rise to the other cell types the tumor contains.

Philip Laipis of the University of Florida, who has also observed tumors in AAV vector - treated mice, agrees, at least for studies using a similarly high dose of AAV to target liver cells, which are more likely than other cell types to take up the AAV vector.

«Since cocaine works exclusively to modulate autophagy versus other cell death programs, there's a better chance that we can develop new targeted therapeutics to suppress its toxicity,» says Maged M. Harraz, Ph.D., a research associate at Johns Hopkins and lead co-author of the paper.

But while researchers have managed to culture other cell types, they have failed to grow the key dopamine cells needed by Parkinson's sufferers (This Week, 5 August).

«The brain along with the reproductive system and every other cell in your body is exquisitely sensitive to exceedingly small changes in estrogen and other sex hormones, and the fact that the environment is full of chemicals that can activate estrogen receptors means this phenomenally sensitive system is being perturbed constantly by environmental factors.»

While blood cells live in a convenient, easily studied liquid, most other cell types have been harder to analyze in the laboratory.

They also applied it to human brain tissue collected by the Genotype - Tissue Expression (GTEx) Project, finding that they could a) identify expression signatures unique to neurons, glial cells, and other cell types in the brain (including rare types), and b) differentiate between closely related cell subtypes.

Other cell detection techniques could help refine the results sufficiently to allow the technique to put a precise timing on when a rape happened.

CdLS is known to result from mutations in subunits or regulators of cohesin, a group of linked proteins necessary for cell division and other cell processes.

The new technique could also be useful in understanding how stem cells change oxidation properties during differentiation into other cell types.

The genes O, S, and K were known to help the cells become pluripotent, which allows them to produce any other cell type in the body.

Supported by 18 other cell biology experts, he drafted a widely distributed «white paper» calling for an end to contamination.

Microcolumns contained only one or the other cell type, and neural activity within each column was also synchronized.

The back - and - forth attachment and removal of methyl groups also fine - tunes gene expression in stem cells, which can mature, specialize and multiply to become muscle, bone, nerve, or other cell types.