Sentences with phrase «other human cell types»

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Some of these risks include the presence of cytomegalovirus (CMV), hepatitis, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), human T - cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV - 1) or other viruses on the pump parts that were exposed to the previous mother's breastmilk.

Stem cells have also been identified in human milk, and have the potential to differentiate into mammary epithelial lineages under mammary differentiation conditions in vitro, as well as other cell types in corresponding microenvironments, including bone cells, brain cells, liver cells, pancreatic beta cells and heart cells.

Breastfeeding is contraindicated in infants with classic galactosemia (galactose 1 - phosphate uridyltransferase deficiency) 103; mothers who have active untreated tuberculosis disease or are human T - cell lymphotropic virus type I — or II — positive104, 105; mothers who are receiving diagnostic or therapeutic radioactive isotopes or have had exposure to radioactive materials (for as long as there is radioactivity in the milk) 106 — 108; mothers who are receiving antimetabolites or chemotherapeutic agents or a small number of other medications until they clear the milk109, 110; mothers who are using drugs of abuse («street drugs»); and mothers who have herpes simplex lesions on a breast (infant may feed from other breast if clear of lesions).

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.

Some of the researchers at the centre will study the differentiation of stem cells into other cell types, one group by using human embryonic stem cell biology and another by studying early embryo development.

The researchers have shown that it is possible to produce chromosome modifications in human cells that are genetically identical to those observed in leukemia and other types of human cancer.

The Duke researchers who made this discovery say it may help explain how a relatively small number of genes can create the dazzling array of different cell types found in human brains and the nervous systems in other animals.

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.

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.

Where the second type of condensin, which is present in humans and other multicellular organisms, binds during cell division is another future line of inquiry.

Stem cells obtained from human embryos seem to offer the best chance of new therapies, because unlike other stem cells they have the ability to morph into almost any type of tissue.

While stem cells — cells that have the potential to differentiate into other types of cells — exist in adult humans, the most useful stem cells are those found in embryos, which are pluripotent, capable of becoming nearly any cell in the body.

So, at the dawn of our universe — and I have to emphasize our universe, because there could be others — so, dawn of our universe, physicists think there was one type of force, one type of matter and that as the cosmos expanded, as space expanded, it cooled and things started to condense out like snow flakes, and over time that single force broke, it differentiated; and something similar happens in the human body as we develop from a single cell; we differentiate, different tissues form in our bodies, different layers of tissues.

«Our work outlines the genetic similarities of the tissue and cells in different types of tumors and shows the strong relationships mice can have to other human cancers too.»

According to its developers, the technique can be applied to assess mutation dynamics in other types of cells, even human cancer cells.

Using cultured cells derived from human tumors of the breast and prostate gland, they confirmed that the IL6R / STAT3 / miR -34 a feedback loop is also activated in other tumor types.

In the Nature papers, the researchers compared gene transcription, chromatin modification and other processes that control gene activity in a wide range of mouse and human tissues and cell types.

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

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

«This process contributes to about 200 different cell types in humans and other mammals, but analyzing them will be difficult, because they will need to be studied in a tissue.»

They tried hundreds of different recipes; eventually they discovered that if they mixed liver precursor cells (derived from iPS cells) with two other types of standard human cell lines known to be important for embryonic liver development, then the cells would spontaneously form a 4 to 5 - millimeter 3D structure called a liver bud.

In tests using human neural progenitor cells (NPCs)-- self - renewing, multipotent cells that generate neurons and other brain cell types — the scientists found that exposure to sofosbuvir not only rescued dying NPCs infected with the Zika virus, but restored gene expression linked to their antiviral response.

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.

«But these two - eye cells suggest that other types of visual information are just as important — they allow the human species to survive to engage in the complex behaviours.»

Felice notes, however, that in humans «BCL11A is expressed in other blood cell types,» which means that silencing it with treatments could lead to complications not seen in the current mouse study.

Those same mechanisms allow yeast to evade a type of human immune cell that looks and acts just like an amoeba (similar cells are also found in other animals).

Studies in human type 1 diabetes, indicate the beta cells get wiped out completely in some lobes of the pancreas before beta cells in other lobes are attacked.

For example, these findings can accelerate the progress of gene - editing research because DNA repair profiling in one cell type may accurately predict repair outcomes in other cell types, including human primary cells.

For example, cross-model comparisons may help to pinpoint key cell types and molecules involved in lineage decisions, reveal evolutionary inventions, and may allow to interpret genetic disease models (for example in mouse) by mapping to human or other systems.

He added: «Truly naive human ES cell lines would not only help answer fundamental questions about how we are made, and be useful for drug screening and tissue therapy, but they would also provide a benchmark against which other types of stem cells could be measured in terms of their effectiveness in stem cell therapy and regenerative medicine.»

Until now, however, achieving a similar feat in human cells has eluded scientists — partly because activating iNKT cells released different types of cytokines: some stimulated an immune response, while others inhibited it.

In separate experiments reported in Nature — one with mice, the other transplanting human stem cells into mouse bone marrow — researchers demonstrated techniques with the potential to produce all types of blood cells.

Additionally, it will be important to see whether this role of Chd1 as a regulator of stem cell potency is maintained in human ESCs and other stem cell types.

To avoid such perturbations, researchers have developed a computer program that can distinguish between cell types and identify subcellular structures, among other features — all without the fluorescent probes our human eyes rely on.

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have for the first time shown that it is possible to derive from a human embryo so - called «naïve» pluripotent stem cells — one of the most flexible types of stem cell, which can develop into all human tissue other than the placenta.

Unlike other cell types, stem cells are unspecialized cells uniquely capable of making copies of themselves (self - renewing), differentiating into specialized cell types, and helping to maintain some tissues in the human body.

The study relates to a particular type of vaccine (killed) against a particular virus, influenza, though the findings might hold true for other killed vaccines and for those vaccines consisting only of proteins produced by GM in bacteria, yeast or insect cells, against diseases such as hepatitis B (HBV) and human papilloma virus (HPV, the causative agent of cervical cancer).

The authors refer to their hypothesis as differential partitioning - environmental buffering, and suggest that partitioning cells into different fates according to prevailing conditions could be a strategy used by many other types of cell coalitions — whether microbial communities, humans, trees, or jellyfish.

Telomere shortening occurs in human cells because the enzyme telomerase that adds DNA to the telomere is only active in few cell types, namely stem cells, and is turned off in most other human cells.

New SOXC projects in the laboratory are addressing the roles of SOXCs in other skeletal cell types in development, in adult skeleton maintenance, and in human diseases.

On the other hand, ES cells and cells differentiating into endoderm and mesoderm lineages from ES cells express OCT - 4 in mice and humans [66], and SSEA1 expression is found in other type of cells including neural stem cells and mesenchymal stem cells [67], [68].

San Diego, CA (March 31, 2009)-- Novocell, Inc., a stem cell engineering company, today announced that it has received U.S. Patent 7,510,876 with claims covering human definitive endoderm cells, an essential cell for generating not only pancreatic type cells, which Novocell is developing for use as a cell therapy for diabetes, but also other endoderm lineage - derived tissues and organs such as lungs, intestine, liver, thymus and thyroid.

To overcome these hurdles, Bhatia and her team reprogrammed human skin cells into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)-- embryonic - like stem cells capable of turning into other specific cell types relevant for studying a particular disease.