Sentences with phrase «other human organs»

Clevers and other scientists have developed organoids of the gut, liver, lung, brain, and many other human organs that can be used to model disease or to serve as test beds for drugs.

Not exact matches

Legendary inventor Dean Kamen is working on a venture to manufacture human organs with the backing of the Pentagon, Rockwell and others.»

By printing multiple lung airways — or any other afflicted organ — from a human patient and testing drugs on them, pharma companies can bypass the ethically challenged practice of testing on animals and proceed to human clinical trials with greater confidence the drugs will actually work, according to Wadsworth.

This is why the state is a legitimate organ of human organisation, but it is also why the state derives its authority upwards from the individual and the family, via intermediate groups and institutions, and not the other way round.

First x object was created out of nothing, then combined with other things created out of nothing, then magically an atom, yhen a cell, a molecule, then bacteria, single cell creatures, followed by simple sea creatures with organs, then more advanced creatures, next red blooded mammals, then primates, and finally human.

I would like to repeat, the brain is just like any other organ and just as capable of failing as a human heart, a kidney or a lung.

In truth, however, there were other reasons» apart from the desire for transplantable organs» to rethink the criteria for determining death, since one needed to decide whether a respirator was simply oxygenating a corpse or sustaining a living human being.

Human beings also present to themselves through their eyes and ears and other sense organs a world of phenomena.

First of all is the biological organism with its big brain, its upright posture, its hand and opposed thumb, its vocal organs making possible enormous variety in vocalization so that language and other symbols can develop to expand indefinitely the range of meaning, entering into human life.

The building block electronic and protonic actual occasions are, in the case of human beings, swept into vastly more complex, Chinese box - like sets of containing societies within which there are social levels that can be identified with cells, others which answer to Aristotle's levels of tissues and organs, and which finally are presided over by what Whitehead refers to as the regnant nexus, a social thread of complex temporal inheritance which, Whitehead suggests, wanders from part to part of the brain, is the seat of conscious direction of the organism as a whole, and answers to what in Plato and Aristotle is called the soul.

When we are faced with incurable congenital diseases, when our fellow human beings are afflicted with cancer, diabetes, tumours, arthritis, damaged organs and other body parts, and many others, I believe a miracle is indispensable.

Although the Burmese python's body shape is distinct from other vertebrates, including humans, its organs operate the same.

As it can take weeks to grow human cells into intact differentiated and functional tissues within Organ Chips, such as those that mimic the lung and intestine, and researchers seek to understand how drugs, toxins or other perturbations alter tissue structure and function, the team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering led by Donald Ingber has been searching for ways to non-invasively monitor the health and maturity of cells cultured within these microfluidic devices over extended times.

If she has her way, animal farms will raise herds of bioengineered pigs, designed to produce kidneys, livers and other organs that could be transplanted into humans.

Working with human breast cancer cells and mouse models of breast cancer, scientists identified a new protein that plays a key role in reprogramming cancer cells to migrate and invade other organs.

The researchers concluded that using collagen - based membranes in organ - on - a-chip devices enhance the growth, viability and barrier function of human colon cells and that the method likely could be extended to cells from other organs.

Just as elephant seals restrict blood flow to their nonessential tissues during deep dives, blood flow is interrupted in humans during organ transplantation, stroke, heart attack and other injuries.

The human brain, meanwhile, is vastly more complicated than any other organ.

The most dramatic divergence between humans and other primates can be found in the brain, the primary organ that gives our species its identity.

Humans will always need protein, the stuff of our muscles, organs and other tissues.

Comparing humans and other primates, they saw little difference in basal metabolic rate, which reflects the total calories used by our organs while we are at rest.

To achieve this, the researchers needed new equipment — a platform that would allow tissues to grow and interact with each other — as well as engineered tissue that would accurately mimic the functions of human organs.

The success could point the way to a new type of therapy aimed at repairing intestinal damage in humans, and potentially for repairing damage in other organs.

The scientists compared the sizes of organs in humans and other primates.

As a result, he and other researchers have begun genetically modifying pig embryos with the hope they will eventually give rise to pigs that contain one or more human organs — the subject of his feature - length article «Human Organs from Animal Bodies.&rhuman organs — the subject of his feature - length article «Human Organs from Animal Bodies.&rHuman Organs from Animal Bodies.»

Adult organisms ranging from fruit flies to humans harbor adult stem cells, some of which renew themselves through cell division while others differentiate into the specialized cells needed to replace worn - out or damaged organs and tissues.

PPL Therapeutics is betting that hearts and other organs from pigs can be transplanted into humans.

The reason why some animals can regenerate tissues after severe organ loss or amputation while others, such as humans, can not renew some structures has always intrigued scientists.

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.

«Consideration of costs can reduce moral objections to human organ sales and other «repugnant» transactions, says researcher.»

«The development of this microfluidic lung model, as well as other organs - on - chip, holds the promise of improving the physiological relevance of cellular models for more accurate prediction of the effects of toxicants and drugs on humans, and for reducing the use of animals in medical and pharmaceutical research,» said Sonia Grego, Ph.D., research scientist at RTI and the project's principal investigator.

Lipton went on to state, «It will be important to see if HIV / AIDS acts similarly on stem cells for other organs in the human body, as this may impact on the disease process as a whole.»

That and other concerns led the National Institutes of Health to announce in 2015 that it would not fund experiments that put human pluripotent stem cells, those with the ability to morph into almost any kind of tissue or organ, into the early embryos of other animals.

The major theme of Bio-X is to unlock the secrets of the human body by treating body and brain as a whole assembly of complex organ systems that interact with each other dynamically.

He and other scientists questioned how soon, if ever, chimeras would serve as sources for human organs, however.

In humans, low levels of hydrogen sulfide serve as a signaling molecule that helps regulate physiological processes in the brain, heart and other organs.

The key to the evolutionary success of fish — and their possible survival in future — may lie with a molecule that they ultimately bequeathed to humans: hemoglobin, the precious carrier of oxygen into our brain, heart, muscles and other organs.

A genetic mutation that occurred over 700 million years ago may have contributed to the development of certain organs in human beings and other vertebrates.

«If we can tell the human iPSCs in an animal host to develop into a kidney or other organ, for example, it could provide an entirely new source for transplant tissues,» says Izpisua Belmonte.

How Things Grow, Including Cancer A protein discovered in fruit fly eyes has brought a Johns Hopkins team closer to understanding how the human heart and other organs automatically determine when they are the correct size, a piece of information that may hold clues to controlling cancer.

Bacteria in the small intestines of mice and humans can travel to other organs and trigger an autoimmune response, according to a new study.

Suzuki, possibly inspired by his new job as a research scientist at the Research Unit for Organ Regeneration in Kobe, Japan, explains it this way: «Just as humans can start over in life, differentiated cells can also take on other fates following the generation of undifferentiated stem cells.»

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.

Similarly, other methods of developing artificial organs have also surfaced such as in March when researchers were able to successfully utilize spinach leaves to create actual beating human heart tissue.

Stress will lower all hormone levels in the body and do other damage as well to all organs and systems of the human body.

Genetic variants called single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) play a greater role in the metabolism of the human brain compared to almost all the other organs.

Supplies of vitamin A are so vital to human health that we are able to store large quantities of it in the liver and other organs.

To offset the manay side effects of a standard keto diet, Dr Capasso recommends following a more complete keto diet plan including all the nutrients needed to allow your body to maximize the fat burning effects while strengthening your mitochondria (the energy source of every cell in the human body), and keeping your liver and other organs healthy.

While smarter humans could better survive, the animals killed other easier prey, feasting on the most nutritious parts — the liver, stomach, brain, heart, and other organs and glands.

however, the definition Cannibalism is: the act or practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings.