Sentences with phrase «other types of cells»

«Those fish sperm stem cells may be able to become other types of cells in addition to germ cells,» he says.

These cells have the ability to change into other types of cells.

Stem cells are powerful healing cells in your pet's body that can become other types of cells.

Another consideration when developing drugs is that the particular brain cells we'd like to rescue in HD - neurons - are very different from other types of cells.

Her team decided to try a cell - growing approach, called 3D cultures, that's been successful for other types of cells that need to form complex structures as they grow.

The same technique may also work to differentiate between other types of cells or the activity of cells.

Or other types of cells besides neurons might pick up electrical fields and gradually alter brain function.

From there, researchers can measure the response of cells to all sorts of experimentation: viruses, drugs, carcinogens or even the additions of other types of cells [source: Coriell Institute for Medical Research].

They then tried to reprogram skin cells from the animals, turning them into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS), which are capable of forming other types of cell.

Unlike most other types of cells, which are programmed to die after a certain number of divisions, stem cells are immortal because they can multiply infinitely.

They are currently expanding to include other type of cells, including cancer tissue - sensing, engineered immune - system T cells (called CAR - T) to treat metastasizing breast and colon cancers.

Embryos» self - healing DNA came as a surprise, because gene editing in other types of cells usually requires an external template, Mitalipov says.

In a matter of weeks, the single stem cell repopulated the mouse's blood and immune system but did not create other types of cells.

«We identified other promoters that were selective for breast cancer, and when these were encoded into the circuit, it would target breast cancer cells over other types of cell,» Lu says.

«Essentially, we're converting T cells that would normally recognize other types of cells to be tumor specific,» Levine says.

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.

And what about other types of cells?

But even with treatment, the virus remains dormant within a small percentage of infected CD4 cells — and perhaps even within other types of cells — in a variety of tissues.

A strong electric field is then applied across this device that injects genetic code into skin cells and turns these into other types of cells needed for treating diseased conditions.

LPA receptors are all over neural progenitor cells, which go on to form neurons and other types of cells in a young brain.

The protein built from the gene was abundant while the cells were proliferating but abruptly disappeared when the cells began to differentiate, or turn into other types of cells.

Warnke's technique circumvents these limitations and could be adapted to work with other types of cells.

More specifically, the Warburg effect describes the reality that cancer cells break down sugars more rapidly than most other types of cells.

Riken's deputy director, Sasai was renowned for his ability to coax stem cells into becoming other types of cells.

TSP2 is a component of the extracellular matrix that influences how the matrix is formed, as well as the development and communication of other types of cells that grow within the matrix.

Shapiro hypothesized that these structures, called gas vesicles, could bounce back sound waves in ways that make them distinguishable from other types of cells.

The CrispRGold program will now be made available online so that it can be used by scientists worldwide: «The program can easily be used for other types of cell from a wide range of organisms.

Neuronal stem cells are marked by their ability to differentiate into other types of cells.

«Other scientists will likely use the technique to help them study immune, heart and other types of cells that use calcium to perform their tasks,» Zhou said.

When mixed with two other types of cells, the fabricated primitive liver cells organized themselves into three - dimensional structures, complete with blood vessels.

Future studies will look at the role p75 plays in two other types of cells — glial cells and skin cells.

As a note, successful sperm freezing was done long before any other type of cell freezing.

This makes them easier to control than other types of cells used in therapies and makes side effects unlikely.

But this technique is unlikely to work in other types of cells and no synthetic genomes have yet been created, Venter notes.

The cells, which could develop into any other type of cell in the body, promised tailor - made replacements for damaged or diseased organs and tissues.

But it had no affect on any of the other types of cell tested.

The team found two, labeled G3 and H6, that bound only to MDSCs; other candidates were eliminated because they also tied in to other types of cell.

If each cell is genetically identical, however, how does it grow to be a skin, blood, nerve, bone or other type of cell?

WHEN DISCUSSING neurotransmitters, most people think of the classical neurotransmitters, such as dopamine and serotonin — the primary chemical messengers used by neurons to communicate with one another and with other types of cells.

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.

As a result, the team was able to trace the paths that cells take as they turn into sustentacular cells — which seems to be the default fate for olfactory stem cells — and into neurons and other types of cells.

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

Sasai was renowned for his ability to coax stem cells into becoming other types of cells.

The total data for each human cell was calculated as approximately 1010 bits (b), and one cell contains enough information to replicate any other type of cell in the body.

The researchers developed mice that did not have SOD1 in their muscles, though it was still present in other types of cells.

They are surrounded by two other types of cells, which become the placenta and another structure, the yolk sac.