Sentences with phrase «ovarian tissue samples»

Building on 30 years of research, this achievement outlines three fundamental steps that successfully took ovarian tissue samples and nurtured them into human eggs to a point of full maturity.

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Researchers looked at tissue samples from ovarian cancer patients.

For the new study, described in the October 23rd issue of Nature Communications, scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston collected tissue samples containing normal cells, ovarian cancers, metastases that had spread elsewhere, and small cancers found in the fallopian tubes, which included single cell layers of cancer called «p53 signatures» and serous tubal intraepithelial carcinoma, or STIC lesions.

While the canine ability to detect the presence of ovarian cancer is well - established, researchers aren't sure exactly which chemicals the dogs are detecting in the tissue and plasma samples.

Her team's work builds on that of Swedish researcher György Horvath, who's shown that dogs have a 100 percent sensitivity and 98 percent specificity to detect ovarian cancer in plasma and tissue samples.