Sentences with phrase «producing cells in lab»

An oral drug used to treat an illness unrelated to HIV eradicated infectious HIV - producing cells in lab cultures while sparing uninfected cells — and suppressed the virus in patients during treatment and for at least eight weeks after the drug was stopped, according to results of a clinical pilot trial and researchers at Rutgers University and Dartmouth College.

Scientists use cell reprogramming techniques to produce cells in the lab so that they can study diseases.

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In lab tests, they show that one such particle can be produced in plants and it ferries small molecules to cancer cellIn lab tests, they show that one such particle can be produced in plants and it ferries small molecules to cancer cellin plants and it ferries small molecules to cancer cells.

This year those breakthroughs include tools for reprogramming living cells and rendering lab animals transparent; ways of powering electronics with sound waves and saliva; smartphone screens that correct for the flaws in your vision; Lego - like atomic structures that could produce major advances in superconductivity research; and others.

1982: In the early 80s, scientists realize that retroviruses have tremendous potential to deliver genes stably into large numbers of cells, and start producing lab - safe versions.

Tissue engineers have been unable to grow epidermis with the functional barrier needed for drug testing, and have been further limited in producing an in vitro (lab) model for large - scale drug screening by the number of cells that can be grown from a single skin biopsy sample.

Heller's team produced the inner - ear hair cells by exposing embryonic cells in the lab to chemical factors which steer the natural development of hair cells.

«Our paper is a blueprint of how the cartilage - producing cell, called a chondrocyte, is made and maintained by Sox9,» said He, a postdoctoral research associate in the lab of Andy McMahon, director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at cell, called a chondrocyte, is made and maintained by Sox9,» said He, a postdoctoral research associate in the lab of Andy McMahon, director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at Cell Research at USC.

Experiments showed that HIFs controlled the production of GSTO1 in breast cancer cells when they were exposed to chemotherapy; if HIF activity was blocked in these lab - grown cells, GSTO1 was not produced.

Using next - generation sequencing technologies that were previously unavailable, Michael Gardner, a graduate research assistant, and Jianying Wang, a senior research associate in Mitchum's lab, made a remarkable new discovery — nematodes possess the ability to produce a second type of peptide that can effectively «take over» plant stem cells that are used to create vital pathways for the delivery of nutrients throughout the plant.

If either method manages to produce a viable embryo, it would be shipped after five cell divisions to a lab in Thailand.

Scientists produced an artificial chromosome in the lab to investigate how cells renew themselves — a process known as cell division.

«There have been previous reports of other labs deriving beta cell types from stem cells, no other group has produced mature beta cells as suitable for use in patients,» he said.

But when the team instructed human beta - like cells grown in the lab to produce more ERRγ, «Voilà,» says Evans.

This is a different way of thinking about solar cells, which are normally described in terms of how much energy they can produce in lab conditions, rather than in use in a specific environment.

They focused on ItpkB because it is produced in HSCs, and the Sauer lab and others had previously shown that ItpkB controls a major signaling pathway in other cells that had been implicated in activating HSC.

Researchers took cells from leaves of the most productive trees and grew them in a lab dish to produce cloned seedlings.

Nerve cells in the brain of a songbird that are associated with learning and producing birdsongs, from the lab of Todd Roberts, a U.S. BRAIN Initiative — funded scientist.

Pure darcin, produced in cell culture in the lab, elicited the same reaction, the authors report online today in Science.

Once they were able to isolate skeletal muscle cells using the newly identified surface markers, the research team matured those cells in the lab to create dystrophin - producing muscle fibers.

An active area of investigation in our lab concerns the role of another cytokine produced mostly by innate immune cells, the IL - 12 family member IL - 27.

A few years ago, Dr. Funderburgh and other University of Pittsburgh researchers identified stem cells in a layer of the cornea called the stroma, and they recently showed that even after many rounds of expansion in the lab, these cells continued to produce the biochemical components, or matrix, of the cornea.

In the new research, Pollen and co-first author Tomasz Nowakowski, PhD, also a postdoctoral researcher in the Kriegstein lab, partnered with Fluidigm Corp. to develop a microfluidic approach to map out the transcriptional profile — the set of genes that are actively producing RNA — of cells collected from the VZ and SVZ during embryonic developmenIn the new research, Pollen and co-first author Tomasz Nowakowski, PhD, also a postdoctoral researcher in the Kriegstein lab, partnered with Fluidigm Corp. to develop a microfluidic approach to map out the transcriptional profile — the set of genes that are actively producing RNA — of cells collected from the VZ and SVZ during embryonic developmenin the Kriegstein lab, partnered with Fluidigm Corp. to develop a microfluidic approach to map out the transcriptional profile — the set of genes that are actively producing RNA — of cells collected from the VZ and SVZ during embryonic development.

In CAR T therapy, a person's own T cells — disease - fighting immune cells — are removed and sent to a lab where they are genetically re-engineered to produce chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) on their surface.

A visually stunning short animation of how stem cells work in the gut Hans Clevers» lab has produced a short animated film to illustrate how stem cells work in the gut.

To assess the breadth of such protein - based inheritance, the lab of Whitehead Member Susan Lindquist lab devised an unbiased screen that examines all proteins in yeast for those capable of producing stable phenotypes that are passed from mother to daughter cells for at least 100 generations.

Chong Wee Liew, Ph.D., lead author and a postdoctoral researcher in the Kulkarni lab, first examined the expression of the tribbles protein in pancreatic islets (which house beta cells and other hormone - producing cells) in both humans and mice.

The result is the production of hundreds of millions of lab - produced human beta cells — able to relieve diabetes in mice.

In addition to its emphasis on producing vaccines, the lab specializes in gene and cell therapies, including stem cell productIn addition to its emphasis on producing vaccines, the lab specializes in gene and cell therapies, including stem cell productin gene and cell therapies, including stem cell products.

Right now, stem cell products are commonly produced on a very small scale to use in lab experiments, but we need to make them in much greater orders of magnitude for use in future human therapies.

Now new research from McGill University demonstrates yet another way that the humble cranberry may be a woman's best friend: «In lab studies, cranberry prevented the bacteria from producing a specific protein called flagellin, which is necessary for growing the tails that enable them to swim up the urinary tract and attach to cells,» explains lead study author Nathalie Tufenkji, PhD.

It's long been thought that the hearts of mammals stop producing cells at a very young age, but a new study by Australian researchers showed that exercise can actually increase the number of cells in the hearts of young lab rats.

First, the chemical was tested in the lab, where it partly blocked liver cells from producing glucose (a form of sugar).

The bone marrow should respond to anemia by producing more red blood cells; therefore, an increase in the number of immature cells called reticulocytes should be seen on lab results.

A point I would also like to make is that organic solar cells would can be produced in a lab, and use no silicon.