Sentences with phrase «rare human cell»

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In a rare appearance Dr. Chandan Sen, Director, OSU Center for Regenerative Medicine & Cell - Based Therapies will explain how this breakthrough came about and how the technology is leading to other medical discoveries and how the principle can be used to generate any tissue out of skin or fat which is abundant in human body.

The new epidermis, grown from human pluripotent stem cells, offers a cost - effective alternative lab model for testing drugs and cosmetics, and could also help to develop new therapies for rare and common skin disorders.

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.

These cloning experiments (known as somatic cell nuclear transfer), in addition to being unambiguously nonpresidential, require a rare and precious starting material: healthy human egg cells.

In a study spanning molecular genetics, stem cells and the sciences of both brain and behavior, researchers at University of California San Diego, with colleagues at the Salk Institute of Biological Studies and elsewhere, have created a neurodevelopmental model of a rare genetic disorder that may provide new insights into the underlying neurobiology of the human social brain.

«Cellular system makes the battle against a rare disease personal: Scientists develop the first human stem - cell based system to find drugs to fight mitochondrial disease.»

«Although I wholeheartedly agree that rare variants play a substantial role in human diseases, I also think that the section on GWAS reflects misunderstandings of the concept of GWAS, ignorance of standard practices in GWAS, misinterpretation of published primary research data, and as a result, is misinforming the general readership of Cell,» wrote Kai Wang, a postdoc at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia whose papers were cited in the Cell article.

Discovery of a novel, advanced technique to identify the rare cells where human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) hides in patients taking antiretroviral therapy (ART).

But culturing the cells outside of the human body can be difficult, complicating efforts to identify many of them, particularly rare species.

This approach allows researchers to analyze very rare HIV - infected cells from humans in unprecedented detail.

In addition, virus strains that can use coreceptors other than CCR5 or CXCR4 to infect primary human cells are exceedingly rare.

To do so, they placed each rare cell in a microwell (with a diameter roughly half the width of a human hair).

However, Takebe's liver bud has the advantage of being grown from iPS cells, rather than, for example, the primary human hepatocytes used in Bhatia's graft, which could make it useful in modelling rare diseases or examining the specific genetic backgrounds of the iPS cell donors.

The strategy developed by research teams and development of I - Stem aims to identify innovative therapies applicable to rare genetic diseases based on exploring the potential offered by human pluripotent stem cells.

Recent Scientific projects as principal investigator: • 2003/2005 (EU V Frame Program): «International Bank of DNA, cell lines and nerve - muscle - cardiac tissues» - «European Network of Human Biological Material for Rare Diseases - Eurobiobank».

But the cells also fused together, which is rare for human cells.

4/7/2008 From Bench to Bedside in One Year: Stem Cell Research Leads to Potential New Therapy for Rare Blood Disorder A unique partnership between industry and academia has led to human clinical trials of a new drug for a rare class of blood diseases called myeloproliferative disorders (MPD), which are all driven by the same genetic mutation and can evolve into leuk... MorRare Blood Disorder A unique partnership between industry and academia has led to human clinical trials of a new drug for a rare class of blood diseases called myeloproliferative disorders (MPD), which are all driven by the same genetic mutation and can evolve into leuk... Morrare class of blood diseases called myeloproliferative disorders (MPD), which are all driven by the same genetic mutation and can evolve into leuk... More...

The specific vocation of I - Stem is to explore all the therapeutic potential of human pluripotent stem cells for applications in patients affected by rare diseases of genetic origin.

The challenge takes on even more urgency with recent developments, including a federal administration now more open to exploring the potential of stem cells, the recent FDA approval of a human trial involving embryonic stem cells, as well as the reported case of a young boy who developed a brain tumor four years after receiving a stem - cell treatment for a rare genetic disorder.

High - resolution maps of enhancer - promoter interactions in rare primary human T cell subsets and coronary artery smooth muscle cells link variants associated with autoimmune and cardiovascular diseases to target genes.

Recent reports show increased CSC activity following hypoxic exposure in breast cancer cell lines (18 — 20), but no reports have studied this rare population in primary human breast cancer samples.

For three years now we have been working on human cell models of rare neurodegenerative diseases with special emphasis on neuroacanthocytosis, neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis as well as motor neuron degeneration (using iPS cells).

Animal forensic investigators also can get DNA from urine — rare for humans — because dogs and cats shed more cells into the discharge than people, she said.

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