Sentences with phrase «regenerate damaged organs»

Today, our scientists are mapping the human brain to unlock the answers to Alzheimer's; developing drugs to regenerate damaged organs; devising new material to make batteries ten times more powerful.

Today, all around the country, scientists like you are developing therapies to regenerate damaged organs, creating new devices to enable brain - controlled prosthetic limbs, and sending sophisticated robots into space to search for signs of past life on Mars.

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The Center's goal is to understand basic mechanisms of tissue and organ formation, and then to use this knowledge to regenerate, repair, and replace tissues damaged by aging, disease and injury.

The Center's goals are to understand the basic mechanisms underlying tissue and organ formation, and then to use this knowledge to regenerate, repair, and replace tissues damaged by aging and injury.

Regenerative medicine R&D efforts are focused largely on developing stem cell and tissue engineering therapies as a means to regenerate, replace or repair damaged tissues and organs.

The TREND center has been established with the aim to generate collaborations across disciplines from Natural sciences to Engineering to understand the basic biology of how damaged tissues and organs can regenerate.

Research in my laboratory seeks to understand why some animals can regenerate missing or damaged organs.

Graber will work in the institution's Kathryn W. Davis Center for Regenerative Biology and Medicine, where scientists are working to identify the molecular pathways responsible for regeneration in organisms that have retained the ability to regenerate lost and damaged tissues and organs, then screening for drugs with the potential to reawaken these dormant regeneration pathways in humans.

Regenerative medicine is dedicated to the study of repairing, replacing or regenerating damaged human cells, tissues or organs to restore or establish normal function; and it has potential applications to treat a wide variety of conditions.

A new paradigm of medicine that relies on stem cells capacity to regenerate, regrow, and fully heal damaged tissues and organs in our bodies

By studying them, we are beginning to gain insight into human disease — to understand why organs such as the heart can not repair themselves or why, as we age, the incidence of debilitating diseases such as cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer's increases so rapidly, and we are developing new therapies that will enhance our abilities to regenerate damaged tissues and prolong healthy lifespan.

Qian and Srivastava advanced the field further by reprogramming cells directly in a damaged heart, regenerating the organ using its own cells.