Sentences with phrase «regenerate lost tissue»

«But what we are trying to do is to give the human body the necessary tools to regenerate lost tissue — all on its own.»

That's one of the distinguishing features between stem cell therapy, which is to regenerate lost tissue, and gene therapy, which at the moment is there to sustain cells that would otherwise die.»

The newt can regenerate lost tissue, including heart muscle, components of its central nervous system and even the lens of its eye.

A remarkable substance extracted from pigs enables the body to regenerate lost tissue, including fingertips and big chunks of muscle.

A research team at York has adapted the astonishing capacity of animals such as newts to regenerate lost tissues and organs caused when they have a limb severed.

Not exact matches

But the biological secrets inside their arm regeneration feat do hold the promise of learning more about how we might better regenerate our own diseased or lost tissue.

Although wounds healed up as expected, with the tissue around the cut closing up in just a few hours, the researchers noticed something unexpected: the jellyfish were not regenerating tissues to replace the lost arms.

Stem cells, which have to divide regularly to regenerate tissues with new cells, can produce telomerase, but not the amount required to counteract the shortening of telomeres that accumulates with aging: over time, the tissues have fewer fresh cells and they lose their regenerative capacity.

Previous research conducted by Dr. Badylak's team suggested that ECM also could be used to regenerate lost muscle by placing the material in the injury site where it signals the body to recruit stem and other progenitor cells to rebuild healthy tissue.

Rieger and other scientists working in the institution's Kathryn W. Davis Center for Regenerative Medicine study tissue repair, regeneration and aging in a diverse range of organisms that have robust mechanisms to repair and regenerate lost and damaged tissues.

The hope, in the wake of Yamanaka's discovery, was that iPS cells could be a controversy - free alternative, conferring on humans a newtlike ability to regenerate lost or diseased tissue.

The ultimate goal of regenerative medicine is just what it sounds like: to discover how to regenerate lost or damaged tissue, and thereby develop not just treatments, but cures for some of the most intractable diseases, from diabetes to Parkinson's to paraplegia.

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.

The ability to regrow limbs lost through accident or the action of their nemesis is a power usually thought of as belonging only to comic - book heroes, but in nature the ability to regenerate tissues and even whole limbs is surprisingly widespread across the plant and animal kingdoms.

Stem cells, which have to divide regularly to regenerate tissues with new cells, can produce telomerase, but not the amount required to counteract the shortening of telomeres that accumulates with ageing: over time, the tissues have fewer fresh cells and they lose their regenerative capacity.

Put another way, low testosterone and the resulting low estradiol (a necessary form of estrogen in men's bodies derived from testosterone) can slow needed healthy bone regeneration, creating a gap between the amount of bone mass lost and bone tissue that can be regenerated — that means bones begin to weaken.