Sentences with phrase «repair in human cells»

«While reducing DNA repair in bacteria could help to overcome antibiotic resistance, we're also excited about the prospect of boosting DNA repair in human cells,» says Nudler, also an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

«It's possible that some of these same mechanisms that we've seen in yeast may be influencing the amount of damage that is forming and how quickly it is repaired in human cells,» he said.

Not exact matches

Other researchers have tried changing cell behavior by creating protein switches from scratch, but Lim's approach — mixing and matching naturally existing proteins — may be more versatile and practical: «It can be useful as a biotechnology device or for repairing cells in humans.

A team of researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine has used a gene - editing tool known as CRISPR to repair the gene that causes sickle cell disease in human stem cells, which they say is a key step toward developing a gene therapy for the disorder.

Adding stem cells from human bone marrow to a broken diabetic bone enhances the repair process, increasing the strength of the newly formed bone, according to a laboratory - based study presented at the European Congress of Endocrinology in Dublin.

Published in Molecular Neurobiology, the study led by Dr Elodie Siney under the supervision of Dr Sandrine Willaime - Morawek, Lecturer in Stem Cells and Brain Repair at the University, analysed how enzymes called ADAMs affect the movement and function of the human tumor cCells and Brain Repair at the University, analysed how enzymes called ADAMs affect the movement and function of the human tumor cellscells.

Research in mice and human cells suggests that a fasting - mimicking diet may reprogram pancreas cells that are unable to produce insulin and enable them to repair themselves and start making it.

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Investigators at Johns Hopkins report they have developed human induced - pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) capable of repairing damaged retinal vascular tissue in mice.

Next, the research team will examine specifically whether these liver cells obtained from human embryonic stem cells in a dish help repair injured livers in preclinical animal models of liver disease.

In human cells as well, if Nbs1 and ATM function in the same way to ensure repair of DNA damage, tumor formation may be preventeIn human cells as well, if Nbs1 and ATM function in the same way to ensure repair of DNA damage, tumor formation may be preventein the same way to ensure repair of DNA damage, tumor formation may be prevented.

All of these findings were supplemented with several other experiments that were designed to learn how CHI3L1 interacts with other cells involved in the tissue repair response in both human and mouse lungs.

While biomedical researchers have had some successes in repairing peripheral nerves and nerve clusters outside the brain and spinal cord in humans, there currently is no effective way to regenerate broken nerve cells in the central nervous system, said Xue.

Partially paralyzed rodents walk almost normally after human embryonic or fetal brain stem cells repaired their spinal cord injuries in recent studies.

The study of these creatures has the potential to be rather robust in implications for regenerative medicine, an area of treatment for repairing or replacing human cells, tissues or organs on Earth to restore normal function.

The researchers now plan further studies using XR - seq in bacterial cells, as well as in human and other mammalian cells where the process of excision repair is less understood.

Unlike most other cells in the human body, heart cells do not have the ability to self - repair or regenerate effectively, making heart attack and heart failure severe and debilitating.

In vitro experiments used human colon carcinoma cells with and without MMP9 and mouse embryonic fibroblasts, which are connective tissue cells that make the extracellular matrix and collagen and play an important role in tissue repaiIn vitro experiments used human colon carcinoma cells with and without MMP9 and mouse embryonic fibroblasts, which are connective tissue cells that make the extracellular matrix and collagen and play an important role in tissue repaiin tissue repair.

And researchers at the «Seattle project», an effort funded by the National Cancer Institute to find new anticancer drugs, are mutating genes in yeast cells — such as the ATM gene or the mismatch repair genes — that often lead to cancer in humans.

Over the years, scientists have seen more instances of such curious behavior during DNA repair — one of life's most fundamental processes — but whether it also happened in human cells was debated.

The university recently received international attention after a group of 16 scientists based at the Key Laboratory of Gene Engineering published the results of a controversial experiment in which they genetically modified single - cell human embryos to repair the human β - globin (HBB) gene in a procedure aimed at preventing a serious blood disorder (www.sciencemag.org/content/348/6234/486.full).

Preclinical studies in mice and human cells suggested that the removal of SnCs significantly reduced the development of post-traumatic OA and related pain and created a prochondrogenic environment for new cartilage to grow and repair joints.

To date, researchers have used human iPS cells to make cardiac cells that repaired heart damage in a pig and insulin - producing pancreas cells that reversed high blood sugar in mice.

For example, these findings can accelerate the progress of gene - editing research because DNA repair profiling in one cell type may accurately predict repair outcomes in other cell types, including human primary cells.

The model organism offers a way to better understand stem cell - driven regeneration processes, an important step in regenerative medicine and the promise of therapies to repair or replace damaged human tissue.

Cardiac repair in guinea pigs with human engineered heart tissue from induced pluripotent stem cells.

Human Tracheobronchial Basal Cells: Normal Versus Remodeling / Repairing Phenotypes in vivo and in vitro.

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Abstract: In response to DNA lesions, human cells activate checkpoint pathways to repair DNA damage and prevent proliferation of genetically unstable cells.

Inhibition of ERβ Induces Resistance to Cisplatin by Enhancing Rad51 — Mediated DNA Repair in Human Medulloblastoma Cell Lines.

E-cigarette smoke damages DNA and reduces repair activity in mouse lung, heart, and bladder as well as in human lung and bladder cells, reports a new study, published in PNAS.

Functional expression of HGF and HGF receptor / c - met in adult human mesenchymal stem cells suggests a role in cell mobilization, tissue repair, and wound healing.

Mikolaj Slabicki (Buchholz, MPG)-- «A systematic investigation of DNA double strand break repair by a genome - wide RNAi screen in human cells» (2008)

The researchers then concluded that as the amount of NAD + in cells declines with age, there aren't enough of these molecules to prevent harmful interactions between proteins called DBC1 (which is found across a wide range of organisms, from bacteria to humans) and PARP1 (a protein that is known to control DNA repair).

Heart Repair Using Nanogel - Encapsulated Human Cardiac Stem Cells in Mice and Pigs with Myocardial Infarction.

By figuring out how frogs regenerate tissue, Tseng hopes she and other scientists can learn how to get stem cells to better repair or regrow tissue in humans.

Allogeneic Mesenchymal Stem Cells Stimulate Cartilage Regeneration and Are Safe for Single - Stage Cartilage Repair in Humans upon Mixture with Recycled Autologous Chondrons.

It will be one of the hardest forms of damage to repair via rejuvenation biotechnology; the only one that springs to mind as likely being even more difficult is the matter of damaged nuclear pore proteins in long - lived cells, single molecules that might be as old as you are, doing the same job for an entire human life span.

Recent studies of various mouse strains showing «striking differences» in the repair of axons — the long, slender projections in nerve cells that conduct electrical impulses — could be applied to human cells «to identify biomarkers of central nervous system repair potential and provide new targets for intervention,» he says.

If successful, this may lead to therapies for humans in which a patient's stem cells will be reverted into iPSCs, then genetically repaired and transplanted back into the bone marrow of the same patient.

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Embryonic stem cells — «pluripotent» cells that can develop into any type of cell in the human body — hold tremendous promise for regenerative medicine, in which damaged organs and tissues can be replaced or repaired.

His laboratory is currently trying to understand how to regenerate the diseased and injured visual system and is now initiating pre-clinical studies in humans using virtual reality to try to stimulation repair and recovery of retinal cells in glaucoma and other degenerative conditions.

HGH is one of the most important hormones the human body produces, as it controls building, repair and healing of muscle tissues, bones as well as many other cells in our body.

This type of dieting has been put to the test hundreds of times and has been shown repeatedly to decrease insulin levels, which in turn helps with weight loss; increase the amount of HGH (Human Growth Hormone) and even repair cells and help with their recovery.

Human Growth Hormone: Produced in the anterior pituitary and regulated from hypothalamus by growth hormone releasing hormone and growth hormone inhibiting hormone (aka somatostatin), human growth hormone (hGH, aka somatotrophin) enters the circulation and is delivered to the liver where it is converted to growth factors that initiate muscle, bone, and cartilage production; improve kidney function, skin elasticity, and cell repair and regeneraHuman Growth Hormone: Produced in the anterior pituitary and regulated from hypothalamus by growth hormone releasing hormone and growth hormone inhibiting hormone (aka somatostatin), human growth hormone (hGH, aka somatotrophin) enters the circulation and is delivered to the liver where it is converted to growth factors that initiate muscle, bone, and cartilage production; improve kidney function, skin elasticity, and cell repair and regenerahuman growth hormone (hGH, aka somatotrophin) enters the circulation and is delivered to the liver where it is converted to growth factors that initiate muscle, bone, and cartilage production; improve kidney function, skin elasticity, and cell repair and regeneration.

Rich in flavonoid polyphenols: Kaempferol and Quercetin, considered one of the most abundant antioxidants in the human diet, they are anti-viral, anti-microbial, anti-allergic, and anti-inflammatory, essential for protecting, repairing and preventing cells from free radical damage, and for supporting longevity and anti-aging benefits.

Olsen CE, Liguori AE, Zong Y, Lantz RC, Burgess JL, Boitano S. Arsenic upregulates MMP - 9 and inhibits wound repair in human airway epithelial cells.

Used regularly, Chlorella would assist in the repair of damaged genetic material in human cells, protecting our health and slowing down the aging process.