Sentences with phrase «replace damaged organs»

Biomaterials are materials designed to be used in close contact with biological systems, tissues, and fluids and to serve a medical purpose — replacing a damaged organ, say, or treating a disease.

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The bill notes one organ donor can help save the lives of up to eight people on the donation waiting list and can improve the lives of up to 50 people by restoring eyesight, treating burn patients and helping patients avoid disabilities by replacing malfunctioning, diseased or damaged organs and tissue.

The reprogrammed adult cells and organs prompted a regeneration in which damaged cells were replaced with new functional ones, he said.

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.

Since embryonic stem cells can differentiate into any type of tissue, they have the potential to treat an almost unending array of medical conditions — replacing damaged or lost body parts or tissues, slowing degenerative diseases, even growing new organs.

Artificial organs may instead one day help repair or even replace a person's damaged tissues.

Humans might not want spare eyeballs on their backs, but the same technique could be useful for growing new organs to replace damaged ones, or for developing therapies to repair damaged nerve connections.

Adult organisms ranging from fruit flies to humans harbor adult stem cells, some of which renew themselves through cell division while others differentiate into the specialized cells needed to replace worn - out or damaged organs and tissues.

Scientists say the finding brings them closer to growing entire organs in the lab, including eyes that could replace those damaged by injury or disease.

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.

Clarke notes that this kind of work — reprogramming normal cells to replace damaged tissues or organs in regenerative medicine, or even growing cells from an individual's cancer to determine what the best treatment is — speaks to the doctrine rather than challenges it.

Avoiding the pluripotent state is important because it avoids the potential danger that «rogue» iPS cells could develop into a tumor if used to replace or repair damaged organs or tissue.

The adult cells were reprogrammed and the organs allowed a process of regeneration, as part of which damaged cells were replaced with new ones that were fully functional.

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.

We are focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of cell based therapeutics that prevent, treat or cure disease by repairing and replacing damaged or aged tissue, cells and organs and restoring their normal function.

Given the critical shortage of donor organs to replace those damaged by accident or disease, it has long been a goal of science to create human organs from stem cells.

Theorists envision creating machines that will be able to travel through the circulatory system, cleaning the arteries as they go; sending out troops to track down and destroy cancer cells and tumors; or repairing injured tissue at the site of the wound, even to the point of replacing missing limbs or damaged organs.

These constructs simulate three - dimensional models of organs and could be used to discover and develop new drugs, model diseases, and, ultimately, directly repair, restore, and replace organs damaged by injury or disease — all vital aspects of regenerative medicine.

In the future, the researchers are looking at using the new material to create new organs and replace damaged ones, as well as fabricate other body tissues.

Therapy using live cells is increasingly used to replace damaged tissue, deliver gene therapies to target tissues and organs, and stimulate self - healing along with a number of other applications.

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.