Sentences with phrase «replacement cells and tissues»

iPSCs directed to differentiate into specific cell types offer the possibility of a renewable source of replacement cells and tissues to treat ailments, including Parkinson's disease, spinal cord injury, heart disease, diabetes, and arthritis.

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ReInnervate, a start - up in Durham, England, is developing a tiny, three - dimensional plastic scaffolding on which human cells can be grown into artificial tissue, and perhaps eventually into replacements for organs.

He earned degrees in cell biology and tissue engineering and eventually got a job in a lab run by Vladimir Mironov, who was investigating the use of bioprinting — 3 - D printing using living cells — to generate replacement organs.

As well as allowing the use of stem cells grown from established cell lines, the technology could enable the creation of improved human tissue models for drug testing and potentially even purpose - built replacement organs.

Da Cruz and his team grew replacement RPE cells from human embryonic stem cells on a thin plastic scaffold, before transplanting the tissue into the back of each volunteer's eye.

And our normal tissues would be preserved intact, provided that we underwent regular rounds of replacement of stem cells.

But for cell replacement therapy to realize its potential, I anticipate that scientists must solve the developmental code, the set of rules that govern the formation of tissues, organs, and beings from the original single cell — the zygote.

There is evidence that chronic disabilities such as spinal cord lesions, diabetes, and Parkinson?s disease, where replacement of just one cell type restores tissue function, can be treated with differentiated embryonic stem cells.

Most of the BMBF's support for stem cell research is channelled through two priority programmes: «Biological Replacement of Organ Functions» and «Tissue Engineering».

The result — the second such finding in the past year — suggests that similar cells from human testicles might have similar powers, paving the way to creating replacement tissue for men who have suffered damage from heart attacks or other injuries and avoiding some of the controversy surrounding embryonic stem cells (ESC).

The new approach builds on information gleaned from developmental studies of embryonic stem cells (see story # 16) and one day may be used to create healthy replacements for harmed or diseased tissue.

Japanese stem cell biologist Hiromitsu Nakauchi is pioneering a technique that ultimately aims to implant human pluripotent cells into pig embryos to create replacement human tissues and organs.

Those two papers were groundbreaking because they put forward a method for generating stem cells far simpler than any previously reported, a development that could advance regenerative medicine, in which scientists try to grow replacement tissues as a treatment for diseases and injuries.

Researchers at Whitehead Institute have uncovered a framework for regeneration that may explain and predict how stem cells in adult, regenerating tissue determine where to form replacement structures.

The new stem cell, developed at the Salk Institute, holds promise for one day growing replacement functional cells and tissues.

The new stem cell (green), developed at the Salk Institute, holds promise for one day growing replacement functional cells and tissues.

The authors note that the formation of each different organ bud type may require some fine tuning to optimize tissue self - organization, and further addition of neural cell types may be necessary, but this research may soon provide exciting model systems for the study of basic biology and pathology as well as providing appropriate replacement tissues for the treatment of many patients with no other viable options.

I am excited by the ability of regenerative medicine to provide replacement tissue made from a patient's own cells and what it can mean to the patient's recovery and long - term health.

In the long run, scientists hope to use organoids and induced pluripotent stem cells to engineer tissue replacements in patients suffering from diseases that currently are treated with direct transplants of fetal tissue.

We could have replacement tissues and organs that perfectly match the recipient because they were cloned from their own cells.

The WFIRM research team is working to engineer replacement tissues and organs and develop healing cell therapies for more than 30 different areas of the body.

The Society believes that research involving the transfer of a human nucleus into an animal egg will lead to important new knowledge about cell nuclear replacement (CNR) technology and, if it were to prove possible to produce embryonic stem cells by this route, would increase understanding of how to programme these cells to develop into different tissue types.

Your own healing cells can target a slowed degenerative progression of COPD, restore blood flow, address system - wide inflammation and stimulate the repair and replacement of damaged lung tissue.

Diagnostics, cell replacement and protection, drug discovery, tissue engineering, non-invasive imaging, and many other approaches to disease diagnosis and clinical management are likely to be transformed by research in this area.

Human Growth Hormone is the «master hormone» controlling many organs and body functions and is directly responsible for stimulating tissue repair, cell replacement, brain functions, and enzyme function!

In BHRT (Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy), natural progesterone is seen as a highly effective treatment as it can counteract the effects of estrogen, which naturally stimulates cell growth in tissues containing estrogen receptors and contributes to symptoms of endometriosis.

Stem cell therapy offers the possibility of using these stem cells to grow into replacements for injured or diseased tissues such as bone, cartilage, muscle, nerves, and so on.

Although veterinarians initially believed that the main use for stem cells would be as replacements for damaged cells, it is now known that stem cells produce anti-inflammatory substances and other compounds involved in tissue repair.

In CAH, continuous liver inflammation and cell death eventually lead to the replacement of the normal liver tissue with scar tissue.

Chronic hepatitis in dogs, also called inflammatory canine hepatic disease, refers to a syndrome in which death of hepatic cells (hepatocellular necrosis) has occurred and is associated with a chronic inflammatory process which typically progresses to liver fibrosis (replacement of hepatic tissue with fibrous tissue) and cirrhosis (progressive derangement of the liver architecture and function).