Sentences with phrase «replacing dead cells»

Teams around the world are working on strategies to prompt stem cells to replace dead cells in diseases like Parkinson's or diabetes.

Srivastava is using cellular reprogramming to treat heart failure and replace dead cells after a heart attack.

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It dispatches the hormones and chemicals that repair damaged cells and replace dead ones.

Because heart cells lose their ability to divide soon after we are born, when the cells die — in a heart attack, say — the dead tissue is replaced by scar tissue rather than new muscle.

When the researchers tracked the stem cells in the mice's brains, they saw that only about 5 percent of them actually developed into neurons, suggesting the cells did not rescue memory by replacing dead neurons, LaFerla says.

We will have the opportunity to understand the molecular basis of these diseases and to identify drugs that may be able to prevent symptoms, or to identify stem cell populations that can be implanted to replace damaged or dead cells.

From this tissue, Post isolated satellite cells, adult stem cells needed to replace dead muscle cells.

The goal of regenerative medicine is to replace dead or dying cells.

Replacing dead or dysfunctional nerve cells with new, healthy ones derived from stem cells eases chronic pain in mice, a...

NPR's Joe Palca reports on two new studies showing that it is possible to create a type of primitive human cell that might some day be used to replace dead or cancerous cells in the body.

But what if these dead cells could be replaced with fresh cells?

Neural stem cells are like stem cells in other tissues and organs — they give birth, if needed, to new cells that replace dead or dying ones.

They found that only about 4 percent of them turned into neurons, indicating the stem cells were not improving memory simply by replacing the dead brain cells.

Every minute we lose over 30,000 dead skin cells, which are replaced by new healthy skin cells.

Collagen gives the skin strength and elasticity, replaces dead skin cells and lines the gut.

Collagen aids this turnover process, making sure that those dead cells actually leave the skins surface, allowing for the production of fresh new cells that can replace that old, damaged scar tissue.

And as you age, guess what: it becomes harder and harder to produce collagen, replace dead skin cells, and repair damaged collagen.

It's what helps give our skin strength and elasticity, replaces dead skins cells, and helps «glue» the body together.

At the same time, cellular turnover, the process by which skin naturally replaces dead skin cells with new ones, declines, leaving you with a duller skin surface.

Whether the inflammation is successful in removing the damaged tissue depends on the size of the lump, number and activity of the cells and how quickly fibrous tissue surrounds and replaces the dead tissue.

In the spinal cord, stem cells replace dead neuron support cells and give «life support» to otherwise dying nerves.

Some dead plant tissue for example, ultimately become petrified; buried tree cells dissolve in solution and are replaced by silica minerals that precipitate from subterranean water over time.