Sentences with phrase «report of a human cell»

They specifically found that blue light, found in sunlight, makes T cells move faster — marking the first report of a human cell responding to sunlight by speeding its pace.

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This technique has been used, as Arnold reports, to trace the progress of cancers, advance our understanding of obesity and diabetes, and prove that brain cells continue to form through a human being's lifetime.

research; since most of the reports have concentrated on justifying the creation of cloned human embryos for research into and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's, «stem - cells» has become synonymous with «embryonic stem - cells» in the public imagination.

Then a team of Chinese researchers used that base editor to correct a mutation in human embryos that causes the blood disorder beta - thalassemia, reported September 23 in Protein & Cell (SN: 11/25/17, p. 7).

As reported June 13 in Cell Reports, a topical drug penetrated and tanned laboratory samples of live human skin, absent the sun.

In 2007, however, scientists at International Stem Cell, a California - based biotech firm, reported the first successful creation of human stem cell lines from unfertilized eCell, a California - based biotech firm, reported the first successful creation of human stem cell lines from unfertilized ecell lines from unfertilized eggs.

(A successful derivation of stem cells from a cloned human embryo was not reported until October 2011, and these stem cells had three sets of chromosomes rather than two.)

In this latest advance reported in PNAS, the Wyss team showed that the human gut - on - a-chip's unique ability to co-culture intestinal cells with living microbes from the normal gut microbiome for an extended period of time, up to two weeks, could allow breakthrough insights into how the microbial communities that flourish inside our GI tracts contribute to human health and disease.

Human papillomavirus 16 accounts for about half of all cervical cancers, but researchers reporting September 7 in the journal Cell have found that not all infections are equal.

In today's issue of Cell, a team reports that it has found in mice and humans a close relative of a fruit fly clock gene — the first evidence that some of these genes may have been conserved over the course of evolution.

Human cells don't respond to Fel d 1 alone, researchers at the University of Cambridge in England reported in July.

Components of indoor dust may signal human fat cells to grow and may alter metabolism, potentially contributing to weight problems, researchers report July 14 in Environmental Science & Technology.

Eighteen adults with severe eye disease who were among the first people to receive transplants created from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) continue to have no apparent complications with the introduced cells after an average of nearly 2 years, according to the latest status report on their health.

He reports that Advanced Cell Technology plans to clone genetically altered animals whose neural tissue would be immunologically compatible with that of humans.

Last June Ingber's team reported that it had placed human lung lining cells and human capillary cells on either side of a porous, flexible polymer membrane.

The process, reported in Human Reproduction, utilizes DNA fingerprinting (an assessment of active genes in a given cell) to boost the success rate of IVF and lower the chances of risky multiple births by identifying which of several five - day - old embryos are most likely to result in pregnancy The new method, which will replace unproved alternatives such as choosing embryos based on their shape, is likely to up the success of women becoming pregnant and lower their chances of having multiple births.

Unlike humans, who use their lymphatic systems to produce and transport white blood cells, tuna use theirs to move two of their fins, researchers report today in Science.

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

Now a team led by Robin Weiss of London's Institute of Cancer Research reports that the «PK» porcine endogenous retrovirus, which does not appear to harm pigs, can replicate in mink and human cells.

► The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has put funding on hold for experiments that involve «mixing human stem cells into very early animal embryos and letting them develop» while it «reconsiders its rules» for this type of research, Gretchen Vogel reported Wednesday.

Tufts University biomedical engineers recently published the first report of a promising new way to induce human mesenchymal stem cells (or hMSCs, which are derived from bone marrow) to differentiate into neuron - like cells: treating them with exosomes.

In May 2005, Hwang and his colleagues reported that it had produced 11 new human embryonic stem (ES) cell lines that carried the genetic signature of patients with diabetes, spinal cord injury, or a genetic blood disorder (Science, 20 May, p. 1096).

The report, from a committee made up of 11 members of Parliament, also recommends legalizing research involving embryos of chimeras and hybrids, which includes cells created by fusing human and animal nuclei.

The laboratory process, described in the journal Scientific Reports, entails genetically modifying a line of human embryonic stem cells to become fluorescent upon their differentiation to retinal ganglion cells, and then using that cell line for development of new differentiation methods and characterization of the resulting cells.

Tests with kidney cancer and two human uterine sarcoma cell lines, one with multidrug resistance, showed that 10 of these new compounds were impressively potent against all three cell lines, the researchers reported.

Prof Robin Lovell Badge, Crick Institute, on the science: «The experiments reported by Junjiu Huang and colleagues (Liang et al) in the journal Protein Cell on gene editing in abnormally fertilised human embryos are, I expect, the first of several that we will see this year.

Specifically, the study — reported online in The Journal of Infectious Diseases — shows that E. coli K1 modulates the protein peroxisome proliferator - activated receptor - gamma (PPAR - γ) and glucose transporter - 1 (GLUT - 1) levels at the blood - brain barrier in human brain microvascular endothelial cells.

The researchers, who report their work in the 26 October issue of Molecular Cell, hope to soon create an altered version of the protein that will work in humans.

For instance, CiRA's Kohei Yamamizu recently reported developing a cellular model of the blood — brain barrier made entirely from human iPS cells.

The UC team first reported how to use CRISPR in pieces of circular DNA called plasmids that can invade bacteria, but the Broad won a race to apply the method to human cells, which represents a potential billion - dollar marketplace for medicines.

In a report that appears in PLOS BIOLOGY, Dr. Hugo Bellen and his colleagues at Baylor College of Medicine and the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's Hospital and BCM, and Dr. Chao Tong, at the Life Sciences Institute and Innovation Center for Cell Biology, Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, find that mutations of human homologs (genes that carry out similar functions) of cacophony and its partner straightjacket (Cacna1a and Cacna2d2 respectively) cause defects in autophagy in neurons.

The results, which are published in the scientific journal Scientific Reports, show that human stem cells that are transplanted to the injured spinal cord contribute to restoration of some sensory functions.

In contrast, a team led by the Broad's Feng Zhang reported in the 3 January 2013 online edition of Science that it had used CRISPR to cut DNA in human cells, opening the door for the tool to be used in medicine.

In a paper published online yesterday in Stem Cells, the researchers report that they succeeded in generating pluripotent human ES cell lines — i.e., cells that can develop into many different kinds of cells — from one of the 13 late - arrested embCells, the researchers report that they succeeded in generating pluripotent human ES cell lines — i.e., cells that can develop into many different kinds of cells — from one of the 13 late - arrested embcells that can develop into many different kinds of cells — from one of the 13 late - arrested embcells — from one of the 13 late - arrested embryos.

Svetlana Glushakova, a cell biologist at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Bethesda, Md., reported the finding December 9 at the annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biolcell biologist at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Bethesda, Md., reported the finding December 9 at the annual meeting of the American Society for Cell BiolCell Biology.

In laboratory studies reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the researchers found that these «neutralizing» antibodies prevented a key part of the virus, known as MERS CoV, from attaching to protein receptors that allow the virus to infect human cells.

Another is that the transplanted bits of tumor act nothing like cancers in actual human brains, Fine and colleagues reported in 2006: Real - life glioblastomas grow and spread and resist treatment because they contain what are called tumor stem cells, but tumor stem cells don't grow well in the lab, so they don't get transplanted into those mouse brains.

Two groups of researchers report today that washing human skin cells in similar cocktails of four genes enabled them to reprogram the cells to resemble those harvested from embryos.

The Ogretmen laboratory screened previously reported microarray data sets of several human tumor tissues (metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, melanoma, and renal cell carcinoma) and showed that, in these samples, only the levels of CerS4 were significantly decreased.

Now Yamanaka and his colleagues report in the journal Cell that the same combination of genes induced pluripotency in commercially available human fibroblasts (connective tissue cells that play a crucial role in healing) derived from the facial skin of a 36 - year - old woman, the joint tissue of a man, aged 69, and a newborn, respectively.

Mouse embryonic stem cells, reported in 1981 by Martin Evans, Matthew Kaufman, and Gail Martin, have allowed scientists to generate genetically customized strains of mice that have revolutionized studies of organismic development and immunity and have provided countless models of human disease.

George Daley, speaking of potential therapeutic testing of parthenote - derived stem cells (the sort that his lab reported isolating last December), said it was «reasonable» to assume that the technology wouldn't be ready for human testing for another seven years.

It was found that complex II activity significantly declined with age, per unit of mitochondria, in the cells derived from the lower rather than the upper levels, an observation not previously reported for human skin.

At a symposium at The American Society of Human Genetics here last month, they reported zooming in on the genes expressed in a single brain cell, as well as panning out to understand how genes foster connections among far - flung brain regions.

Now scientists in the laboratory of Jan Karlseder, a professor in Salk's Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory and holder of the Donald and Darlene Shiley Chair, report the first experimental induction of an ALT telomere - building program in human cells.

Even more encouraging, the engineered tissues still continued to produce human neural, cartilage, and liver cell proteins, the team reports online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The ethics council finally issued its 20 - page report just before Christmas, voting in favor of allowing the import of human embryonic stem cells, under certain conditions, by a small majority of 15 to 9, paving the way for next week's final showdown.

And many of the highlighted human genes are associated with the same critical cellular operations, such as the cell's protein - building factories, as in those species, MacArthur's group reports.

The new technique — called DNA Programmed Assembly of Cells (DPAC) and reported in the journal Nature Methods on August 31, 2015 — allows researchers to create arrays of thousands of custom - designed organoids, such as models of human mammary glands containing several hundred cells each, which can be built in a matter of hCells (DPAC) and reported in the journal Nature Methods on August 31, 2015 — allows researchers to create arrays of thousands of custom - designed organoids, such as models of human mammary glands containing several hundred cells each, which can be built in a matter of hcells each, which can be built in a matter of hours.

CPF1 from two of these bacteria were able to edit DNA in human cells, Zhang's team reports online today in Cell.