In the journal Biomaterials, the team
reports culturing cells to make extracellular matrix (ECM) of two types and five different alignments with the strength found in natural tissue and without using any artificial chemicals that could make it incompatible to implant.
Not exact matches
(So far, the company's
cell cultures are
reported to be small, about the size of a postage stamp, and not fully functional.)
Just has
reported that it has developed a method to grow
cell cultured chicken without FBS, while Memphis Meats is validating methods to produce its meats without the ingredient.
Some
reports, such as the Open Philanthropy Project's Animal Product Alternatives
report and Van der Weele & Tramper (2014) suggest it is unlikely that
cultured meats will become cost - competitive with conventional meat.98, 99 One important contributing factor in this conclusion, which is cited in these
reports, is the minimum costs of the growth medium necessary for
culturing the desired
cells.
In other experiments, the protein blocked the virus from infecting
cells in
culture, and it even prevented mice from getting sick when administered either 1 day before or after viral exposure, they
report today in Nature Biotechnology.
Last spring the team
reported that their fibers induced the formation of new blood vessels in both
cell cultures and living animals.
The mutated, drug resistant H7N9 virus, however, was still able to infect
cultured human
cells and spread between laboratory animals as efficiently as nonmutated strains, researchers
report December 10 in Nature Communications.
Writing in the May 4 online issue of the journal Scientific
Reports, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine used a powerful statistical tool called «design of experiments» or DOE to determine the optimal
cell culture formula to grow and produce hPSCs.
The substance vigorously inhibited the growth of
cultured tumor
cells from colon, lung, and breast cancers, the team
reports in the 20 January issue of Angewandte Chemie.
In collaboration with Ding, the lab of Olivier Voinnet at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich also
reported in an accompanying paper the detection of viral siRNAs in
cultured mouse embryonic stem
cells infected by the Encephalomyocarditis virus.
Cultured human
cells are a better alternative and are already used by one manufacturer, says the
report.
One postdoc presents data on her efforts to develop an organoid model for small -
cell lung cancer; another
reports progress on
culturing hormone - secreting organoids from human gut tissue.
The researchers
report they were able to transform about one in 5,000
cells — enough to get several iPS
cells from a single
culture dish — and then coax them to become nerve
cells or heart tissue on the benchtop.
Exposing
cell cultures to purified melittin, they
reported that the compound completely inhibited Borrelia growth.
In the current issue of Nature Medicine, John Pezzuto of the University of Illinois at Chicago and his colleagues
report that a compound called betulinic acid triggers apoptosis or programmed
cell death, in
cultured melanoma
cells.
All it took to make pluripotent stem
cells, they
reported, was briefly bathing blood
cells from newborn mice in a mildly acidic solution and then tweaking the
culture conditions.
Pure darcin, produced in
cell culture in the lab, elicited the same reaction, the authors
report online today in Science.
For instance, when they added mosquito saliva containing sporozoites to
cultured mouse liver
cells, 10 % to 30 % of the
cells showed signs of punched membranes, the team
reports in the 5 January issue of Science.
Séralini's
report in BioMed Research International describes how pesticides kill
cultured human
cells, with the hair - raising conclusion that pesticides may be vastly more toxic than assumed by regulatory authorities.
Haruko Obokata of the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB) in Kobe, Japan, and colleagues at other Japanese institutions and at Harvard Medical School in Boston
reported that simply subjecting blood
cells from newborn mice to a moderately acidic environment for 25 minutes and then tweaking
culture conditions could generate pluripotent stem
cells capable of developing into nearly all of a body's
cell types.
The final enzyme, Tre, removed all traces of HIV from
cultured human cervical
cells after about three months, the researchers
report online today in Science.
The group
reported growing multiple parthenogenetic embryonic stem
cell lines by incubating eggs in a warm, low - oxygen
culture medium.
When they knocked two of these genes out of the bacterium's genome, it couldn't survive in a lab
culture of immune
cells, they
report in the 26 May issue of Science.
RIKEN researchers have taken up this challenge, and the work published in
Cell Reports details how sequentially applying several signaling molecules to three - dimensional
cultures of human embryotic stem
cells prompts the
cells to differentiate into functioning cerebellar neurons that self - organize to form the proper dorsal / ventral patterning and multi-layer structure found in the natural developing cerebellum.
Higher doses of ginkgo almost completely protected
cultured neurons from oxidative damage, which otherwise killed more than 60 % of the
cells, the researchers
reported here last week at the North American Research Conference on Complementary and Integrative Medicine.
As they
report in the European Respiratory Journal, they have already successfully counteracted this mechanism in the
cell culture with the help of drugs.
Additional experiments with
cultured cells suggested that the mutation interferes with one of the enzymes that breaks down the APP protein and causes a 40 % reduction in β amyloid formation, Stefansson and colleagues
report online today in Nature.
Surgeons
report success in first human bone growth procedure using fat stem
cells — with no
culturing necessary
In their recent study, the UCSF team
reports the discovery that a class of commonly prescribed Type - 2 diabetes drugs, called TZDs (thiazolidinediones, such as Actos and Avandia), promoted the conversion of white fat
cells into brown (in mice and
culture dishes) by stabilizing the PRDM16 protein.
Specific duties will include basic and advanced polymer chemistry protocols,
cell culture and expansion, hydrogel biomaterial characterization, physical characterization of biomaterials, assembly of 3D constructs using biofabrication and bioprinting techniques, collection and organization of data, and assisting in the preparation of
reports and manuscripts.
The collaboration, involving the labs of Douglas Turner, professor of chemistry; Luis Martinez - Sobrido, associate professor of microbiology and immunology; and two researchers in Poland,
reported that «antisense» compounds targeting one of the virus» eight genomic RNA segments caused a five - to 25-fold reduction of influenza A virus in
cell cultures.
However, a recent published review of basic science journals, including studies of
cells in
culture from high impact cardiovascular journals, and of basic and clinical scientific literature, suggests that sex of experimental material is not consistently
reported.
A review in the journal
Cell Stem Cell by two Jackson Laboratory (JAX) scientists reports on the latest efforts to isolate and culture the elusive populations of stem cells that most closely resemble very early (two - cell stage) totipotent ce
Cell Stem
Cell by two Jackson Laboratory (JAX) scientists reports on the latest efforts to isolate and culture the elusive populations of stem cells that most closely resemble very early (two - cell stage) totipotent ce
Cell by two Jackson Laboratory (JAX) scientists
reports on the latest efforts to isolate and
culture the elusive populations of stem
cells that most closely resemble very early (two -
cell stage) totipotent ce
cell stage) totipotent
cells.
Phillips and colleagues [47]
reported that the non-adherent population of monolayer
cultures of breast cancer
cells has the ability to initiate mammosphere formation after irradiation.
«CRISPR in adult stem
cells has huge potential, because the genomes of adult stem
cells in organoid
cultures are stable,» said Gerald Schwank, first author of the cystic fibrosis
report.
(10) The company's scientists also
report that when they then injected preformed AS fibrils into the brains of mice, BIIB054 slowed the self - templating spread of AS pathology across the brain (consistent with their
cell -
culture study), and held much of the ensuing motor dysfunction at bay (9,10)(reducing it «by more than 50 percent» according to a science journalist who was present when they presented results at AD / PD 2017 (11)-RRB-.
Five years ago, the group
reported that when they infected human tonsil
cells with HIV in
culture, 95 percent of the CD4 + T
cells that died did so before the virus had a chance to reproduce within them.
Working with nerve
cells growing in
culture, investigators
reported that the absence of NEU1 was accompanied by an increase in a protein named LAMP1.
Last year, this team
reported recurrent changes in the genomes of human pluripotent stem
cells as they are expanded in
culture.
Here we
report that
cultures of expanded potential stem
cells can be established from individual eight -
cell blastomeres, and by direct conversion of mouse embryonic stem
cells and induced pluripotent stem
cells.
«It was exciting because nobody knew that «reverse differentiation» occurred in ES
cell cultures,» he said referring to the first
report.
«Among other things, the NAS
Report calls for the Environmental Protection Agency to implement a toxicity testing strategy that is based on non-mammalian systems and human
cells in
culture [in vitro],» Rene explains.