Sentences with phrase «resemble human tissue»

Not exact matches

Medprin manufactures several forms of what it calls «biomimetic - synthetic» material which look and act like real human tissue, with microstructures that resemble human extracellular matrix.

Prior research with cultured tissue had shown that a mix of chemicals could change bone marrow stem cells from mice to those resembling brain cells, but when a team led by neurologist Lorraine Iacovitti of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia tried the same brew on human cells, the number altered was modest.

The nano - hydrogels have shown very good characteristics of biocompatibility with the human organism, due to their physical properties, which make them resemble living tissues, especially by its high water content, its soft and elastic consistency, and its low interfacial tension which prevents them from absorbing proteins from body fluids.

«It is the best source of fresh human brain tissue available at the moment,» says Jucker, who plans to scrutinize it carefully under the microscope for anything that might resemble tiny clumps or seeds of amyloid - β.

This particular technology is designed for cultivating tissues (retinas, proliferative tissue, corneas, etc.) in conditions which resemble to the highest possible degree the conditions found in the human body.

Both teams successfully used these to reprogramme skin cells in a lab dish into cells resembling embryonic stem cells, which have the ability to turn into any tissue of the human body.

Upon orthotopic transplantation into immunodeficient mice, these organoids form normal pancreatic ducts and acinar tissue resembling fetal human pancreas without evidence of tumour formation or transformation.

Building on a long tradition of cell and developmental biology knowledge, organoids resembling a variety of human tissues have been generated.

But now, scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have demonstrated that this damage need not be permanent — by finding a way to transform the class of cells that form human scar tissue into those that closely resemble beating heart cells.