Sentences with phrase «restoring cells and tissues»

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If we could but restore or bring about the normal functioning of brain cells and nerve tissues, as well as their own subsidiary chemical activity in such cases, then mental life would come flooding back in fullness and richness.

The doctor can set the bone, cut out the tissue, or administer the drug, but only the mysterious life force itself can join cells back together again and restore chemical balance.

«It was particularly exciting to observe that the repair of the skin epidermis involves the activation of very different stem cells that react the same way to the emergency situation of the wound and have the power to completely restore the damaged tissue», comments Mariaceleste Aragona, the first author of the study.

The goal of stem cell therapy is to replace the damaged tissue with new heart cells and restore the failing heart to normal function.

The result was the largest deletion ever observed in the dystrophin gene using CRISPR / Cas9, and the study was the first to create corrected human iPS cells that could directly restore functional muscle tissue affected by Duchenne.

«The time is coming when we'll repair heart tissue after a heart attack and restore blood flow to limbs that would otherwise be amputated,» says stem cell researcher Robert Lanza of Advanced Cell Technology in Massachusecell researcher Robert Lanza of Advanced Cell Technology in MassachuseCell Technology in Massachusetts.

However, cancer cells may instead be coaxed to turn back into normal tissue simply by reactivating a single gene, according to a study that found that restoring normal levels of a human colorectal cancer gene in mice stopped tumor growth and re-established normal intestinal function within only 4 days.

However, if exercise restores or prevents deterioration of mitochondria and ribosomes in muscle cells, there's a good chance it does so in other tissues, too.

In a new study the PhD students Jan Hoeber, Niclas König and Carl Trolle, working in Dr.Elena Kozlova's research group transplanted human stem cells to an avulsion injury in mice with the aim to restore a functional route for sensory information from peripheral tissues into the spinal cord.

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.

The gradual shrinking of telomeres negatively affects the replicative capacity of human adult stem cells, the cells that restore damaged tissues and / or replenish aging organs in our bodies.

The all - powerful potential of stem cells to become any kind of cell is what makes them so promising for restoring diseased or damaged tissues throughout the body — and also what makes them so difficult for scientists to control.

These students and faculty work on a broad spectrum of research problems that share at least one of the four goals of Bio-X: to image and simulate life from molecules to mind, to restore the health of cells and tissues, to decode the genetics of health and disease, and to design therapeutic devices and molecular machines.

Advanced Regen Medical Technologies, LLC — Dedicated to making advances in restoring function to stem cells of aged patients, the company focuses on the association between aging and the loss of our body's inherent ability to maintain and repair tissue.

Then there are stem cells, which tantalize with their myriad possibilities: allowing diabetics to throw away their insulin, growing healthy cardiac tissue after a heart attack, restoring function to people with spinal cord injury (for which the Food and Drug Administration just approved the first embryonic stem cell trial).

We concluded that an expanded Revive & Restore, in partnership with biotech organizations, will be able to offer services that include Genetic Insight (DNA sequencing and analysis), Biobanking (tissue collection and cell culturing), Advanced Reproductive Services (cloning and germ - line transmission), and Genome Engineering (CRISPR, gene - drive, etc.) Applications include restoring genetic diversity, augmenting adaptation to climate change, conferring resistance to disease, and extirpating harmful invasive species.

Due to the potential of stem cells and Regenerative Medicine to renew and restore organ and tissue function, physicians will have greater ability to treat numerous medical conditions.

In cases of Parkinson's Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer's or other neurodegenerative disease, adult stem cells can slow the degenerative progression of your symptoms while restoring blood flow to the brain and repairing or replacing damaged tissue.

By stimulating the growth of new blood vessels, promoting anti-inflammatory effects, recruiting cells toward tissue regeneration and inhibiting further cell death, adult stem cells can restore some function to damaged or diseased heart muscle.

«These tools could be used to print micro - or nano - scale 3D structures that facilitate the adhesion and growth of cells to create engineered tissue that restores damaged tissues.»

Regenerative medicine is dedicated to the study of repairing, replacing or regenerating damaged human cells, tissues or organs to restore or establish normal function; and it has potential applications to treat a wide variety of conditions.

UNITY is developing a number of therapies intended to selectively eliminate senescent cells and restore tissue to a more functionally healthy state, thereby addressing the underlying causes of age - associated diseases.

By reconstructing the structured order of the living machinery of our tissues, these rejuvenation biotechnologies will restore the normal functioning of the body's cells and essential biomolecules, returning aging tissues to health and bringing back the body's youthful vigor.

We are focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of cell based therapeutics that prevent, treat or cure disease by repairing and replacing damaged or aged tissue, cells and organs and restoring their normal function.

Cardiac cell therapy helps restore blood flow and repair damaged heart tissue without the risk of rejection.

Regenerative medicine aims to use adult or embryonic stem cells to replace or regenerate human cells, tissue, or organs and restore normal function.

The unique blend of stem and regenerative cells found in your fat tissue has demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in halting destructive immune response, restoring function by providing cellular - level repair of damage, increasing blood flow and reducing inflammation.

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.

This novel approach utilizes adult stem and regenerative cells from your body fat which aim to repair the damaged tissue in your lungs while reducing inflammation and restoring the flow of oxygen - rich blood to these vital organs.

Research suggests that during REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, the body is able to restore organs, bones, and tissue; replenish immune cells; and circulate human growth hormone.

Your bones» matrix is broken down during your daily activities, and, if you're healthy, collagen cells (the building blocks of bone tissue) are filled in to restore and strengthen our skeletal structure through a process called remodelling.

The Candida Plan is not designed as a weight loss plan — though many, many patients (perhaps the majority) lose weight as a result of detoxifying their bodies and restoring healthy function to the cells, tissues, organs, and systems of the body.

Your cells must instead construct collagen from available amino acids with the help of vitamin C. However, it makes sense that by consuming digestible collagen, you're providing your body with the necessary amino acids to build and restore collagen - based tissues (skin, hair, ligaments, tendons, bones, cartilage).

Whichever the treatment administered, the ultimate goal is to prevent further spreading of the cancer cells, remove all cancerous tissue when possible and restore the dog's quality of life.