Sentences with phrase «skin samples into»

Scientists at the University of Luxembourg have succeeded in turning human stem cells derived from skin samples into tiny, 3 - D, brain - like cultures that behave very similarly to cells in the human midbrain.

Not exact matches

«In effort to treat rare blinding disease, researchers turn stem cells into blood vessels: Patients around the world contribute skin samples to test potential new therapy.»

Hsiao and colleagues carefully gathered skin samples from donors, and then grew the skin cells in culture before converting them into iPS cells using the methods created by Yamanaka.

One uses primary hepatocytes obtained from livers donated for transplant; the second uses stem cells derived from human skin samples and guided into hepatocyte - like cells, Bhatia says.

A doctor or technician holds a smartphone microscope over a skin sample that has been placed on a slide and waits for the sample to come into focus.

The team collected two small skin samples from each, and then cultured the cells in the lab and inserted the gene that makes fireflies glow into the gene that regulates the cells» clock.

Several reasonable explanations arise given these results: (1) all players were exercising, and exercise produces predictable changes in skin habitat conditions that are likely to affect bacterial communities over time; (2) players were acquiring microbial transients from the built environment; and (3) players were coming into repeated physical contact with their teammates and those from opposing teams, often using the sampled area of their upper arms, and potentially sharing portions of their skin microbiomes.

In 2006, Michele De Luca, MD, from the Center for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Italy and colleagues reported in Nature Medicine on introducing working copies of LAMB3 aboard retroviruses into skin stem cells sampled from a man with JEB, fashioning grafts patched onto nine small areas of his legs.

Stem cells allow researchers to collect blood or skin samples from living patients and turn them into the brain cells affected by the disease — neural progenitor cells (NPCs) and neurons.

This medication is typically provided in a pre-dosed syringe intended for human administration, however due to the small size of veterinary patients, it often must be injected into a separate small sterile vial for smaller sampling using an insulin syringe and given as an injection under the skin.

A patch of hair will be shaven from your pets rib cage area and a patchwork of injections will deposit small samples of the most common offending allergens in your area into the pet's skin.

Unlike blood tests, breathing into a breathalyzer doesn't pierce the skin or leave a biological sample in the government's possession, he said.