Sentences with phrase «small number of stem cells»

Some research suggests a small number of stem cells continue making new eggs throughout a woman's life, but we don't know much about these yet.

The data indicate that a small number of stem cells replenish the skin.

As the skin replenished itself, the holoclones gradually took over, suggesting a small number of stem cells are responsible for growing all the skin.

So you know, in your body you organs, and inside the organs there are small numbers of stem cells that have the ability to remake the organs.

Not exact matches

The survey is small, but it does suggest there is something rotten in the state of stem cells: a worrying number of respondents admitted knowing about fraud or unethical behaviour.

«We can work with any embryonic stem cell line from any source and are not restricted to working with the very small number of federally approved lines as is the case for researchers in the United States,» says Minger.

2006 Shinya Yamanaka identifies and activates a small number of mouse genes in the cells of connective tissue, showing they can be reprogrammed to behave like immature stem cells.

The other possibility is that only a small number of long - lived stem cells — known as holoclones — give rise to short - lived progenitor cells that are forerunners to mature skin cells.

Small numbers of glioma stem - like cells, or GSCs, drive the tumorigenicity of GBM and thus are prime targets for possible treatments.

His group showed that a small number of stem - cell like CD8 T cells - called «memory» cells - were enough to produce and repeatedly replenish all of the T - effector cells needed to fight the disease.

When comparing the numbers of cardiac stem cells in previously infected adult mice with uninfected ones, the researchers found significantly smaller numbers in the infected mice.

That's the new picture emerging from recent studies, which suggest that a small number of stem - cell - like cells within tumours give rise to all the rest of the cancerous cells.

Max S. Wicha, M.D., has received a $ 6.5 million Outstanding Investigator Award to study cancer stem cells, the small number of cells within a tumor that fuel its growth and spread.

But a small number of cells, known as stem cells, remain uncommitted even as they spawn more specialized progeny.

The fact that introduction of a small number of proteins into adult human cells could produce cells that are equivalent to embryo stem cells takes us into an entirely new era of stem cell biology.

Identifying cancer stem cells, the small number of cells in a tumor believed to fuel its growth and spread

This includes identifying pancreatic cancer stem cells, the small number of cells within a tumor that fuel its growth and spread.