Sentences with phrase «so of the cell lines»

Grants issued last summer totaling nearly $ 50 million will go toward producing the first 8,500 or so of the cell lines, each carrying one disabled, or «knocked out,» gene.

Not exact matches

For example, if I come from a long line of brown - eyed people, can I aim to alter the DNA molecules in my reproductive cells so as to pass on to my son «genes for blue - eyedness»?

Newborns typically have loose junctures between the cells of the stomach lining, so during the first few months of life, these junctures grow tighter as your baby's protective tummy barrier matures.

«It has the magic of both great antibody response and inducing a strong, strong T cell response that will be a safety net — so if a virus breaks through the first line of defense, you will have T cells to make sure you don't get very sick,» Sullivan says.

The year's most prominent science issue, federal support of embryonic stem cell research, is so controversial that the sons of Ronald Reagan gave dueling speeches at the opposing party conventions; Michael Reagan backs President George W. Bush's policies, including the ban on funding for research on new stem cell lines, while Ron supports Senator John Kerry's promise to lift restrictions.

The unaltered hemagglutinin is akin to a key that unlocks a so - called receptor molecule in cells lining the upper airways of humans and other mammals.

First she deprived juveniles of vision in one eye so that the corresponding brain cells failed to make connections; once the mice reached maturity, they were put in a water maze that required them to recognize a pattern of fine lines to find a floating platform.

When they think about how cells put together the molecules that make life work, biologists have tended to think of assembly lines: Add A to B, tack on C, and so on.

At perhaps 11,000 years old, CTVT is the oldest known line of mammalian cells on Earth, so it's no longer evolving much.

As other researchers asked for samples, the cells replicated, grew, and proliferated so wildly that they often took over and wiped out cell lines of any kind with which they happened to come in contact.

(Federal funding restrictions forbid National Institutes of Health - funded labs from working on the cells, because they were derived via cloning, so recipients also need to show that they have a legal place to work with the cell lines.)

A study combining tumor cells from patients with breast cancer with a laboratory model of blood vessel lining provides the most compelling evidence so far that a specific trio of cells is required for the spread of breast cancer.

Proponents of ESC research counter that most of the new cell lines could be derived from donated, unused human embryos created by couples seeking fertility treatment, and that more than a third of zygotes fail to implant after conception, so those would be lost by chance anyway.

And so, you know, again theoretically, you could take one stem cell line and create tens of thousands of tons of food.

«The beautiful thing,» Lanza says, «is that if you have an embryonic stem cell line that is O negative, because it's immortal you could create an unlimited amount of universal blood that would match virtually everybody, so you wouldn't have to worry about matching blood types.»

So far, Menendez and his colleagues have discovered the fatty acid cuts the expression of the gene in ovarian, stomach, and colon cancer cell lines.

In the different cell types, the loops begin and end at different specific chromosomal locations, so each cell line's genome appears to have a unique population of loops.

Moreover, cell lines vary in their ability to make different tissues, such as heart muscle or cartilage, so a suite of clinical - grade lines is needed, Braude says.

The only stem cell research he would permit, Bush said, was research using existing embryonic lines as well as so - called adult stem cells, which occur in anyone of any age.

Before dividing, pairs of identical chromosomes line up in the middle of the elongated cell, and the microtubules, emanating out from the centrioles on either side, help pull the chromosomes in opposite directions so that each new cell receives one member of each chromosome pair.

Researchers have conducted so many studies with HeLa cells that they've become somewhat of a problem; scientists will periodically suffer the embarrassment of finding that HeLa cells contaminate their other cell lines.

With so much work needed in studying the nature of stem cells and using them to study disease processes, therapies based on ES cells seem very far down the line, noted Lorenz Studer of Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center in New York, who pointed out that so far there have only been two published papers on therapeutic cloning, both of them in mice.

GM - CSF is thought to act by moving progenitor cells out of the bone marrow so that they can replenish the linings of blood vessels.

The group urged the creation of two central databases: One on stem cell lines in use worldwide and one on intellectual property rights so scientists can readily access information.

They're carried in the blood and must get past the so - called blood - brain barrier, composed of specialized cells lining the walls of capillaries in the brain.

To do so, they started with a human embryonic stem cell line, which they chemically nudged to become cells that form what's known as the primitive streak on the hollow ball of cells of the early embryo.

Endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) differentiate into the cells that make up the lining of blood vessels, and so play roles in vasculogenesis and angiogenesis.

The Joslin team found that intestinal tumors grow just as quickly in a mouse cancer model whose «epithelial» cells lining the inside of the intestine have been genetically modified so that insulin can't activate the cells.

In goblet cell metaplasia, exposure to allergens such as pollen, mold and dust mites initiates a series of biochemical reactions that causes the cells that line the air passages of the lungs to change from their normal state into so - called «goblet cells,» which produce substantial amounts of excess mucus.

These bacteria often take up residence inside cells lining the intestine, but they employ different methods of doing so.

Despite the long lines outside of technology stores anytime a new gadget is released, there was a time not so long ago when people in the United States actually went about their days minus cell phones, personal computers, electronic readers and televisions.

And then our newest line of research is relevant to cells in the spinal cord, so I'm especially excited to come to Gladstone and find new collaborators to work with on that project.

(The first line of human cells to survive in vitro is the so - called HeLa cells, grown in 1951 — it's still the most commonly used cell line for human cell research.)

Newer lines of research are focused on understanding cancer stem (CSC) cell biology so that therapies targeting them can be developed.

Conversely ghrelin, produced mainly by P / D1 cells lining the fundus of the stomach, exerts appetite stimulating effects and so levels are typically at their peak pre-meal and decrease post - prandially.87 As weight - loss is associated with increased fasting levels of ghrelin 88 and reduced suppression in response to a meal in obese subjects 89, changes in circulating ghrelin levels have been assessed in several IER studies.

«It makes the cells that line the gut healthier,» says Chris Kresser, author of Unconventional Medicine and co-founder of the California Center for Functional Medicine, «so you don't have that permeability.

Our gut lining is one of the most active sites of cell production and growth, which requires a good supply of natural Vitamin A. Poor digestion causes Vitamin A deficiency, and gut disease is a symptom of Vitamin A deficiency, so this is a sort of «chicken and egg» relationship.

We want to have phytosterols constantly flowing through our gut throughout the day, so they'll continue to keep stuffing the bins of our intestinal lining cells, allowing excess cholesterol to pass.

You allow your gastrointestinal lining more time to recover and rebuild, bearing in mind the cells of your gut lining like to replace themselves every 2 days as compared with every 8 years or so for the neurons in your brain.

Intestinal mucosal cells are replaced within 6 days; this means that there is a tremendous turnover of cells, even more so for people with conditions exhibiting damage to the gut lining.

So, you get some extreme damage and you get lots of basically wearing away of this single cell lining between your small intestine and your blood stream.

Gift Idea: Along with the Citrus Stem Cell Serum, give them our Normal Skin Travel Kit, so they can try more of our line!

It works to activate the skin's defence line cells (Langerhan cells) and in doing so it assists in a complete rejuvenation of the skin's texture with improvement in skin elasticity, strength and hydration.

I was surprised to hear that I needed to be moisturizing and exfoliating more often to reduce dryness and the amount of dead skin cells I had causing those fine lines I was trying so hard to erase.

Ninety minutes on the origins of the so - called HeLa cell line sound about as dramatically inviting as a teeth - cleaning.

I can't think of another game so destroyed by its dialogue as Splinter Cell: Conviction; not by bad lines alone (which are nothing novel in gaming) but by the way Ubisoft's designers and programmers used them.

But so great is this culture's obsession with her that Syd has developed a nice little side - line peddling her infections on the black market to a man who, by day, sells celebrity steaks grown from the cells of the star of your choosing.

There is probably nobody out there who has not had to deal with the pitfalls of the modern - day conference call: crying babies or dogs barking on the line of the person working from home; the dude calling in from his cell phone with bad reception; the lady dialing in from the airport with flight announcements on the P.A. system interrupting every 30 seconds; the loud talker; the soft talker; the foreign accent - talker you can not understand; the two people who keep talking over each other; the business - speak cliches you must endure («at the end of the day»); and so on.