Sentences with phrase «stem cells and tissue»

Position: Electrical and biomedical engineer at Columbia's Laboratory for Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering; Adjunct professor of Electrical Engineering at the Cooper Union

Well before its genome was available, M. lignano was already being studied for its insights into stem cells and tissue differentiation.

This switch is accompanied by a complex communication process between the stem cells and tissue cells — an area that had not previously been examined in any depth.

Drawing on Toronto's leading stem cell and tissue engineering expertise, one group will focus on new models for repairing damaged hearts.

Regenerative medicine R&D efforts are focused largely on developing stem cell and tissue engineering therapies as a means to regenerate, replace or repair damaged tissues and organs.

Kriegstein, the John Bowes distinguished professor in stem cell and tissue biology at UCSF, is the senior author of the paper, published online March 30 in Cell Stem Cell.

Kriegstein, the John Bowes distinguished professor in stem cell and tissue biology at UCSF and a member of the new Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience, also at UCSF, is the senior author of the paper, published online March 30 in Cell Stem Cell.

Title: A Comprehensive Model of the Spatio - Temporal Stem Cell and Tissue Organisation in the Intestinal Crypt Authors: Buske P, Galle J, Barker N, Aust G, Clevers H, Loeffler M Date: 6th January 2011 Publication Details: PLoS Comput Biol 7 (1): e1001045.

Timo Faltus current work focuses on how to advance European and German stem cell and tissue engineering law as well as reproductive medicine and pharmaceutical law.

Matching of MHC alleles between the donor and recipient is important for the success of stem cell and tissue transplants.

Not exact matches

Animal cells are cultured from stem cells and incubated in a «bioreactor» into tissue that can be «harvested» and formed into familiar foods like meatballs, patties, and fish sticks.

For example, using 3 - D bioprinters — which can print the structure of human tissue with biodegradable material — and stem cells, which are used to populate the 3 - D printed structure, researchers can grow actually human tissue.

A research group at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center used human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) to grow human stomach tissue (paywall)-- and, notably, the part of the organ that produces digestive enzymes.

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According to Science Daily, Dr. Nagy, senior investigator at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, there is a «new method of generating stem cells that does not require embryos as starting points and could be used to generate cells from many adult tissues such as a patient's own skin cells.»

«Scientists say they have replaced a 65 - year - old patient's upper jaw with a bone transplant cultivated from stem cells isolated from his own fatty tissue and grown inside his abdomen.»

The NIH defines totipotent cells as the source of both embryonic stem cells and of trophoblast cells which give rise to extra-embryonic tissues such as the placenta.

The difficulties associated with obtaining nerve tissue at the correct stage of development and differentiation from aborted embryos means that foetal tissue transplantation is no longer in favour, but the creation of human embryos specifically as sources of stem cells, and the push to use «spare» embryos from IVF treatments is gatheringmomentum.

Whilst acknowledging that many questions remain unanswered in the debate between those who would advocate the use of stem cells taken from human embryos, and those experimenting on stem cells drawn from tissues of the adult human body, there is a lengthy discussion of the moral status of the human embryo as being a crucial matter in this regard.

Stem cell preservation is proving advantageous, as more and more parents elect to harvest their children's umbilical cord blood and cord tissue.

It's a rich source of stem cells, particularly those that can grow into tissues, organs, and blood vessels.

Stem cell research and diabetes Stem cell research is a relatively new area of investigation, believed by many in the scientific and medical communities to have important new potential for the treatment of many diseases and conditions particularly those like diabetes, which are characterised by severe damage to certain cells and tissues..

As well as allowing the use of stem cells grown from established cell lines, the technology could enable the creation of improved human tissue models for drug testing and potentially even purpose - built replacement organs.

Lab - grown tissues derived from patients» stem cells may also allow researchers to screen drugs and test their effectiveness on diseases like cancer.

In a study in the journal Science, researchers explain how they used mouse embryonic stem cells and microchip technology to create heart muscle tissue that actually beats.

On Thursday, the United Nations» member states will consider two resolutions: One resolution would ban all human cloning methods, including efforts to use cloned embryonic stem cells to try and generate healthy tissues, or to treat degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's.

Stomach switch The key to turning pluripotent stem cells into stomach cells was a pathway of interactions that acts as a switch between growing tissues in the intestine and in the antrum, a part of the stomach near its outlet to the small intestine.

Da Cruz and his team grew replacement RPE cells from human embryonic stem cells on a thin plastic scaffold, before transplanting the tissue into the back of each volunteer's eye.

To develop their «disease in a dish» model, the team took skin cells from patients with Allan - Herndon - Dudley syndrome and reprogrammed them into induced pluripotent stem cells, which then can be developed into any type of tissue in the body.

International Stem Cell scientists have converted them into liver cells and plan to convert them into neurons for treating Parkinson's disease, pancreatic cells for diabetes, and other tissues.

Balls of brain tissue generated from stem cells are enabling us to understand the underlying differences between people who struggle to be sociable and those who have difficulty reining themselves in.

Stem cells in babies» urine seem to help regenerate kidney tissue, protecting it from toxic drugs and could pep up organs for transplantation

A detour on the road to regenerative medicine for people with muscular disorders is figuring out how to coax muscle stem cells to fuse together and form functioning skeletal muscle tissues.

The discovery is an important advance in the search for new medications to fight obesity, said senior investigator Shingo Kajimura, PhD, UCSF assistant professor of cell and tissue biology, with a joint appointment in the UCSF Diabetes Center and the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research at Ucell and tissue biology, with a joint appointment in the UCSF Diabetes Center and the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCell Research at UCSF.

Beginning in the 1970s, physicians learned how to harvest skin stem cells from a patient with extensive burn wounds, grow them in the laboratory, then apply the lab - grown tissue to close and protect a patient's wounds.

«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.

However, centres in the US and Europe are already banking testicular tissue for boys in the hope that new stem - cell - based therapies will become available.

One of the key questions in biology is to identify how tissues are repaired after trauma and understand how stem cells migrate, proliferate, and differentiate to repair tissue damage.

This early stage research will explore how the virus targets stem cells and provide the starting point to develop new treatments that seek out the tumour and spare the surrounding healthy brain tissue.

Small populations of adult stem cells with somewhat limited developmental potential are responsible for the body's ability to heal injuries and replace worn out cells and tissues, and evidence is growing that rare cancer stem cells are responsible for the uncontrolled growth of some malignant tumors, including glioblastoma.

The researchers also found that arteries and veins from the macaques» hearts grew into the new heart tissue, the first time it has been shown that blood vessels from a host animal will grow into and nurture a large stem - cell derived graft of this type.

Research involving the derivation and use of stem cells from adult tissues is permissible, subject to the informed consent of the tissue donor.

Yoshiki Sasai at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan, and colleagues encouraged embryonic stem cells to develop into retinal cells, and then grew them alongside a protein matrix to promote the formation of tissue.

Research involving the derivation and use of stem cells from cadaveric foetal tissues is permissible, subject to the informed consent of the tissue donor.

The research, published today in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, describes the role of TNF receptor - associated factor 6 (TRAF6), an adaptor protein and E3 ubiquitin ligase, in ensuring the vitality of stem cells that regenerate muscle tissue.

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

Experiments on Earth using microgravity have shown that stem cells — the master cells that produce all organ and tissue cell types — will grow faster, compared to conventionally grown cells.

Scientists believe these neural stem cells secrete hormonal steroids or proteins that nurse ailing neurons, preventing them from dying, and stimulate the formation of blood vessels that nourish damaged tissue with nutrients and oxygen.

Analyzing tissue specimens from 10 people with stomach cancer, the researchers found evidence that those same mature cells in the stomach also had reverted to a stem cell - like state and had begun to change and divide rapidly.

Dr Coleman and her group have developed a sensitive test to allow them to detect the location and number of the stem cells after they've been added; they report that the stem cells do not permanently integrate into the host tissue but instead produce signals that encourage the host's own cells to heal the fracture more efficiently.