Sentences with phrase «stem cells from bone marrow»

That helps explain the enthusiasm for clinical trials involving stem cells from bone marrow.

Instead of using white blood cells, the British researchers, working with a Dutch group, want to take stem cells from bone marrow and insert the ADA gene into these.

Stem cells from bone marrow also have the ability to repair the liver.

To study blood development, researchers typically purify blood stem cells from the bone marrow of mice and transplant them into mice exposed to radiation, thus creating a tractable experimental system.

The researchers extracted stem cells from the bone marrow of these patients and inserted a good copy of the NADPH oxidase gene, before reinfusing the cells.

«When we transplanted our labeled blood stem cells from the bone marrow into other mice, only a few stem cells were active in the recipients, and many stem cells were lost,» Rodewald explains.

Then, to boost the number of cells, which is another hurdle in tissue engineering, the researchers mixed the chondrocytes with human mesenchymal stem cells from bone marrow.

(The cells would be obtained by giving the workers a drug that nudges blood stem cells from the bone marrow into the bloodstream, then hooking them to a machine that filters out the stem cells.)

• A Yale research team led by Diane Krause turned a single stem cell from the bone marrow of an adult mouse into lung, liver, intestinal, and skin cells for other mice.

The doctors» plan was to kill off Brown's cancer - producing bone marrow cells with intensive chemotherapy and replace them with stem cells from the bone marrow of a healthy donor.

They left a control group completely untreated and treated the second group using mouse stem cells from bone marrow, which they injected into the skin near the wound.

Now, a new study evaluates the pros and cons of harvesting stem cells from bone marrow rather than blood and suggests there are benefits to both approaches, but no survival differences between the two methods.

Extracting stem cells from bone marrow requires surgery under anesthesia; extracting them from the blood requires taking a drug to stimulate their production.

Once Katlyn arrived in May 2007, Candotti and his team removed stem cells from her bone marrow and exposed them to the engineered retrovirus, creating a human - virus hybrid.

She and her colleagues then collected stem cells from the bone marrow of drowsy and of well - rested mice and injected them into 12 mice that had received what would normally be a lethal dose of radiation.

Donating stem cells from bone marrow usually involves receiving general anesthesia for removal of the marrow from the hip bone by needle.

There are some clinical trials underway to test whether blood stem cells or mesenchymal stem cells from the bone marrow might alter or re-set the immune system so that it no longer attacks the beta cells.

One single stem cell from the bone marrow is not going to be able to treat disorders as different as Alzheimer's disease and rheumatoid arthritis,» he says.

Doctors built a trachea for Hannah by creating a «scaffold» or windpipe mold out of non-absorbable nanofibers and seeding it with stem cells from her bone marrow.

Doctors at Southampton General Hospital are extracting stem cells from the bone marrow of patients in need of hip repair...

A few studies showed that stem cells from bone marrow could create scar tissue.

But, it was known that when HIF - 1 normally activates signals in the body to build new vessels, one of the many types of cells recruited to the site of new vessel growth is a population of stem cells from the bone marrow, which are called bone marrow - derived angiogenic cells.

Stem cells from the bone marrow can develop into cardiac muscle, as well as liver, brain, nerve, fat and skin tissue.

Blood and bone marrow stem cell transplantation involves the harvesting of stem cells from the bone marrow or the blood of a patient or donor.

But bone marrow stem cells have their limitations because, unlike stem cells from cord blood which are pluripotent (that is the cells can become any other cell in the body - from the Latin for very many and having power), stem cells from bone marrow are only multipotent (Latin: many and having power).