Sentences with phrase «stem cells from patient»

And this time he'll be using the latest technology in a computerized micro-injector to deposit the adult stem cells from the patient to within 0.3 millimeters of the target area, roughly the length of a grain of table salt.

The idea is to take blood - cell - producing stem cells from a patient, use CRISPR to correct the mutation and then reinsert the stem cells back into the bone marrow.

In this study, prior to giving intensive BEAM chemotherapy (which uses carmustine, etoposide, cytarabine, and melphalan), researchers collected stem cells from each patient's blood.

Researchers need to identify cells — possibly adult stem cells from the patient — that can reconstruct lung tissue without provoking attack by the immune system, the problem that plagues current transplant recipients.

Alternatively, adult stem cells from the patient might be reprogrammed to provide genetically identical replacement tissue.

Still, a few stem cell therapies have now been approved, such as a treatment available in India that takes stem cells from the patient's eye in order to regrow the surface of their cornea, and a US product based on other people's bone stem cells.

For example, by taking neural stem cells from a patient with schizophrenia, researchers might turn back the clock and track the onset of the condition in an organoid.

The plan is to extract blood - forming stem cells from a patient's bone marrow and correct as many copies of the mutated gene as possible.

The company isolates, cultures and processes adult stem cells from a patient's bone marrow or synovial fluid.

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.

The Muotri lab uses induced pluripotent stem cells from patients with autism and schizophrenia to look for biomarkers of these conditions.

In the March 22 online issue of Cancer Research, scientists explained how they injected triple negative breast cancer stem cells from patients into mice.

Researchers have developed a new way to study bone disorders and bone growth, using stem cells from patients afflicted with a rare, genetic bone disease.

«Alzheimer's in a dish: Stem cells from patients offer model and drug - discovery platform for early onset form of disease.»

To make the cells, Sundberg first created induced pluripotent stem cells from patients» blood cells or skin cells, then differentiated these into neural progenitor cells and finally Purkinje cells.

In the 13 December issue of Cell Stem Cell, researchers report using stem cells from patients afflicted with a form of muscular dystrophy to correct the disorder in mice.

The researchers first obtained the stem cells from patients via a muscle biopsy.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins have successfully corrected a genetic error in stem cells from patients with sickle cell disease, and then used those cells to grow mature red blood cells, they report.

Transgene - free disease - specific induced pluripotent stem cells from patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

While working with motor neurons sourced in stem cells from patients, Zhang says he and his colleagues saw «quite an amazing thing.

Technology Integrates stem cells from patients into a new approach to predict most effective disease treatments based on a patient's unique biology.

Morrow reviewed a final study from his own laboratory, which examines induced pluripotent stem cells from patients with CS.

Now biologists have used stem cells from these patients, who have a devastating disorder called Timothy syndrome, to grow their brains a second time — in miniature, in a lab dish.

Not exact matches

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.»

In November the Lancet published the results of an international research project whereby a Colombian lady received a new trachea (windpipe) which had been grown from a donor trachea (as it were, a «scaffold») repopulated with stem cells, for the very first time, from the patient's own body.

These stem cells would be genetically identical to the patient from whom the original adult cell was taken and could be used for research and therapeutic purposes.

As we read this history, the furor over stem cells was fueled by numerous factors: the near - universal human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now do anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn human life.

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 group of patients who underwent surgery for epilepsy, over half had stem cells where healthy individuals do not have them, according to a study from Sahlgrenska Academy.

STOP SIGNS Brainlike structures grown from autistic patients» stem cells (right) produced greater numbers of brain cells that make other brain cells less active (green and red) compared with structures grown from the cells of a non-autistic family member (left).

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.

At an early stage of development, the miniature organs grown from autistic patients» stem cells also showed faster cell division rates than those grown from the cells of non-autistic relatives.

For example, a consortium of research groups called the London Project to Cure Blindness aims to test RPE transplants from embryonic stem cells in patients with macular degeneration this year.

Now, doctors at the University of Kiel in Germany have neatly bypassed the initial bone removal procedure and instead grown the required bone from stem cells in the patient's own bone marrow.

«I'm working with Professor Richard Oreffo and Dr Rahul Tare from the University's Centre for Human Development, Stem Cells and Regeneration who are trying to create and grow cartilage in the lab using a patients» own (autologous) stem cells to then be implanted back into the patient if they have a cartilage defect,» she explaStem Cells and Regeneration who are trying to create and grow cartilage in the lab using a patients» own (autologous) stem cells to then be implanted back into the patient if they have a cartilage defect,» she explCells and Regeneration who are trying to create and grow cartilage in the lab using a patients» own (autologous) stem cells to then be implanted back into the patient if they have a cartilage defect,» she explastem cells to then be implanted back into the patient if they have a cartilage defect,» she explcells to then be implanted back into the patient if they have a cartilage defect,» she explains.

In the future the researchers see using stem cells taken from patients to grow new bones.

The Porteus team started with human stem cells from the blood of patients with sickle cell disease, corrected the gene mutation using CRISPR and then concentrated the human stem cells so that 90 percent carried the corrected sickle cell gene.

«We concluded that stem cells used in cardiac therapy should be drawn from healthy donors or be better genetically engineered for the patient.»

«Cardiac stem cells from heart disease patients may be harmful: Researchers discover molecular pathway involved in toxic interaction between host cells and immune system.»

Patients with severe and end - stage heart failure have few treatment options available to them apart from transplants and «miraculous» stem cell therapy.

One company, Melbourne, Australia — based Mesoblast, is already in late - stage clinical trials, treating hundreds of chronic heart failure patients with stem cell precursors drawn from healthy donors» hip bones.

Two men known only as the «Boston patients» have both stopped taking their anti-HIV medications following transplants of bone - marrow stem cells that appear to have banished the virus from their bodies.

Today's findings augment recent research also published in Nature (Dec. 7, 2016) detailing the team's development of a «stemness biomarker» — a 17 - gene signature derived from leukemia stem cells that can predict at diagnosis which AML patients will respond to standard treatment.

Researchers at Dana - Farber / Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center report promising outcomes from a clinical trial with patients with a rare form of bone marrow failure who received a hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) after pre-treatment with immunosuppressive drugs only.

The researchers obtained stem cells from the discarded fat of liposuction patients who underwent elective surgery.

Finally, he would suck out stem - cell - rich fat from the patient's belly and inject it into a layer under the dermis to replenish the fat that keeps skin elastic and soft.

Currently, Deng's laboratory is conducting additional preclinical studies using the human - derived stem cells from Down syndrome patients and mouse models to determine whether cellular and behavioral abnormalities can be improved with minocycline therapy and other candidate drugs.

By promoting DNA demethylation, high - dose vitamin C treatment induced stem cells to mature, and also suppressed the growth of leukemia cancer stem cells from human patients implanted in mice.

Pre-clinical studies have shown it to be effective in eliminating a number of different kinds of cancers cells, including cancer stem cells from human breast cancer patient biopsies.