Sentences with phrase «stem cells needed»

The technique also creates a sustainable pool of muscle stem cells needed to support multiple rounds of muscle repair.

From this tissue, Post isolated satellite cells, adult stem cells needed to replace dead muscle cells.

«This is crucial because muscle stem cells need to sense their environment to decide whether to produce more stem cells or to form new muscle fibres.

«In other words, the activity of stem cells needs to be precisely regulated to meet the needs of an organism.

In turn, hyper - activated TLR3 turns off genes that stem cells need to specialize into brain cells and turns on genes that trigger cell suicide.

These results collectively suggest that neural stem cells need MSI1 to generate enough neurons for normal brain size, but the presence of MSI1 also increases the vulnerability of these cells to Zika infection, leading to the death of the population which ultimately results in microcephaly.

The embryonic stem cells need a host embryo in which to develop and this is isolated usually from a mouse with different colour fur.

Not exact matches

Making personalized, or «autologous» stem - cell treatments, can make the process go a lot faster, since a person's cells don't need to be shipped out, reprogrammed, then reinserted into the body.

Look to birth control, gay marriage, abortion, and embryonic stem cell research if you need examples.

A seriously ill person in need of embryonic stem cells to repair damaged tissue.

Whether it is changing text books to teach religion as a «science,» making laws that prohibit stem - cell research which would without question help those in need, to stopping of any kind of gay rights, trying to put religion (christianity) into schools, a woman's right to choose, etc, etc...

Much more needs to be done to alert the public to the treatment successes obtained through the use of adult stem - cell research.

I mean, if god wants him to live he wouldn't have given him cancer in the first place but lets just say he contr.acted can.cer on his own but was called upon god to do these good dee.ds but needed more time, now what if the only way he could survi.ve was from stem cell res.earch?

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.

In fact, when the 2007 paper came out, the commentaries in most scientific publications were quick to point out that, despite the success with adult cells, there was still a need to continue embryo - destructive research and that it would be critical to the advancement of science that research on embryonic stem cells continue.

The increasing use of in - vitro - fertilisation techniques, and the emergence of new possibilities involving human cloning, mixing of human and animal genetic elements, and the use of embryonic stem cells for research, among other things, brought the need for further teaching.

Fetal stem cells, which may turn out to be useful for treating conditions like Parkinson's, need to be cloned — that is, researchers need to take a cell from a body, put it in an embryo, and grow that embryo to a certain small size before harvesting the stem cells.

The idea is that when you store your baby's cord blood, you are investing in your baby's future in the event that he or she may need his or her own stem cells.

In a nutshell, cord blood banking is the act of saving your baby's umbilical cord blood and its stem cells at birth in case you may need them in the future.

These unformed stem cells have the ability to turn into mature blood cells — and could save the life of someone who needs a bone marrow transplant, and possibly other diseases, since stem - cell research remains in its infancy, really.

In addition, there may be applications where the use of one's own stem cells are needed, even if stem cells from an identical twin are available.

«There are perfectly ethical ways of obtaining stem cells to cure disease, which do not involve embryo destruction, so no matter what moral value one places on the human embryo, we do not need to use it.»

A 50,000 unit blood bank would provide economies of scale that would reduce the cost to the NHS for every treatment as well as radically reducing the need to import stem cell units from abroad, which is a common and expensive practice today.

Albany, NY — Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver shares the microphones with Alan Chartock this week to discuss the ramifications of charter schools in New York, as well as the need for the state to be a leader in stem cell research.

But that gives scientists a secret weapon — if they can harness stem cells» natural ability to «home» toward tumor cells, the stem cells could be manipulated to deliver cancer - killing drugs precisely where they are needed.

Stem cells are already proving beneficial following a stroke, and soon we might not even need to use them, says neurobiologist Jack Price

Stem cells found in cord blood don't need to be as closely matched to work.

Stem cells are already proving beneficial following a stroke, and soon we might not even need to use them, says neurobiologist

To turn one cell into another you usually need to first rewind them into embryonic - like stem cells.

Led by researchers at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Heart Institute, the study demonstrates the gene Gm7325 and its protein — which the scientists named «myomerger» — prompt muscle stem cells to fuse and develop skeletal muscles the body needs to move and survive.

To make stem cells the basis for safe medical treatments, however, the field would need the ability to tightly control stem cell pluripotency, the ability to become many cell types, and self - renewal or immortality, the ability to keep dividing and multiplying over time in constant turnover.

«The massive advantage with our stain-less laser - based imaging approaches is that you can use the stem cell sample without having to interrupt the developmental process in real time, you don't need to perform any cell disruption and there is no photobleaching (fading) which is fairly common with fluorescent material,» Catarina enthused.

«Our work illustrates that this exquisite control mechanism — regulated by PUS7 and pseudouridine — is critical to adjusting the amount of proteins needed for human stem cells to grow and produce blood,» says Cristian Bellodi.

Further preclinical work will be needed to use the herpes - loaded stem cells for breast, lung and skin cancer tumors that metastasize to the brain.

Bone marrow transplants are sometimes needed to treat immune diseases that attack these stem cells, or in certain types of anaemia, in which the body can't make enough blood cells or clotting factors.

Scientists are a step closer to creating blood stem cells that could reduce the need for bone marrow transplants in patients with cancer or blood disorders.

Plus, neural stem cells can migrate to brain regions where they're needed most.

The discovery raises the possibility of sourcing stem cells for regenerative medicine, without the need to destroy embryos.

Also, researchers could carefully select which blood types to culture with each batch of stem cells, creating stockpiles of needed blood products for people with extremely rare blood types whose blood cell makeup makes it challenging to find good blood matches for transfusions because they would reject most other types of blood.

Cancer stem cells will need to be identified and treated in a different manner than the bulk tumor.»

The team injected two milliliters of the stem - cell derived blood cells back into the patient — an amount far smaller than would be needed in a typical transfusion.

He needed a stem cell transplant, which is a normal treatment for leukemia, but his cancer needed to be in remission first, and the chemotherapy wasn't working.

Others in that camp suggest that reprogrammed adult cells, (induced pluripotent, or iPSCs) can effectively replace the need for pluripotent embryonic stem cells.

We don't need to use a cocktail of small molecules, growth factors or other supplements to create a population of bone cells from human pluripotent stem cells like induced pluripotent stem cells,» Varghese said.

Badylak's ECM techniques, however, stimulate the body's own army of stem cells to do the healing, no external equipment needed.

Tomasetti searched the literature to find the numbers he needed, such as the size of the stem cell «compartment» in each tissue.

Yamanaka's technique may enable doctors to grow stem cells from adult cells of patients needing treatment.

«Stem cells may offer unprecedented opportunities to develop treatments for many diseases with unmet medical needs.

To really make use of the oocyte's power, scientists still need to learn how to direct the development of the rejuvenated stem cells and guide them into forming specific tissues.

In this way they act like embryonic stem cells and share their revolutionary therapeutic potential — and as such, they could eliminate the need for using and then destroying human embryos.