Sentences with phrase «stem cells produce»

Stem cells produce more matrix in the disc which holds water re-hydrating the disc cartilage and re-inflating the disc structure.

Although veterinarians initially believed that the main use for stem cells would be as replacements for damaged cells, it is now known that stem cells produce anti-inflammatory substances and other compounds involved in tissue repair.

Schulz showed how stem cells produce white and brown fat and how white fat harms bone health in old age.

Schulz demonstrated that with advancing age and a fat - enriched diet bone stem cells produce white fat rather than healthy bone tissue.

Preliminary studies have shown that AML stem cells produce higher levels of CD47 than normal healthy cells, and that treatment with antibodies to block CD47 allows the immune system to destroy AML cells without harming healthy cells.

Porcine induced pluripotent stem cells produce chimeric offspring.

Non-virally engineered human adipose mesenchymal stem cells produce BMP4, target brain tumors, and extend survival.

Now a UC Santa Barbara researcher has added to that body of knowledge by determining how stem cells produce different types of «daughter» cells in Drosophila (fruit flies).

When Busch turned on the marker in adult animals, it became visible that at least one third (approximately 5000 cells) of a mouse's hematopoietic stem cells produce differentiated progenitor cells.

That is, when they divide, neural stem cells produce two «daughter» cells, one of which should remain a neural stem cell and the other that should differentiate.

The scientific question is whether embryonic stem cells produced with the Dolly method are superior to those created with the iPS method.

In a preliminary experiment, the team found that stem cells produced from fibroblasts of men with Klinefelter syndrome also lost the extra sex chromosome.

The real test will be in getting the stem cells produced by StemBANCC into the hands of researchers in a way that actually does this.

The stem cells produced through this therapeutic cloning would, like other embryonic stem cells, be capable of developing into many cell types and serve as a repair system for whatever part of the body required replenishment at the time.

KOMP2 and IMPC researchers will begin by creating lines of knockout mice from embryonic stem cells produced by KOMP.

But Church's lab proposed to use stem cells produced by reverting adult cells back to an embryo - like state.

Researchers are now taking advantage of the memories of stem cells produced from adult cells to provide new possibilities for individuals having type 1 diabetes, which impacts 3 million individuals in the US.

The LLLT also stimulates the body's stem cell producing centers.

Not exact matches

Such cells are found in organisms that can divide and differentiate into specialized cell types and can self - renew to produce more stem cells.

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.

James Thomson of the University of Wisconsin and Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto, Japan, discovered a way to produce embryonic stem cells directly from adult cells.

No embryo has been generated, no organism «cloned» if ANT - OAR succeeds in its goal of producing nothing other than pluripotent stem cells.

While the entity generated by deleting or disabling early embryonic genes would produce only an unorganized collection of stem cells, it would do so after a period of what appears to be relatively normal development.

Rather, embryonic stem cells have already undergone epigenetic restriction and can not produce an organized body with all of its required parts.

Embryonic stem cells are produced during development by the same process of epigenetic programming that later will produce adult cells such as skin and brain.

Proponents of human cloning assert that this is the only method of producing pluripotent stem cells with the same genetic make - up as adult patients.

Such a single - step conversion of an adult cell into an embryonic stem cell entirely avoids the question of whether an embryo has been created, since the cell produced by ANT - OAR never exhibits any of the properties of a single - cell embryo.

The cell produced by ANT - OAR would have all of the positive properties of a pluripotent stem cell» as well as all of the restrictions in developmental potency such cells normally exhibit.

As differentiation continues, various genes are «switched off» but stem cells, even in adults, retain a certain pluripotency in order to produce fully differentiated cells lost by damage or ageing.

Just before Thanksgiving, news broke about a new stem - cell technique that could produce the equivalent of embryonic stem cells (ESCs) but without using or destroying human embryos.

But more worrisome is the fact that once you've cloned the embryo to get its stem cells, you could instead decide to grow it to full term — to produce an actual clone.

Another possible advantage of using the Dolly method to produce embryonic stem cells is that it takes just days, compared with weeks for iPS cells.

He was referring to Intelligent Nutrients, his line of health and beauty products that meets strict NOP organic standards and focuses on sourcing ingredients in a way that supports the earth, while pushing the envelope with stem - cell science to produce maximum - efficacy products.

Under the terms of the bill, the resultant embryo could only be stored for a maximum of 14 days to produce stem cells for research and could not be implanted in either a human or animal uterus.

From the embryonic stem cells, the researchers produced a type of tissue called retinal pigment epithelium (RPE).

Neural stem cells differentiate into three different cell types: neurons (purple), oligodendrocytes (red), which produce axon insulation, and astrocytes (green), which also support neurons.

The researchers dialed the skin cells back, developmentally speaking, to produce induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)-- a special type of cell that can both self - renew, making more iPSCs, and differentiate, specializing into almost any other cell type.

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).

An engineered bone that has its own marrow can encourage donor stem cells to produce blood, a feat that could help people with anaemia and rare immune diseases

«Off - the - shelf» insulin - producing cells could be a simpler and potentially safer way to treat type 1 diabetes than using stem cells

He says that while boys don't make sperm cells, they do possess «spermatogonial» stem cells that will eventually produce them.

Now, a research team at Lund University in Sweden has uncovered a completely new mechanism that controls how proteins are produced to direct stem cell function.

Cells called melanocytes produce the pigments that colour hair and their numbers are kept topped up by stem cCells called melanocytes produce the pigments that colour hair and their numbers are kept topped up by stem cellscells.

Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte of the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, knew that stem cells are more useful for gene therapy than ordinary cells, because they produce multiple daughter cells with the modified genes.

«Several unusual nucleobases have been found in the genomes of stem cells, which are produced by targeted chemical modification of the known building blocks of DNA.

Autism risk mutations inactivate this gene and, in the absence of their own ability to produce carnitine and without adequate outside supplementation, neural stem cells become less efficient at self - renewal.

ORDINARY cells from people with a genetic disease can be «fixed» by gene therapy and then reprogrammed to be stem cells that will produce a limitless supply of defect - free cells.

«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.

The team's key discovery was that stem cells lacking an enzyme responsible for pseudouridine modification of RNA, known as PUS7, produce abnormal amounts of protein.

Neural stem cells are generally accepted to produce three different cell types: neurons, astrocytes and oligodendrocytes.