Sentences with phrase «stem cells yielded»

A new study in rats shows that lacing a penis graft with adult stem cells yields better healing and sexual function than using the graft alone.

However, her research group has not yet identified how to make stem cells yield entirely dI1 or entirely dI3 cells — perhaps because another signaling pathway is involved, she said.

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Yet the latter form, which is present some eight weeks after fertilization, is not only ethically unacceptable for research but also far too old to yield embryonic stem cells.»

During cloning, the adult nucleus is converted to a totipotent state that will then proceed through a clear progression of developmental steps to yield pluripotent stem cells at a later time.

The Dolly experiment [which yielded the first cloned adult mammal, Dolly the sheep, in 1996] prompted people to find ways of taking specialized cells and transforming them into pluripotent, undifferentiated stem cells.

That yield may sound small, but a low percentage is not necessarily discouraging, according to Evan Snyder, a stem cell researcher at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research in La Jolla, Calif..

A small skin sample from a person with bipolar disorder can yield stem cells that can be coaxed to become neurons just like those in the brain.

«First stem cell study of bipolar disorder yields promising results.»

In the paper, the scientists report that their method produced more than twice the yield of potential bone - makers (9 percent) compared to their best application of another method: sorting cells based on surface proteins presumed to indicate that a cell is a stem cell (4 percent).

The mini livers are a major advance in stem cell research because they have yielded actual functioning cells.

Researchers realized that they could cut open the top of the trunks of their highest - yielding trees, extract stem cells and grow up clones by the thousands in lab dishes.

Twenty percent of the cells cloned in this way grew into early embryos, called blastocysts, and 5 percent of them yielded embryonic stem cells, which is comparable with results obtained from unfertilized eggs.

«We're looking at the genes and gene networks involved in stem cell proliferation, meristem development and flowering and branching,» said Van Eck, «with the end goal being that maybe genes that we identify in tomato, which is strictly being used as a model, might help us understand what can be done to increase yield in other crops.»

«This information yields new insights into how sperm stem cells function and develop under normal circumstances,» says the study's lead author Bradley Cairns, PhD, senior director of basic science at HCI and professor and chair of oncological sciences at the U of U. «We have built a very important framework we can now use to help us understand what happens when things go wrong, resulting in issues like infertility and cancer in men.»

Just one yielded a self - reproducing stem cell line.

«From skin to brain: Stem cells without genetic modification: Study yields neural crest cells from adult skin cells, and could lead to new treatments for Parkinson's and other brain illnesses.»

Research into Stem Cells has grown exponentially over the past two decades and has already yielded successful or promising therapies for a number of diseases.

\ n \ nWhile historically there had been a ban on taxpayer funding of embryonic stem cell research, there has never been a ban on private funding in this country and many European countries have allowed this type of research for years, but so far none of this research has yielded a single therapeutic use.

Asked, for instance, whether adult or embryonic stem cell research had yielded any therapeutic results, only 23 % of respondents answered correctly that, to date, only adult stem cells have resulted in treatments for disease.

Almost 40 % of those who claimed some knowledge about the research in the earlier question believed, incorrectly, that embryonic stem cells had yielded therapeutic results, compared to only 23 % of those who said they were unfamiliar with the research.

Morphological and immunocytochemical characteristics indicate the yield of early progenitors and represent a quality control for human mesenchymal stem cell culturing.

ViaCyte's trial, with just one stem cell line, has the capacity to yield an unending amount of insulin - producing beta cells.)

On the other hand, first clinical trials with drugs designed to target cancer stem cells are now under way, so far yielding moderately positive results.

In 2002, the lab proved that transplanting embryonic stem cells in animal models of Parkinson's disease yielded functional new dopamine neurons that restored motor function.

A large scale differentiation system combined with metabolomic purification yields pure and functional cardiomyocytes from human pluripotent stem cells

But Hanus and other opponents argued that embryonic stem cells have yet to yield any breakthrough treatments.

In mice, induced pluripotent stem cells created from fibroblasts have been reprogrammed to develop into both sperm and egg cells and have yielded healthy offspring.

Jaenisch believes they will eventually succeed and points out that the technique could eventually yield a bountiful supply of custom human embryonic stem cells for use in therapy.

It is the result of a global survey of the stem cell community, which yielded thousands of votes.

«We hope this research will help inform clinicians into congenital defects related to the formation and maintenance of arteries and veins, and may also yield new strategies that can coax the development of arteries from stem cells — which may prove useful for treating coronary artery disease.»

While stem cell research has enormous potential to yield new therapies for other diseases, in most cases, years of research will be required to identify the diseases that can benefit from stem cell treatments and to figure out how stem cells can be used safely and effectively in those contexts.

He was the principal investigator on the project that yielded 17 new stem cell lines, paid for completely with private funds.

When a neural stem cell becomes activated, it begins a process of cell division that ultimately yields new neurons that connect to existing brain circuits.

Zinc finger technology is one of the hottest areas now in everything from gene therapy for HIV to increasing crop yield, to therapeutic protein production, to the great hope for stem cell therapy.

Ponatinib Extends Survival Over Transplant in Chronic Phase CML: The results of a new study that included patients from the PACE trial and the European Bone Marrow Transplant registry revealed that treatment with ponatinib yielded better overall survival (OS) compared with allogeneic stem cell transplantation (allo - SCT) in patients with chronic phase chronic myeloid leukemia (CP - CML) with a T315I mutation.

The advent of human induced pluripotent stem cells has been heralded as a major breakthrough in the study of pluripotent stem cells, for these cells have yielded fundamental insights into the reprogrammability of somatic cell fates, but also because of their seemingly great promise in applications, including potential uses in cell therapy.

Liposuction may yield more than just a leaner figure — it can potentially produce stem cells for tissue reconstruction.

Here, authors from Corning Life Sciences describe dissolvable microcarriers as a scalable solution for large - scale expansion and harvest of functional human mesenchymal stem cells by enabling simplified downstream processing and high - yield cell recovery.

By studying the genes that control how stem cells become inflorescences, we are able to manipulate flower production to improve crop yields.