Sometimes they'll use a swab to
take cell samples from your penis, cervix, urethra, anus, or throat.
Sometimes the test is done by gently rubbing your genitals with a cotton swab, to
take cell samples from your penis or vagina.
Not exact matches
Rather than obtaining meat from animals raised on environmentally destructive factory farms and slaughtered in filthy slaughterhouses, clean meat is produced by
taking a small
sample of animal
cells and replicating them in a culture outside of the animal.
Rather than obtaining meat from animals raised on environmentally destructive factory farms and slaughtered in filthy slaughterhouses, clean meat is produced by
taking a small
sample of animal
cells and replicating them in a culture outside of the animal.
As early as the first trimester, doctors can
take a
sample of placental tissue (chorionic villus
sampling, or CVS) to detect whether a baby has the genes that would lead to sickle
cell anemia or sickle
cell trait.
To determine how the
cells switch from one type to another, they
took three human uterine carcinosarcoma
samples and sequenced the genomes of
cells in two parts of each tumor: the carcinoma and sarcoma components.
Deep in one of the facility's 10 liquid nitrogen freezers, which hold
samples for the university's researchers so they don't have to maintain their own
cell banks, was a
sample that had been
taken many years before from a child who died from an undiagnosed illness.
«A personalised immunotherapy was prepared for each patient by
taking a
sample of their blood and extracting a particular type of immune
cell called dendritic
cells.
[Chinedu Nwokoro et al., «Inhaled black carbon in the lower airways of London cyclists»] Researchers at the London School of Medicine collected sputum
samples from healthy non-smokers who walk or bike to see how much black carbon was in airway macrophages — a type of white blood
cell that
takes in foreign material.
As other researchers asked for
samples, the
cells replicated, grew, and proliferated so wildly that they often
took over and wiped out
cell lines of any kind with which they happened to come in contact.
For research purposes,
cell samples had been
taken from her cervix.
Barbara Hinney and her colleagues from the Institute for Parasitology at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, screened 298 faecal
samples taken from cats across Austria for single -
cell intestinal parasites, so called enteric protozoa.
This is normally used to detect fetal abnormalities such as Down's syndrome, and involves inserting a needle into a pregnant woman's belly to
take a
sample of amniotic fluid containing
cells from her fetus.
Then the researchers, led by then - post-doc, now Oregon State University faculty member Matthew Robinson and colleagues,
took biopsies from the volunteers» thigh muscles and compared the molecular makeup of their muscle
cells to
samples from sedentary volunteers.
They
took cells from those tissue
samples and successfully grew them on a three - dimensional scaffold to produce new vocal cords.
In their investigation, Greaves and colleagues discovered incipient cancer
cells in routine blood
samples taken from the child at birth, strongly suggesting that the transmission happened in utero.
More realistic would have been to compare
samples of
cells taken from the airways of people who use either e-cigarettes or real cigarettes, says Britton.
But with this technique, we can just
take a small
sample of non-muscle tissue, like skin or blood, revert the obtained
cells to a pluripotent state, and eventually grow an endless amount of functioning muscle fibers to test.»
They treated a variety of healthy tissues and 23
samples of cancer
cells taken from leukemia patients with AG1295, a drug known to selectively block the kinase.
Fluid
samples taken from the students after infection were found to be full of a protein called interleukin - 6, or il - 6, which is known to inflame respiratory tract
cells;
samples taken before the infection were free of the protein, says Elias.
It allows doctors to collect
cells from all along the gullet, whereas standard biopsies
take individual point
samples.
«If I examine
cells which exhibit even a slightly abnormal morphology, I immediately consult the physician of record and
take more
samples.
In September 2015, the team
took a 4 - square - centimeter patch of unblistered skin from the boy's groin and grew skin stem
cells in the lab from that
sample.
Cheng, an assistant professor of medicine in hematology / oncology at Feinberg, provided the
cell lines and NanoFlare targets the researchers used to model blood
samples taken from breast cancer patients.
The research team used blood
samples taken daily throughout the patient's hospitalization and recovery to measure the rise and decline of virus replication inside white blood
cells and serum and to track the timing, intensity and duration of expression of numerous immune system genes.
Another option is to
take a skin
sample, culture
cells called fibroblasts and freeze them.
To more closely mimic outside the body what goes on within, scientists
take small
samples of a patient's
cells — cancerous and benign — and remodel them in the lab.
CEPH's idea was to develop a reference panel of large families,
taking blood
samples from each of their members to build up a
cell bank for genetic typing.
To make the vaccine, researchers
took a
sample of a patient's tumors, which in this trial were made up of B
cells (white blood
cells that help the body battle disease and infection).
Traditionally, SPIM microscopes rotate the
sample so that they can clearly see all the dimensions, but this severely limits the imaging speed and can increase the damage done to the
cells from light exposure because of the many extra images
taken at multiple angles.
Imaging techniques that rely on light — such as
taking pictures of
cells tagged with a «reporter gene» that codes for green fluorescent protein — only work in tissue
samples removed from the body.
Collaborating with Ian Paul, a pediatrician at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, they
took samples of blood and of
cells inside the cheek from 39 healthy mother - child pairs.
The scientists say their gadget provides a quicker diagnosis that today's typical method, in which a
cell sample is
taken and cultured in the lab to look for the presence of the Candida albicans fungus.
«Now we can
take easy to obtain blood
samples, and make the main
cell types of neurological systems — the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system — in a dish that is specialized for each patient,» said Bhatia.
She and colleagues examined DNA from individual brain
cells taken from three donated human brains and tested bulk
samples from the hippocampus (an area important for learning and memory) and the frontal cortex (where most thinking and decision making is thought to happen).
Their analysis showed that the diversity of T -
cell receptors decreased among
samples of T -
cells taken closer to the tumor, compared with farther away.
To treat hereditary blood diseases, doctors could
take a
sample of bone marrow
cells from a patient, correct the faulty gene, and then grow healthy
cells in the bioreactor and transplant them back into the patient.
To confirm that the missing mutations were important for generating an immune response, the researchers cultured a subset of the neoantigen protein fragments containing the tumor mutations with immune
cells taken from three patients» blood
samples.
«A
sample of my skin
cells was
taken and sprayed onto a special
cell friendly surface,» explains Professor Ryan.
He and a colleague
took samples of both visceral and subcutaneous fat from the mice and, using gene chips, identified the genes in the fat
cells as well as in precursor fat
cells.
Taking samples from the back, belly, and side of the fossil skin, the team found different numbers of the three pigment
cells at each location.
They
took a
sample of each patient's T
cells and added the new gene to the
cells, using the same procedure and new gene in each case, while keeping the T
cells from each patient separate.
As the Joslin team reports in the journal Nature Medicine, the work began with
taking samples of both brown and white precursor
cells from four human subjects and genetically modifying these
cells to «immortalize» them for long life in a Petri dish.
The chip would allow the filtering of cancer
cells from a blood
sample, which would be an easier way to harvest cancer
cells, rather than the current method of
taking them from tumor sites in the body.
The researchers
took healthy tissue and tumor
samples from mice, and trained the nanoparticle - GFP sensors to recognize the bad
cells, and for the GFP to fluoresce in the presence of metastatic tissues.
To make the iPSCs, Cedars - Sinai investigators first
took small
samples of blood and skin
cells from an adult.
By
taking a small blood
sample, doctors can check for particular chemicals in the blood or look at the blood
cells under a microscope.
Blood and tumor
samples were also
taken for immune
cell response analyses.
There are many more glial
cells in the brain than neurons, and astrocytes are the most abundant of the glia, so if you
take a
sample of brain tissue, you're fairly sure to get some astrocytes as part of the bargain.
When the skin
cell sample is
taken from someone with a specific disease, those iPS
cells contain a complete set of the genes associated with the illness, and disease models can be developed to facilitate research and drug discovery.