Sentences with phrase «taking human lungs»

I understand they can taking human lungs and blowing away the original cells.

Not exact matches

Every breath we take includes about a billion oxygen molecules that have been, at one time or another, in the lungs of every one of the fifty billion humans who have ever lived.

Professor Heiner Boeing, also from the German Institute of Human Nutrition, added, «In addition to the many noted benefits for cardiovascular health, and risk of lung disease and cancer, it is clear that dental health is yet another reason not to take up smoking, or to quit smoking now.»

As it can take weeks to grow human cells into intact differentiated and functional tissues within Organ Chips, such as those that mimic the lung and intestine, and researchers seek to understand how drugs, toxins or other perturbations alter tissue structure and function, the team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering led by Donald Ingber has been searching for ways to non-invasively monitor the health and maturity of cells cultured within these microfluidic devices over extended times.

The team also found that antibodies to human surfactant proteins called SP - A and SP - B reacted with proteins taken from the fish, implying that both use the same «anti-glue» to keep their lungs open.

«We have also tested this process in human cells taken from diseased lung tissue, and we see very similar results.»

«Future studies will need to very carefully investigate and access the toxicity of titanium suboxide nanoparticles in the human lung, and this could take years, a sobering thought considering its potential danger,» Hochella said.

Because these receptors are mainly found deep inside the human lung, patients developed very severe illness that frequently left them too sick to spread SARS to many others; the people most at risk were health care workers who take care of patients.

«Taken together, these two studies suggest that the new scalable vaccine formulation is likely to prove as effective as the original formulation — which would make it the first protective TB vaccine in humans since BCG, which was introduced almost a century ago,» said Professor Ajit Lalvani, Director of the Tuberculosis Research Centre, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London and a member of the DAR - 901 development team.

This week it emerged that the first human test of the controversial gene - editing technique CRISPR had taken place at West China Hospital in Chengdu, where oncologists used it to treat a man with an aggressive lung cancer.

Developing the lung - on - a-chip took nearly four years, but it took less than two to modify it to demonstrate a human disease.

«Hemoglobin in the blood takes up oxygen in the gills of fish and the lungs of humans.

But the best the festival had to offer were three stunning films that, in speaking of the human condition, took full advantage of the dreamlike nature of cinema: Shi (Poetry, Lee Chang - dong), Lung Boonmee Raluek Chat (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall his Past Lives, Apichatpong Weerasethakul), and Shakespeare's The Tempest, as re-interpreted by Julie Taymor.

Perhaps the natural landscape creates a lung for creativity in desolate expanses, providing room to grow in places where the human being takes up little space.

It's like saying «well, I want to see how the living human body works, so to simplify my study of the living lungs, I'm gonna take out his kidneys to remove the kidney variations»... you are pulling out part of the very system that you are studying.