Sentences with phrase «then grown in the lab»

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Scientists can then grow the muscle cells and develop them in a lab the same way the cells would grow on a living organism.

In 2016, it created the world's first cultured meatball (then streamed the cooking and eating of the world's first cultured meatball) and last year presented the world's first lab - grown chicken strips.

This may entail making small holes in the bone to allow new cartilage to grow (microfracture), taking cartilage from another part of the athlete's knee and transplanting it into the defect (osteochondral autograft transfer), taking cartilage cells from the knee and then having them grown in a lab for later re-implantation (autologous chondrocyte implantation), or taking cartilage from a person who has passed away and placing it in the defect (osteochondral allograft transfer).

Beginning in the 1970s, physicians learned how to harvest skin stem cells from a patient with extensive burn wounds, grow them in the laboratory, then apply the lab - grown tissue to close and protect a patient's wounds.

Jonathan Storm, a behavioural ecologist now at the University of South Carolina Upstate, in Spartanburg, briefly exposed lab - grown female crickets to wolf spiders whose fangs had been immobilised with wax, then studied the behaviour of their subsequent offspring.

Then, by using standard tissue culture methods, they might be able to grow dinosaur tissue in the lab.

«I'm working with Professor Richard Oreffo and Dr Rahul Tare from the University's Centre for Human Development, Stem Cells and Regeneration who are trying to create and grow cartilage in the lab using a patients» own (autologous) stem cells to then be implanted back into the patient if they have a cartilage defect,» she explains.

So scientists choose the lymphocytes with the greatest tumor - fighting activity, grow a large population of them in the lab, then infuse them back into the patient.

Starting in three weeks, he and his colleagues will collect cutaneous bacteria from mountain yellow - legged frogs in the isolated Dusy basin area of the Sierras: «We'll go in with skin swabs, take samples, culture bacteria, grow it in the lab at San Francisco State, then wait a week, go back out and inoculate a bunch of frogs,» Vredenburg says.

One approach would be to identify immune cells in a tumour, grow them in a lab, and then infuse them back into the patient — a technique called adoptive cell transfer.

Tanyi and colleagues made each patient's vaccine by sifting through the patient's own peripheral blood mononuclear cells for suitable precursor cells, and then growing these, in the lab, into a large population of dendritic cells.

As the project grew over the years, he moved it into a corner of the astronomy department, then to the University of Arizona's optical shop, then into an abandoned synagogue, and finally, in 1985, into the new mirror lab he had convinced the department to build.

Then De Luca and colleagues used a retrovirus to insert a healthy copy of the LAMB3 gene into DNA in the lab - grown skin stem cells.

These weak or killed stimulants, called antigens, are grown in a lab setting, isolated and then mixed with preservatives, stabilizers and a substance like aluminum that will trigger the immune system to vigorously respond to the vaccine.

«Importantly, it demonstrates that one cell type — the corneal epithelium — could be further grown in the lab and then transplanted on to a rabbit's eye where it was functional, achieving recovered vision.

Traditionally, researchers then disable or «knock out» the gene in lab - grown cells or animals to test their hypothesis, a time - consuming and laborious process.

These lab - engineered cells can then be amplified and grown out a hundredfold or more before being infused back in.

For the first time, researchers have been able to grow, in a lab, both normal and primary cancerous prostate cells from a patient, and then implant a million of the cancer cells into a mouse to track how the tumor progresses.

Using the RNAi and CRISPR / Cas9 screening technologies they'd developed for dengue and influenza, George Savidis, research associate, Paul Meraner, MD, postdoctoral fellow, and William M. McDougall, PhD, postdoctoral associate, in the Brass lab, began by knocking out or depleting each protein in the human genome one at a time, then seeing how Zika or dengue virus grew when that human protein was gone.

The researchers grew the modified cells in the lab to increase their numbers and then injected them into an animal model where they again killed human myeloma cells.

The researchers then extracted stem cells from the embryos and grew the cells in dishes in the lab.

Since then, he and his colleagues have shown in lab studies of rodents and pythons that these animals grow up bigger and faster when they eat cooked meat instead of raw meat — and that it takes less energy to digest cooked meat than raw meat.

Then, using more lab tricks, scientists can re-introduce their home - grown version of the Huntington's disease gene into mouse cells and grow new mice that have it in every cell of their body.

A team of researchers at the University of Southern California grew stem - cell membranes in a sterile lab for a month and then inserted them into the eyes of four people with «dry» macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in developed countries.

Then the team used the cells from the surgery to grow billions of cancer - fighting immune cells in the lab.

Then Celltex grows millions of stem cells from the fat in its Houston lab and stores them for clients in liquid nitrogen at -300 degrees Fahrenheit, a process the company calls banking.

These cells are extracted from monkeys, altered with CRISPR in a lab, and then later infused back into the monkey's marrow to grow and make new, healthy blood cells.

The cells, derived from iPS cells, RPE stem cells, or human embryonic stem cells, are grown and differentiated in the lab, then placed in a harmless fluid to be injected.

Regenexx involves harvesting a patient's cells from bone marrow, growing more in a lab and then injecting the tissue - repairing cells into damaged joints or even lumbar discs.

Japanese scientists said Monday they had grown mouse eggs entirely in the lab, then fertilised them to yield fertile offspring, a scientific first cautiously hailed by experts in human reproduction.

The tale of Caesar — a bright young chimpanzee subjected to freewheeling medical experimentation, who grows up to become an ape - separatist revolutionary — was packaged in a bland Hollywood wrapper, as a love story between a lab scientist and his assistant (played by James Franco and then - it girl Freida Pinto, respectively).

The scheme would include rearing thousands of the moths in a lab, then releasing them in the jungles where the guerilla groups grow their bounty.