Sentences with phrase «tissue culture experiments»

Wanting to pursue more experimental research, he headed to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a postdoc to join a lab of engineers who focused on cell and tissue culture experiments.

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Scientists are forced either to experiment on whole animals, which is expensive, raises ethical issues and may not predict effects in humans, or to perform tests on microscopic human cells found in tissue cultures, which have been altered to live forever and bear little relation to actual living, breathing people.

Miho Sato and her colleagues at The Research Institute for Time Studies at Yamaguchi University in Japan did experiments in mice and tissue cultures to show, for the first time, that increases in insulin affect circadian rhythms.

In lab experiments using tissue samples cultured from cystic fibrosis patients, scientists at the UNC School of Medicine and the UNC Marsico Lung Institute have shown that a new CF drug counteracts the intended beneficial molecular effect of another CF drug.

Experiments in infected tissue cultures demonstrated similar results, shortening the time to sterilization of the tissue culture by seven days.

The drug as well as the physical contact of the microneedles with the scar tissue contributes to the efficacy of the device, leading to the cessation of scar tissue growth and a considerable reduction of keloids as demonstrated in laboratory cultures and experiments with animals.

Experiments in tissue culture using neutralizing antibodies and CD155 receptor — specific antibodies and neurovirulence tests inCD155 transgenic mice confirmed that the synthetic virus had biochemical and pathogenic characteristics of poliovirus.

Although this «bystander effect» has been observed in tissue culture and recently in living animals, no experiments have yet linked it to the main reason for concern: Bystander effects might trigger cancer.

Those doses were chosen in analogy with the prion field, in which it is very common to observe that 1 % and 0.1 % tissue homogenate containing prion protein aggregates is able to induce pathological changes both in cell culture experiments and in in vivo animal models.

To ensure the best possible results for any tissue culture - based experiment, labs should routinely test for mycoplasma contamination.

For both experiments, tissues (ear skin, heart, bladder, spleen and tibiotarsal joints) of all mice injected with XT contents were uniformly culture - negative.

Hence, its members favor primary cell lines and try to avoid experiments with cultured cell lines, they favor three - dimensional cell cultures over two - dimensional cell monolayers that are cultivated on hard and flat surfaces and they try to maintain the three - dimensional context of plants, cell clusters, tissues sections and small animal embryos.

Experimented production of new plant species from tissue cultures and took efforts to develop it

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