Sentences with phrase «tissue engineering studies»
This crosslinking mechanism has been used to produce tissue sealants from polymers that are commonly used in tissue engineering studies — fibrinogen and gelatin (Elvin et al. 2011; Elvin et al. 2010), but so far, there have been relatively few studies using Ruthenium - mediated crosslinking for cell encapsulation.
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An associate professor in Northwestern University's medical school in Chicago and its engineering school in Evanston, Illinois, Ameer studies properties of materials that can mimic human tissue, particularly materials that prevent rejection or scarring when implanted into humans.
Müller's diverse training prepared him to enter the field of biomaterials science, and today he directs the Department of Health Sciences and Technology's Institute for Biomechanics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, leading a multidisciplinary laboratory that studies the structure and mechanical behavior of natural and engineered tissues.
Tissue engineering provides a more practical means for researchers to study cell behavior, such as cancer cell resistance to therapy, and test new drugs or combinations of drugs to treat many diseases.
«One of the broader goals of our research is to make regenerative treatments more accessible and clinically relevant by developing easy, efficient and cost - effective ways to engineer human cells and tissues,» said Shyni Varghese, a bioengineering professor at UC San Diego and senior author of the study.
The multidisciplinary team behind the current study includes world - renowned researchers in the field of regenerative medicine and tissue engineering; Paolo Macchiarini, MD, PhD, Director of the Advanced Center for Regenerative Medicine and senior scientist at Karolinska Institutet; Doris Taylor, PhD, Regenerative Medicine Research Director at the Texas Heart Institute; and Mark Holterman, MD, PhD, Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Peoria, working in collaboration with a research team at the Kuban State Medical University in Russia.
«To date, there has been no systematic means of assessing the fidelity of cellular engineering — to determine how closely cells made in a petri dish approximate natural tissues in the body,» says George Q. Daley, MD, PhD, Director of the Stem Cell Transplantation Program at Boston Children's and senior investigator on both studies.
Meanwhile Coussens and her colleagues at U.C.S.F. found in a 2005 study, published in Cancer Cell, that the removal of antibody - making B cells from mice engineered to be prone to skin cancer prevented the tissue changes and angiogenesis that are prerequisites for disease progression.
To study biopsied intestinal samples, the research team engineered a microfluidic chamber where intact tissues can be inserted in a known orientation.
Using this technique for tissue engineering, he says, has been studied for decades.
Tissue engineer Joan Nichols of the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston praises most of the study.
Many diseases can be detected at the surface of tissues, including cancer, while many pre-clinical studies are performed with animal models and engineered three - dimensional tissues that can benefit from being monitored non-destructively.
One small study reported promising results with tissue - engineered products to promote healing of diabetic skin ulcers.
«Our findings will provide a significant new tool for tissue engineering, bioprocessing of stem cells and also for better studying early development processes such as axis formation in embryos,» said Bratt - Leal.
«Scientists tissue - engineer functional part of human stomach in laboratory: Researchers can grow functional stomach and intestinal tissues to study diseases, new drugs.»
The study is «a useful step in this effort to develop fully functional tissues with blood vessels,» says chemical engineer Abraham Stroock of Cornell University, who also works on engineering blood vessels in tissue using different techniques.
With a background in nuclear physics, Seifalian also studied nuclear medicine and biochemistry before settling on tissue engineering.
The study is believed to be the first time human colon organoids have been successfully tissue engineered in this manner, according to researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center who led the project.
«Experimental orthotopic transplantation of a tissue - engineered oesophagus in rats» describes transplanting an esophagus into rats that was seeded with their own stem cells, and notes that all animals survived the study period (14 days), and gained more weight than rats given a placebo operation.
As a postdoctoral fellow Dr. Olabisi studied the biophysics of bone and seashell at Wisconsin's Synchrotron Radiation Center and bone tissue engineering at Rice University.
Gold nanotubes engineered to a specified length, modified surfaces, and to have other desirable characteristics showed expected abilities to enter tumor cells in laboratory studies, and to distribute to tissues within live mice as intended.
His current focus as the scientific lead is integrating various scientific fields to build interacting MPSs by interfacing platform engineering & tissue engineering for pharmacology studies.
«This pairing of biology and engineering allows us to re-create an intestinal lining that matches that of a patient with a specific intestinal disease — without performing invasive surgery to obtain a tissue sample,» said Clive Svendsen, PhD, director of the Cedars - Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute and a co-author of the study.
Katja Schurig (Storch, TUD)-- «Tissue engineering for reconstructing the central dopaminergic nigro - striatal pathway in Parkinson's disease: Cutting edge cell culture studies» (2012)
Researchers will be able to study samples ranging from engineered nanoparticles and nanostructures to naturally occurring biological polymers, tissues and plant cells.
James Sharpe is Head of EMBL Barcelona, which aims to study the dynamic interactions of multicellular systems that underlie how tissues build, maintain and fix themselves, how this can go wrong in disease, and how we can learn to build tissues through engineering.
He admits that this will take many years of basic biology research along with more translational studies into tissue engineering.
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Dr. Folkman's 1971 original hypothesis that solid tumors are angiogenesis - dependent initiated studies in tumor biology that extended to disciplines as diverse as ophthalmology, cardiology, dermatology and tissue engineering.
Nature Communications is publishing an editorial expression of concern on the manuscript «Experimental orthotopic transplantation of a tissue - engineered oesophagus in rats» from Sjoqvist et al. to alert our readership to concerns regarding the integrity of the study.
Mooney uses the results from these studies to design and synthesize new biomaterials that regulate the gene expression of interacting cells for a variety of tissue engineering and drug delivery projects.
The team led by engineering professor Sridhar Kota is studying the muscle tissues and internal organs of animals with no skeletons and have identified critical components known as elastofluids that will one day make it possible to create soft robots.