Sentences with phrase «tissue in»

NIH expects to spend $ 107 million on projects using fetal tissue in the 2017 fiscal year, which ends on 30 September.

Case Western Reserve researchers have identified a protein mutation that alters specific gender - related tissue in males before birth and can contribute to the development of cancer as well as other less life - threatening challenges.

The dead tissue in the body becomes a forum for bacterial infection that can easily be deadly.»

We converted mouse skin cells into induced pluripotent stem cells — undifferentiated cells that can be used to generate any tissue in the body.

Uninterrupted breathing is crucial for restorative sleep, but the airflow in individuals with obstructive sleep apnea can be completely cut off by soft tissue in the mouth and throat.

The researchers are also planning to conduct further analyses of patient samples to confirm their results, and are working with Charité - based cardiologists to determine the role of adipose tissue in patients with heart failure within the clinical setting.

Researchers from Warwick Medical School and University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust used a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) based method to identify and confirm the presence of brown adipose tissue in a living adult.

They think the skill may be related to small particles of magnetite, an iron oxide, located in two masses of nerve tissue in the forward part of the lobsters» bodies.

The cerebral cortex is the outermost layer of neural tissue in the brain and is one of the most extensively studied brain structures in the field of neuroscience.

Brain tissue in the immediate area of the blockage, known as the core, can not typically be saved from dying, and it can enlarge over time.

Justin Williams's skill at encasing living brain tissue in polymer and «poking it with a sharp object» (25 June, p...

The team also found that they could control how much the material swelled as well its strength, finding that the ELP hydrogel could withstand more stretching than experienced by arterial tissue in the body.

On average, 7.8 percent of the tissue in the hippocampus, a spoon - size area underneath the frontal lobes, was destroyed.

In 1991, Robertson and her colleagues reported an unusual discovery involving a gene called Igf2, which is responsible for producing a protein known as insulin - like growth factor II (IGF - 2), important for the growth of many kinds of tissue in the developing fetus.

So the hot single - stranded material, which did not bind to the brain tissue in your mixture — was that the Borna virus?

But one challenge with printing out organs — a heart, for example — is that they require connections to blood vessels, nerves and other tissue in order to function properly.

Three days later, the scientists discovered that although the mice had cleared the bacteria from their livers, lungs, and spleens, the tumorous tissue in their colons was crawling with Salmonella.

«Scientists find key protein for spinal cord repair: Healing protein bridges severed tissue in fish.»

Over the next few centuries it is quite possible that nearly every tissue in the body may be able to be replaced by such approaches.

While studying why some mice resist HSK, a team led by immunologist Harvey Cantor of Harvard Medical School in Boston found that possession of a particular variant of one type of antibody renders T cells incapable of attacking tissue in the cornea, the transparent covering of the iris and pupil.

Experiments were then performed on real brain tissue in the Blue Brain's wet lab in Lausanne confirming that the earlier discoveries in the virtual tissue are biologically relevant and also suggesting that the brain constantly rewires during development to build a network with as many high - dimensional structures as possible.

«Contrary to previous methods we no longer have to stain the tissue in order to detect cancer,» says Professor Klaus Gerwert from the Protein Research Unit Ruhr within Europe (PURE) at the RUB.

Whales today don't have digit muscles, but some fishes gradually acquired embryonic digit - forming tissue in their fin muscles.

Ribeiro's team is now investigating the molecular composition of the fat around the kidneys, particularly tissue in close contact with tumours.

Their research showed that systemic loss of ATG7 caused loss of fat tissue and sensitivity to fasting, but few other damaging consequences to normal tissue in the short - term.

«High concordance between EGFR mutations from circulating - free tumor DNA and tumor tissue in non-small cell lung cancer.»

Dr. Baran Sumer (left) and Dr. Jinming Gao (right) and have invented a transistor - like threshold sensor that can illuminate cancer tissue, helping surgeons more accurately distinguish cancerous from normal tissue in mouse models.

In this latest study, researchers were able to demonstrate the ability of the nanosensor to illuminate tumor tissue in multiple mouse models.

«The cornea is the clear tissue in the front of the eye that lets light into the eye so we can see.

In a report on their experiments, published April 2017 in the Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences, the researchers say they found evidence that microglia, a cell type found in most vertebrae innate immune systems, affect the Müller glia's regenerative response and can be harnessed to accelerate the growth of new tissue in the retina.

Intriguingly, they showed that over the two - year period, degeneration of neural tissue in the basal forebrain predicted subsequent tissue degeneration in the temporal lobe, but not the other way around.

«This is tissue engineering, but not for the purpose or replacing an organ or tissue in a person,» said Mahler.

To discover how well fed the fish under the ice are, the scientists analysed their tissue in the laboratory.

Glioblastoma is the most lethal form of primary brain tumor and leads to death in patients by invading the brain tissue in a process that allows single cells to move through normal brain tissue, which makes complete surgical removal of the tumor impossible.

Currently, there is no therapy to treat scar tissue in the heart.

It has got long pieces of grass, looks like there is some tissue in there, little bit of plastic.

Each component arises from a genetically distinct tissue in the fertilized plant.

Tumors and dense breast tissue can both appear white on a mammogram, making tumors indistinguishable from background tissue in women with dense breasts.

The same protein can stimulate the recovery of tooth tissue in decayed teeth.

Normally, the inflammatory response to tissue damage after infarction — death of muscle tissue in a heart attack — has two stages.

Indeed, cancers have been described as «wounds that do not heal» due to their ability to masquerade as damaged tissue in order to receive help from the immune system.

The virus was able to shuttle the correct gene into lung tissue in the laboratory and restore its function.

One of the major next steps would be placing the engineered tissue in the vocal cords of living animal models and having it survive and work.

«When dexamethasone was given during the rebuilding phase, the tissue in the healed Achilles tendon was more than twice as strong as it was in untreated controls,» says Parmis Blomgran, PhD student and principal author of the article.

Sharma had developed a new method for studying how tumors with different characteristics respond to different immunotherapies: She would treat patients before their growths were surgically removed, then analyze the tissue in her lab.

Dr. Wang plans to continue studying the effects of TNF and IL - 17 on melanocytes, and would like to expand the research to 3D skin models — fabricated samples of tissue in vitro that behave like human skin — that would give a better visual of how the melanin production process is being disrupted by these two cytokines during skin inflammation or wound healing.

Two key experiments demonstrated this necessary and sufficient role for the activated T - cells, which presumably attack heart muscle tissue in an auto - immune fashion.

For any given gene, this sequence in fact changes depending on the tissue in which it is located.

Last year two research teams reported preliminary evidence that carbon nanotubes can damage lung tissue in rats.

Body Bazaar: The Market for Human Tissue in the Biotechnology Age, Lori Andrews and Dorothy Nelkin (Crown) Your DNA, cells, and tissue are viewed by biotechnologists as resources ripe for harvesting.