Our Objectives To bring together as members, professionals of the science, medical and industry areas for productive collaborations around the adipose
tissue research in all its possible fields.
I would like to see the UKHTB become a centre of excellence for human
tissue research in addition to providing human tissues of the highest quality.
Not exact matches
According to
research by the International Journal of Obesity, a cold body's thermoreceptors activate Brown adipose
tissue (BAT), known as «good fat,» which
in turn burns white fat, «bad fat,» to produce heat.
In his doctoral
research, he investigated clinically translatable treatments for musculoskeletal
tissue repair using injectable hydrogels.
Finally, GFI works with grant - making institutions, corporations, and governments to mobilize resources for
research in synthetic and plant biology and
tissue engineering.
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In health care, patients sometimes want to donate
tissue to scientific
research that can help lead to medical breakthroughs, such as treatments and cures for serious diseases,» he writes on Planned Parenthood's website.
Human fetal
tissue is
in high demand from American biomedical
research labs — whether for - profit, academic, or government.
Back
in April 2001, the American Society for Cell Biology issued a two - page «talking points» memo, justifying the use of fetal
tissue and cells
in medical
research.
The National Institutes of Health awarded contracts totaling $ 76 million
in 2014 to biomedical scientists for fetal
tissue research.
One night, while lying
in bed watching the Seau coverage on TV, he made the decision to donate his brain and spinal
tissue to Boston University's Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center to help further
research into athletes and degenerative brain disease.
Other
research shows that ADHD children with a particular gene variation have thinner
tissue in the area of the brain that's associated with attention.
Findings of the
research, published April 22
in the journal Mucosal Immunology, reveal that a substance found
in animal and human breast milk called epidermal growth factor, or EGF, blocks the activation of a protein responsible for unlocking the damaging immune cascade that culminates
in NEC, a disease marked by the swift and irreversible death of intestinal
tissue that remains one of the most - challenging - to - treat conditions.
Kimberly - Clark Corp., which manufactures personal care,
tissue and health - care products including Pull - Ups training pants, has compiled extensive
research in the area of toilet training.
«Scientists mimic neural
tissue in new
research.»
Paradigm shifting
research done
in the 1980's and 1990's demonstrated that a median episiotomy (straight up and down), by weakening the
tissue of the lower vagina, made tears down to the rectum MORE likely, not less.
The NOCSAE action to move forward the development of a more comprehensive helmet standard was taken on the heels of new NOCSAE - funded
research which identified brain
tissue response from a concussive event and the development of a new method to test helmets which replicates some of the rotational forces involved
in a concussion.
The Republican - led senate voted on a bill Monday to stop federally funding the organization
in response to undercover videos that appear to show executives of the organization discussing the sale of fetal
tissue for medical
research.
Stem cell
research and diabetes Stem cell
research is a relatively new area of investigation, believed by many
in the scientific and medical communities to have important new potential for the treatment of many diseases and conditions particularly those like diabetes, which are characterised by severe damage to certain cells and
tissues..
For
research purposes, the team was allowed to examine a small part of the removed
tissue used for histopathological examination —
in the operating room and
in the
research laboratory, just several minutes after removal.
This study built on previous
research from the Sundrud lab, which showed that when TH17 cells entered the intestine
in human
tissue samples, they increased the expression of a gene called MDR1.
The
research involved using novel technologies to examine the T cells
in human
tissues.
As another crucial part of the new study on Internet addiction, the
research team zeroed
in on
tissue deep
in the brain called white matter, which links together its various regions.
With support from Ohio State's Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS), Dr. Bonny's
research team was able to comb through past
research to identify the top 30 nutrients that were most likely to influence the growth of fat
tissue in a low - estrogen environment.
In the latest research, described online this week in the journal Cell Reports, Stelzer used the reporter system in mice to discover that imprinted methylation in developing and adult tissues is actively regulated rather than merely maintained in stable fashio
In the latest
research, described online this week
in the journal Cell Reports, Stelzer used the reporter system in mice to discover that imprinted methylation in developing and adult tissues is actively regulated rather than merely maintained in stable fashio
in the journal Cell Reports, Stelzer used the reporter system
in mice to discover that imprinted methylation in developing and adult tissues is actively regulated rather than merely maintained in stable fashio
in mice to discover that imprinted methylation
in developing and adult tissues is actively regulated rather than merely maintained in stable fashio
in developing and adult
tissues is actively regulated rather than merely maintained
in stable fashio
in stable fashion.
The
research team found that when it increased levels of E-NTPDase2
in tadpole embryos that consisted of only eight cells, they could cause parts of the eye to form not only on the heads of the amphibians, but also
in tissues in other parts of their bodies, including their tails.
In cancer
research, our goal is to be able to start with a sample of human
tissue, extract many cells of interest, and perform genetic analysis upon each of them separately.
The biobank of MedUni Vienna and Vienna General Hospital is a central service facility dedicated to the storage of human
tissue, cell material and body fluids for more
in - depth diagnosis, academic
research projects and clinical tests, as well as working - up samples by way of a medical service.
«It's useful
in modeling concepts
in neuroscience to have a system that will yield a diverse range of behaviors for small changes of a control parameter, as this may help offer some insights about how the same neural
tissue displays different responses,» Alonso said, whose
research was funded by a fellowship from the Leon Levy Foundation.
As director of the United Kingdom Human
Tissue Bank, Samantha Orr manages staff and takes part
in clinical and
research liaison activities.
Large quantities of these reverted cells could be used to treat anything from spinal cord injury to liver damage without the risk of
tissue rejection, said Robert Weinberg, a biologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Whitehead Institute for Biomedical
Research and co-author of a study appearing
in Cell.
Published
in the American Journal of Veterinary
Research, the study examined lung
tissue from 95 deceased racehorses, including thoroughbreds, standardbreds and quarter horses that had actively raced or trained before their deaths.
The discovery is an important advance
in the search for new medications to fight obesity, said senior investigator Shingo Kajimura, PhD, UCSF assistant professor of cell and
tissue biology, with a joint appointment
in the UCSF Diabetes Center and the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell
Research at UCSF.
Instead, the researchers wanted to learn how
tissues on the outside of the early ducts communicate with the tubes» lining, says Yao, of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
in Research Triangle Park, N.C.
In an amazing feat of tissue engineering, Anthony Atala and his research team at the Children's Hospital in Boston are creating new organs in the laboratory using patients» own cells and by employing the same technology used to clone Dolly the shee
In an amazing feat of
tissue engineering, Anthony Atala and his
research team at the Children's Hospital
in Boston are creating new organs in the laboratory using patients» own cells and by employing the same technology used to clone Dolly the shee
in Boston are creating new organs
in the laboratory using patients» own cells and by employing the same technology used to clone Dolly the shee
in the laboratory using patients» own cells and by employing the same technology used to clone Dolly the sheep.
Lecuit, who
researches the organisation of epithelial
tissues in developing organs, learned to resist these temptations at about the time he became an independent scientist.
«It's a stellar piece of work — the fact they were able to achieve the precise shape they need is impressive,» says Charles Vacanti, director of the Laboratory for
Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital
in Boston, who did not take part
in this
research.
Research at the University of Alberta's Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Lab is diverse in nature, providing lab members with the ability to conceive, design, and execute research projects that are at the cutting edge of bioengi
Research at the University of Alberta's Biomaterials and
Tissue Engineering Lab is diverse
in nature, providing lab members with the ability to conceive, design, and execute
research projects that are at the cutting edge of bioengi
research projects that are at the cutting edge of bioengineering.
Dr Heather Mortiboys, Parkinson's UK Senior
Research Fellow from the University of Sheffield, explained: «We demonstrated the beneficial effects of UDCA
in the
tissue of LRRK2 carriers with Parkinson's disease as well as currently asymptomatic LRRK2 carriers.
Repurposing ultrasound, a common
tissue - imaging method, to map microbes creates «a tool that nobody thought was even conceivable,» says Olivier Couture, a medical biophysicist at the French National Center for Scientific
Research in Paris, who wasn't involved
in the work.
The
research was conducted on animal
tissues in a petri dish.
In the new
research, the scientists generated skin that had not only those features but also all three layers of
tissue that normal skin has.
The
research, published today
in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, describes the role of TNF receptor - associated factor 6 (TRAF6), an adaptor protein and E3 ubiquitin ligase,
in ensuring the vitality of stem cells that regenerate muscle
tissue.
«Ideally, the architecture of the scaffold should mimic that of the native
tissue to be repaired,» says Wei Shen, a postdoctoral
research associate also
in the department.
Liu, who was an investigator at the Children's National Medical Center
in Washington DC during the
research, decided to study
tissues removed from eight patients with either focal cortical dysplasia or tuberous sclerosis complex to see if she and her co-authors could discern what might be going awry at the molecular level.
In this research, Yousaf and his team made a scaffold free beating tissue out of three cell types found in the heart — contractile cardiac muscle cells, connective tissue cells and vascular cell
In this
research, Yousaf and his team made a scaffold free beating
tissue out of three cell types found
in the heart — contractile cardiac muscle cells, connective tissue cells and vascular cell
in the heart — contractile cardiac muscle cells, connective
tissue cells and vascular cells.
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.
Previous
research published by Fenton
in 2009 identified the connection between obesity and colon cancer through examining
tissue hormones.
NIH funded roughly $ 84 million
in research using fetal
tissue from abortions
in 2016.
The journal provides cutting - edge
research including results from animal models that are likely to apply to patients, studies
in human
tissue that provide new information about therapies or disease, and innovative reports of drug discovery and development.
Mimicking this behaviour of biological
tissues in nature, the
research team comprising CMU scientists Changjin Huang, David Quinn, K. Jimmy Hsia and NTU President - designate Prof Subra Suresh, showed that through manipulation of oxygen concentration, one can pattern and control the growth rate of hydrogels to create the desired complex 3D shapes.