Sentences with phrase «tissue research makes»

And it cites numerous examples to conclude that «human fetal tissue research makes a vanishingly small contribution to clinical and research efforts.»

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Finally, GFI works with grant - making institutions, corporations, and governments to mobilize resources for research in synthetic and plant biology and tissue engineering.

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.

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 new research overturns that idea, showing that making female reproductive organs is an active process that involves dismantling a primitive male tissue called the Wolffian duct.

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 cells.

«Scientists make research «jelly» grow more like biological tissues: Opens up new possibilities in tissue engineering and soft robotics.»

«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.

Research into the drivers of genetic diversity has largely focused on gene expression, which controls how much of a given protein will be made, when, and in what tissue.

The research published in the journal Metabolism, examined a molecule called Lysyl oxidase (LOX) which regulates scarring by making tissue stiffer.

To make a more accurate, responsive model of human injury, nearly two dozen automakers and research institutes have set out together to build a digital complement: an elaborate, 3 - D computer model depicting bone, tissue and internal organs from head to toe.

«Our method permits the analysis of minute biopsies and even tissue micro-arrays, making it particularly interesting for molecular research and diagnostics,» explains doctoral candidate Achim Buck, together with Alice Ly, the first author of the study.

By PHYLLIDA BROWN Research on the three - pound ball of tissue that makes us conscious is booming.

This research was made possible by patients who were treated at Moffitt and generously donated blood and tissue samples to the Total Cancer Care ® Program and was supported in part by grants from the American Cancer Society (93-032-16) and the National Cancer Institute.

Praveen Arany at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research in Bethesda, Maryland, and his colleagues wondered if they could use lasers and stem cells to provide a longer - lasting solution, because lasers can make other tissue types regenerate.

Joanna Fowler has made significant contributions to brain research and the understanding of diseases such as addiction, which she studies using positron emission tomography (PET), an imaging technique that measures the concentration and movement of a positron - emitting radioisotope in living tissue.

«Our next phase of research is to make these iPSCs into liver, muscle and fat cells, and then see if we can use them to model those tissues in people,» he says.

Launched by the Rare Cancer Research Foundation, Pattern.org is a flexible platform bridging the gap between cancer patients and scientists. Pattern.org enables cancer patients to directly donate their fresh tumor tissue to high - impact research projects; this helps scientists develop next generation cancer models, which will be made widely available to the research coResearch Foundation, Pattern.org is a flexible platform bridging the gap between cancer patients and scientists. Pattern.org enables cancer patients to directly donate their fresh tumor tissue to high - impact research projects; this helps scientists develop next generation cancer models, which will be made widely available to the research coresearch projects; this helps scientists develop next generation cancer models, which will be made widely available to the research coresearch community.

While much recent research has not been published in this area, there is actually a long history of studies that show: (1) there is a significant number of antigens shared between tumors and embryonic tissues (called «oncofetal antigens») and, consequently, antibodies made against tumors can also recognize embryonic tissues, and vice versa; (2) pregnancy confers some immunity against cancer (accompanied by antibody production against oncofetal antigens), not only against its occurrence but also against its growth; (3) similar to pregnancy, an immune response against cancer can be generated by vaccinating animals with embryonic tissues.

Research from the Klessig lab shows that HMGB3 signals to the plant immune system when tissues are damaged and makes plants more resistant to certain infections.

Congress has yet to cut off federal payments to Planned Parenthood (payments that only cover non-abortion services), but the controversy over the use of fetal tissue in medical research has made its way into congressional negotiations over the federal budget.

Dr Adrian Chester, a senior member of the research team, said: «We are attempting to grow a valve that will be functional in adults and children and will be made entirely of living tissue.

Good news from the SENS Research Foundation arrived today: the programs targeting harmful cross-links in human tissues are starting to make concrete progress.

She has made an important contribution to several international research consortia in human genomics, including the Genotype Tissue Expression (GTEx) Project, the 1000 Genomes Project and led the RNA - sequencing work of the Geuvadis Consortium.

ONE - PARENT SAMPLE SET PARENTAL GUIDANCE RULES: Maternally methylated (red dots) and paternally methylated (blue dots) regions across the human autosomal chromosomes, based on studies of uniparental disomy samplesGENOME RES, 24:554 - 69, 2014 RESEARCHERS Kazuhiko Nakabayashi, Division Chief, Department of Maternal - Fetal Biology, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan; David Monk, Principal Investigator, Epigenetics and Cancer Biology Program, Bellvitge Institute for Biomedical Research ORGANISM Human METHODS Bisulfite - seq; bisulfite - chip Methylation is typically associated with the silencing of the nonexpressed allele, making it a convenient marker for imprinted genes, though it's possible for patterns of differential methylation to exist in tissues where both alleles are expressed.

Under federal regulations, doctors can't solicit a tissue donation from a woman considering an abortion, but after the choice to abort is made, she may choose to donate the remains to research.

And so again, kind of using what the embryo normally does to develop but transferring that into an adult fibroblast and making that tissue - and it's very, very fascinating research.

The breadth of our research makes it possible to decipher the complexity and functions of normal and of cancerous cells, using an interdisciplinary integrated approach at the levels of both tissue and organism.

Women may also have more of a type of B cell that makes autoantibodies that attack the body's own tissue, per research from National Jewish Health in Denver.

Some fascinating new research showed that the same process that makes Vitamin K helpful for preventing calcification of the arteries and muscle tissue might also make it beneficial for protecting the brain against Alzheimers and other diseases.

Research shows that omega - 3 deficiency is linked to depression and low mood in certain people, as these fatty acids make up about 30 % of our brain tissue.

However, we also believe that research shows NMN makes it's way through the liver and is metabolized into tissue more quickly and effectively than NR.

Research has clearly demonstrated that chelation pulls heavy metals out of body tissue and redistributes them so that they make their way into the brain, promoting toxicity, inflammation, neurodegeneration, and sometimes serious side effects.

There are other smaller muscles, tendons, and connective tissue that collectively surround and make up the knee joint but are not relevant for this article to discuss; just be aware of them if you would like to do more extensive research.

Research in dogs shows that vaccines cause autoantibodies to be made to many connective tissue components.

Finally, dissection of brain tissue would be done for the very important purpose of trying to see if some abnormality exists which makes the Japanese prone to do the same kind of research on whales, when they simply could have used advanced, non-invasive technologies to track and study whales — assuming that what they really were interested in was research and not filling plates at sushi bars in the first place.

Women and families who make the decision to donate fetal tissue for lifesaving scientific research should be honored, not attacked and demeaned.

Supporters have said the videos in question were produced to distort the issue of fetal - tissue donations made by the group for scientific research, and the legitimate reimbursements Planned Parenthood receives to cover the costs of those donations.

If Republicans are genuinely outraged about the Planned Parenthood videos, perhaps they should revisit the federal law that makes legal such harvesting of fetal tissue for research.