Sentences with phrase «tissues in the body»

And yep, if I had the right equiptment I could clone little saraswatis from half the tissues in my body — do they all get the same rights?

Your muscles — like most tissues in your body — are essentially made of protein.

Protein, which makes up your muscles and countless other tissues in your body, is actually built out of various amino acids.

Mogrosides in monk fruit extract may be able to protect tissues in the body from the damage of free radicals, a major source of inflammation (1).

They are quickly converted to energy in the body and because they are not directly absorbed, they don't get deposited as fat tissue in the body.

It takes more than 6 months for the tissues in your body to get rid of the inflammation caused by gluten in your gut and pelvic tissues.

Protein helps to build, maintain and repair tissues in the body.

To develop their «disease in a dish» model, the team took skin cells from patients with Allan - Herndon - Dudley syndrome and reprogrammed them into induced pluripotent stem cells, which then can be developed into any type of tissue in the body.

«The cornea is the most densely innervated tissue in the body, so corneal nerve assessment is extremely sensitive for detecting small sensory nerve fiber damage as compared to other tests including measurement of intra-epidermal nerve fibers in the skin,» notes lead investigator Joseph L. Mankowski, DVM, PhD, who is Professor of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Pathology, and Neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD..

Stem cells have the potential to repair most tissues in the body.

Moody says she will continue to take a more whole - body systemic approach to understand how dietary patterns can affect the epigenome in different tissues in the body and how that can reduce disease risk.

Because neural crest cells contribute to so many tissues in the body, altering their function could change an animal's behavior, appearance and biology, the researchers reasoned.

Esrp1 and Esrp2 are active specifically in epithelial cells, which form the skin, the inner layers of the gut and lung, and other tissues in the body.

And when I look at the regenerative capacity of other tissues in the body, I think «how can we take advantage of what nature has already figured out?»»

«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.

His group has found that they can tune these hydrogels to have the chemical, biological, mechanical and electrical properties they want for the regeneration of various tissues in the body.

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.

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.

But inappropriate activation of interferon signaling can cause the immune system to attack healthy tissues in the body, leading to a variety of autoimmune diseases.

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

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

«Understanding how the drug also enables crosstalk between fat cells and the liver in obese mice allows us to see more of the amlexanox picture — and also sheds light on communication between different tissues in the body.»

The immature immune system produces cells that would attack every tissue in the body.

With additional funding support from NIBIB, Wang recently overcame the optical diffusion limit, which is the depth at which light can be used to take images of tissues in the body by other existing high - resolution imaging technologies.

Combining these two pieces of information, the MRI can make a 3D map of the tissues in the body.

Pancreatic cancer and other cancers can only thrive, grow and spread if they have nutrients from blood, just like other tissues in our bodies.

The team report a molecule called lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) changes cells from a solid - like to a liquid - like state, allowing cells to flow between normal tissues in the body.

In September California's Democratic governor, Gray Davis, crystallized the politics by signing the first state legislation permitting research on the embryonic cells, the master cells that can morph into any tissue in the body.

When tissue in the body is damaged, biological programs are activated to aid in tissue regeneration.

Instead, they create a library of several hundred fluorophores with varying chemical additions and three - dimensional conformations and then test each in mice to see which are taken up by specific tissues in the body.

Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have, for the first time, taken chimpanzee and bonobo skin cells and turned them into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), a type of cell that has the ability to form any other cell or tissue in the body.

Scientists hope to use stem cells, which can develop into nearly any type of tissue in the body, to treat a variety of diseases as well as to study basic biology (ScienceNOW, 30 November).

Shape is thought to play an important role in the effectiveness of cells grown to repair or replace damaged tissue in the body.

But radio waves do not travel well through the soft tissue in our bodies.

Using nanoparticles with payloads of drugs to target specific tissues in the body is nothing new, Cheng said.

Converting adult skin cells into pluripotent cells — immature stem cells that can be programmed to become any tissue in the body — is a rapidly developing area of science that earned the researcher who discovered the technique, Shinya Yamanaka, a Nobel Prize in 2012.

The research used skin samples from five men to create what are known as induced pluripotent stem cells, which closely resemble embryonic stem cells in their ability to become nearly any tissue in the body.

These cells line the mucosa, where they allow helpful substances to pass through to tissues in the body and also provide a barrier against harmful substances.

Landers was in bad shape — with metastatic melanoma that had spread to his colon, right lung and connective tissue in his body — when doctors treated him with immunotherapy drugs.

When fluid is pumped slowly across both sides of the membrane, replicating the flow of liquid along the inside and outside of intestinal tissue in the body, the seeded cells not only differentiate into the four types found in the small intestine, but form tissue that spontaneously folds, develops villi, secretes mucus and even supports microbes commonly found in the small intestine.

In their 2015 study, Tomasetti and Vogelstein compared cancer incidence in the United States to the total number of cell divisions to different kinds of tissues in the body.

Not only were Miconazole and clobetasol able to stimulate the differentiation of stem cells into mature oligodendrocytes, most importantly, these drugs stimulated the formation of new insulation (myelin) and reversed disease severity in animal models of MS.. While not all adult tissues in our body contain stem cells, this approach may change the way MS is managed.

Elowitz's team is now examining the role stochastic gene expression plays in stem cells, undifferentiated cells that give rise to the different tissues in our bodies.

Other Endocrine Tissues There are other tissues in the body that release hormones, although this is not their primary responsibility in your body.

Embryonic stem (ES) cells are special cells that have the potential to form any tissue in the body.

Every cell and tissue in the body produces an ever - changing sea of byproducts called metabolites.

November 12, 2017 - The nano - agents developed by the Singapore research team are capable of tracking down and locking onto diseased tissues in the body such as cancerous cells, sending back near - infrared signals which can be received and interpreted by a standard imaging...

November 9, 2017 - The research team from NTU Singapore tailored highly sensitive SPNs to track down and lock on to diseased tissues in the body such as cancerous cells, sending back near - infrared signals which can be received and interpreted by standard imaging...

Muscular tissue in their bodies is slowly degraded, leading to decreased mobility, respiratory problems, heart failure and premature death.

, chief of the Division of Experimental Medicine at UCSF, will lead efforts to find out where HIV hides in reservoirs within specific tissues in the body and determine how factors such as sex and age affect the relative abundance of HIV in different tissues.