Sentences with phrase «to grow in the lab»

However, most of these efforts failed, even though the antibody - IL - 2 combination usually works very well against cancer cells grown in a lab dish.

Work with brains growing in lab dishes is showing how the structures may form.

TWO types of human ear cell have been grown in the lab from fetal stem cells.

Almost fully - formed brain grown in a lab.

In theory, tissue grown in the lab can repair the damage, but this doesn't always integrate well into the body.

A major concern about stem cells centers on how unstable they can become when grown in the lab.

Scientists can't yet grow them in the lab.

She was not born so much as she was created, literally grown in a lab as a replacement for a man who had been meant to be the ultimate weapon.

A recent report uses cutting edge techniques to study this question in cells growing in the lab.

A person tests «negative» for bacteria in their urine as long as the number of bacteria that grow in a lab dish containing the urine falls below this threshold.

«Reptile skin grown in lab for first time, helps study endangered turtle disease.»

However, a research team from the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI), Harvard Medical School (HMS), and the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has found that as stem cell lines grow in a lab dish, they often acquire mutations in the TP53 (p53) gene, an important tumor suppressor responsible for controlling cell growth and division.

After losing 80 percent of his skin to a devastating genetic disease, a seven - year - old boy underwent an experimental treatment replacing his epidermis with new skin grown in a lab from genetically modified stem cells.

Another situation where cells may be huddling to communicate within a group, Gilmour and Durdu posit, is in organoids — self - assembled organ - like structures grown in the lab, which start by forming a common lumen.

MIXED SIGNALS Minibrains grown in the lab form nerve cells (red) prematurely and show signs of dying cells (green) when treated with a signaling molecule called LIF.

Human eggs have been fully grown in a lab for the first time and a Christian bioethics consultant says there are not ethical problems yet.

The beef was grown in a lab by a pioneer in this arena — Mark Post of Maastricht University in the Netherlands.

On bacteria growing in lab dishes, it outperformed vancomycin, a drug long relied upon to treat the obstinate methicillin - resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), by a factor of 100, Lewis says.

Acidianus doesn't grow in the lab, so Alice Springs in Yellowstone Park's Crater Hills became her laboratory, Lawrence said.

Starting in three weeks, he and his colleagues will collect cutaneous bacteria from mountain yellow - legged frogs in the isolated Dusy basin area of the Sierras: «We'll go in with skin swabs, take samples, culture bacteria, grow it in the lab at San Francisco State, then wait a week, go back out and inoculate a bunch of frogs,» Vredenburg says.

Ever since human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) were first successfully grown in the lab in 1998, Parkinson's Disease has featured prominently as one of the major diseases that such cells would supposedly eliminate.

Unlike Morningstar or Boca Burgers, clean meat really is meat; it just grows in a lab instead of being part of an animal.

Researchers at Tufts Medical School noticed that cancer cells being grown in the lab multiplied more quickly in polyester test tubes than in glass.

ALL IN THE FAMILY West Nile virus (green) grows in a lab sample of human placental tissue in this micrograph.

Brainlike cell bundles grown in a lab may expose some of the biological differences of autistic brains.

Mini-brains 3 to 4 millimetres across have been grown in the lab before, but if a larger brain had been created — and the press release publicising the claim said it was the size of a pencil eraser — that would be a major breakthrough.

The patches integrated well with existing heart cells and beat in time, unlike patches grown in the lab (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073 / pnas.0812242106).

I couldn't resist composing this after the mention of the charmingly misspelled word «hematopoetic» in your story on blood grown in the lab from stem cells (12 November, p 8):

Prior to Lacks's death, Hopkins researcher George Gey found that HeLa cells could easily be grown in lab glassware and kept alive indefinitely.

A HUMAN ovary grown in the lab from slivers of ovarian tissue has been able to turn an immature egg into one that is ready to be fertilised.

These weak or killed stimulants, called antigens, are grown in a lab setting, isolated and then mixed with preservatives, stabilizers and a substance like aluminum that will trigger the immune system to vigorously respond to the vaccine.

BREAKING AWAY Breast cancer cells (shown growing in a lab dish) move through the body in clusters.

Bone marrow cells do not normally grow in the lab, but the team reported that by carefully controlling the amount of oxygen the cells received along with other growth conditions, they could keep the cells alive for at least a year.

Even if certified safe for human consumption, meat grown in a lab will have to overcome the «yuck factor» twice over.

«Importantly, it demonstrates that one cell type — the corneal epithelium — could be further grown in the lab and then transplanted on to a rabbit's eye where it was functional, achieving recovered vision.

The growth of a rat forelimb grown in the lab offers hope that one day amputees may receive fully functional, biological replacement limbs

This new harmless agent is then grown in the lab and re-introduced to the disease site with the expectation that it will out - compete its more harmful cousin by stealing resources the disease needs to proliferate.

In parallel experiments, the researchers were also able to re-create a nanostructure similar to that which they discovered in the shell by adding osteopontin to mineral crystals grown in the lab.

Doctors in Sweden have replaced a vital blocked blood vessel in a 10 - year - old girl using the first vein grown in a lab from a patient's own stem cells.

Stem cell lines grown in the lab provide scientists with the opportunity to «engineer» them for use in transplantation or treatment of diseases.

Usually, one needs to multiply cells to obtain a sufficient amount of DNA to be able to sequence it, but many cells can not be grown in lab environment, which makes the ability to sequence an individual cell essential.

Fisher's team knew that FOXP2 turned other genes on and off in the brain, so they investigated human neurons grown in the lab to see which parts of the genome were bound by FOXP2 protein.

Human eggs have been fully grown in a lab for the first time and a Christian bioethics consultant says... More

Yet these tiny neural balls, each no bigger than a BB pellet, represent the most complex brain structure grown in a lab to date, researchers say.

The findings — so far observed only in cells and minibrains grown in the lab — offer a possible...

Tiny brains grown in the lab from embryonic stem cells — so - called organoids — were pioneered in the last decade by Profs. Yoshiki Sasai in Japan and Juergen Knoblich in Austria.

Researchers have previously demonstrated that yeast, fruit fly cells and some types of human cells grown in lab dishes divvy up proteins unequally.

«Womb lining grown in lab could reveal secrets of menstrual cycle and early pregnancy.»

If cheap sausages made from mechanically recovered meat and stuffed with various preservatives, emulsifying agents and flavour enhancers can fly off supermarket shelves, surely there is a room for pure muscle tissue grown in a lab.