Sentences with phrase «type in a particular tissue»

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The company's goal is to create a comprehensive source of stem cells that could be of particular use for treating people of Middle Eastern descent, whose tissue types are often underrepresented in the public tissue banks such as those in the U.S. and elsewhere.

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.

«To build tissues, we need to be able to take stem cells and use them to make many different cell types which are grouped together in particular spatial patterns,» explained Andres M. Bratt - Leal, the paper's first author and a former graduate student in McDevitt's lab.

Each study examined tens of thousands of genes to identify those that are active in one or two particular types of cancerous tissues.

A particular type of stem cell found in muscle can give rise to new muscle tissue, so a team led by geneticist Luis Garcia of Généthon, a nonprofit biotechnology firm in Évry, France, investigated whether these cells could be used to reverse the dystrophin problems.

To do that, he needs to make the ribonucleoprotein complex stable in the bloodstream, able to escape the cell's endosome, and even able to home in on a particular tissue type.

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Luckily, different cell types tend to have different things on their surfaces, which play particular parts in their specialized roles in the tissue, so it is a matter of identifying and targeting cell - surface markers that are specific to these abnormal cell types.

Stem cells are cells found primarily in embryos, and they have not yet taken on the characteristics of any particular type of cell, such as bone, muscle tissue or brain matter.

There is an enormous amount of work to be done here, and at the moment the field is still largely in the phase of getting the basics, the maps, and the reliable therapeutic methods sorted out for a few of the better understood tissue types, bone marrow and muscles in particular.

Some receptors display a broad pattern of expression across tumour types, while others were expressed in cell lines from a particular tissue.

Dr. Giuffrida performs all types of soft tissue surgery, while offering particular expertise in surgery for cancer patients.