Sentences with phrase «types of blood cells make»

Even different types of blood cells make slightly different iPS cells, the researchers found.

Not exact matches

These cells are unique to this stage of development, and will migrate to the baby's bone morrow soon after birth, transforming themselves into various types of blood - making cells.

Bone marrow transplants are sometimes needed to treat immune diseases that attack these stem cells, or in certain types of anaemia, in which the body can't make enough blood cells or clotting factors.

Also, researchers could carefully select which blood types to culture with each batch of stem cells, creating stockpiles of needed blood products for people with extremely rare blood types whose blood cell makeup makes it challenging to find good blood matches for transfusions because they would reject most other types of blood.

In type 1 diabetes, the pancreas stops making insulin, the hormone that facilitates absorption of glucose from the blood into cells.

Adds Liu: «With metastatic cancers accounting for around 90 % of deaths from solid tumors, the hope is that one day a device that can enable the analysis of single tumor cells circulating in the blood could make a big difference in early diagnosis, detection and monitoring of numerous types of cancer, without invasive biopsies.»

In order for these unspecialized cells to acquire the characteristics that make a leaf cell different from a root cell or a blood cell different from a muscle cell, they must turn on different subsets of genes to produce the proteins responsible for each cell type's distinctive properties.

«Now we can take easy to obtain blood samples, and make the main cell types of neurological systems — the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system — in a dish that is specialized for each patient,» said Bhatia.

Tests on the mice showed that many different types of mature blood cells were making ADA.

This can make it easier to change an iPS cell that used to be a blood cell (for example) back into a blood cell, compared to turning it into another type of cell.

stem cell Special cells in the body that can make any of several different types of new cells, including blood cells.

Myeloma — also referred to as multiple myeloma or plasma cell myeloma — is a cancer that originates in plasma cells, a type of white blood cell that makes antibodies.

He continues to investigate and optimize CAR T cell therapy, to make it more effective not only for blood cancers, but also to help patients with other types of cancer.

Once implanted, the cells are designed to differentiate into the various cell types that make up the pancreatic islet, which could allow for production of insulin and other hormones, such as glucagon, needed to control blood sugar levels.

Over the years researchers have been making aggregates of embryonic stem cells to obtain certain cell types, for example red blood cells.

Hematopoiesis is the process by which the different types of blood cells are generated in the body (the term literally means «to make blood»).

Normally, the bone marrow makes stem cells (immature cells) that become three types of mature blood cells:

Plasma cells develop from B lymphocytes (B cells), a type of white blood cell that is made in the bone marrow.

Myeloma — also referred to as multiple myeloma or plasma cell myeloma — is a cancer that originates in plasma cells, a type of white blood cell that make antibodies.

Leukemia that starts in lymphoid cells — which make different types of white blood cells — is called lymphocytic or lymphoblastic leukemia.

Granulocyte - macrophage colony - stimulating factor, commonly referred to as GM - CSF, is a type of cytokine that stimulates the bone marrow to make more immune cells and blood cells.

Myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) are blood disorders in which the bone marrow makes too many of one or more types of blood cells — white blood cells, red blood cells or platelets.

This is basically tweaking the molecules: making small chemical changes to the compound in hopes of finding something that could block the growth of blood vessel cells initially in the culture dish without having toxic effects on other cell types.

Injections of Growth Factors, when used for many other types of medical treatments, are made from a patient's own blood and blood cells and is called PRP (Platelet Rich Plasma) or PDGF (Platelet Derived Growth Factors) Therapy.

The white blood cells that make up our immune system operate more efficiently on certain types of nutrients such as these bitter - tasting polysaccharide sugars.

Cytokines are proteins made by various types of white blood cells to turn on the immune system to attack invaders like:

It has been found that a diet which includes animal protein of any kind, will tend to form a layer around muscle cells, making it impossible for such cells to suck sugar from blood, thus, generating diabetes type 2 (read the book «Proteinaholic...», long title...)

Iron - deficiency anemia is the most common type of anemia, a condition that happens when your body does not make enough healthy red blood cells or the blood cells do not work correctly.

This disease makes the body form abnormal lymphocytes, which are a type of white blood cell.

A complete blood count analyzes what cells are present, how many cells of each type make up the blood sample, and identifies any unusual cells present.