Sentences with phrase «types of cell tested»

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Indeed, because eggs are large cells that are relatively easy to manipulate, they are one of the favored cell types used by biologists to express foreign genes and to test gene function.

To estimate the prevalence of positive serology among potential donors to a human milk bank.Retrospective review of our experience with donor serological testing at our milk bank over a 6 - year interval.Not - for - profit, regional human milk bank.Volunteer, unpaid potential donors of human milk.Serological testing for syphilis, HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, human T cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV - 1) and human T cell lymphotropic virus type 2 (HTLV - 2).

These tests will provide information about your blood type and your level of hemoglobin — the main component of red blood cells.

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The researchers collected samples of indoor dust from 11 homes in North Carolina and tested extracts from the samples in a mouse pre-adipocyte cell model, 3T3 - L1 cells, often used to test compounds for potential effects on the accumulation of triglycerides, a type of fat.

A type of «virgin birth» stem cell could be as powerful as embryonic stem cells but without the same ethical objections, and are being tested for Parkinson ’s

In a study published in 2006, he and other Johns Hopkins researchers tested two compounds similar to CGP3466B to see if they would block GAPDH from triggering cell death under the types of highly stressful conditions that would normally cause apoptosis.

ACT is now performing early - phase clinical trials testing the safety of implanting retinal cells derived from human ES cells into the eye to treat certain types of blindness.

Smider and colleagues took serum — blood with the cells removed, leaving antibodies behind — from four immunized cows and tested it against different types of HIV virus in a test tube.

In their latest study, they tested compounds against cells from nine different types of human cancer, including common types affecting blood, colon, breast, prostate, ovaries, kidneys, and lungs.

Using frozen samples of Nannochloropsis oculata, a type of single - celled ocean - dwelling algae, Dina Pasini (University of Kent) set out to test the conditions which early life would have had to survive if it did indeed travel through space.

Normally, the cells Nobel used for the test would divide and give rise to a specialized type of cell in the central nervous system called an oligodendrocyte.

«Overall, the most important finding is that we identified nanchangmycin as a potent inhibitor of Zika virus entry across all cell types tested, including endothelial and placental cells, which are relevant to how Zika may enter the fetus,» Cherry said.

Hoping to develop a more potent approach, medical oncologist Ron Levy of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and colleagues used mice to test the cancer - fighting capabilities of some 20 molecules, including several types of antibodies that activate immune cells.

Blood tests showed that IL - 7 curbed the production of SOCS3 in a type of immune cell called a T - cell, thereby boosting T - cell response.

A COMPOUND that slows the proliferation of triple - negative breast cancer cells in lab tests could lead to the first drugs to target this aggressive type of tumour.

«The challenge is finding targets that exist on other types of cancer cells but not on normal cells,» says pediatric oncologist Stephan Grupp of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, who worked with Porter on testing the treatment in mice.

In preliminary safety tests, the researchers found no harmful effects in four types of human cells, or in rats.

Using tumor samples from a patient, they do lab tests to determine which substances can first make the different types of cancer cells uniform and then effectively kill them.

The group is also testing four other types of stem cells.

An HPV test, in which doctors test a cervicovaginal specimen for the presence of the nucleic acids of carcinogenic types of HPV, is more sensitive than the Pap test (a microscopic examination of exfoliated cells) for detection of precancers.

The target of the test is a type of cancer known as germ cell cancer.

We not only introduced the gene into specific brain regions of the mouse, but we could also direct it to specific cell types to test which ones played a role in regulating sociability.»

Five years ago, he got the idea to test whether a particular type of one - celled slime mold, Physarum polycephalum, could navigate through a maze.

The team used five types of antibiotics — including one used to treat acne (doxycycline)-- on cell lines of eight different types of tumour and found that four of them eradicated the cancer stem cells in every test.

Tests showed that a new type of herpes virus was probably the culprit; the virus destroys cells lining the gills and suffocates the fish.

This could be a good way to test new types of drugs that target cancer cells specifically and spare patients the side effects from treatments if they are not working.»

The researchers carried out a screening test to identify the type of hydrogel that would best host bacterial cells.

As part of ENCODE, 32 institutions did computer analyses, biochemical tests, and sequencing studies on 147 cell types — six fairly extensively — to find out what each of the genome's 3 billion bases does.

Using DNA strands just 58 nucleotides long to uniquely identify each particle allows researchers to skip the cell culture screening altogether — and test a hundred or more different types of nanoparticles simultaneously in just a handful of animals.

The researchers tested their technique on such cultivated stem cells of both a mature and immature type, and on donated human embryos left over from IVF treatments.

«New technique allows rapid screening for new types of solar cells: Approach could bypass the time - consuming steps currently needed to test new photovoltaic materials..»

«The fact that we can target one cell type in one tissue using an existing drug makes us excited about the possibilities of testing this in patients.»

The next steps for Zhang and his team is to focus mostly on using the agent on different types of stem cells and to test them in vivo.

Their test includes three types of human cells that are typically in a person's airway.

Through laser imaging at speeds up to 3,000 frames per second, a computer can capture images from all angles and reconstruct a model of all cells in the given sample, testing for all types of cancer in a matter of minutes.

Though this information - maximizing theory has been tested in a few types of behavior, Sharpee and others believe it could provide a basis for a larger, unified framework for understanding different types of behavior across species, cells, neurons and even larger scale phenomenon, such as resource allocation.

In the newly published study, Mount Sinai researchers from The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute and the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute report that by counting the numbers of one type of immune cell activated by exposure to a food, a simple, safe blood test can accurately predict the severity of each person's allergic reaction to it.

Using a polymerase chain reaction test, the team hunted for the bacterium in a type of white blood cells that Chlamydia is known to infect.

If these preclinical studies are successful, the researchers plan to further develop their CAR T cell therapy and test its safety and efficacy for different types of metastatic cancer in upcoming clinical trials.

Because the anticancer compound works by binding to troublesome expansions in DNA, the researchers decided to test whether it would work in cells and a mouse model of myotonic dystrophy type 1.

But many in the field will be waiting for the next steps: testing whether the resulting mouse pups are genetically normal, trying out the technique in other animals, and using other and less controversial types of cells — such as stem cells that can be extracted and cryopreserved from adult testicular tissue — as the starting point.

The ultimate test of a stem cell is its ability to produce different cell types.

Tests using two types of assays revealed that the cells continue to function properly when exposed to the polymer.

To test whether the childhood infection and stem cell depletion had any effect on the adult heart, the researchers exposed infected mice to two different types of cardiac stress.

The Tübingen researchers therefore tested the hypothesis that each of these 14 cell types represents one visual channel, each with its own function.

Lab tests indicated that resolvins suppress inflammation of monocytes and neutrophils, two types of immune cell.

To test whether the cells would maintain their multipotency in living animals, the researchers transplanted them into mice whose white blood cells had been depleted, and showed that the new cells could expand and differentiate into various types of white blood cells.

In another test of their technique, the researchers engineered cells to express, when illuminated, a variant of glucagon - like peptide 1, a compound that may have potential in treating type 2 diabetes.

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