Sentences with phrase «use of viruses»

The stem cells, derived from human umbilical cord - blood and coaxed into an embryonic - like state, were grown without the conventional use of viruses, which can mutate genes and initiate cancers, according to the scientists.

What Renner's Aaron Cross has been subjected to is a programme involving use of viruses to deliver gene - enhancing chemicals into the body.

One of the key caveats at the time, however, was that the technique required the use of a virus to introduce several genes into the skin (or other) cell, and these would remain in the cell, and so might contaminate the resulting stem cell or create cancer risks.

That's a step toward therapy, Hochedlinger says, because the use of viruses disrupts the hosts» genes and may cause cancer.

The authors focused on the approaches that have delivered the best outcomes in gene therapy so far: 1) direct in vivo administration of viral vectors, or the use of viruses to deliver the therapeutic genes into human cells; and 2) the transfer of genetically engineered blood or bone marrow stem cells from a patient, modified in a lab, then injected back into the same patient.

Hochedlinger has focused on the use of viruses to insert genes into cells, and has devised a way to produce iPS cells that only temporarily introduces reprogramming genes into the cells.

Although the insertion of its DNA into tumour promoting genes is rare, and probably a chance event, precautions must be taken regarding the use of this virus,» explain the authors.

The symposium will turn its attention to some of these problems, as well as the use of virus - based vectors in gene therapy and molecular biology.

In addition, the use of viruses allows much better spatiotemporal control over labeling methods as compared to transgenic animals (17).

The use of viruses in cancer therapies — called oncolytic therapy — is still an emerging field.

The genes were introduced into the cells using a technique that avoids the use of viruses and insertion of transgenes into the cells» genome.

The cases of hacking accounts with the use of viruses disguised as trade bots, trading platform, and also subscription for mailout, from which you may catch a virus if you follow a link in it, became more frequent.