Sentences with phrase «using human tissues»

Moving forward, the researchers will attempt to replicate the findings using human tissues.

Models using human tissues, reproducing key features of biochemistry and physiology, have enormous potential in brain research.

In a second group of experiments using human tissue from patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, which accounts for more than 90 percent of pancreatic cancers, Zheng and his colleagues also tracked down a link between the abundance of Sema3D in those tissues and the progression of metastatic pancreatic cancer.

No one has yet shown success with SCNT using human tissue: The closest effort so far has been the cloned blastocyst reported last year by workers at the Newcastle Fertility Centre in the U.K., but that did not yield ES cells.

The Sanger Institute uses human tissue samples, DNA and RNA donated by the living and the deceased in its research.

Not exact matches

• Prellis Biologics, a San Francisco - based company that uses 3D printing to create human tissue and organs, raised $ 1.8 million in seed funding.

In 2012, a journalist used Palantir software to investigate illegal human tissue trafficking.

In many cases, they use a large block of synthetic gelatin and water to simulate the impact of a speeding bullet on human tissue.

For example, using 3 - D bioprinters — which can print the structure of human tissue with biodegradable material — and stem cells, which are used to populate the 3 - D printed structure, researchers can grow actually human tissue.

A research group at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center used human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) to grow human stomach tissue (paywall)-- and, notably, the part of the organ that produces digestive enzymes.

It's essentially the same process used in medicine to cultivate human cells and tissues.

On a normal diet, the human body breaks down carbohydrates into glucose, which are used for energy or stored as glycogen in liver and muscle tissue.

In a rare appearance Dr. Chandan Sen, Director, OSU Center for Regenerative Medicine & Cell - Based Therapies will explain how this breakthrough came about and how the technology is leading to other medical discoveries and how the principle can be used to generate any tissue out of skin or fat which is abundant in human body.

The difficulties associated with obtaining nerve tissue at the correct stage of development and differentiation from aborted embryos means that foetal tissue transplantation is no longer in favour, but the creation of human embryos specifically as sources of stem cells, and the push to use «spare» embryos from IVF treatments is gatheringmomentum.

Unlike the controversial method of tissue harvesting that requires some human embryos to be destroyed, the new cloning technique can use a patient's own skin cells — combined with an unfertilized human egg — to create tissue with a DNA match.

Scientists looking for new methods to make human tissue have successfully used cloning technology to create embryonic stem cells from skin cells.

Whilst acknowledging that many questions remain unanswered in the debate between those who would advocate the use of stem cells taken from human embryos, and those experimenting on stem cells drawn from tissues of the adult human body, there is a lengthy discussion of the moral status of the human embryo as being a crucial matter in this regard.

A fact sheet from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), indicates that about 90 % of exposure for humans is due to eating contaminated food, since dioxins and furans typically accumulate in the fatty tissues of fish and animals that are exposed when these by - products are released into the water and air during manufacturing.2 Dioxin is not metabolized in our bodies, and is passed to our children through the placenta and breastfeeding.3 Sodium Polyacrylate - Super Absorbent Polymers While actual contact with disposable diapers does not contribute to dioxin accumulation in your baby, your baby's bottom does come in contact with chemicals used to increase the absorbency of the diapers.

She wrote, «It is simply wrong to feed our children connective tissues and beef scraps that were, in the past, destined for use in pet food and rendering, and were not considered fit for human consumption.»

There are so many issues involving vaccinations, such as state requirements and the use of animal / human tissue, that Dr. Sears does an amazing job covering the subject.

As well as allowing the use of stem cells grown from established cell lines, the technology could enable the creation of improved human tissue models for drug testing and potentially even purpose - built replacement organs.

On Thursday, the United Nations» member states will consider two resolutions: One resolution would ban all human cloning methods, including efforts to use cloned embryonic stem cells to try and generate healthy tissues, or to treat degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's.

The research involved using novel technologies to examine the T cells in human tissues.

Researchers there are examining the role of other signaling factory beyond BMP as well as conducting further studies using human cells and human scar tissue.

During the first 24 hours after death, genetic changes kick in across various human tissues, creating patterns of activity that can be used to roughly predict when someone died,...

Such resistance genes are rare to nonexistent in specimens of human tissue and body fluid taken 60 years ago, before the use of antibiotics became widespread.

The fact that heart valves and other «inert» tissues from pigs are already successfully used in humans without rejection suggests that this will not be a big problem.

Hsueh's team has used a similar approach to stimulate fragments of human ovarian tissue.

Besides its potential application in human patients, the newly developed skin tissue also could be used as an alternative to testing cosmetics on animals, the researchers said.

In this study, the researchers took a two - pronged approach, using human cells and tissue.

Senior author Madhav Dhodapkar, M.D., the Arthur H. and Isabel Bunker Professor of Medicine and Immunobiology, and chief of Hematology, said the study, using tissue and blood samples from humans and mice, shows that chronic stimulation of the immune system by lipids made in the context of inflammation underlies the origins of at least a third of all myeloma cases.

The result was the largest deletion ever observed in the dystrophin gene using CRISPR / Cas9, and the study was the first to create corrected human iPS cells that could directly restore functional muscle tissue affected by Duchenne.

By using a range of tissue stains, they were able to assess levels of oestrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR) and HER2 — human epidermal growth factor — in order to divide the samples into four subtypes.

The TEER measurement is used to quantify the flow of ions between electrodes and across the tissue - tissue interface made of an organ - specific epithelium and endothelium that is a core component of many of the Institute's human Organ Chips.

In reality, none of the nearly 75 vaccine formulations currently licensed in the United States is produced using human fetal tissue...»

«Several letters [from the Association of American Medical Colleges and others]... suggest that human fetal tissue is used for modern vaccine production.

To many medical practitioners, the idea of using pig parts to regenerate human tissue sounds outlandish — so outlandish that the doctor who discovered the technique in the mid-1980s was reluctant to talk to clinicians about it for years.

Using a mouse model of HSV - 1 as well as autopsied samples of human adult and fetal tissues, investigators from Dartmouth College's Geisel School of Medicine found that antibodies against HSV - 1 produced by adult women or female mice could travel to the nervous systems of their yet unborn babies, preventing the development and spread of infection during birth.

A glue which is produced naturally by marine bacteria could be used to repair ships» hulls without taking them into dry dock, and to seal wounds in human skin and delicate tissue.

The technology has evolved from a caged - ball design into valves with artificial flaps, pig valves processed for human use, and hand - sewn biologic valves made from cow tissue.

The principle component of the new panel, hydrogel — a polymer network filled with water — is safe to use in and on the human body, having already found use in applications ranging from drug delivery to creating scaffolds for tissue engineering and wound healing.

The researchers used «humanized mice,» which have had their immune systems replaced with human immune system cells, thymus tissue and bone marrow.

THE Nuffield Council on Bioethics is coming to fulfil a role that royal commissions used to play in British politics, and certainly ministers should take very seriously the council's latest report Human Tissue: Ethical and Legal Issues (This Week, 22 April).

We also need to record the information relating to each donation using a customised database to ensure the traceability of each human tissue, which is critical to the smooth running of our operation.

Using virus histochemical analysis, the investigators looked at the pattern of attachment of two genetically engineered emerging H7 viruses (containing the hemagglutinin (HA) of either influenza virus A / Shanghai / 1 / 13 or A / Anhui / 1 / 13) to fixed human respiratory tract tissues and compared the findings to attachment patterns seen with human influenza viruses with high transmissibility but low virulence (seasonal H3N2 and pandemic H1N1) and highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) viruses with low transmissibility and high virulence (H5N1 and H7N7).

To track down the location of proteins inside human tissues, Uhlén's team of about 100 scientists breaks the problem into two parts — finding antibodies that target individual proteins and then using those antibodies to hunt for proteins inside tissues.

Mardinoglu says the team's network modeling approach, which relied on data from the Sweden - based Human Protein Atlas project and The Genotype - Tissue Expression (GTEx) project consortia, can be used in the identification of drug targets and eventually in the development of efficient strategies for treating a number of chronic liver diseases.

But with humans, she is using iPS cells and has been working to develop the correct protocols to induce her stem cells to differentiate into different kinds of lung tissue.

But little is known about the early developmental stages of human gametes — owing to the sensitivity of working with human tissue — and most work in this area has been conducted using mice.

«One of our experiments showed that bypassing Lin28a and directly activating mitochondrial metabolism with a small - molecule compound also had the effect of enhancing wound healing, suggesting that it could be possible to use drugs to promote tissue repair in humans.»