Sentences with phrase «which human cell»

The technique is designed to detect and measure the molecular force in the single - molecule interaction by which human cell receptors are activated.
ReInnervate, a start - up in Durham, England, is developing a tiny, three - dimensional plastic scaffolding on which human cells can be grown into artificial tissue, and perhaps eventually into replacements for organs.
The latter type of research, in which human cells or tissue are integrated into animals, was given the green light in the United Kingdom in October 2008, when the British House of Commons approved a bill that expanded the country's rules governing work with human embryos.
The study of HCMV is revealing new ways in which human cells function, highlighting the role of proteins and other factors that have never been described in these ways before.
Each dose is custom - tailored for an individual patient, requiring a complex process in which human cells must be safely ferried across the country, reliably augmented, and soundly returned.
Persistent survival of the transplant was not required in order to obtain benefit after transplantation, as behavioral recovery was as extensive in animals in which transplanted cells were still present at 5 weeks as in those in which no human cells were detected at this time point.
Under the proposed NIH policy, taxpayer funds would be allowed for experiments in which human cells are added to early - stage embryos of all animals except nonhuman primates, such as chimpanzees and monkeys, because they are so similar to humans.
The NIH has for years supported research in which human cells are transplanted into animal models, and it continues to fund human / nonhuman chimera research that lies outside the scope of research singled out in its notice of moratorium.»

Not exact matches

On the logistics end, it is easier to manufacture certain stem - cell therapies, which will be key for human trials like the heart - muscle - regeneration program.
Organovo, a start - up in Los Angeles, is working on a process in which a bioprinter will squirt multiple layers of human tissue cells onto special paper.
Consider Chan Zuckerberg's Biohub, which is embracing big hairy audacious projects like mapping every cell in the human body (with university partners Berkeley, Stanford, and UCSF) and developing a «universal diagnostic test» and rapid - response team for emerging pathogens.
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.
Humans have roughly 20,000 to 25,000 genes, which encode proteins that perform vital jobs in our cells.
But in June, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative — the philanthropic organization in Palo Alto, California, that funds the Biohub — contributed an undisclosed amount of money and software - engineering support to the Human Cell Atlas data platform, which will be used to store, analyse and browse project data.
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.
God creatively evolved us out of and from the very first single - celled creation thru His doing and slowly thru time did creatively evolve us into being what we now today are, which are human beings.
Research on a new «gene editing» technology known as CRISPR — which theoretically allows any cell or organism to have its genome altered — is advancing exponentially, with early research ongoing on human embryos created for that purpose.
For instance, a strong resolution opposing embryonic stem cell research, which destroys human lives, passed with 97 percent support.
Our home cell system is a funtional structure which has helped with building stronger relationships and works well among the yout who are highly relational at this stage of their human development, but I still feel we are missing it somewhere.
It seems incredible to them, for example, that the marvelous, intricate, and dynamic adjustments constantly made by the cells in the human body, apart from which human life is impossible, are somehow self - explanatory.
If human brains are like body's cells, there is a natural point of specialization, in which new systems break away and form similar but slightly different branches, as cells in a body become fingers, feet, hands, etc..
Evidence of the fact that union differentiates is to be seen all round us — in the bodies of all higher forms of life, in which the cells become almost infinitely complicated according to the variety of tasks they have to perform; in animal associations, where the individual «polymerises» itself, one might say, according to the function it is called upon to fulfil; in human societies, where the growth of specialization becomes ever more intense; and in the field of personal relationships, where friends and lovers can only discover all that is in their minds and hearts by communicating them to one another.
A human sex cell was imagined to contain a miniature homunculus, which increases in size until it becomes an embryo, an infant, and eventually an adult woman or man.
This depends upon there being a brain, an arrangement of cells in a particular part of the body which by reason of its peculiar coordination makes the given routing able to «know» in a distinctively human manner — quite different from, although certainly continuous with, the sort of «knowing» that is possible for the higher grades of animal life.
The ANT - OAR proposal represent a scientifically and morally sound means of obtaining human pluripotent stem cells that does not compromise either the science or the deeply held moral convictions of those who oppose the destructive use of human embryos for research» which is a creative approach that can be embraced by both the anything - goes camp and the nothing - goes.
The human body has about 1,000 kinds of such receptors, structures on the surface of cells, which let the body respond to a wide variety of chemical signals, like adrenaline.
Upon fertilization, a single cell results containing forty - six chromosomes, which is what all humans have, including, of course, the mother and the father.
The building block electronic and protonic actual occasions are, in the case of human beings, swept into vastly more complex, Chinese box - like sets of containing societies within which there are social levels that can be identified with cells, others which answer to Aristotle's levels of tissues and organs, and which finally are presided over by what Whitehead refers to as the regnant nexus, a social thread of complex temporal inheritance which, Whitehead suggests, wanders from part to part of the brain, is the seat of conscious direction of the organism as a whole, and answers to what in Plato and Aristotle is called the soul.
No doubt it is true, scientifically speaking, that no distinct center of superhuman consciousness has yet appeared on earth (at least in the living world) for which it may be claimed or predicted that one day it will exercise a centralizing function, in relation to associated human thought, similar to the role of the individual «I» in relation to the cells of the brain.
Some humans romantically yearn for a regression back to social anarchy, which might be likened — rather fancifully, to be sure — to the cells of a plant longing for the mobility of single - celled organisms.
It is the same when the artificial creation of a human cell is considered: «Nothing more than reproducing those conditions in which under the Law of Control and Direction, life emerges.»
The best example of the monarchic society seems to be the case of the human personality which controls (albeit only partially) its own bodily cells.
The objects of his study range from a class of molecules that have the basic self - duplicating property of living things, through cells which suggest purely physical systems, through animals which give increasing evidence of having minds, to human beings in whom streams of consciousness seem to involve continual choices of action, at the opposite pole from control by impersonal laws of nature.
Unfortunately, at this formative stage in their lives one viewpoint is pushed to the fore on campus, and that's the opinion that euthanasia, abortion, embryonic stem cell research and a host of other practices which strip humans of their most fundamental right are good things.
The first page of Larsen's Human Embryology states that, `... [W] e begin our description of the developing human with the formation and differentiation of the male and female sex cells or gametes [sperm and egg], which will unite at fertilisation to initiate the embryonic development of a new individual&raHuman Embryology states that, `... [W] e begin our description of the developing human with the formation and differentiation of the male and female sex cells or gametes [sperm and egg], which will unite at fertilisation to initiate the embryonic development of a new individual&rahuman with the formation and differentiation of the male and female sex cells or gametes [sperm and egg], which will unite at fertilisation to initiate the embryonic development of a new individual».
Autoimmunity is commonly caused by bacterial infections or overgrowth in the small intestine, in which partially digested food compounds are incorporated into bacterial cell walls and then the immune system, reacting to the bacteria, forms antibodies that also recognize food compounds, some of which might cross-react with human counterparts.
A 2012 study found that consuming maltodextrin increased bacterial adhesion to human intestinal epithelial cells and enhanced E. coli adhesion, which is associated with autoimmune disorders and dybiosis in your gut.
Really, the human body has a critical need for fats, as the membrane which encloses every cell in the body is made from — you guessed it — lipids (fats)!
There have been lots of cell and animal research, which prove that turmeric has a good influence on a number of illnesses and also several human studies have shown positive results as well.
The lab - grown meat — which the company calls «clean meat» — is developed from self - reproducing cells taken from a chicken, with the purpose of creating a product that omnivores can't distinguish from the real thing, but with a fraction of the considerable downsides of meat production, including environmental destruction and using agricultural land to grow animal feed rather than crops for human consumption.
Before we established in - house human taste cell (HTC) technologies, it was not possible to use human tongue - derived cells as a model, due to the lack of homogenous, proliferating cell lines with defined properties, which is a prerequisite to establish comprehensive research and screening programs.
The hCG (human chorionic gonadotropin) hormone is a remarkable molecule, which is very unusual because it is produced only by the cells that will become the placenta of the developing embryo (trophoblast cells).
Human milk cells and lipids conserve numerous known and novel miRNAs, some of which are differentially expressed during lactation.
Colostrum contains high concentrations of secretory IgA, the predominant immunoglobulin passed through your breast milk, lactoferrin, which acts as an antibacterial to prevent infection in human infants, and leukocytes, protective white cells.
Human milk is a bodily fluid which, apart from being an excellent nutritional source for the growing infant, also contains a variety of immune components such as antibodies, growth factors, cytokines, antimicrobial compounds, and specific immune cells [9].
«There are perfectly ethical ways of obtaining stem cells to cure disease, which do not involve embryo destruction, so no matter what moral value one places on the human embryo, we do not need to use it.»
However, in 2007 Professor Wilmut announced that he had decided to change to an alternative method of research pioneered in Japan, known as direct reprogramming or «de-differentiation», which could create human embryonic cells without using human eggs or cloning human embryos.
This balance is not between humans, it's between a human and a foetus, which is, in the case of most abortions, a bunch of cells, not yet even humanoid in appearance.
In the human body, occasional cell death translates into degradation and release of their DNA, which then circulates in the blood, before being eliminated.
Compared with mice with cells from healthy people as well as non-chimera mice, those whose brains had human schizophrenia cells were more afraid to explore a maze, more anxious, more antisocial, less able to feel pleasure (from sipping sugar water), worse at remembering, and more sleepless — all of which characterize people with schizophrenia, too.
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