Familiar with physics of ultrasound, image formation and display, interaction
with human tissues, color flow, Doppler, m - mode, instrumentation and 2D scanning
They will soon move into a state - of - the - art storage building being built in the SUBI campus, along
with human tissues from radiation - exposed Mayak workers.
Organoids can be used to study how pathogens interact
with human tissues.
The team also will investigate whether the technique will work
with human tissues.
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.
We are using mouse models in conjunction
with human tissue analysis to understand how this fibrosis arises and how it can be altered to allow access of chemotherapeutic agents to the tumor.
All research using human material must comply
with the Human Tissue Act (2004) and with the Human Materials Policy and Ethical Guidelines.
It also tests for reactivity to cross-reactive antigens and pan-antigens which can cross-react
with human tissue.
Not exact matches
The tiny sensors, which consist of infrared light - emitting diodes (LEDs) coupled
with a sensitive light detector, measure infinitesimal gradations in light in
human tissue, due to changing blood volume in the microvasculature as blood circulates through the body — a process that follows in rhythm
with the beating of the heart.
Medprin manufactures several forms of what it calls «biomimetic - synthetic» material which look and act like real
human tissue,
with microstructures that resemble
human extracellular matrix.
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.
The silk allows the device to integrate
with the
human body, and after some time, slowly dissolve into the surrounding
tissue.
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.
If only the
human condition could be soothed away
with marshmallows and a large box of
tissues.
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.
It is our ability to think and reason that makes us
human and distinguishes us from all other animals, a piece of
tissue, and a baby from an embryo
with no measurable brain waves.
Can we expect an ethical God to punish us for our injustices through vengeance upon the innocent
with a surging tsunami or a ravaging cancer encrypted into
human tissue?
Those rules allow «reasonable payments associated
with the transportation, implantation, processing, preservation, quality control or storage of
human fetal
tissue.»
With just the right mix of essential amino acids needed by
humans to build
tissues, eggs contain the highest quality — and the most inexpensive — protein you can buy.
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.
Cardiac muscle mass
tissue can be an especially specialised variety of muscle mass
tissue that may be involved
with pumping blood all the way through the
human body.
The team also tested
human milk samples from subjects
with mastitis, an infection of the breast
tissue that causes pain and inflammation.
There are only a few instances of the polymer being assayed in the milk of women
with implants; the concentrations are not elevated over control samples.20 There is no evidence at the present time that this polymer is directly toxic to
human tissues; however, concern also exists that toxicity may be mediated through an immunologic mechanism.
Other measures approved at the last minute would authorize hunting
with crossbows, allow ticket scalping to continue, prohibit unauthorized commerce in
human tissue, continue health insurance coverage and revise workplace terms for midwives and utility maintenance workers.
However, this study revealed that mice are more similar to
humans than previously thought,
with an average of around 10 % of active genes escaping X-inactivation per
tissue.
Two people
with severe sight loss can now see well enough to read after receiving
tissue grown from
human embryonic stem cells.
Larger biomarker signatures can be detected
with technology from CDI Laboratories, which offers microarrays of functional
human proteins (over 20,000 on a single array) to test the antibodies present in
human liquid biopsy samples, such as blood, serum, plasma, CSF, or
tissue lysates.
These «organs on a chip,» as they are called, are typically glass slides coated
with human cells that have been configured to mimic a particular
tissue or interface between
tissues.
In cancer research, our goal is to be able to start
with a sample of
human tissue, extract many cells of interest, and perform genetic analysis upon each of them separately.
To investigate, Walker Jackson of the Whitehead Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, and his colleagues created mice
with a mutation associated
with the
human prion disease Fatal Familial Insomnia and injected some of their brain
tissue into the brains of mice without the mutation.
Working
with human breast
tissue, the new study's authors attempted to induce EMT in normal cells; they figured they would just get fibroblasts, a type of connective
tissue that is important in wound healing.
To get a sense of what happens when soldiers are wounded, the students first conducted experiments
with a gel that mimics the consistency of
human tissue.
Then, to boost the number of cells, which is another hurdle in
tissue engineering, the researchers mixed the chondrocytes
with human mesenchymal stem cells from bone marrow.
A recent study published in Annals of Neurology reports that healthy
human tissue grafted to the brains of patients
with Huntington's disease in the hopes of treating the neurological disorder also developed signs of the illness, several years after the graft.
These elements reacted
with the fatty acids from the
human tissue to form a soapy substance called adipocere.
By comparing how fast the neural circuits in the retina perform image - processing operations
with how many instructions per second it takes a computer to accomplish similar work, I believe it is possible to at least coarsely estimate the information - processing power of nervous
tissue — and by extrapolation, that of the entire
human nervous system.
Nervous
Tissue and Computation If we accept that computers will eventually become powerful enough to simulate the mind, the question that naturally arises is: What processing rate will be necessary to yield performance on a par
with the
human brain?
These techniques include:
human tissue created by reprogramming cells from people
with the relevant disease (dubbed «patient in a dish»); «body on a chip» devices, where
human tissue samples on a silicon chip are linked by a circulating blood substitute; many computer modelling approaches, such as virtual organs, virtual patients and virtual clinical trials; and microdosing studies, where tiny doses of drugs given to volunteers allow scientists to study their metabolism in
humans, safely and
with unsurpassed accuracy.
He reports that Advanced Cell Technology plans to clone genetically altered animals whose neural
tissue would be immunologically compatible
with that of
humans.
In 2008 the National Institutes of Health launched the $ 190 - million Roadmap Epigenomics Project
with the goal of cataloguing the epigenetic marks in the major
human cell types and
tissues.
Mutations in mitochondrial DNA have been linked to development of the cancer, so Anita Kloss - Brandstätter of Innsbruck Medical University in Austria and colleagues compared the entire mitochondrial genome of cancerous and non-cancerous
tissue from 30 men
with prostate cancer (The American Journal of
Human Genetics, DOI: 10.1016 / j.ajhg.2010.11.001).
The scientists also studied lung
tissue from
humans with asthma and healthy controls.
Badylak seemed to be saying that he could replace
human tissue with tissue from another species without triggering a virulent immune response — something that medical scientists considered impossible.
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.
«Knowledge of how positronium interacts
with the surrounding medium is important, whether this is
human tissue or interstellar gas,» says experiment leader Gaetana Laricchia of University College London.
A postmortem analysis of
human brain
tissue, for example, conducted by Witelson and her colleagues at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster, revealed that women's neurons were 11 percent denser than men's in the prefrontal cortex and in a region of the temporal cortex that is involved
with language processing, comprehension, and memory.
In studies
with human fibroblasts that make up connective
tissue, Boger's team tested whether NOD1 activity could affect CMV replication in cultures of cells grown in the lab.
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.