For the new study, researchers
worked with human cells and mice.
Although fragments of DNA called plasmids have been tried for the same purpose, Nagy says this is the first time a nonviral method has
worked with human cells.
Although SB 247464 doesn't
work with human cells, the discovery will spur the pharmaceutical industry's search for protein - mimicking drugs, says Mark Goldsmith, who studies cytokine receptors at the University of California, San Francisco.
If the approach also
works with human cells, it could eventually lead to cell therapies for diseases like inherited leukodystrophies — disorders of the brain's white matter — and multiple sclerosis, as well as spinal cord injuries.
Not exact matches
Sequencing in one 18 - year - old patient found several oncogenes, and her and her family will continue to
work with Human Longevity to monitor the
cells.
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.
First mouse
cells were turned into «totipotent» stem
cells, and now early
work suggests the same might have been achieved
with human cells
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Recent collaborative
work between UCR and Cedars - Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles demonstrated that in animal models of
human breast cancer, mice treated
with 123B9 that was conjugated
with paclitaxel had significantly fewer circulating cancer
cells in the blood compared to mice that were not treated or even treated
with paclitaxel alone.
Working with Skeletal Biologists at Southampton General Hospital, Catarina is investigating new optical techniques to monitor the development of the
cells, used in new regenerative medicine approaches — in this case, to create and grow cartilage from
human stem
cells.
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.
«I'm
working with Professor Richard Oreffo and Dr Rahul Tare from the University's Centre for
Human Development, Stem
Cells and Regeneration who are trying to create and grow cartilage in the lab using a patients» own (autologous) stem cells to then be implanted back into the patient if they have a cartilage defect,» she expl
Cells and Regeneration who are trying to create and grow cartilage in the lab using a patients» own (autologous) stem
cells to then be implanted back into the patient if they have a cartilage defect,» she expl
cells to then be implanted back into the patient if they have a cartilage defect,» she explains.
If the procedure
works in
humans, it would enable donated livers from
humans, and possibly even from pigs, to be re-coated
with a patient's own
cells, reducing the likelihood of organ rejection.
The
work, funded by the US National
Human Genome Research Institute, aims to create human cell lines with subtly different genomes in order to test ideas about which mutations cause disease and
Human Genome Research Institute, aims to create
human cell lines with subtly different genomes in order to test ideas about which mutations cause disease and
human cell lines
with subtly different genomes in order to test ideas about which mutations cause disease and how.
Since the completion of the
Human Genome Project in 2003, scientists have expanded their knowledge of how living
cells work with new approaches including genomics, proteomics, and systems biology.
A physician and
cell biologist who won a 1972 Nobel Prize for his
work describing the structure of antibodies, Edelman is now obsessed
with the enigma of
human consciousness — except that he does not see it as an enigma.
Working with human immune
cells in the laboratory, Johns Hopkins researchers report they have identified a critical cellular «off» switch for the inflammatory immune response that contributes to lung - constricting asthma attacks.
Working with a 900 - cell organism [C. elegans] is a far cry from working with
Working with a 900 -
cell organism [C. elegans] is a far cry from
working with
working with humans.
Additionally,
work in a mouse model revealed similar
cells, indicating that the progenitors are conserved from mouse to
human, and therefore, they must be «important
cells with promising potential for
cell therapy in treating liver disease,» explained Dr. Gouon - Evans.
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.
He says that his team will
work to achieve all the necessary divisions in mice before trying similar manipulations
with human cells.
The research team
worked with human RPE
cells and an experimental model of ischemic stroke.
The research team from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology headed by Professor Susanne Mandrup are publishing a paper entitled «Browning of
human adipocytes requires KLF11 and reprogramming of PPAR super-enhancers» in the January 1 edition of the scientific journal Genes & Development that describes their results from
working with «brite» fat
cells.
Working with human breast cancer
cells and mouse models of breast cancer, scientists identified a new protein that plays a key role in reprogramming cancer
cells to migrate and invade other organs.
Working with human breast cancer
cells and mice, scientists at The Johns Hopkins University say new experiments explain how certain cancer stem
cells thrive in low oxygen conditions.
The researchers inserted the genes for the 25 subtypes into
human kidney
cells (an easier feat than
working with real taste
cells).
Hamlyn,
working with Richard Schmidt of the School of Pharmacy at the University of Wales in Cardiff, exposed
human fibroblast
cells to six fungi strains.
In a new study the PhD students Jan Hoeber, Niclas König and Carl Trolle,
working in Dr.Elena Kozlova's research group transplanted
human stem
cells to an avulsion injury in mice
with the aim to restore a functional route for sensory information from peripheral tissues into the spinal cord.
In studies of mice injected
with human cancer
cells, the drug appeared to
work according to plan.
While there, he
worked with cell cultures derived from
human fetal tissue.
Although primed, post-implantation embryonic stem
cells can still turn into any type of
human cell, they are more difficult to
work with than the pre-implantation, naive
cells.
While he has been
working with federally - approved
human ES lines, he notes that those lines could be considered illegal until they get vetted by the stem
cell working group NIH plans to create.
They then put the dishes into special chambers called bioreactors that keep them warm and in gentle motion reminiscent of a womb, encouraging the
cells to form blobs
with working neurons and many other features of a full - size
human brain.
But
working with human smooth muscle
cells isolated and grown from the healthy parts of airway tissue surrounding excised tumors, Benjamin Kalbe and his colleagues applied a large number of odor molecules and watched two of them activate the muscle
cells.
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.
Cells isolated from
human umbilical cord tissue have been shown to produce molecules that help retinal neurons from the eyes of rats grow, connect and survive, according to Duke University researchers
working with Janssen Research & Development, LLC.
Scientists in other countries are more likely to
work with fetal
cells in efforts to modify an animal's genetic makeup so that its milk contains drugs for
human use.
The bill was put forth to loosen the restrictions Bush placed on
human embryonic stem
cell research on August 9, 2001, when he banned federal funding for
work with any stem
cell line created after that date.
Richard A. Insel, M.D., chief scientific officer of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, a funder of Melton's
work, said the «JDRF is thrilled
with this advancement toward large scale production of mature, functional
human beta
cells by Dr. Melton and his team.
«Our
work brings us one step closer to understanding how these vital
cell structures may be contributing to
human ageing,
with the hope of eventually specifically targeting areas of the mitochondria in an attempt to counteract the signs of ageing.»
Suspecting that the disease
works differently in
humans, whose brains are much bigger and more complex than those of lab animals, Brivanlou, along
with research associates Albert Ruzo and Gist Croft, developed a
cell - based
human system for their research.
But if homologous recombination could be
worked out in
human (embryonic) stem
cells, then cardiomyocytes
with mutations in ion channels could be derived, as well as a large number of other very useful disease models of other tissues.
Because
human T
cells don't have as many of these brakes, our
cells are a hundred times more aggressive than those of chimps when faced
with drugs like TGN1412, which
work by triggering the immune system.
With this ability to follow viruses in real time, the Rockefeller scientists hope to tease out how HIV recruits proteins from
human cells to do its dirty
work; they also plan to look more broadly at how viruses develop.
We already knew that E. coli can grip to
human cells using hair - like appendages that have tiny protein hooks on their tips, but until now no one had
worked out the structure of this protein, called FimH, or how it interacts
with human cells.
Undeterred, advocates for the immediate use of stem
cell therapy in
human athletes point to successes
with racehorses as the best evidence that the treatment
works.
In research published in Molecular
Cell, Rutgers scientists discovered that a protein (p62), which is supposed to act as an antioxidant to prevent cell damage, was not working efficiently in laboratory mice with liver and heart disease that mimicked these conditions in hum
Cell, Rutgers scientists discovered that a protein (p62), which is supposed to act as an antioxidant to prevent
cell damage, was not working efficiently in laboratory mice with liver and heart disease that mimicked these conditions in hum
cell damage, was not
working efficiently in laboratory mice
with liver and heart disease that mimicked these conditions in
humans.
She ultimately chose to study leukemia patients» immune responses to bone marrow transplants, an area conducive to translational research in part because the
work involves treating patients
with human cells, which can be prepared at academic health centers.
Working with mouse, fly and
human cells and tissue, Johns Hopkins researchers report new evidence that disruptions in the movement of cellular materials in and out of a
cell's control center — the nucleus — appear to be a direct cause of brain
cell death in Huntington's disease, an inherited adult neurodegenerative disorder.
Niakan and colleagues predicted from earlier
work with mice and
human embryonic stem
cells that the protein OCT4 would be necessary for the epiblast
cells to develop correctly.