Sentences with phrase «young blood stem»

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The avian symbol stems from a variation of a legend that circulated during medieval times that said if her chicks were starving, the mother pelican would pierce her own chest and feed the young her blood.

Stem cell biologist Amy Wagers and cardiologist Richard Lee, both of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, wondered if any circulating factors, in young blood, such as hormones, might affect aging hearts.

The effect can work both ways — young mouse stem cells lose potency in old blood.

This rejuvenated the stem cells in the bone marrow of the older mice that replenish their blood, and led to a wave of studies comparing the blood of old and young mice to try and identify the youth - giving substance.

Using specimens collected annually in patients seen at Dr. Young's bone marrow failure clinic at the NIH Clinical Center, the investigators show that patients can support good blood cell production for many years from only a few stem cell clones, which can contain many unfavorable mutations.

In 2005, Rando and his colleagues published a study in Nature showing that stem cells in several tissues of older mice, including muscle, seemed to act younger after continued exposure to younger mice's blood.

Then an experiment in 2005 found that young blood returned the liver and skeletal stem cells of old mice to a more youthful state, and work in 2012 discovered that young blood can reverse heart decline in old mice.

A team led by Young - sup Yoon, MD, PhD developed a new method for generating endothelial cells, which make up the lining of blood vessels, from human induced pluripotent stem cells..

Your latest commission is to find and assassinate «the sacrifice», a young girl chosen once in a generation and sent from a specific village to the Last Lands in order to act as a blood offering to stem the tide of monsters flooding into the world.