Sentence The word 'ips' is not a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an abbreviation for 'intellectual property rights' which is the legal right to ownership of an original work of the mind, such as patents, trademarks, and copyrights. An example sentence of how to use this phrase would be: "The company's success is largely due to its effective management of ips."
IPs, raw data, content, headers, attachments, everything.
"It's not about IPs, firewalls, ports and protocols any more... Building secure perimeters and adding corporate policies and certificates is great, but [such things] are starting to become useless".
AstraZeneca therefore plans to use Cellular Dynamics's cells to check the toxicity of potential medicines before they get inside a human being, in order to reduce the number of trials that fail for the second reason.And AstraZeneca is not the only company using iPS cells in new ways.
Though these reprogrammed cells, known as induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, might one day be used for treatment, their immediate value is that they are also an excellent way to understand illness.
Crucially, the cultured cells are genetically identical to the diseased ones in the patient.Dr Goldstein is therefore using iPS cells to try to understand Alzheimer's disease.
The findings of this experiment will be published in Stem Cell Research in March.Another trick made possible by iPS cells is to derive them from patients with specific ailments particularly ailments with a genetic component and then nudge the induced cells into becoming the type of cell afflicted by that ailment.
In December GlaxoSmithKline, another British firm, described an experiment in which it assaulted neurons derived from iPS cells with beta-amyloid, a molecule linked to Alzheimer's disease, and then tested whether the beta-amyloid responded to hundreds of existing drugs.
Last year it reported promising results in two patients and Gary Rabin, the firm's boss, says tests continue.Even if this specific approach works, though, it is likely to be overtaken by iPS technology.
Beside dealing with the ethical problems of embryonic cells, Dr Yamanaka's induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells allow at least in theory a treatment to be created from a patient's own body.
He coaxed some iPS cells into becoming liver endodermal cells.
The result is known as an induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell.In this section Catching up Potent medicine Mass effect The Richard Casement internship ReprintsOn January 3rd AstraZeneca, a British drug company, said it would buy human heart muscle, blood vessels, nerve cells and liver cells made from iPS cells by Cellular Dynamics, a company founded by James Thomson (pictured).
