Sentence examples for removed stem cells from inspiring English sources
In the process, the Canadian doctors removed stem cells from the bone marrow of the patients and processed these in a laboratory.
It was in 1998 that James Thomson, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin, successfully removed stem cells from spare embryos at fertility clinics.
Scientists removed stem cells from the boy's bone marrow and modified them in the lab by introducing copies of a gene to prevent his red blood cells from becoming "sickled". When the treated cells were infused back into his body, they began to make normal blood cells.
So the researchers first drew blood from three rhesus macaque monkeys, removed stem cells, and put the cells in storage.
In the current study, the researchers removed stem cells, the progenitors of many blood cell types, from the bone marrow of a 7-month old and a toddler in Israel.
The therapy involves removing stem cells from the blood instead of the marrow, and holding them in reserve until treatment with high doses of chemotherapy have ideally killed all the cancer cells in the body.
Transplants of stem cells have given way in many cases to removing stem cells from the patient or a donor, modifying them in a test tube, then putting them in the patient to fight cancer.
Dr. Baltimore envisioned removing stem cells destined to be white blood cells from people and infecting them with a slow-acting virus containing genes to reprogram their internal machinery to produce double-headed antibodies to attack H.I.V. at two different points.
That includes ensuring that HIV-based vectors are safe, and removing stem cells from patients' without using destructive doses of radiation and chemotherapy.
In human therapeutic cloning, which has yet to be accomplished, scientists would remove stem-cell precursors from the embryo early on, and embryos would never be implanted or allowed to develop past that early stage.
Even scientists whose work is far removed from stem cells say they regularly hear from patients.
