For example, the government actively encourages work on stem cells rather than grudgingly permitting it.
Cambridge University scientists say they have seen four-stranded DNA at work in human cells for the first time.
Medivation believes that dimebon helps brain cells work better by improving the function of cellular energy factories called mitochondria.
These mini cells work together as HetNets (heterogeneous networks) and will be a central feature in the next decade of wireless expansion.
He arrived at MIT four and a half years ago assuming that truly understanding how cells work was the main hurdle facing synthetic biologists.
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Only recently have drug giants begun early work on stem cells.
Now that the technique appears to work with human cells, the process could be another source of generating stem cells that may ultimately treat patients, says Mitalipov.
They could work alongside solar cells and solar heating systems.
That scandal, as well as ethical concerns about the dangers of encouraging work that could lead to human cloning, dried up interest in getting the process to work with human cells.
Two researchers at Harvard's Stem Cell Institute, David Scadden and Leonard Zon, contributed two compounds in midstage human tests that Fate Therapeutics believes could prove that traditional medicines can work on stem cells.
People who work with HeLa cells understand that they are a very odd cell line, and conclusions about human cell biology have to be taken with a huge grain of salt if they are observed in these cells.
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Newfangled embryonic stem cells might work better, but the treatments are years away from widespread clinical use.
Dr Pier and his team began their work by looking at cells cultured from a cystic-fibrosis patient.
Once FGFR1 was stopped, hormone-based treatments like Tamoxifen could get back to work in destroying cancer cells, they found.
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They work only with dead cells or pieces of a cell, never capturing crucial data about how drugs affect living cells.
The research team is continuing and expanding their work using human stem cells and further refining the repair cells for the heart.
To the shock of the hundreds of researchers who now work with embryonic stem cells, the judge agreed and plunged the field into confusion.
First, federal judge Royce Lamberth surprised everyone on August 23 by calling a halt to all federally-funded work on embryonic stem cells (ESCs).
Besides being tweakable to match the spectrum of a light-bulb, dye-based cells also work well in dim or diffuse light of the sort often found indoors.
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The four were focused on the proteasome, a complex of proteins in cells that work as molecular garbage disposal units, engulfing and chopping up proteins when they are no longer needed.
Only a dozen such cell lines had been published in academic journals, and the number shocked scientists who were afraid they would not have enough embryonic stem cells to work with.
The genetic approach to reprogramming, pioneered by Shinya Yamanaka who won the 2012 Nobel Prize in medicine for his work, allows human cells to be transformed back into an embryonic-like, pluripotent state.
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First came the remarkable work of Shinya Yamanaka at Kyoto University, who showed it was possible, by activating just four genes, to take a mature cell (he used a bit of skin but other cells would work) and turn it into the equivalent of an embryonic stem cell with the potential to become any other cell in the body of mouse or human.
The idea behind thin-film solar cells, however, is to work with flexible films, slashing costs while creating solar cells that can be wrapped around walls or even incorporated into tinted windows.
The Apollo space program relied on hydrogen fuel cells, which work by stripping electrons from hydrogen atoms.
If chemotherapy and other non-evasive methods to kill the tumor cells do not work, then surgery will be required.
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