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Well I've always said that fame and fortune - the two things that one seems to go after when they go into show business was not at all what it was cracked up to be as far as I was concerned. I found fame to be somewhat of a prison. The more famous you were, the smaller the cell that you had to live in.

I know what cancer was. How is it like humankind?" Sek Hardeen's perfectly modulated, softly accented tones showed a hint of agitation. "We have spread out through the galaxy like cancer cells through a living body, Duré. We multiply without thought to the countless life forms that must die or be pushed aside so that we may breed and flourish. We eradicate competing forms of intelligent life.

When the next generation of content is developed, we have to think in a totally different way. Think about it more symbolically. The main story that you see on the TV screen is maybe like the living room of a house. But there are various other rooms in this house that you will otherwise never see. But if you use the Internet, you find out what's in the attic. And if you use the cell phone, you find out what's on the first floor. And on another medium, you find out what's in the cellar.

The body remembers, the bones remember, the joints remember, even the little finger remembers. Memory is lodged in pictures and feelings in the cells themselves. Like a sponge filled with water, anywhere the flesh is pressed, wrung, even touched lightly, a memory may flow out in a stream.

These are my wakeup cupcakes, some anti-depressants, and a cell phone book

We learned that the two cell lines from which Hwang fabricated photos of the other nine cells for the Science paper do not match the DNA of patients who contributed ... cells.

We learn a lot by taking cells out, chopping them up, and looking at individual molecules. But it doesn't tell us what we need to know about the complex interactions between cells.

While scientists have believed that aging is a disease in which cells stop dividing, this study suggests that aging is really a disease of quality control. In this case, the manufactured product is a new cell. As we get older, altered gene expression results in cells with diminished function.

We commissioned additional tests on more samples of the stem cells featured on the 2004 Science article.

This research is significant because it suggests that it will be possible to create mouse 'models' of human brain tissue, enabling scientists to try out both stem cell interventions and other potential cures on living human brain cells without having to use humans in the process.

The reason you feel achy and sore when you catch a bug is because your body is fighting -- making extra cells -- so by us stimulating that response that's why you feel achy and sore for a few days. You won't get other flu-like symptoms. When you stop receiving the injections and after giving the cells, you feel normal again.

We believe that AAV-2 recognizes that the cancer cells are abnormal and destroys them. This suggests that AAV-2 has great potential to be developed as an anti-cancer agent.

Trying to understand fundamental processes that take place as organisms develop and how their various cells interact with one another - one can see what happens with those cells by asking questions about the fundamentals of biology.

The question was, 'Is there a way of minimizing the amount of damage you're doing so that you can then study cells in a physiological manner while also studying them at high spatial and temporal resolution for a long time?'

We have shown in a mouse model that you can generate embryonic stem cells using a method that does not interfere with the developmental potential of the embryo,

When you had chicken pox, the virus didn't go away. It went up and went to sleep in the nerve cells that allow you to feel in your skin.

When you do cross-breeding of plants, you're doing this blind experiment where you're just mixing DNA of different types of cells and just seeing what comes out of it.

Without micronutrients to remove waste, cells become congested, DNA gets broken, and the body doesn't have the ability to repair itself. Eventually, you get sick.

When you're born, you're actually born with the muscle cells you're going to have for the rest of your life. If you use them, and exercise and get those muscles working, you'll help them to grow. But if you don't use them, they're going to decline.

We want to understand how stem cells make this decision to differentiate or stay stem cells. What signals do they get? These are big questions, difficult questions, and we need to answer them. These are hard questions, but slowly we'll get the ability to answer them.

Tumor cells are more sensitive to the negative effects of heat. If you heat up a normal cell, you can tolerate a fairly high temperature, up into the range of a bad fever. Whereas tumor cells tend to die as the temperature goes up.

We were excited to find that the cells responded to the damage by making appropriate new cells that could assist in repair. This study supports the possibility that formation of new myelin and new neurons may contribute to recovery,

We've had quite a few discover the wonderful reality to why shaving helps so much. It not just for the reduction of resistance by the removal of hair, but it also removes a whole layer of dead skin cells and allows the kids to feel the water better.

To my knowledge, the only team that can reliably produce disease-specific and patient-specific human embryonic stem cells is the team in Korea.

Surely the mitochondrion that first entered another cell was not thinking about the future benefits of cooperation and integration; it was merely trying to make its own living in a tough Darwinian world

No one supposed that dinoflagellates might actively kill fish as an evolved response for their own specific advantage, including a potential nutritional benefit for the algal cells. And yet the dinoflagellates do seem to be killing and eating fishes in a manner suggesting active evolution for this most peculiar reversal.

This war is not about one man or one terrorist network or even one country, ... It is about a problem that infects this globe of ours with a number of terrorist networks and cells in a number of countries.

We found they could be induced to mature into nerve cells, hair follicles, muscle cells and gut endoderm cells. And when cultured in lab dishes, the cells differentiated, or matured, into the three major basic types of cell.

What do cells do when they see a broken piece of DNA? Cells don't like such breaks. They'll do pretty much anything they can to fix things up. If a chromosome is broken, the cells will repair the break using an intact chromosome.

What CLA does is it's able to block that step of little fat cells getting bigger. Our results showed that CLA made it easier for people to stay on their diets.

What's going on in biology, and is really very major, is we're understanding how really spectacular cells are at figuring things out, processing information, analyzing complicated situations and making good decisions about them. The research agenda, at least for the beginning of the 21st Century, is focusing on cells and organisms as very sophisticated and powerful processors of information.

The prisoners first connected five of the prison's 14 cells by smashing large holes through the walls that separated them. Then, they gathered in one of the cells and crawled through a tunnel that they apparently had been digging for weeks, if not months.

We figured out a way to get living cells to attach where and when we want them to.

We could design the program to separate cells by size, luminescence, texture, fluorescent tags and basically any characteristic that can be distinguished visually.

There are billions of neurons in our brains, but what are neurons? Just cells. The brain has no knowledge until connections are made between neurons. All that we know, all that we are, comes from the way our neurons are connected.

Vitamin D's main role is to keep the balance of calcium and phosphorous in the blood, which helps keep bones strong. However, a lesser-known role is how it regulates cell growth and determines what a cell becomes. A vitamin D deficiency may allow cells to become cancerous rather than becoming healthy cells.

To rationalize their lies, people -- and the governments, churches, or terrorist cells they compose -- are apt to regard their private interests and desires as just.

This new discovery gives an indication as to what we have always suspected; that cord blood stem cells can differentiate to become all types of cells in the body.

We have evidence that the compounds protect against Alzheimer's by influencing the early gene expression in learning and memory, which influences cell signaling pathways that help neuronal cells communicate with each other.

Better build schoolrooms for "the boy,"/ Than cells and gibbets for "the man.

Every single cluster of stem cells has a different contraction rate--its own little rhythm. It's kind of a miracle of life when you can see these cells growing and differentiating before your very eyes. Gladstone scientists have provided key advice on all aspects of our stem cell program by speaking to our staff and our board, as well as the public.

At the highest concentration of ascorbic acid, if given intravenously, they don't touch normal cells and they kill lots of cancer cells. We don't know why,

CSA-54 killed a wide range of HIV isolates, and completely blocked genetically engineered HIV that enters the cells independent of the cell surface receptor the virus normally uses.

Embryonic stem cells can be derived from in vitro fertilized (IVF) embryos that are developed in excess of those needed for the procedure used to enable infertile couples to have children.

Far from being entirely dependent on exogenous food sources of antioxidants, our cells have their own innate ability to generate antioxidants upon demand.

Fertilization is a very basic cell interaction, a very important medical, economic and social interaction. And it's also a paradigm of how other cells interact, because every cell in our body is near or in close contact with other cells. And when those interactions break down you can get cancer and other diseases. So identifying these molecules could give us a better idea of the lock and key necessary for everyday functioning, not only in terms of preventing infertility but also for preventing disease.

Females age 16 and under have immature cells of the cervix. These immature cervical cells are much more likely to be infected with HPV than the cervical cells of older women. And when a female age 16 and under is infected with HPV, the virus tends to cause more damage to the immature cervical cells.

Think about breast cancer. It can take seven years for breast cells to go from pre-cancerous to cancer, to a cancer that's palpable. So these results may simply be too early.

These are probably some of the rarest cells in the world.

These cells will rapidly let us study human processes in a way we couldn't before.

These cells have to die, because if they didn't the heart would not function properly.

The success of this procedure in no way precludes the need to pursue all forms of human embryonic stem cell research, ... Human embryonic stem cells are extraordinarily complicated. If we are ever to realize their therapeutic potential, we must use all known tools and techniques in order to explore the mechanisms that give these cells such startling characteristics.

The theory behind previous research is that people with higher education have a higher brain or cognitive reserve, maybe a larger number of brain cells or more efficient brain systems or networks. These people with higher education have more redundancy or reserve so they can cope if part of the brain is destroyed.

Sometimes you have to leave empty cells to separate the groups. That cuts down your capacity.

Technology for patient-specific embryonic stem cells belongs to South Korea. And you will find out that this is true.

Temporary hearing loss or a ringing in the ears is a sign these cells are trying to recover. But over time, recovery becomes impossible and hearing is permanently impaired.

Right now, the techniques for gene therapy are kind of brute force. You put the gene in and hope it goes into the right place. There's no selection. What we would like to do is put the gene into stem cells, grow them and watch them to be as sure as one can be that we've got the right gene into the right cells and nothing untoward has happened.

Provided that research advances to the point that we can demonstrate these cells' true therapeutic benefit, parents could conceivably choose to bank their child's amniotic epithelial cells in the event they may someday be needed, as is sometimes done now with umbilical cord blood,

Normal levels of telomerase didn't lengthen short telomeres in our mice, so the longer the telomeres are to start with, the longer transplanted stem cells will be able to divide and the more likely the transplant is to succeed.

Once the principle is there, that cells have the same genes, my own personal belief is that we will, in the end, understand everything about how cells actually work.

Dr. Alt's discoveries have led to a greater understanding of the ways that cancers of immune cells develop and they hold promise for finding ways to control or perhaps prevent these diseases. Dr. Alt's studies of the instability of the genome are central to our understanding of the events that lead to transformation of normal cells to cancer cells.

Antioxidants are really like little bodyguards inside your body that protect your cells from disease.

Any group that intends to sell laboratory meat will need to build bioreactors - factories that can grow cells under pristine conditions. Bioreactors aren't new; beer and yeast are made using similar methods.

The British are definitely comparing notes on Moroccan cells across Europe, in Italy, France and the UK. The current thinking is that the people who did this may have trained in the same camps as the people who committed the Madrid bombings. The techniques are very similar.

A single cell all by itself, thrown into plastic, it just doesn't like that. . . .You put it in with other cells and it's much happier.

Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.

This is precisely what makes these stem cells so interesting from a therapeutic perspective. They are wired so they can become almost any part of the body. We've uncovered a key part of the wiring diagram for these cells and can now see how this is accomplished.

Although it will be some years before we are able to build actual human lungs for transplantation, this is a major step towards deriving cells that could be used to repair damaged lungs.

They are so rare in number. We are talking about, in typical blood that may have over a billion cells in it, we may find only 200 to 1,000 of these cells in that billion cells. So I believe that's why other groups have not found them yet,

This panel couldn't find stem cells that match patients' DNA regarding the 2005 paper, and it believes that Hwang's team didn't secure scientific data to prove that.

About two weeks ago, we had a series of brown outs. The fuel cells were able to reconfigure and there was no loss of power. They kept right on chugging away with no disruption.

The most dangerous cancer cells are actually the ones that are more like stem cells, which have this ability to produce themselves over and over again. More and more cancer biologists say stem-cell-like cells in cancers are the most dangerous.

It seems odd to think of tasting without any perceptive experience, but you are doing it right now. Humans have taste receptor cells in the gut, the voice box, the upper esophagus. But only the tongue's receptors report to the brain.

It is unlikely that changes in telomeres are influencing the lifespan of the worm. That is because telomeres only shorten when cells divide. Most of the cells of the worm stop dividing when the worm becomes an adult.

It really does limit what we can do. If the restrictions were removed, we could use these cells much more broadly.

It points to a growing interest among businesses in using fuel cells to power factories and buildings. The most compelling reason for GM to collaborate with Dow is ultimately to reduce the cost of fuel cells and improve their durability so that we may put them in cars by the end of the decade.

For example, it should be possible to array multiple types of non-adherent cells on a chip to create a mini-immune system for evaluating potential therapies.

It's supposed to help blood flow get to the area and get healthy cells to the area that need healing through the increased blood flow. I'm actually in it right now. You can take all your gadgets in there and relax. I've spent a little time in here every day.

It is the most detailed study yet describing the interplay of proteins that occur in cells during health and disease.

It's highly effective against human tumor cells in tissue cultures. I think this represents a new approach to treatment of cancer.

It's becoming harder and harder to argue that embryonic cells have uses that adult cells do not.

The next step in the cloning process involves searching for cells in the bones and tendons of preserved specimens, ... If none are found, then we will try to extract DNA from those specimens and use 'Jurassic Park technology'.

The novelty is that we reveal a potential communication, involving the transmitter serotonin, between immune cells that is normally only found between neurons.

It's not as if this research says there is no need for embryonic stem cells. It continues to show the enormous potential of stem-cell research and highlights the value of embryonic stem cells as a source of research material.

Everybody wants to talk about cancer stem cells now. From funding agencies to institutions to scientists, people are recognizing that this is probably the game to be in.

The bad news is that my thin melanoma has something called mitosis, which means the cancer cells are dividing and multiplying even as I write. My thin melanoma has already spread outside of the tumor and into the deep layers of skin.

The AXO System is a newly developed automated system that allows stem cells from cord blood to be harvested in a functionally closed processing set without the requirement of expensive clean rooms and labor intensive processes.

The adhesion of cells is very quick and far stronger than will be needed for most applications. We just let them incubate for 35 minutes, rinse, and we're ready to go. We've kept our cells alive on the chip for up to 25 hours and the same proportion of cells survive using our method as cells cultured under identical conditions.

Synthetic biology can help address key challenges facing the planet and its population. Research in synthetic biology may lead to new things such as programmed cells that self-assemble at the sites of disease to repair damage.

It is the quest for an understanding of hair cells at a molecular level that drives our research. We would like to understand how hair cells work, why they are vulnerable and why in mammals hair cells do not regenerate.

It's an automated process using a smaller needle. It takes the blood out of the body and puts it in a machine where the red cells are separated and saved in a bag. Then the plasma and platelets are put back into the body with a little bit of saline.

It's designed to capture viruses from your entire blood system. It's designed to capture viruses before cells and organs can be infected.

It turns out that this part of the brain is one of the first areas that's attacked by Alzheimer's disease. So we can now use some of the basic understanding of this part of the brain to ask the simple question, 'What is going wrong with these special cells in the hippocampus at the very earliest stages?'

They could have simply been told, 'Enter the United States, learn how to fly these types of planes,' ... They may not have known ultimately where this was headed or what the goal was. Then as that became necessary, they could have been in communication with other members of other cells who would have given them other directions.

They demonstrate that you can isolate the equivalent embryonic stem cells by alternative methods that may not raise the ethical questions,

They are wired so they can become almost any part of the body. We've uncovered a key part of the wiring diagram for these cells and can now see how this is accomplished.

They'll have their own bone marrow harvested. Stem cells will come over to this new facility and processed for a purified layer of cells containing stem cells. We'll put them directly into the heart during the operation.

They know where the bank accounts are, they know the names of the people who were trained, they know the sleeper cells that exist around the world,

There still could be some groups of people that would object to (our method) because at one time the cells were derived from a very early human embryo.

These particles can damage the cells in the lining of our lungs and produce lung cancer.