Could something as dumb and as mechanical as a robotic test tube compete with old-fashioned ingenuity?
The fibroblasts are grown in a test tube and then implanted into tissue near the stomach.
The only problem, at first, was that the peptides only functioned in a test tube.
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The first test tube baby was born July 25th, 1978 in the north of England.
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In the test tube Trail causes cancer cells to kill themselves while sparing normal cells.
Researchers noticed early on that rapamycin slowed the growth of cancer cells in the test tube.
In the test tube, antisense compounds failed to enter the cells containing the target genes.
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Gradually, it will take less courage to venture into India with a test tube.
It was a teaspoon of water in a test tube, not a mass of silicon, metal and plastic.
Then, he mixed them in a test tube and allowed them to combine.
Clones die in the test tube, in the womb and after birth for reasons that researchers still scarcely understand.
At the moment, the computer built by Dr Shapiro's team only works in a watery solution inside a test tube.
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The approach is so exotic that it should have taken eight years to move from the test tube to the bedside.
Randox's factory is tucked away at the end of a bumpy country lane near Crumlin, a test tube's throw from Craigavon.
The more promising candidates were then cooked up and injected into a test tube holding a notoriously resistant form of ovarian cancer preserved from years ago.
It took another three years to figure out a way to grow the virus in a test tube, a requirement for testing an antiviral.
By generating DNA sequences representing all possible routes and mixing them in a test tube, Dr Adleman was able to find the quickest route.
Dr Reynolds, and others, have shown that under the influence of suitable growth factors, stem cells can lead full lives in a test tube.
Not only does a tiny test tube require far less fluid, it can also speed reactions, because all the molecules are so much closer to each other.
Balasubramanian's group has been pursuing a four-stranded version of the molecule that scientists have produced in the test tube now for a number of years.
Interesting to learn in retrospect that the real ethical breach surrounding the first test tube baby was a good old fashioned failure to achieve informed consent.
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Tumor necrosis factor, named for its ability to make cancer cells die in the test tube, had fizzled in human tests because it was too toxic.
It has been sequenced completely so it can be recreated in a test tube and if it comes back you've got as much virus as you could want.
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Both hit all but one of dozens of Gleevec-resistant strains in the test tube, and in trials they send a large minority of such tough cases into remission.
One worry about taking such work forward is that the insides of a cell are far more complicated and unpredictable than the controlled environment of a test tube.
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It is the way tissue engineering should be going - getting the body to regenerate itself rather than trying to grow complex body parts in a test tube.
HGS, gets human antibodies out of the mice and, if these prove useful in a test tube, makes human monoclonals directly from XenoMouse for further testing as potential drugs.
They could be used to build an artificial artery in a test tube or the stem cells could be injected straight into the heart and they could form within it.
Kosan has generated several hundred variants of the antibiotic, some of which wipe out strains of bacteria that are resistant to most other marketed drugs--in test tube and animal experiments, anyway.
Friedhoff and Buxbaum have shown two things: First, they showed that lovastatin could prevent cells from making beta amyloid in the test tube in doses that could be realistically given to patients.
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