Sentences with phrase «about cell biology»

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She was also a teaching fellow at the University of Maryland, where she studied and implemented uses of active learning and the «flipped classroom» to teach honors students about cell biology.

You'll also be expected to remain knowledgeable of advances outside your immediate field of study (i.e., reading about cell biology if you work on transcription), which will permit you to round out your education.

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Those who believe these nonsensical ideas DO hold the rest back - be it in creationist ideas about biology, or stem cell research, or limiting over-population via contraception, you name it.

But please do go on tell me more about how evolution is in fact «false», disprove genetic evidence, paleontological evidence, anatomical evidence, evidence from cell biology, virology, zoology, mycology, should I keep going?

I've known that in a general sort of way for a long time, but the concept really hit me earlier in the semester when I started taking biology and learning more about cells and nutrition.

Mitch Leslie Contributing Correspondent Writes about molecular and cell biology.

Elizabeth Pennisi Senior Correspondent Writes about ecology, evolution, molecular and cell biology, genetics, and plant sciences.

Above all, synthetic biology «requires a new way of thinking about biology: the idea that cells are machines and they can be rebuilt the way that electrical engineers now design circuits [and] instruments,» Glass says.

Science Careers talked to Riccardo Guidi, a Ph.D. student at KI, in the department of cell and molecular biology, and co-founder of Queerolinska, about the Pride Parade and what it meant for lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgendered (LGBT) students.

«There's so much unknown about [stem cells], you permanently change the boundaries of biology by working in such a field,» Hochedlinger says.

Dong Wook Han, a professor of stem - cell biology at Konkuk University in Seoul, is worried about how the country regulates clinical research on stem cells.

«There has been ongoing debate about whether the methylation mark can be passed on through cell divisions and across generations, and we've now shown that it is,» said corresponding author Susan Strome, a professor of molecular, cell and developmental biology at UC Santa Cruz.

During this period, he became interested in cell and molecular biology thanks in part to discussions he had with a roommate about his graduate research in Iowa's microbiology program.

Efforts to obtain and study genomes and enrichment cultures of uncultivated microbial lineages will likely further expand our knowledge about archaeal phylogenetic and metabolic diversity and their cell biology and ecological function.

Studying the vying for nutrients in the cell «will teach us really interesting biology about how the cell senses the presence of a parasite metabolically, and how the cell is able to metabolically respond,» Pernas says — knowledge that could lead to new therapies.

At its most basic, synthetic biology is about making DNA from scratch, on scales from individual molecules to cells, tissues and even entire organisms.

Hwang said the study would provide data about the best candidates for active surveillance, and create a repository of imaging and cell samples to advance knowledge into the molecular biology of DCIS and what fuels or deters its growth.

«This is an important and fundamental paper for understanding human germ - line cells and finding the basic information about human germ - cell biology,» says reproductive biologist Evelyn Telfer of the University of Edinburgh, UK.

«By learning more about how these cells work, we are one step closer to understanding the disease states in which these cells should be studied,» said Cagla Eroglu, an assistant professor of cell biology and neurobiology at the Duke University Medical Center, who led the research.

James Hewett, associate professor of biology, and Yifan Gong, a Ph.D. candidate in biology and neuroscience, have co-authored an article in the journal Neuroscience (Elsevier, 2018) about a protein in the brain called T - cell intracellular antigen - 1 (TIA - 1).

However, little is known in humans about the biology of CD4 - CTL generation, their functional properties, and heterogeneity, especially in relation to other well - described CD4 + memory T cell subsets.

Though little is known about Loki, scientists hope that it will help to resolve one of biology's biggest mysteries: how life transformed from simple single - celled organisms to the menagerie of complex life known as eukaryotes — a category that includes everything from yeast to azaleas to elephants.

«We're excited about the application of CombiGEM to probe complex multifactorial phenotypes, such as stem cell differentiation, cancer biology, and synthetic circuits,» Lu says.

At that time, little was known about the molecular biology of development — how what's going on in the development process itself influences what can happen to the evolutionary trajectory of cells and organisms.

Wei - Chuan Shih, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, said fluorescence microscopy is «a workhorse,» used in biology, medical diagnostics and other fields to reveal information about cells and tissue that can't otherwise be detected.

«The exciting part of this work is not just that we made hydrogels, but that we're now equipped with this powerful technique that lets us ask fundamental — and very challenging — questions about them,» says Takanari Inoue, Ph.D., an associate professor of cell biology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and senior author of the report on the research published online Nov. 6 in the journal Nature Materials.

And many exchanges were heated because, despite 150 years of research on the biology of evolution, scientists still disagree about how and why multicellular creatures and plants emerged from ancient oceans that teemed with robust and self - reliant single - celled entities.

As we started to try to understand the biology of these stem cells, it very quickly became clear that we needed information about the genetic content of these organisms.»

As an undergraduate biology major at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, Niyogi focused on molecular and cell biology and thought about immunology or transcription factors as a potential field of study.

About a third of the 150 cell biologists, biophysicists, and technicians already hired for the new center have been drawn from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, the hub of molecular and cell biology research in Europe for a quarter - century.

But while we have decades of data in mice about these nervous system support cells, how relevant those experiments are to human biology (and the success of potential therapies) has been an open question.

He is «an unusual character» who's distinctive for «bringing epidemiological thinking and methodology into dialogue with molecular and cell biology» to answer important questions about aging, says gerontologist Thomas Kirkwood of the University of Newcastle in Newcastle - upon - Tyne, U.K.

So it could be RNA or DNA like we have in modern biology or it could be some related kind of material; and we are also thinking about some kind of cell envelope or cell membrane — not that that's necessarily the very first way Darwinian systems began, but at some point they had to transition into a system more related to modern biology where cells are all bounded by membranes — so we're thinking about how to assemble these two components and get them to interact with each other.

«While genetic modification of crops can introduce new beneficial traits into existing crops, the resulting products need to be tested for long - term health effects before making assumptions about their impact on human health,» said senior investigator Frances Sladek, a professor of cell biology and neuroscience at UC Riverside.

Another dogma in cell biology seems about to be toppled: If a mutation in a gene doesn't change the basic sequence of building blocks, then it has no effect.

However, lipids provide a useful tool for systems biology, because «they can be quantified, which tells us about the state of a cell or tissue,» explains Kai Simons, CEO of Lipotype in Dresden, Germany.

Update: In an e-mail, a spokesman for Veridex said the collaboration with Mass General is «is just beginning,» so there are «no details about what this future system will look like,» except that it will be small enough to sit on a lab bench and will be able to zero in on the biology of rare cells.

Clara Franzini — Armstrong writes about Annemarie Weber, «a major contributor to the renaissance of muscle biology research in the 1950s to 1970s, when the components of the contractile machinery were identified; novel views of muscle contraction and regulation were elucidated; and principles of energy transduction, motility and intracellular signaling common to all cells were revealed.»

But it's one that bioethicists have warned about for at least a dozen years, since advances in stem cell biology made it easier to produce chimeras.

The workshop intended to serve as a tutorial about mathematical and bioinformatics approaches in current stem cell biology.

Andrew Huberman, PhD, University of California, San Diego, brings specialized knowledge about the biology of healthy ganglion cells to the consortium.

Biorelevance is about emphasizing on biology and the study of nature to achieve reproducible protocols and phenotypically stable cell cultures.

The workshop is organized by Ingo Roeder and Ingmar Glauche, Institute for Medical Informatics and Biometry and it is intended as a tutorial about mathematical and bioinformatics approaches in current stem cell biology.

«The last 50 years of structural biology has been about trying to get detailed pictures of all the parts of the cell to understand them thoroughly,» Yeates said.

CIRM recognizes that continued advancement in stem cell research requires an increasing number of experienced and highly skilled scientists who are passionate about stem cell biology.

This two - volume reference integrates this exciting area of biology, combining the prerequisites for a general understanding of adult and embryonic stem cells, the tools, methods, and experimental protocols needed to study and characterize stem cells and progenitor populations, as well as a presentation by the world's experts of what is currently known about each specific organ system.

His revolutionary findings about oyster cell biology were published in the journal Science in April 2004.

«Over the past year, the international scientific community, from physicians to computer scientists, has engaged in an open process to plan how to go about making this revolutionary atlas,» said Aviv Regev, a core member, chair of faculty, and director of the Klarman Cell Observatory and Cell Circuits Program at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; an HHMI Investigator; professor of biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and co-chair, with Sarah Teichmann of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, of the HCA Organizing Committee.

We understand far more about the biology of retinal ganglion cells and glaucoma — which ganglion cells degenerate early.