Sentences with phrase «about cell movement»

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What frustrates me about the pro-choice movement is the lengths to which advocates go to de-humanize unborn children and sanitize the abortion procedure, reducing life to nothing more than a cluster of cells and the implications of pregnancy to little more than a choice.

As the cochlea's fluid moves, about 15,000 hair cells sitting in it, each tuned to a particular frequency, pick up the motions; the cochlear nerve translates the movements into auditory messages that are sent to the brain.

But little is known about how ionizing radiation affects the extracellular matrix (ECM), a patchwork of proteins and other biomolecules that surrounds cells and plays a vital role in their shape, movement and signaling functions.

The research also answers a long - standing question about why motor neurons, the nerve cells of the spinal cord that control muscle movement, form much faster than other types of neurons.

Pfaff's group used the new method to answer a long - standing question about how a collection of cells in the spinal cord, called the locomotor central pattern generator (CPG), connects to the right motor neurons to allow movements like walking.

Recently, they have been studying whether a certain protein involved in cell movement acted at the leading edge of the traveling cell, and they had heard about a cutting edge technique that uses flashes of light to tether proteins to other proteins or fixed locations.

ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is diagnosed in about 5,600 Americans annually and is associated with progressive deterioration of nerve cells in the brain and spine that govern movement, including breathing.

For both cells, peak firing rates occurred at about the same instant relative to movement onset regardless of the movement amplitude, but burst durations were shorter and peak firing rates were higher when the cell took part in the small saccades than when it participated in the large saccades.

over many iterations)-- in this section he discuss the 100 km square gaps -LCB- specifically mentioned at about 46:00 -RCB-(i.e., cell size)-- e.g., to analyze air movement, the cell would need to be, per Komogorov microscale, 1 mm (aersols even smaller, microns)-RRB--- in climate data, at about 44:00 His discusses the fact that even IF the basic equations were known, there isn't enough time since time began to calculate even just a TEN — year forecast, even at super-fast speeds it would take approx. 10 to the 20th power years (the universe is only 10 to the 10th power years old)-RCB-