Sentences with phrase «affects cell fate»
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It involves the way an egg cell is built and how information positioned during that construction affects the fate of the embryo.
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Chi said that eliminating autophagy also affected the fate of such regulatory T cells.
By determining how changes in gene expression affect the fate of glial cells in mice, we hope to understand the key factors that govern neural cell regeneration in the human brain.
These modifications of p53 are believed to fine tune p53 - dependent gene regulation and cell fate decisions by affecting p53 protein stability, DNA binding affinity and interactions between p53 and other transcription cofactors.
Understanding the conditions that cause these cells to go off to different fates may have a bearing on health problems such as ectopic pregnancy, which occurs when the embryo develops outside of the womb in about 1 of 60 pregnancies, or molar pregnancy, which is abnormal tissue growth within the uterus that affects about 1 in every 1,000 pregnancies.
Aberrant regulation of the epigenetic information results in changes in cell fate decisions, thereby affecting development and tissue homeostasis, and ultimately leading to disease, such as cancer.