Sentences with phrase «altering mechanical properties»

The research suggests that reducing production of the protein, called myoferlin, affects cancer cells in two primary ways: by changing the activation of many genes involved in metastasis in favor of normal cell behavior, and by altering mechanical properties of cancer cells — including their shape and ability to invade — so they are more likely to remain nested together rather than breaking away to travel to other tissues.

One team of researchers from Vanderbilt University aims to unlock how irradiation might alter the mechanical properties of the microenvironment.

The laser melting technique inherently resulted in hierarchical cell - like structures that could be tuned to alter the mechanical properties, researchers said.

Not exact matches

An interdisciplinary scientist is needed to demonstrate how the mechanical properties of the culture system alter signaling in the cells.

But the cells also changed shape and other properties in the absence of the protein in ways that reduced the likelihood that they would travel away from the tumor — a sign that myoferlin not only changes genes in cancer cells, but also alters the cells» mechanical properties.

«Because our hydrogel system is easily modified, we can just alter other parameters to create the mechanical and biological properties desired to support many types of cells or organoids,» said García, who holds the Rae S. and Frank H. Neely Chair.

We don't know how these cells alter the electrical and mechanical properties of heart tissue, or the degree to which these changes are to blame for the ultimate shutdown of the heart.

Now an international team led by scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has shown that how electrons respond to radiation in a solid can alter the way permanent damage is created in the material and radically affect its mechanical, magnetic, electrical, and optical properties.