A byproduct of the discovery of RNAi was the finding that
although cells in the human body only contain one strand of RNA, they do have micro-RNA — tiny sections of RNA that can act a little like double - stranded RNA and also silence the activity of certain genes.
Not exact matches
This depends upon there being a brain, an arrangement of
cells in a particular part of the
body which by reason of its peculiar coordination makes the given routing able to «know»
in a distinctively
human manner — quite different from,
although certainly continuous with, the sort of «knowing» that is possible for the higher grades of animal life.
Although electrolyte leakage is still undesired, its danger is minimized by the use of either the normal saline solution pumped into the
body in most IV treatments or a
cell - culture medium that contains amino acids, sugars, and vitamins
in addition to sodium ions and thus mimics the fluid that surrounds
human cells.
The result suggests that,
although Hwang deceived the world about achieving the first
human cloning, his group was first to succeed
in performing
human parthenogenesis, which may offer a way of creating
cells that are genetically matched to a woman for transplantation back into her
body to treat degenerative diseases.
Although the court ruled that
human genetic material is not patentable — there is «no doubt that naturally occurring DNA and RNA as they exist inside the
cells of the
human body can not be the subject of a valid patent,» Nicholas wrote
in his opinion — it concluded that the process of isolating the BRCA1 gene from the
human body required
human intervention.
Although almonds contain about 55 percent fat, lead researcher Giusy Mandalari, a biologist, says that
humans absorb less than half of that largely because the oils
in almonds are stored behind a tough
cell wall that must be broken for our
bodies to absorb them.
Although the ratio of
human to bacterial
cells in the
human body has recently been revised — the estimate is that we're about 50/50 — the fact remains that the microbes we carry with us exert a huge influence on our health, and even on our emotions.