Sentences with phrase «artificial cells»

Other potential areas of applications are artificial cell systems.

The winner of the Cell and Molecular Biology category, Mijo Simunovic (Rockefeller University, USA) spoke about how he took part in discovering a new pathway by which signaling proteins and certain pathogens enter cells and then constructed artificial cell membranes that he manipulated using lasers and microscopes to understand the process.

Such tough vesicles might eventually be used to create artificial cells for packaging drugs, Hammer says.

In an effort to create synthetic beta cells that can duplicate the behavior of natural beta cells, scientists from the University of North Carolina and NC State cleverly produced artificial cells containing insulin - stuffed vesicles.

Armstrong uses artificial cells that have life - like qualities (but are not fully alive) to create sustainable construction materials that can (hopefully) repair themselves after a crack, bend, or break.

Building a DNA oscillator is a biological engineering feat in itself and would likely be integral for potential breakthroughs in synthetic biology, such as controlling the timing of events in artificial cells, scheduling the release of drugs and synchronizing molecular computers.

As I noted earlier today in an Aug. 19, 2014 posting about 14nm computer chips and limits to computation, the question about limits can be applied to other areas of endeavour including the creation of artificial cell systems.

Liu elaborates: «In our research field the lofty question is still not fully unraveled, namely, how we can understand better and whether we can build artificial cells with all artificial components.»

Much like a real electrocyte, each four - gel artificial cell generated 130 to 185 millivolts of electricity, and 612 artificial eel cells in tandem produced 110 volts — similar to that of a household outlet.

«Spontaneous pressure regulation within artificial cells.»

So this week in ACS Central Science, researchers demonstrate that certain artificial cells can pass a basic laboratory Turing test by «talking» chemically with living bacterial cells.

But Rorsman believes that such artificial cells present a viable diabetes treatment.

After a decade or two, we might have engineered bacteria that make fuel out of old garbage dumps, or maybe even a substantially artificial cell that acts like a doctor, swimming through the body and fixing our own aging human cells.

«By using an animal model to expand tumor cells recently removed from patients, we hoped to re-create more closely what actually happens in patients with pancreatic cancer rather than by using existing artificial cell lines,» said Wei Zhang, Ph.D., an endowed Hanes and Willis Family Professor in cancer at Wake Forest School of Medicine, a part of Wake Forest Baptist, and principal investigator of the study.

While trying to find more information about the work on artificial cells and the Weizmann Institute, I discovered a Canadian chapter of what is, in addition to being a scientific research institute in Israel, a worldwide organization.

We may not be talking megawatts (let alone watts) of potential energy here, but a new artificial cell created by researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Yale University could be used to power the next generation of

Building artificial cells will tell us much about the origins of life — and may explain how Darwinian evolution began, says Nobel laureate Jack Szostak

Frankencell J. Craig Venter's attempt to create an artificial cell containing the smallest possible number of essential genes.

The researchers have designed a custom integrated circuit to perform these measurements, in which an artificial cell membrane and ion channel are attached directly to the surface of the amplifier chip.

With each pulse, a bit of the excess contents were released and a cyclical breathing - like change in the artificial cell's texture was produced.

For those creating materials with new properties, such as greater strength or self - healing, the artificial cells ability to sense a possibly damaging event and respond shows an option for changing material structures in response to stress.

Using a similar pressure - regulating mechanism to that found in cells, scientists created an artificial cell that responds to a sudden and possibly catastrophic change in its surroundings.

To overcome the difficulties in crystallisation, the researchers used an artificial cell membrane environment called lipid cubic phase, LCP, that at least allowed to grow micro-crystals.

They created the artificial cell using self - assembled surfactants (chemicals that lower the surface tension between different materials, for example, detergents), sugar, and water.

These artificial cells could communicate with a variety of bacterial species, including V. fischeri, E. coli and P. aeruginosa.

The artificial cells showed that they «heard» the natural cells by turning on genes that made them glow.

The authors note that more work must be done, however, because only one of these species engaged in a full cycle of listening and speaking in which the artificial cells sensed the molecules coming from the bacteria, and the bacteria could perceive the chemical signal sent in return.

Unlike transplanted beta cells — or other types of real cells genetically engineered to release insulin for diabetes treatment (SN: 1/15/11, p. 9)-- these artificial cells could be mass - produced and have a much longer shelf life than live cells, says study coauthor Zhen Gu, a biomedical engineer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

As for practical applications, Wingreen says that the general sensing strategy might build into the artificial cells researchers are trying to create in synthetic biology.

«We developed an artificial cell membrane that continually synthesizes all of the components needed to form additional catalytic membranes.»

Chemists and biologists at UC San Diego have succeeded in designing and synthesizing an artificial cell membrane capable of sustaining continual growth, just like a living cell.

For the first time, chemists have successfully produced an artificial cell containing organelles capable of carrying out the various steps of a chemical reaction.

The scientists then asked whether the artificial cells actually communicate and interact with one another like real cells.

An Aug. 18, 2014 Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) news release (also on EurekAlert but dated Aug. 19, 2014) describes an artificial cell system and its ability to synthesize protein,

With the artificial cell system, according to Bar - Ziv, one can, in principle, encode anything: «Genes are like Lego in which you can mix and match various components to produce different outcomes; you can take a regulatory element from E. coli that naturally controls gene X, and produce a known protein; or you can take the same regulatory element but connect it to gene Y instead to get different functions that do not naturally occur in nature.»

«The artificial cell system, in which we can control the genetic content and protein dilution times, allows us to study the relation between gene network design and the emerging protein dynamics.

But researchers from the University of North Carolina and NC State have now developed what could be a much more patient - friendly option: artificial cells that automatically release insulin into the bloodstream when glucose levels rise.

Scientists have created an artificial cell that replicates the color changing systems in squid and zebrafish.