Sentences with phrase «as a scaffold»

Engineers at Rutgers - New Brunswick and the New Jersey Institute of Technology worked with a hydrogel that has been used for decades in devices that generate motion and biomedical applications such as scaffolds for cells to grow on.

The EB family of proteins helps regulate this process and can act as a scaffold for other proteins involved in pushing the microtubule chain forward.

These tiny polymer microparticles could one day serve as scaffolding for tissues to rebuild themselves.

In his doctoral research, Jani Holopainen of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Helsinki has developed processes for fibrous and thin - film biomaterials that can be used as scaffolding for bone regeneration and in other bone impants.

May act as a scaffolding protein within caveolar membranes.

Developing macroporous bicontinuous materials as scaffolds for tissue engineering.

Routines are invaluable partly because they provide the «scaffolding» for your child to learn basic skills, just as scaffolding provides structure for a building to take shape.

Also, instead of relying on actual bone as a scaffold, they are now working with synthetic mineralized protein, which they can better mold and control.

The written instructions provided to the students serve as scaffolding in three significant ways.

By using DNA as a scaffold, the relative positions of the dye molecules can be precisely contolled, better mimicking natural systems.

Again, using these concepts as scaffolds and requiring the identification of the building blocks of successful argumentation will keep the peace when the blood is boiling.

Martina's recipes include low carb «basics» to replace traditional carb - heavy recipes or serve as the scaffolding upon which other recipes are built.

The group believes that in normal individuals, the prion protein works as a scaffold for multiple molecular interactions.

Throw some edible material in there that acts as scaffolding on which the cells can grow, make sure there's the optimal amount of movement and the correct temperature, and eventually you have meat that can be cooked and eaten just like any pork, beef or chicken you get from the store today.

Specifically, she is examining hydrogels as a scaffold for tissue engineering and is working to develop an artificial cornea.

Develop your students» understanding by using their prior knowledge as scaffolding for new learning.

He uses recognisable urban infrastructure and industrial products, such as scaffolding poles or breeze blocks, and in this instance a garden shed.

Throughout my experience as Scaffolding and Job Superintendent, I have successfully provided strong support and guidance to numerous construction projects and staff members, while implementing efficient and innovative project site solutions and assisted carpenters and staff in problem and conflict resolution initiatives.

The book can be used in a very literal sense with lower attaining students, or as a scaffolding structure for higher attaining students.

The majority of proteins found were identified as adaptor proteins, which serve as scaffolds within the Adherens Junction.

While the virtual surround was again on display, it acted more as scaffolding for the film's complex layers of sound.

From birth to age two, much of the brain architecture related to social and emotional response is formed as scaffolding for future mental health.

Construction job sites are known for their dangers, and accidents such as scaffolding accidents, injuries from falling objects and electrocution is an all too common occurrence.

Perhaps some of them see this old belief in a Creator as a scaffolding that was necessary for building up the edifice of science, but that we can now safely kick away.

Questions of Faith is a commentary structured around the Christian Apostle's Creed as its scaffold.

He saw these whiskies, with their exquisite balance of complexity, subtlety and refinement, not as a scaffold for the heroic malt to ascend but as true heroes in their own right.

Real estate interests often finds themselves opposing trial lawyers on issues such as the scaffolding law, and it's unlikely that the addition of another such attorney to the Senate's majority sits favorably with many of them.

Researchers from Kyoto University iCeMS and Osaka University have made biodegradable aligned nanofibers as a scaffold for culturing cardiomyocytes (CMs) derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs).

Using that antibody as a scaffold, the team engineered a new antibody that reacts against all four types of dengue virus.

In a study last year, Lancaster, now at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, and Knoblich got more consistent results by adding polymer filaments as scaffolding to guide the organization of the minibrain models.

«We hope our research will lead to more effective antibiotics, and also that it will inspire other researchers to use carbon nanodots as scaffolding for a variety of applications,» said Dr. Ngu - Schwemlein.

As laboratory - grown human tissues are becoming more robust and viable, researchers hope that one day such biomimetic hands will serve as scaffolds over which the organic tissue of a real hand can be grown.

Hartgerink said collagen's importance goes beyond its role as a scaffold for cells.

Separately, she is using yeasts as scaffold organisms because of their ability to grow many different materials.

Prof. Dr. Felix Engel of the Department of Nephropathology at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen had examined the properties of silk from the Indian silkworm and demonstrated its particular suitability as scaffolding material for engineering cardiac tissue.

Based on this work, a team of scientists from the University of Granada (Spain), the University of Uppsala (Sweden), the «Instituto de Quimica Fisica Rocasolano» (Madrid, Spain), the Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) and with data collected at the ESRF, the European Synchrotron, located in Grenoble (France), explored and tested these notions using resurrected Precambrian β - lactamases as scaffolds for the engineering of completely new active sites.

He wants to exploit DNA's unique chemical properties to process information like a computer (using novel scientific disciplines known as molecular programming and DNA computing) and even appropriate the DNA molecule as a scaffold on which to build useful structures.

«We're using precisely shaped DNA constructs made as a scaffold and single - stranded DNA tethers as a programmable glue that matches up particles according to the pairing mechanism of the genetic code — A binds with T, G binds with C,» said Wenyan Liu of the CFN, the lead author on the paper.

The folded DNA then acts as a scaffold onto which researchers can attach and organize all kinds of nanometer - scale components, from fluorescent molecules to electrically conductive carbon nanotubes to drugs.

Other proteins may also be utliized as scaffolds, including the set of red fluorescent proteins.

The idea of using GFP as a scaffold suddenly seemed very realistic.

The goal of the process, called decellularization, is to remove all cells — leaving only the organ structure or «skeleton,» known in regenerative medicine terms as a scaffold.

The film doesn't do much to satirize the spy genre, instead using its flimsy plot mostly as a scaffolding for a barrage of jokes.

Using the premise as the scaffolding to build a gangland soap opera that evokes the life of famed Boston gangster James «Whitey» Bulger, Scorsese's film combines two different love interests into one Vera Farmiga and collapses a sordid trilogy into a breathlessly tight story of double lives and second chances.

It's a film that prizes fan service above original storytelling, using iconic lines and casual asides as the scaffolding for its reverse - engineered plot.