Sentences with phrase «as cells break»

They tried AMP, an organic compound found in breast milk and other substances, that is created as cells break down food.

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As they point out, there's plenty of room for optimism about the eventual therapeutic applications of stem cells, but clinics offering to cure Parkinson's or to fix broken spinal cords are not just misleading but seriously dangerous.

In diseases such as malaria and sickle cell disease, red blood cells break down, with harmful effects on the rest of the body — particularly the lining of small blood vessels.

By breaking down solar panel ownership to a single cell we reduce the cost of going solar by two orders of magnitude and we're utilizing empty roof space in some of the sunniest cities on the planet, such as Dubai and Johannesburg.»

If human brains are like body's cells, there is a natural point of specialization, in which new systems break away and form similar but slightly different branches, as cells in a body become fingers, feet, hands, etc..

Your conflation error lies with imagining our Creator as a physical body, perhaps with cells which break down and fluids which seep out.

Over time, pickled vegetables become softer and softer as their cell walls break down further because of the acetic acid and salt used in the pickling process.

As J. Kenji Lopez - Alt from Serious Eats writes, «in order to access that flavor, you've got to break down cell walls either by cooking, grinding, or chewing».

In fact, as the cauliflower cells break down during the long, slow boil, they unlock the smelly sulfurous compounds within.

As the train briefly gains cell phone reception, Twitter tells me San Francisco has just defeated New Orleans in overtime, breaking a two - game losing streak.

If the baby is premature, or stressed from a difficult birth, or the infant of a diabetic mother, or more than the usual number of red blood cells are breaking down (as can happen in blood incompatibility), the level of bilirubin in the blood may rise higher than usual levels.

As the teeth are growing, the cells in the gum tissue above the teeth begin to break down, which helps the teeth slide through.

In such case, if the red blood cells break down faster than the bilirubin can be metabolized, it can lead to as serious buildup known as hyperbilirubinemia.

Most newborns experience some degree of jaundice as their extra red blood cells are broken down.

These cellulite creams have anti-cellulite agents such as caffeine which dehydrates fat cells and breaks them.

Newborns become jaundiced in the first few days because the enzyme in the liver maybe immature and does a process of breaking down these red blood cells as rapidly.

had bruises at birth (the red blood cells that are part of the bruises are broken down and produce bilirubin as a byproduct)

For those of us who are broke registering as a stem cell donor is free, usually painless and could save a life.

Lobbyists for environmental groups and the planet's biggest automobile manufacturers are pushing the governor and legislative leaders to give tax breaks or taxpayer - funded rebates to consumers who buy zero - emissions vehicles, such as battery electric or hydrogen cell fuel cars.

«The enzyme's job is to break down a DNA building block in our cells - to act as «molecular scissors,»» Wu said.

Previous studies have pointed to immune cells called macrophages as the primary immune cell responsible for engulfing and breaking down nerve debris.

In cancer cells, the protein networks that control the behavior are changed in such a way as to cause the cells to lose control and break away — a mutated skin cell, for instance, might then migrate into the bloodstream.

As bruises heal, the body breaks down spilled blood cells and their hemoglobin.

To migrate from a primary tumor, a cancer cell must first break through surrounding connective tissue known as the extracellular matrix (ECM).

Such organelles as mitochondria, for instance, generate fuel; in plant cells, chloroplasts manufacture sugars to break down into that fuel.

The material blocks cell signals, as well, adding an element of risk to tweeting, texting and other mobile activities, as the wearer must break cover to communicate.

In experiments on cell cultures, both of these inhibitors succeeded in breaking various forms of the TKI resistance: including forms caused by additional mutations of the gene Bcr - Abl as well as those caused by large quantities of the protein Gab2.

The E. coli directly secretes the resulting biodiesel, which then floats to the top of a fermentation vat, so there is neither the necessity for distillation or other purification processes nor the need, as in biodiesel from algae, to break the cell to get the oil out.

Failure of an enzyme to break down DNA spilling into the bloodstream as cells die may be a major driver of inflammation in lupus.

At first the virus seems to build up harmlessly in brain cells, but as soon as the larva breaks out, these cells burst open, unleashing destruction all around them.

As the wound heals, the gel breaks down into amino acids — the building blocks of proteins — that can be taken up by nearby cells and used for tissue repair, according to MIT neuroscientist Rutledge Ellis - Behnke.

Israel - based company, Emefcy, named as a play on the acronym for microbial fuel cell (MFC), starts with the same principle as most wastewater treatment — water is aerated so bacteria in the liquid break down organic material in a closed series of containers known as a bioreactor.

Fuel Cells Electricity from any source, such as solar, wind and even coal, can be used to break up water molecules into their hydrogen and oxygen components in a device called an electrolyzer.

The function of these genes were involved in molecular maintenance strategies, such as DNA repair, chromosomal maintenance, immune response and programmed cell death The authors argue that the «slower rate of change in these functions is consistent with increased constraint on somatic cell maintenance as would be required in these relatively long - lived and large - bodied mammals, illustrated by the additional large and long - lived species with slower rates in these genes (e.g. double - strand break repair gene XRCC4 is also highly constrained in elephant.»

Importantly, like cancer cells with other mutations in the HR repair pathway, CHD1 - depleted prostate cancer cells proved to be hypersensitive to chemotherapeutic drugs causing DNA breaks, such as Mitomycin C, Irinotecan and PARP inhibitors.

For decades, scientists have wondered why some triglycerides, after being broken down into fatty acids, wind up back in the cells in the form of triglycerides — a process known as «re-esterification.»

Stivers knew that depleting nucleotides by breaking them down into pieces that quickly leave the cell is precisely the job of SAMHD1, a protein recently discovered in humans but thought to have first evolved in bacteria as a defense against viruses.

When sunshine strikes a solar cell, some of the electrons in the cell take on energy but quickly lose most of it as thermal energy rather than breaking loose to become part of an electric current.

In people with diabetes, however, the cycle is broken: either insulin is not produced in response to a meal or the muscle and liver cells don't respond to the insulin (also known as insulin resistance).

Elizabeth Heidrich, a PhD student at Newcastle University in England and lead author of the new study, studies microbial fuel cells — devices that generate electrical current by capturing the electrons freed as bacteria break down organic matter in wastewater.

But studying how the cells of complex tissues like the mammary gland self - organize, make decisions as groups, and break down in disease has been a challenge to researchers.

Using sophisticated imaging technology, they were then able to watch as the broken ends of the chromosomes were reattached correctly or incorrectly inside the cells.

The cancer originated in some unfortunate clam somewhere and has persisted ever since as those cancerous cells divide, break free, and make their way to other clams.

Davidson noticed something intriguing: Sometimes during these breaks the place cells became active again, firing in the same order (but at 20 times the speed) as they did when the rats were navigating the track.

For example, when there is no oxygen (a likely scenario in underground disposal vaults) to help these bacteria «breath» and break down the ISA, these simple single - cell microorganisms are able to switch their metabolism to breath using other chemicals in the water, such as nitrate or iron.

Telomeres gradually break down and shrink as cells age, eventually leading to cell death which is a normal part of human growth and aging.

According to Dr Robson Gutierre, a morphologist and leading author of this study, the South American amphibian has very unique liver cells, known as melanomacrophages, which can remove and break down collagen as part of its natural function.

CD74 is broken into products that fit into the groove of cell surface immune response proteins as part of the chain of events that activates T cells — immune cells that normally attack infected (or damaged) cells in the body.

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The scientists first genetically modified E. coli to consume sugar and secrete engine - grade biodiesel, which can float to the top of a fermentation vat — no need for distilling, purifying or breaking cells open to get the oil out, as is the case for making biodiesel from algae.