Sentences with phrase «as switches controlling»

The project uncovered 4 million spots in our DNA that act as switches controlling gene activity.

The researchers found that Takinib inhibits an enzyme called TAK - 1, which serves as a switch controlling cell survival in the TNF - alpha signaling process.

Not exact matches

The automaker admits that, since 2009, it outfitted several of its diesel - powered models — such as the Golf, Passat, Jetta, and Beetle — with «defeat devices» that would switch off emissions controls, and thereby boost performance, except when the vehicles were being put through environmental tests.

Switching back to W2 won't necessarily curtail the freedom of its valets, but it will give Luxe the sizable boost in control that it craved as a business and the end result changes the consumers experience.

A remote - controlled car is the first project you make as part of the Nintendo Labo, a new type of build - it - yourself cardboard accessory that works with the Switch console to combine real - world and digital play.

As markets now fully price the expectation of central bank control we are now only one voltage switch away from the razors edge of risk.

So as a kid and had zero control over where his parents took him, he switched religions.

This requires the replacement of conventional carriers such as copper wires with optical fibre cables, it means new switches, and new software to control the unprecedented large flows of information across borders.

The Borussia Dortmund star has long courted the attention of clubs in the Premier League but a switch to England now looks unlikely as Bayern have taken control in the pursuit of their main transfer target.

Knowing how toddlers put everything they find in their mouths, I've had to wipe down every door knob, remote control, handles and light switches with sanitizing wipes as part of a ritual when entering cabins and hotel rooms.

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For top of the stairs installation, the gate should swing only one way, but if you do choose to use this Safety 1st gate for the bottom of the flight, you can switch the control settings so as to allow the gate to swing both ways for your convenience.

If any of the country's state legislative chambers were to switch party control as a result of the November 2014 elections, those switches were likely to occur in these 15 chambers.

Cuomo made the announcement on the mayoral control extension as part of a broader agreement on a range of issues, including an extension of state control of the New York Racing Association, testing for lead in school drinking water and new flexibility for charter schools to allow them to switch to the Board of Trustees of State University of New York for oversight.

Rice enrolled as a Republican when she first registered to vote (she has said that everyone in Nassau County defaulted to GOP, since the party controlled the local government), and then switched that to independent when she became a federal prosecutor in Pennsylvania.

As always the races are ranked by their likelihood of switching party control.

The New York State Senate was a battleground chamber that Ballotpedia identified as having the opportunity to switch partisan control in 2014.

As you may be aware, control of the Erie County Legislature switched in 2018.

As always, the number one ranked race is the most likely to switch party control on Nov. 2.

As always, the No. 1 ranked race is the most likely to switch party control.

Regarding NY as # 1 - >> As always, the races are ranked from least likely to switch party control to most likelas # 1 - >> As always, the races are ranked from least likely to switch party control to most likelAs always, the races are ranked from least likely to switch party control to most likely.

He cited the probability that the State Senate would switch to Republican control in January as a reason to push the bill now.

Topics that Lhota addressed following the debate include whether his idea of switching MTA Bridges & Tunnels to City control has any chance of state approval, his view of Mayor Bloomberg's resiliency planning, charter schools and his reaction to a WSJ story describing Ken Langone, one of Lhota's strongest supporters, as «convinced» that Lhota will lose.

While political stars, moons and planets must still align in the coming weeks and months for Democrats to assume control, many observers view the switch as «inevitable.»

Neural gating mechanisms are based on the properties of certain neurons (called bistable neurons) to behave as switches that can be turned «on» or «off» by a control signal coming from other neurons.

By tweaking different fly genes and counting how many neuron types were produced as the flies matured, the team identified a network of five genes that work together like coordinated control switches to guide the precursor cells» transformation to mature neurons.

Since beginning a lab dedicated to understanding cancer metastasis at Rockefeller six years ago, Associate Professor Sohail Tavazoie has found that microRNAs — tiny strands of RNA that function as switches to inactivate specific genes — play an important role in controlling genes linked to metastasis.

Using previous data, Orkin and his team identified the BCL11A gene as a candidate for controlling the molecular switch.

Kissinger realized that this segment must be unstructured, yet he knew it contained the control center for some of the protein's most important duties, such as regulating its interactions with other molecules and switching its own activity on and off.

Egner's group is now studying whether and how other modes of control — such as rapidly switching tasks — affect memory.

Within the duplicate regions, Carmona - Mora and her colleagues discovered many switches, known as enhancers, important for controlling activity of genes.

This supports a recent proposal that such cells may be the master control switches of domestication, explaining why domestic animals share common traits, such as smaller brains and certain pigmentation patterns — a mystery first noted by Charles Darwin.

For example, nuclear factor - kappa B (NF - kB) is a complex of proteins that acts as a master switch for turning inflammation genes on and for controlling cell death.

This indicates that the simple addition or depletion of the nutrient can be used as a switch for controlling symbiosis.

Microglia are present throughout the brain and spinal cord, are constantly monitoring their environment, and can be switched on or activated to perform different functions such as control inflammation, destroy pathogens, clean up the debris from dead or damaged cells, and seal off the site of an injury.

These can be receptors, which function as antennas or switches to detect the presence of certain molecules, or transport proteins, which act as gates to control the uptake of nutrients.

Using the recently completed tomato genome sequence they then identified the gene as SlGLK2 — a so - called transcription factor, which controls when and where other genes are switched on or off.

The team studied the genomes of almost 8,000 child and parent trios, focusing on genes that coded for proteins as well as non-coding parts of the genome that control the switching on and off of genes, known as regulatory elements.

The researchers used tools of epigenomic analysis to trace the specific epigenetic switches controlling each of thousands of genes in both mouse and human retinal cells as the cells progressed through development.

Dr Kat Arney, science communication manager at Cancer Research UK, said: «Only a tiny fraction of our DNA contains actual genes, and we know that at least some of the bits in between — often dismissed as «junk» — play important roles in controlling how genes get switched on and off at the right time and in the right place.

The energy is lost as power drains away while the set is waiting to be switched on by an infrared pulse from the remote control.

«Because they made the switch from saltwater to fresh, the Bandringa would have required a system to control their salinity levels in fresh water as well as saltwater,» says Sallan.

Afterward, the researchers tested several surfaces in the rooms, such as television remote controls, doorknobs, telephones, and light switches.

Developers then used genetic control elements derived from pathogenic plant viruses such as the cauliflower mosaic virus to switch on the genes.

Research shows that there is a second type of non-coding RNA, called ultra-conserved RNA that acts as switches switch, ie, controls the activity of microRNAs.

Electronic transistors, which act as miniature switches for controlling the flow of electrical current, underpin modern - day microelectronics and computers.

They have generated excitement over the past few decades because scientists can study them in the laboratory to discover the genetic switches that control the development of specialized tissues in the embryo and fetus, and also because of their potential to replace body tissues that have broken down, such as pancreatic cells in those with diabetes or heart muscle cells in those with congestive heart failure.

Whereas, the case of remotely switching the train's trajectory produced no difference among control and brain - damaged subjects, when it came to actually pushing someone into the train's path, those people with insults to their VMPC were, on average, three times more likely to advocate throwing the man to his certain death for «the good of the many,» as Spock would say.

Already used in fiber optic communications, the field of applied photonics is making steady progress in developing optical circuits, which use nanoscale «optical cavities» as switches or «transistors» for controlling the flow of light.

By switching mice to a diet comprised of 20 % inulin, Gewirtz and colleagues found that they could reverse some aspects of metabolic syndrome in the mice — like promoting weight loss and greater blood sugar control — but not others, such as elevated triglycerides levels.