Sentences with phrase «biological systems play»

The mechanical properties of biological systems play a major role in cellular processes.

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Chien Ho, professor of biological sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, and his colleagues have developed a novel way to improve delivery of chemotherapy nanodrugs by using Intralipid ®, an FDA - approved nutrition source to temporarily blunt the reticuloendothelial system — a network of cells and tissues found throughout the body, including in the blood, lymph nodes, spleen and liver, that play an important role in the immune system.

The study identified five genes predictive of feeding success representing a range of biological systems: sensory integration (NPHP4, PLXNA1); hypothalamic regulation, a region of the brain that plays a key role in hunger signaling (NPY2R); facial development (WNT3, a gene associated with lip and palate development); and energy expenditure (AMPK, a regulator of whole body energy balance).

Now, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine report that a novel laboratory tool that lets them find virus mutations faster and more efficiently than ever before has identified a biological mechanism that appears to play a big role in helping HCV evade both the natural immune system and vaccines.

Iron is not only fascinating chemically, having six more oxidation states than silver, but it has a rich biological chemistry too, forming the core of the oxygen - carrying proteins in blood — myoglobin and haemoglobin — and playing centre field in many enzymatic systems.

Yet new experiments keep finding quantum processes at play in biological systems, says Christopher Altman, a researcher at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience in the Netherlands.

There is a lot of excitement about intelligent therapeutics, where chemistry interfaces with biological systems to cure disease; a view based on computer science could play a role.

Arachidonic acid plays a central role in a biological control system where such oxygenated derivatives as prostaglandins, thromboxanes, and leukotrienes are mediators.

His Gladstone lab explores how the modification of proteins plays a role in regulating biological systems.

The body's complex network of hormones takes many cues from different biological systems, with sleep playing a significant role.