Sentences with phrase «brain cells of interest»

They recorded electrical activity just outside individual brain cells of interest, and compared the signal with sounds the birds made.

Not exact matches

But what is really the most interesting are all the lying secular fanatics that insist that nutballs like this guy are the epitome of Christianity when anyone with more than two functioning brain cells should know that that is simply slander.

Dr. Massagué is particularly interested in the ability of tumor cells to hug blood vessels, as he suspects this behavior may be essential for the survival of metastatic cancer cells not only in the brain but also in other parts of the body where metastatic tumor growth can occur.

His obsessive interest, artistic skill, and evolving understanding of the architecture of the nervous system found expression in beautiful portraits of brain cells and diagrams of nerve fibers.

Neurobiologist Arturo Alvarez - Buylla of The Rockefeller University in New York City got interested in the adult mammalian brain's capacity to produce new cells after he and others discovered in the 1980s that songbirds renew large parts of their brains every year.

To visualize different cell types in the brain, researchers often need genetic access to that cell — the ability to express a gene of interest only in, say, chandelier cells, but not neighboring neurons.

«We're interested in learning more about what other proteins LRP6 interacts with, as well as how it acts in different types of brain cells at different developmental stages of circuit development and refinement.»

«For example, there is a huge amount of interest and excitement globally in growing cerebral organoids» — miniature brain - like organs that can be studied in laboratory experiments — «from stem cells to model human brain development and disease mechanisms.

A previous study, published in 2013 in PLOS Biology by auditory neuroscientist Andrew King and his laboratory at the University of Oxford in England, showed that brain cells can enhance the gain of their responses, increasing the signal corresponding to the sound of interest, while tuning out the noise.

This is interesting, because the hippocampus is known to be critical for learning and memory, and is widely thought to be one of the few parts of the brain that continues to produce new cells throughout life.

Schindler said she is specifically interested in research being done on the amyloid protein, which is believed to cause plaques in the brain which lead to the death of nerve cells that cause dementia.

Currently, her research interest is focused on the functional characterization of cell - autonomous molecular determinants, known to control cardinal stem cell properties in normal NSCs, in the attempt of understanding their putative role in regulating the same properties in brain tumor - derived cancer stem cells.

We are interested in genetic programs of neural stem cells (NSC) in brain development and postnatal neurogenesis, and in how NSC misregulation can lead to pathology (hereditary disease, cancer stem cells).

Albertin is interested in the way octopuses develop from single cells to fully - fledged hatchlings, and fellow study author Yan Wang, also of the University of Chicago, told The Post she'd be studying how the octopus brain controls complex behavior, especially in relation to mating and reproduction.

Here Steve tells us how his interest in stem cells led him into cancer research and how he believes this angle of brain tumour research has unique potential for tackling cancers which are currently difficult to treat.

«I originally trained as a developmental biologist, then, during my postdoc in stem cell biology, I became interested in research showing that the growth of brain tumours might be driven by cells similar to neural stem cells.

The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, showed that making the brain cells in the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (rDLPFC) more active can positively affect the deliberation process between honesty and self - interest.

«We came up with a solution to allow for wireless control using similar technology that's in your cell phone to actually control these micro-LEDs, and then in turn control inside, deep inside the brain, various populations of neurons that we're interested in studying,» Bruchas said.

Xiaoning Han and colleagues in the laboratories of Steven Goldman and Maiken Nedergaard at the University of Rochester Medical Center posed an interesting question — can you enhance the processing ability of one species by surgically implanting and grafting cells from the brain of another «smarter» species?

Ninety functional regions of interest (ROIs) were defined across 14 large - scale resting - state brain networks to generate a 3960 cell matrix reflecting whole - brain connectivity.