Sentences with phrase «called somatic»

In professional terms this is called Somatic Psychology (soma = body) and it's a powerful method for tapping into your experience and creating change.

Adult stem cells — also called somatic stem cells — can be derived from the dog's own fat tissue and marrow.

Those who have IBS have higher rates of other functional disorders, also called somatic disorders since they relate to the somatic nervous system — brain and conscious activity.

She works with a technique called Somatic Experiencing to help release contractive patterns of trauma from the body - mind to balance and reorganize the nervous system and the entire being.

The experiment that led to the cloning of Dolly the sheep in 1997 was different: It used a cloning technique called somatic cell nuclear transfer and resulted in an animal that was a genetic twin — although delayed in time — of an adult sheep.

These cells are also called somatic stem cells.

Scientists in China successfully cloned the first - ever primates using the same method that created the world's most famous sheep — a method called somatic cell nuclear transfer.

To whip up a human clone, doctors would most likely use a process called somatic cell nuclear transfer — the same technique they've used successfully with animals like Dolly, the famous (and now departed) sheep clone.

But it turns out that a process called somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) can sometimes reactivate genes.

The researchers discovered a single letter variant located in TP53, a gene known to play a central role in tumor biology and for accumulating so called somatic mutations, during the development of cancer in patients.

This is the mechanism underlying normal fertilization, as well as the cloning technique called Somatic - Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT).

The technique used by Wilmut and his co-workers — a technology called somatic - cell nuclear transfer — will probably be the way in which the first human clone will be created.

Normally, within the llama, these antibodies would adapt to a new antigen (via a process called somatic hypermutation), but the researchers could not inject the animals with cholera and wait for them to create the correct antibodies.

Using a process called somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), a team from Oregon Health & Science University (O.H.S.U.) in Portland implanted the contents of individual skin cells from adult male rhesus macaques into each of 304 macaque egg cells stripped of their genetic material.

Described in the January 7th issue of Neuron, the technique uses «deep,» highly sensitive whole - genome sequencing of single neurons and a new technology that identifies inserted bits of DNA caused by retrotransposons, one of several kinds of so - called somatic mutations that can arise as the brain develops.

Since then, people have used so - called somatic embryogenesis to propagate dozens of species, including coffee, magnolias, mangos, and roses.

The method, called somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), replaces the DNA in an egg cell's nucleus with the genetic material from the nucleus of a skin cell, then tricks the egg cell to start dividing as if it had been fertilized with sperm.

It should be noted that the sensitivity for calling SNPs represents an upper bound for calling somatic mutations, since the latter often display mutant allele fractions less than 50 %.

Not exact matches

Martin Maripuu, doctoral student at the Department of Clinical Sciences, Division of Psychiatry, has studied the correlation between low cortisol levels, so - called hypocortisolism, and poor psychiatric and somatic health in patients with recurrent depressions or bipolar disorder.

It's called «somatic feedback.»

Stem cell researchers call them «a major step in the right direction,» although some were disappointed that NIH didn't open the door to the use of embryos created for research purposes — including through somatic cell nuclear transfer (cloning) and parthenogenesis (from an unfertilized egg).

The evolution of a distinct germ line that is protected by the diverse somatic functions of the organism is thought to confer an evolutionary advantage — what we call a fitness benefit — to multicellular organisms, whether plant or animal or slime mold.

Somatic cells generate their energy in an oxygen - fueled process called oxidative phosphorylation, which takes place in the mitochondria, also known as cellular powerhouses.

Called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), these cells can be differentiated into any somatic cell type, making them a potentially valuable weapon against numerous diseases.

For example, Kerr said, «Based on the predominantly somatic descriptions of mindfulness experience offered by the belly - focused group, we would expect there to be more ongoing, resting - state functional connectivity in this group across different parts of a large brain region called the insula that encodes visceral, somatic sensations and also provides a readout of the emotional aspects of so - called «gut feelings».»

A simplistic approach to somatic mutation detection, in which one simply subtracts all variants called in the normal from those called in the tumor, is poorly suited here.

Similarly, in cancer genomics, a candidate somatic mutation observed at the position of a known polymorphism typically indicated a germline variant that was under - called in the normal sample.

While these variants are all determined in comparison to the human genome reference, genomes submitted for the Cancer Sequencing Service are additionally analyzed for somatic variants called in comparison to the baseline genome within the submitted pair or trio.

I'm also the lead developer of VarScan, an open - source tool for germline and somatic variant calling in NGS data, and MendelScan, an open - source tool for prioritizing variants in family - based sequencing studies.

The stem cells sit at the tip of the testis surrounding a cluster of somatic cells called the apical hub.

Andrea Haenggi has a research - based creative practice she calls Ethno - choreo - botan - ography that employs her roles as a choreographer, interdisciplinary artist, dancer, radical care sitter, somatic educator and EPA agent.

The Somatic Staff (also called Staff of Force) is a recurring weapon in the Dragon Quest franchise.

Many of the scales demonstrated weak psychometrics in at least one of the following ways: (a) lack of psychometric data [i.e., reliability and / or validity; e.g., HFQ, MASC, PBS, Social Adjustment Scale - Self - Report (SAS - SR) and all perceived self - esteem and self - concept scales], (b) items that fall on more than one subscale (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version), (c) low alpha coefficients (e.g., below.60) for some subscales, which calls into question the utility of using these subscales in research and clinical work (e.g., HFQ, MMPI - A, CBCL - 1991 version, BASC, PSPCSAYC), (d) high correlations between subscales (e.g., PANAS - C), (e) lack of clarity regarding clinically - relevant cut - off scores, yielding high false positive and false negative rates (e.g., CES - D, CDI) and an inability to distinguish between minor (i.e., subclinical) and major (i.e., clinical) «cases» of a disorder (e.g., depression; CDI, BDI), (f) lack of correspondence between items and DSM criteria (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version, CDI, BDI, CES - D, (g) a factor structure that lacks clarity across studies (e.g., PSPCSAYC, CASI; although the factor structure is often difficult to assess in studies of pediatric populations, given the small sample sizes), (h) low inter-rater reliability for interview and observational methods (e.g., CGAS), (i) low correlations between respondents such as child, parent, teacher [e.g., BASC, PSPCSAYC, CSI, FSSC - R, SCARED, Connors Ratings Scales - Revised (CRS - R)-RSB-, (j) the inclusion of somatic or physical symptom items on mental health subscales (e.g., CBCL), which is a problem when conducting studies of children with pediatric physical conditions because physical symptoms may be a feature of the condition rather than an indicator of a mental health problem, (k) high correlations with measures of social desirability, which is particularly problematic for the self - related rating scales and for child - report scales more generally, and (l) content validity problems (e.g., the RCMAS is a measure of anxiety, but contains items that tap mood, attention, peer interactions, and impulsivity).

September 23 — worldwide — I will be doing an hour - long webinar for the Somatic Experiencing global community called, «Somatic Experiencing and the Actor's Secret.»