Sentences with phrase «called zinc»

Ethical Nutrients, however, has a liquid zinc sulfate product called Zinc Status.

«There are still some unresolved problems with the so - called zinc - finger method,» says postdoctoral researcher and co-first author Guang - Hui Liu.

Working with proteins called zinc finger nucleases and TALENs, Zhang attempted to edit the genomes of mammalian cells with a view to engineering them.

The trial is using a form of DNA scissors called zinc finger nucleases (ZFNs).

Last year, researchers targeted and destroyed this gene in the T - cells of 12 people with HIV using custom - made proteins called zinc finger nucleases.

In 2009, researchers at Dow AgroSciences in Indianapolis, Indiana, and Sangamo BioSciences in Richmond, California, announced that they had used enzymes called zinc - finger nucleases to insert a gene for herbicide resistance at a specific site in the maize genome (V. K. Shukla et al..

This until now seemingly unnoticed mechanism can improve the nutritional value of a large part of the human diet, since Biologists have yet to discover any type of crop that does not have a variant of these so - called zinc pumps, Michael Broberg Palmgren explains.

Researchers reduced the buildup, called zinc dendrite, by adding alcohol to the electrolyte solution.

PRDM9 grabs DNA using structures called zinc fingers.

These include a family of signaling molecules called protocaderins, which regulate neuronal development and short - range interactions between neurons, and a family of transcription factors called zinc fingers, which are mainly expressed in embryonic and nervous tissues and are thought to play roles in brain development.

They have used a different technique, called zinc finger nucleases, to disrupt a gene on T cells that HIV uses to enter the cells.

These gene - regulating proteins have an important feature called a zinc finger domain.

Its competitors — designer proteins called zinc finger nucleases and TALENs — also precisely alter chosen DNA sequences, and several companies are already exploiting them for therapeutic purposes in clinical trials.

Talk of curing AIDS made front - page news last year, in part due to an astonishing new gene - editing technology: lab - engineered proteins called zinc finger nucleases.

However, in the presentations, speakers for both teams said that two stretches of the gene code for so - called zinc fingers — protein structures that insert themselves into the grooves of DNA — suggesting that the encoded protein probably turns other genes on and off.

In clinical trials already underway, for example, researchers have used an older gene - editing technique, enzymes call zinc finger nucleases, in immune cells to deactivate the gene for CCR5, a surface protein that HIV latches onto in order to infect cells.

That said, it's disingenuous to call zinc a «testosterone booster» because it only helps prevent the suppression of natural testosterone production due to malnutrition.

Not exact matches

■ Pumpkin seeds: A great seed to use as a tree - nut replacement, pumpkin seeds (sometimes called «pepitas») are packed with minerals like zinc and iron.

It contains several minerals such as potassium, zinc, calcium, iron and contains a fibre called inulin, which explains why it slows glucose absorption and has a lower glycemic index than regular sugar.

Although recent studies have shown there to be little zinc in the shell itself (the shell is also called the seed coat or husk), there is a very thin layer directly beneath the shell called the endosperm envelope, and it is often pressed up very tightly against the shell.

Although recent studies have shown there to be little zinc in the shell itself (the shell is also called the seed coat or husk), there is a very thin layer directly beneath the shell called the endosperm envelope, and it is often pressed up very tightly against the seed coat.

Whole roasted, unshelled pumpkin seeds contain about 10 milligrams of zinc per 3.5 ounces, and shelled roasted pumpkin seeds (sometimes called pumpkin seed kernels) contain about 7 - 8 milligrams.

«Poor man's zinc,» Young calls the tree's long, thick leaves.

And the way to do this is with foods that are high in nutrients like iron, zinc, vitamin D, and an omega - 3 fat called DHA.

I call iron and zinc «meaty minerals» because the most absorbable form of iron and the best source of zinc come from meat.

One favorite where I trained was called Happy Hiney which was a mixture of a zinc cream and anti-fungal women's vaginal cream like Monistat and Crotect anti-itch cream which was hydrocortisone 1 % and it was the ointment not the cream and we mix that up in equal parts it on at each diaper change.

Whereas the fine nanowires initially crystallise in a hexagonal, so - called wurtzite structure, this behaviour changes after some time and the wires adopt a cubic zinc blende structure as they continue to grow.

In a new study, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego Professor James Day and colleagues examined the chemical composition of zinc and other volatile elements contained in the green - colored glass, called trinitite, which were radioactive materials formed under the extreme temperatures that resulted from the 1945 plutonium bomb explosion.

The key ingredient that makes the batteries rechargeable is a molecule called bismuth oxide which, when mixed into the batteries» zinc electrodes, prolongs the life of devices and allows them to recharge.

Another biotech startup, called Z53 Therapeutics, in Cleveland, Ohio, is taking aim not at the cleft in mutated p53, but at mutations that knock out a key site for binding zinc ions in p53's core.

So while a Bronze Age metallurgist could stir together molten copper, zinc, and tin and call it a day, tomorrow's breakthrough materials could require dozens of components in fiendishly precise proportions.

The tetrapod - shaped zinc - oxide nanoparticles, called ZOTEN, have negatively charged surfaces that attract the HSV - 2 virus, which has positively charged proteins on its outer envelope.

Ultimately, this week's discourse will lead to a consensus statement providing some guidance on how to approach using this and older gene editing technologies such as zinc finger nucleases and enzymes called transcription activator - like effector nucleases, or TALENs.

And indeed, when the team subjected an alloy of aluminum called aluminum 7075 (which contains small percentages of magnesium and zinc) to the process, the metal attained a strength of 1 gigapascal, the researchers report in the current issue of Nature Communications.

Already, the researchers have found that the 2 - D zinc oxide nanosheets they've grown are able to function as semiconductor transistors called a p - type, the opposite electronic behavior of naturally occurring zinc oxide.

DCT1 also changed the so - called inward current of the cells, indicating a better ability to pull metal ions — including other essential minerals such as zinc, manganese, and copper — across the membrane.

The MOF under study was made up of pyramidal molecular frameworks, each consisting of a zinc atom surrounded by four cyclical, organic molecules called imidazolates.

Ambrogio da Fossano, called Il Bergognone, the purported painter, could not possibly have had a zinc - based pigment on his palette some four centuries before the element's discovery.

A variety of zinc - metal batteries are available commercially, but few are rechargeable, because of tiny fibers called dendrites that form on the zinc electrode during charging.

Previous research by his lab identified zinc's impact on another immune regulating pathway called NF - kappaB.

PNNL's zinc - polyiodide battery also had an energy output that was about 70 percent that of a common lithium - ion battery called a lithium iron phosphate battery, which is used in portable electronics and in some small electric vehicles.

In the body it is stored as a zinc - bound complex of six identical molecules, called a hexamer.

«This thin zinc oxide layer is engineered with a plate - like structure that we call micro-tectonics, these plates can slide across each other bit like geological plates that form the earth's crust allowing for high sensitivity and the ability to bend and flex the devices,» he said.

That news alone was an exciting breakthrough, but there's more: In lab mice, damaged retinal ganglion cells survived longer and were able to regenerate when excess zinc was removed through a chemical process called chelation.

The nanoparticles assemble themselves from zinc and a drug called oxaliplatin, which is widely used against advanced - stage metastatic colon cancer.

Two groups of researchers - one an academic team from Barcelona, Spain; the other a biotech company from California called Sangamo - have just announced successful experiments using zinc finger drugs targeting the Huntington's disease gene.

When zinc hooks up with a gene - controlling protein, it forms «zinc finger proteins» - so called because they can poke into the tight groove between the two strands of DNA and touch the sequence they're made for.

To stay sun - safe without exacerbating eczema symptoms, look for physical sunscreens (also called mineral sunscreens), which contain ingredients such as titanium dioxide and zinc oxide that work by deflecting UV rays.

Although Skaar's findings must be replicated in humans, his research does call into question the use of dietary supplements (like multivitamins) and cold remedies (like nasal sprays and lozenges) containing zinc.

I recommend including pumpkin seeds, also called pepitas, in your diet for their minerals (especially zinc and magnesium), B vitamins, vitamin E, and omega - 6 fatty acids.