Sentences with phrase «cell behaviour in»

Our group pioneered the use of large - scale genetic lineage tracing to quantify cell behaviour in vivo.

Not exact matches

A good example of this behaviour is seen in the shape of an apple which can be explained in terms of the cells of the apple but «apple shape» has no meaning at lower levels of description.

The acceleration of the healing process occurs due to changes in the microenvironment in the wound, which change the behaviour of specific immune cells.

A computer program decides which modifications are to be made in the chemical or light environment according to the cells» observed behaviour and the objective of the experiment.

A controller, using a model of the system, can then in real - time decide which dynamic disturbances to apply based on the expected future behaviour of the cells.

Currently, I work on three directions: (1) cell motility and the cytoskeleton, (2) modeling of physiology and diseases (such as autoimmune diabetes), and (3) swarming and aggregation behaviour in social organisms.

This type of behaviour of the white blood cells served as an inspiration for the postdoc, Daniel Ahmed, who was working in Professor Bradley Nelson's research group at ETH Zurich.

The survey is small, but it does suggest there is something rotten in the state of stem cells: a worrying number of respondents admitted knowing about fraud or unethical behaviour.

Building on the newly - published pilot study, the team will conduct experiments using a windtunnel which measures the behaviour of mosquitoes towards odours and electrodes which track the response of individual odour - detecting cells from within the antenna of the mosquito in specially - designed secure laboratories at the School to measure the responses of malaria - infected Anopheles gambiae s.s. females to human odours.

This similarity suggests that the proteins could promote cell growth and development in target tissue within the female's body and as a result influence female reproductive behaviour.

The researchers compare this behaviour with the measles virus, which very occasionally persists in cells and replicates in a restricted fashion leading to a severe brain inflammation known as subacute sclerosing panencephalitis.

«The cancerous cells need to change their behaviour, changing what proteins they synthesize in order to try to adapt to these environments.»

Its presence influences the behaviour of nanoparticles in the body by altering their chemical properties, destination, and their interactions with other cells.

While many protein factors are known to subtly regulate the function of T cells, David Munn and Andrew Mellor of the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta suggest that the fetus uses a cruder method to alter T cells» behaviour: starvation.

Professor Knight added: «Super resolution microscopy is a major step forward and we are looking forward to using this technology in a wide range of applications from stem cell behaviour to understanding arthritis or the development of nanomedicine.»

Andersen was studying the activity of neurons in the hippocampus — a brain area associated with memory — and the two students wanted to try to link this precise activity of cells with the behaviour of animals.

Neurons rely on synaptic interactions and neurotransmitters such as dopamine, which are small molecules transmitted across synapses to deliver signals from one cell to another that play a major role in reward - motivated behaviour.

«The role of mechanical forces in the behaviour of biological cells has long been overlooked, but then has become a rapidly growing field of research over the last two decades now known as mechanobiology,» states Prof. Schwarz.

To monitor the behaviour of the different cell types, the heart muscle cells were furthermore altered by genetic engineering in such a way that cells from the atrium and the ventricle lit up differently.

«But these two - eye cells suggest that other types of visual information are just as important — they allow the human species to survive to engage in the complex behaviours.»

As a prelude to introducing genes whose products would be therapeutically useful in cancer, the researchers say they have successfully introduced a harmless gene from bacteria into TILs without affecting the behaviour of the cells (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol 87, p 473).

A small molecule in cells that was previously believed to have no impact on animal behaviour could in fact be responsible for controlling precise movements, according to new University of Sussex research.

Melbourne researchers have discovered how a common parasite hijacks host cells and stockpiles food so it can lie dormant for decades, possibly changing its host's behaviour or personality in the process.

When our skin is scratched, cells that were standing upright «lie down» and start crawling — in essence, local huddles break up and cells change their behaviour.

Durdu, a PhD student in Darren Gilmour's lab at EMBL, found this behaviour in specific groups of cells in the zebrafish: the cells that will develop into the animal's «lateral line», a series of ear - like organs along the fish's flank that allow it to sense changes in water pressure.

A University of Southampton - led study has found that blocking a receptor in the brain responsible for regulating immune cells could protect against the memory and behaviour changes seen in the progression of Alzheimer's disease.

The scientists who make up The Society have made many key discoveries, ranging from how our nervous system works, how our cells divide to the way in which reflexes alter human behaviour.

Researchers from Aarhus University conducted a case - control study on the condition of the dopamine - producing nerve cells in the brain and cells that participate in the brain's immune system in people suffering from rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder (RBD).

Publishing in the journal Cell a group of scientists have published their research working on mice which reports that a high fat diet of the mother can bring about a shift in gut microbes that negatively impacts the social behaviour of the offspring mice.

Now in its 6th highly successful year, the European Summer School covers fundamental concepts and examines issues in the field today, from the molecular circuitry that governs the behaviour of stem cells, to breaking therapies.

«Cell - nanoparticle interactions can produce significant change in cellular behaviour that we can observe using this technique,» explains Irtisha Singh, who is one of the senior authors of this study.

She uses these techniques to investigate the behaviour of the cytoskeleton in live cells at the nanoscale.

A second line of research is to use skeletal muscle formation in the chick embryo as a model to understand how cells within tissues display complex behaviours while being exposed to an ever - changing cellular environment.

Our group studies how normal cell behaviour is altered by mutation in the early stages of cancer evolution.

In this way, we can produce a brain - wide cell - resolution map of the neuronal activation patterns related to specific behaviours.

We observe that primary mature dendritic cells respond uniformly to homogeneous diffusion gradients, while cell behaviour is highly position - dependent in spatially variable convection - diffusion gradients.

This would not be surprising as early PrEn delaminates from the ICM during the transition between ICM and epiblast and this cell sorting behaviour is reproduced in EB culture where the VE is always found on the outside.

The light information registered by these cells is partially processed in the retina and subsequently forwarded to the brain for further processing and integration with other sensory systems, eventually leading to outputs such as endocrine regulation of behaviours.

Studies cover a breadth of topics ranging from single molecules (molecular motors, DNA - protein interactions, membrane proteins) to cellular functions (cell adhesion, cell division, cell motility, intracellular transport) and the collective behaviour of cells in tissues and organisms (wound healing, morphogenesis).

Portman plays Lena, a biologist specialising in the behaviour of cells, who is surprised by the sudden reappearance of her husband Kane (Oscar Isaac).

The communication between nerve cells may also be altered and severe alterations in the nervous system may also alter their behaviour.

If that is supposed to be a backhanded rebuttal of my calculations, it may reassure you to know that I reconstructed you F3 filter using AVERAGE -LRB--RRB- only, having verified that the behaviour of that function was the same as you stated in the case of empty cells.