Sentences with phrase «cell biologist known»

A stem cell biologist known for work cloning mice, he says he was brought onto the team to produce the chimeric mice described in the paper.

Cell biologists no longer rely only on pictures from microscopes — pixels and pulses from cell sorters and other devices now enhance their research.

Not exact matches

For biologists, 14 days marks the start of cell differentiation: before this, the embryo has no precursors of nerves or blood, so it can not possibly know or experience anything.

According to the latest studies from the fly laboratory of California Institute of Technology (Caltech) biologist David Anderson, male Drosophilae, commonly known as fruit flies, fight more than their female counterparts because they have special cells in their brains that promote fighting.

At a recent Biology of Genomes meeting, a biologist showed off a new method to extensively survey human cells for mysterious, sometimes gene - filled loops known as extrachromosomal circular DNA (eccDNA).

To find out, John O'Neill, a biologist at the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, U.K., and his team studied skin cells known as fibroblasts, which are essential for wound healing.

Although biologists have known for decades that egg cells provide sperm with a little chemical encouragement to reel them in, the molecular nature of this interaction has remained elusive.

Muscle biologists Qi Long Lu and Terence Partridge at the Medical Research Council Clinical Sciences Centre in London, U.K., and their colleagues decided to combined the antisense strategy with a chemical often used in gene therapy because it is known to improve delivery of DNA into cells.

So when biologists in Catharina Svanborg's lab saw mothers» milk kill cancer cells, they knew they were onto something big.

«For a long time, biologists have wanted to know how information from the environment sometimes gets transmitted to the next generation,» said Jose, an assistant professor in the UMD Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics.

«Cancer cells are genetically malleable, and they find ways to escape no matter how clever we think we've been,» says Tony Hunter, a molecular biologist at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California.

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Last week cell biologists, software engineers, image analysts, and machine learning experts met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a «hackathon» to refine this relatively new approach, generically known as morphological or image - based profiling.

Cell biologists have known about genomic loops for decades, but were not previously able to examine them with the level of molecular resolution and detail that is possible now.

«We know from animal models that there are critical periods during early development when cells are rapidly dividing and forming the circuitry through which cells will communicate with each other to form various tissues of the body,» said Retha Newbold, a reproductive biologist at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in North Carolina.

Back then, biologists were struggling to learn how the fierce little warriors of the immune system — the white blood cells — know to attack invading pathogens but not the body itself.

Cell biologist Tom Rapoport may be best known for studies of how proteins get in and out of a convoluted compartment inside cells called the endoplasmic reticulum (ER).

Nanog is a critical factor required for what cell biologists call «stemness,» which is defined by two qualities: the ability of ES cells to divide or «self - renew» and their plasticity in assuming the identity of almost any cell type, which is also known as «pluripotency.»

From a biologist's standpoint, this is a really unique thing, as we don't usually know who is behind the cell lines we grow in the lab.

A major milestone in epigenetic research occurred in 1980 when University of Southern California molecular biologist Peter Jones discovered that a compound called azacitidine — already known to stop leukemia cells from dividing — also blocks DNA methylation.

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George Q. Daley, a stem cell biologist at Boston Children's Hospital, said Dr. Niakan's study of human embryos was «critical because we know them to be quite different from embryos of mice» and other mammals studied in laboratories.

He taught me a lot about evolutionary medicine and nutrition in general, opened many doors and introduced me (directly and indirectly) to various players in this field, such as Dr. Boyd Eaton (one of the fathers of evolutionary nutrition), Maelán Fontes from Spain (a current research colleague and close friend), Alejandro Lucia (a Professor and a top researcher in exercise physiology from Spain, with whom I am collaborating), Ben Balzer from Australia (a physician and one of the best minds in evolutionary medicine), Robb Wolf from the US (a biochemist and the best «biohackers I know»), Óscar Picazo and Fernando Mata from Spain (close friends who are working with me at NutriScience), David Furman from Argentina (a top immunologist and expert in chronic inflammation working at Stanford University, with whom I am collaborating), Stephan Guyenet from the US (one of my main references in the obesity field), Lynda Frassetto and Anthony Sebastian (both nephrologists at the University of California San Francisco and experts in acid - base balance), Michael Crawford from the UK (a world renowned expert in DHA and Director of the Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition, at the Imperial College London), Marcelo Rogero (a great researcher and Professor of Nutrigenomics at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Sérgio Veloso (a cell biologist from Portugal currently working with me, who has one of the best health blogs I know), Filomena Trindade (a Portuguese physician based in the US who is an expert in functional medicine), Remko Kuipers and Martine Luxwolda (both physicians from the Netherlands, who conducted field research on traditional populations in Tanzania), Gabriel de Carvalho (a pharmacist and renowned nutritionist from Brazil), Alex Vasquez (a physician from the US, who is an expert in functional medicine and Rheumatology), Bodo Melnik (a Professor of Dermatology and expert in Molecular Biology from Germany, with whom I have published papers on milk and mTOR signaling), Johan Frostegård from Sweden (a rheumatologist and Professor at Karolinska Institutet, who has been a pioneer on establishing the role of the immune system in cardiovascular disease), Frits Muskiet (a biochemist and Professor of Pathophysiology from the Netherlands, who, thanks to his incredible encyclopedic knowledge and open - mind, continuously teaches me more than I could imagine and who I consider a mentor), and the Swedish researchers Staffan Lindeberg, Tommy Jönsson and Yvonne Granfeldt, who became close friends and mentors.

An analogy with your «packaged» eddies: Biologists know that human cells are complicated, yet they «package» them into entities for ease of handling.