Sentences with phrase «cell biology by»
He also explained that he acquired the knowhow to carry out sophisticated experiments in cell biology by studying and working on his own.
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While not without controversy, this idea has taken cell biology by storm.
The Eppendorf & Science Prize in Neurobiology recognizes outstanding international neurobiological research based on current methods and advances in the field of molecular and cell biology by a young early - career scientist, as described in a 1,000 - word essay based on research performed within the last three years.
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He earned degrees in cell biology and tissue engineering and eventually got a job in a lab run by Vladimir Mironov, who was investigating the use of bioprinting — 3 - D printing using living cells — to generate replacement organs.
By treating biology as software and reprogramming cells to treat diseases and other ailments, humans have already made tremendous progress in medicine, Kurzweil said Sunday.
Lie4Him, Schweitzer, one of the first scientists to use the tools of modern cell biology to study dinosaurs, has upended the conventional wisdom by showing that some rock - hard fossils tens of millions of years old may have remnants of soft tissues hidden away in their interiors.
Molecular biology, contrary to the article, does not support evolution by natural chance because evolution can not occur without inheritance, inheritance can not occur without DNA and DNA is so complex it could not have evolved by chance unless we are to assume that molecules just happened to arrange themselves into the DNA molecule at the same times as a nucleus formed to hold the DNA, at the same time as the cell membrane just happened to form around it, at the sametime as all the cell maintaining process in the cytoplasm just happened to come into existence to form a single cell and that all these aspects just happened to come together and work harmoniously.
Scientific reductionism, however, wants to reduce biology to physics and chemistry, to explain the properties of «life», by thorough specification of the particulars (atoms and molecules) that are integrated into cells and organisms.
How life first began is irrelevant, the first cell could have been placed by your god, and evolutionary biology, that is, the explanation for the diversity of life on earth, would be unchanged.
As we read this history, the furor over stem cells was fueled by numerous factors: the near - universal human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now do anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn human life.
Waddington's paper in Towards a Theoretical Biology follows on from one by Brian Goodwin («A Statistical Mechanics of Temporal Organization in Cells») in which Goodwin looks at the question of how ordered systems like cells, and still more macro-organisms, supervene on the movements of their constituent molecules, and how one is to close the gap between molecular biology and cell physioCells») in which Goodwin looks at the question of how ordered systems like cells, and still more macro-organisms, supervene on the movements of their constituent molecules, and how one is to close the gap between molecular biology and cell physiocells, and still more macro-organisms, supervene on the movements of their constituent molecules, and how one is to close the gap between molecular biology and cell physiology.
BEBA is guided by the latest research available in the fields of prenatal and perinatal psychology, infant mental health, neurobiology and cell biology.
By turning cell biology into an engineering discipline, CCC aims to develop new chemicals and materials for medical and consumer applications, while at the same time training a more diverse research and manufacturing workforce.
Speeches came from a variety of speakers, including a science broadcaster and writer, a Pakistani - born Canadian Muslim who works in STEM, a Pakistani - born professor who studies cell biology and anatomy; and, an emergency room physician who helped start the process to phase out coal - fueled power plants by 2030 in Alberta.
Not that that's necessarily the very first way Darwinian systems began, but at some point they had to transition into a system more related to modern biology where cells are all bounded by membranes.
They'd be transformed by synthetic biology, a young field of engineering that crafts building materials from DNA and cells rather than more traditional biological materials, like trees.
Now 24, he is a first - year graduate student in the department of cellular and structural biology at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio (UTHSCSA), where he is studying the role of oxidative damage — the wear and tear inflicted upon the cell by toxic molecules called free radicals — in the aging process.
A research team led by scientists from Brigham and Women's Hospital has developed a novel technology platform that enables the continuous and automated monitoring of so - called «organs - on - chips» — tiny devices that incorporate living cells to mimic the biology of bona fide human organs.
«We feel it's critical that the scientific community consider the potential hazards of all off - target mutations caused by CRISPR, including single nucleotide mutations and mutations in non-coding regions of the genome,» says co-author Stephen Tsang, MD, PhD, the Laszlo T. Bito Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and associate professor of pathology and cell biology at Columbia University Medical Center, and in Columbia's Institute of Genomic Medicine and the Institute of Human Nutrition.
Some of the researchers at the centre will study the differentiation of stem cells into other cell types, one group by using human embryonic stem cell biology and another by studying early embryo development.
A new method, recently published in the biology journal The FASEB Journal by an international team including Osaka University researchers, can now image intracellular fatty acids at a single cell level.
The Prize is awarded annually to one young scientist for the most outstanding neurobiological research based on methods of molecular and cell biology conducted by him / her during the past three years.
A combination of circumstances induced me to leave India and enroll in the graduate program in what was then the department of cellular and developmental biology at the University of Arizona, Tucson, in the U.S. My Ph.D. supervisor, Neil Mendelson, had been a well - known name in DNA replication and cell division in Bacillus subtilis, but by the time I had joined his lab, his interest had decidedly shifted to cell shape determination.
His lab began by working with Matt Bennett, assistant professor of biochemistry and cell biology at Rice, to make use of two tailored forms of E. coli bacteria created by Rice graduate student Chen Ye.
«By learning how tau spreads, we may be able to stop it from jumping from neuron to neuron,» said Karen Duff, PhD, professor in the department of pathology and cell biology (in the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain) and professor of psychiatry (at New York State Psychiatric Institute.)
Kilian said his team's synthetic microenvironment lies somewhere in the middle of two extremes in the field of modeling biology: the hard plastic plate, and expensive mouse avatars that are created by injecting human tumor cells into mice.
Twenty - first century science is driven, in large part, by challenges at interfaces, including those between the environmental and life sciences — public health, ecology, genomics, cell biology, epidemiology, immunology, neurobiology, physiology, evolutionary biology... and the mathematical sciences.
The findings were published recently in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute by a group that includes Rony A. François, an M.D. / Ph.D. student working with Maria Zajac - Kaye, Ph.D., an associate professor in the UF College of Medicine's department of anatomy and cell biology.
«There's so much unknown about [stem cells], you permanently change the boundaries of biology by working in such a field,» Hochedlinger says.
Johnson's team borrowed a technique from cancer biology, called the systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment (SELEX), which creates a huge library of random, short chains of nucleotides, called aptamers, and then incubates them with a target of choice, such a specific breast cancer cell.
Supported by 18 other cell biology experts, he drafted a widely distributed «white paper» calling for an end to contamination.
My cancer systems biology team at the University of California, Merced, is tackling diagnosis and treatment of therapy - resistant cancers by elucidating the network of changes within cells as a way to identify new drug targets and circumvent cancer resistance.
«By the 30th day of culture, there were obvious clumps of fluorescent cells visible under the microscope,» says lead author Valentin Sluch, Ph.D., a former Johns Hopkins biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology student and now a postdoctoral scholar working at Novartis, a pharmaceutical company.
Shohreh Maleki, now a Swedish citizen, was born and raised in Iran, earned a doctorate in cell biology in England in 1982, then returned to Iran in time to see her country devastated by the Iran - Iraq War.
The work, which was propelled by technologies that enable the detailed analysis of even a handful of cells, opens a critical window on the biology of the disease and suggests a strategy for the development of more precise, powerful treatments.
Weinberg, who is also a professor of biology at MIT, says he has created cancer cells in culture by adding oncogenes — as, he stresses, have hundreds of others.
In my early years, I spent more time in the molecular biology lab, but I gradually moved into the biomaterial engineering lab as I got fascinated by the possibilities of combining biomaterials and cell biology.
The study, «VlincRNAs controlled by retroviral elements are a hallmark of pluripotency and cancer» found that novel non-coding parts of the human genome known as vlincRNAs (very long intergenic, non-coding RNAs) triggered by ancient viruses, participate in the biology of stem cells, and in the development of cancer.
The startling feat prompted President Barack Obama to ask his newly formed bioethics commission to examine the implications of the Venter study and other kinds of synthetic biology, such as creating biological circuits by putting components together in a cell.
In their new study, they adapted DNA - PAINT technology to microscopes that are widespread among cell biology laboratories, called confocal microscopes, and that are used by researchers to image whole cells and thicker tissues at lower resolution.
Visibly fluorescent proteins (FPs) from jellyfish and corals have revolutionized many areas of molecular and cell biology, but the use of FPs in intact animals, such as mice, has been handicapped by poor penetration of excitation light.
«This remodeling process of the cell proteome by autophagy is an important immune - suppressive survival mechanism for Ras - driven cancers, and inhibiting autophagy can provide a means to target these aggressive cancers,» notes White, who is also a distinguished professor of molecular biology and biochemistry at Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences.
«By learning more about how these cells work, we are one step closer to understanding the disease states in which these cells should be studied,» said Cagla Eroglu, an assistant professor of cell biology and neurobiology at the Duke University Medical Center, who led the research.
«We think that by stopping fibrosis through TAZ and its partners, we may be able to prevent the serious consequences of NASH, including liver failure and liver cancer,» said Ira Tabas, Richard J. Stock Professor and vice-chair of research in the Department of Medicine and professor of pathology & cell biology (in physiology and cellular biophysics) at CUMC.
His research group focuses on big data network biology, exploring biological systems by developing and deploying algorithms aimed to predict cell behavior, in particular looking at cellular signal processing and decision making.
«This year's Nobel Laureates have been studying this fundamental problem and solved the mystery of how an inner clock in most of our cells in our bodies can anticipate daily fluctuations between night and day to optimize our behavior and physiology... since the paradigm shifting discoveries by Hall, Rosbash and Young, circadian biology has developed into a highly dynamic research field with vast implications for our health and well - being.»
Lead author Aaron Allen was a PhD student in cell & systems biology at U of T when the work was done, and he was assisted by Sokolowski, fellow EEB student Ina Anreiter, and Oxford University collaborator Megan Neville, who taught Allen the technique.
Led by researchers at Duke University, the study offers clues to a longstanding question in developmental biology, namely how plants and animals make so many types of cells from the same set of instructions.
This study, led by Garret D. Stuber, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and cell biology & physiology, and Jenna A. McHenry, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate in Stuber's lab, identified a hormone - sensitive circuit in the brain that controls social motivation in female mice.
The team, led by Stephen Liberles, Harvard Medical School associate professor of cell biology, has effectively deconstructed the vagus nerve, a key connection between body and brain that is important because it controls not only breathing but also heart rate, feeding behavior and responses to illness.