Sentences with phrase «cell cluster where»

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I don't know about you, but I think it's more humane to terminate a cluster of cells that lacks the ability to feel pain than it is to insist that a child be born into a situation where it is unwanted, unloved, unprotected and may end up abused or dead.

Your developing baby doesn't look like a baby yet, but cells have clustered in places where your baby's heart and circulatory system will grow as well as where lungs, urinary tract, intestines, brain and entire nervous system will grow.

When chemical phosphate groups are added to the receptors, they move from the cytoplasm and cluster on the edges of nerve cells along synapses — the spaces between nerve cells where messages transmit from one cell to another.

In germinal centers — the sites within lymph nodes where mature B cells cluster — B cells proliferate and undergo hypermutation of their antibody genes to generate high - affinity antibodies.

«Promoter» areas, locations where genes begin to be expressed, must be paired precisely with «enhancer» clusters, where cells mature to a targeted function.

They tagged a dozen genes that turn on when the bacteria grow inside clusters of immune cells in the frog, the same spot where TB hides in humans.

Unlike normal fish skin cells, they were tightly clustered and produced pigment in areas where there usually is none.

According to recent research, the most common solid tumors (that is, cancer that occurs as clusters of cells in or on organs, rather than in liquid form within the blood or lymphatic system) have up to 66 mutations that influence how the cancer cells operate — how fast they divide, whether they are susceptible to the signals that would normally cause a cell to die, when they detach from the main tumor to colonize another organ in the body, when and where they attach blood vessels to healthy tissues.

The pre-clinical study results show that the synthesized steroid, squalamine, prevents and eliminates alpha - synuclein build - up inside neurons by unsticking the protein from the inner wall of nerve cells, where it clings and clusters into toxic clumps, researchers say.