Sentences with phrase «cell communication by»

It was known that astrocytes could regulate or modulate brain cell communication by adjusting levels of glutamate.

Investigators are working to break the code in stem cell communication by determining how stem cells signal one another and other cells.

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Anyone who has ever received what looks like a local call on their cell phone but then gets a robocall sales pitch for discount diabetic supplies or a free Bahamas cruise may appreciate what the Federal Communications Commission is doing by cracking down on «spoof calls.»

By Rockland County Executive Ed Day Every month, Rockland County spends $ 12,000 on cell phones — a vital tool in this age of instant communication.

Thanks to the computer programs created by the researchers, they can control each cell individually in various ways, or create virtual communication between several cells, which circulate messages in an easily reconfigurable order.»

A new water splitter powered by a single AAA battery could reduce the carbon pollution created from making hydrogen fuel cells, scientists report August 22 in Nature Communications.

Their paper, which appears in Nature Communications, describes how an immune cell recruited to the tumor induces the programmed suicide, or apoptosis, of the killer T cells harnessed by many immunotherapies.

Yang said the study not only indicated which genes are affected by traumatic brain injury and linked to serious disease, but also might point to the genes that govern metabolism, cell communication and inflammation — which might make them the best targets for new treatments for brain disorders.

Action potentials can be created by many types of cells, but are used most extensively by the nervous system for communication between neurons and to transmit information from neurons to other body tissues such as muscles and glands.

«CRKII most likely regulates the stability of mutated epidermal growth factor receptors and drives cancer growth by promoting signaling, or communication, within cancer cells,» said Julia Petschnigg, lead author on the paper and a postdoctoral fellow at U of T. «We found that a combinatorial chemotherapy that inhibits those mutated receptors and CRKII could be beneficial in treating lung cancer.»

In a brain ravaged by Alzheimer's, microtubules, which are crucial to cell communication, disintegrate as tau proteins (blue) form tangles and amyloid proteins (green) form plaques.

Cell biologists would like to reduce the complex communication patterns traced by molecules that regulate the health of the cell to a set of signaling ruCell biologists would like to reduce the complex communication patterns traced by molecules that regulate the health of the cell to a set of signaling rucell to a set of signaling rules.

A paper by Yan's research group, published in the Jan. 8 issue of the multidisciplinary journal Nature Communications, helps pin down the basic mechanisms of the fuel - cell reaction on platinum, which will help researchers create alternative electrocatalysts.

A new study published in eLife and headed by Jordi Casanova and Sofía J. Araújo, both scientists at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and the Instituto de Biología Molecular de Barcelona (IBMB - CSIC), describes a cell communication mechanism that allows the organisation of the extracellular matrix and how this structure affects cells through a feedback system.

«Mechanics of cells» long - range communication modeled by researchers.»

For example, a team led by Licheng Sun at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, is working on a system that uses a photosensitised anode similar to those used in dye - sensitised solar cells (Chemical Communications, DOI: 10.1039 / c0cc01828g).

Transportation and communication around the world increasingly rely on lithium - ion batteries, with cell phones ubiquitous on six continents, and electric vehicles on pace to accelerate from a $ 1 billion worldwide market in 2009 to $ 14 billion by 2016, according to analysts Frost and Sullivan.

A team led by John W. Weisel, PhD, a professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, describes in Nature Communications how specialized proteins in platelets cause clots to shrink in size.

This switch is accompanied by a complex communication process between the stem cells and tissue cells — an area that had not previously been examined in any depth.

Scientists from the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw have recently discovered that the alpha and beta cells communicate with each other, and the central role in this communication is played by cannabinoids — organic compounds that occur in nature also in inflorescences of cannabis.

The company has already supplied the U.S. military and outdoor enthusiasts with portable field chargers, largely for communication and other small electronic devices powered by such cells.

Photoperiodic control of seasonal growth is mediated by ABA acting on cell - cell communication

The Nature Communications paper covers lung cancer cells; a similar phenomenon of collective invasion led by distinctive cells has been observed in breast cancer, but different genes and biochemical pathways appear to be important in each system.

By providing a means to link proteins directly to specific cell types, the authors believe that this new method will be useful in studies of cell - cell communication and biomarker discovery.

Schaal, dean of the faculty of arts and sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, called for more effective communication and public engagement by scientists in explaining their work, both to policy makers and to the general public, across a range of topics — climate change, evolution, stem cells, and use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in agriculture.

Interleukin - 33 (IL - 33), discovered in 2003 by Jean - Philippe Girard's team, is a protein in the family of interleukins, soluble messengers that enable communication between cells in the immune system and play a crucial role in tissue inflammation.

Researchers led by Nigel Bamford of the University of Washington in Seattle, US, gave mice large doses of methamphetamine, equivalent to those taken by addicts during drug binges, to see how this affected communication between cells in the brain's cortex and those in a region of the brain called the striatum.

Three weeks after the scientific world marked the 20th anniversary of the birth of Dolly the sheep new research, published by The University of Nottingham, in the academic journal Nature Communications has shown that four clones derived from the same cell line — genomic copies of Dolly — reached their 8th birthdays in good health.

Cancer Research UK scientists have discovered a new line of defence used by cancer cells to evade cell death, according to research published in Nature Communications.

Researchers knew that cells in the inner ear below hair cells — known as supporting cells — can become the sensory cells themselves when stimulated by a protein that blocks Notch signaling, which is an important mechanism for cell communication.

Be the product oil, automobiles, pharmaceuticals, or stem cells, there will be issues of pollution, safety, pricing excess, and ethics that will be decided more by the maximization of profit than by good science, open communication, and popular opinion.

An international study led by researchers at Monash University» Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI) has shone light on the way the Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) hijacks the communication systems in the host cells it infects, uncovering potential new therapeutic targets for the disease.

Rice University researchers found that some cancer cells get as much as 60 percent of their fuel from eating exosomes, tiny communications packets emitted by neighboring cells.

With respect to biological applications, the group is focusing on how cellular heterogeneity and cell - to - cell communication drive ensemble - level decision - making in the immune system, with an emphasis on «two - body» interaction (e.g., host cell - virus interactions, innate immune control of adaptive immunity, tumor infiltration by immune cells).

David Munno»99 Is currently pursuing his doctorate at the University of Calgary, Department of Neuroscience, continuing to study the means by which brain cells develop and regenerate their modes of communication.

The channel - like property could have evolved, says Edwards, to meet the important need of moving large amounts of glutamate quickly, for while the other neurotransmitters are involved in modulating behaviors, such as mood, and therefore don't need to act with millisecond speed, glutamate functions by rapid - fire communication between closely placed nerve cells, and could require the fast action of the channel mechanism.

One important communication chemical — called tissue factor — is produced by the blood vessels and by a type of white blood cells called monocytes.

Also, intracellular milieu (ICM) is linked to extracellular milieu (ECM), what goes inside the cells also affects ECM because they are tied together and in communication; but also ECM is created by the ICM; for example, without fibroblast or stromal cells, for example, there wouldn't be much ECM or ECM scaffold formation in the first place; for they are key elements for ECM existing in the first place.

By shutting down cholesterol transport and movement, the exceptionally active survival communication that cancer cells require is shut down.

In a study published today in the journal Nature Communications, scientists show that abnormal cells are eliminated and replaced by healthy cells, repairing — and in some cases completely fixing — the embryo.

A team of researchers from the University of Iowa and Veterans Affairs Research Communications, led by Dr. Markus Kuehn, has found that an infusion of stem cells could help treat eyes at risk for glaucoma by restoring proper drainage in fluid - clogged eyes.

Discovered in the late 1970s, the mechanism, called the unfolded protein response, relies on communication between the ER and the cell nucleus: When misfolded proteins, which can cause stress - related diseases, accumulate in the ER, cells counter the surge by triggering a program of gene expression in the nucleus that raises the abundance of ER proteins that foster protein folding and activates a mechanism that degrades protein clumps.

Celldance is a program supported by the ASCB Public Information Committee to promote public engagement and education in cell biology, as well as to help cell biologists develop their skills in video - based science communication and storytelling.

By doing so, we have imitated, to some extent, an essential movement behavior that occurs in nature, during cell division or muscle contraction,» says Maximilian Urban, whose research publication («Gold nanocrystal - mediated sliding of doublet DNA origami filament») appears in Nature Communications.

We propose that the age - related decline in the regenerative behavior of glial cells is caused by loss of cell - to - cell communication and changes in the internal gene expression of glia cells.

In a new paper published in Nature Communications, a team led by Saint Louis University researcher Alessandro Vindigni, Ph.D. shares new information about how BRCA - deficient cancer cells operate, interact with chemotherapy...

In a study published in the journal Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, a team led by Miranda examined how certain drugs affect genes in EBV - infected tumor cells.

In the resistant infections, the communication system used by MRSA bacteria to «talk» among each other is silenced, and with it the ability to release toxins that damage human cells.

Review of «Engineering human pluripotent stem cells into a functional skeletal muscle tissue» from Nature Communications by Stuart P. Atkinson

The Consortium for Functional Glycomics (CFG) is a large research initiative, funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, and formed to define the paradigms by which protein - carbohydrate interactions mediate cell communication.