Sentences with phrase «cell in its particular place»

It is not as though each cell in its particular place was initially destined to become a particular part.

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Christof Koch, a neuroscientist at Caltech, and Itzhak Fried, a neurosurgeon at the University of California at Los Angeles, revealed this spring that their research team had discovered individual brain cells that fire in response to particular people and places.

To figure out what's really happening within an organism — or within a particular organ or cell — researchers are linking the genome with large - scale data about the output of those genes at specific times, in specific places, in response to specific environmental pressures.

Direction cells fire when an animal is facing a particular direction, place cells fire only in a specific location, and grid cells fire at regular intervals as an animal moves around.

These cells fire only when an animal is in a particular place — close to an exercise wheel, for example, or in front of a door.

As the animal travels, these neurons, called grid cells and place cells, respond uniquely to distance, turning on and off in a way that measures how far the animal has moved in a particular direction.

More than a decade ago microelectrode studies of rats and monkeys revealed place cells that respond when the animals move to a particular spot in a maze.

They also found that the disruption of the connectivity of these cells during brain development causes alterations in brain oscillatory activity and disturbs the function of place cells, a type of pyramidal neuron that becomes active when an animal is located in a particular place in its environment.

John O'Keefe discovered that certain cells in a region of the brain called the hippocampus preferentially fired, or were activated, when an animal was in a particular environmental location — the first description of «place cells».

The prize is for discovering «the brain's navigation system»: place cells, cells in the hippocampus which are active whenever a rat is in a particular place, and grid cells, cells in the entorhinal cortex which are active when the animal is at multiple locations in a grid pattern.

By placing a patient's cells in Organ - Chips and exposing those cells to a particular drug or series of drugs, clinicians could gain more accurate information about how that individual would respond to treatment, avoiding the risk of administering a drug that may cause harm or is ineffective and costly.

By placing a patient's cells in Organ - Chips and exposing those cells to a particular drug or series of drugs, clinicians could gain better information about how that individual would respond to treatment, avoiding the risk of administering a drug that may cause harm.

One worth mentioning is that there are one or two facets to Officer Dixon (Rockwell) that don't quite work, in particular a streak of racism that feels oddly out of place, most noticeably in a scene in a prison cell midway through, in which the N - word is invoked by two characters in a way that felt crass and misjudged.