Sentences with phrase «cell life cycles»

It is a necessary nutrient for maintaining healthy cell life cycles.

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It matches up with the observed entire life cycle and doubling rate (about every 8 hours) of the single celled organism.
Epstein said he envisioned cell therapies having much shorter life cycles than traditional drugs.
In November 2010 Japanese researchers announced online in Analytical Chemistry that they had built a chip that simultaneously tests how liver, intestine and breast cancer cells respond to cancer drugs, and in February 2010 scientists publishing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA developed a microscale replica of the human liver that allowed them to observe the entire life cycle of hepatitis C, a virus that is difficult to observe in cultured cells.
Chu says the study emphasizes that healthy cells need more than functional mitochondria — they need to support a kind of mitochondrial life cycle that involves continuous genesis, repair and recycling.
Perhaps something in the life cycle of a living cell?
Malaria parasites, which are transmitted through the bite of an infected mosquito, cause the most destruction during the part of their life cycle when they dwell in red blood cells circulating through the body.
In cancer, these switches inappropriately activate or silence important genes, such as those that regulate cell growth and life cycle, ultimately leading to tumors.
He hopes to pursue projects such as developing therapeutics with chemists, working with biophysicists to study protein conformational changes relevant to viral entry into the cell, and investigating cellular trafficking pathways relevant to the viral life cycle in collaboration with cell biologists.
«Nematodes use the spit to transform the host cell into a nutrient sink from which they feed on during their entire life cycle.
While researching the life cycle of baker's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Gottschling's team figured out a way to label yeast so that they could spot genetic mistakes in daughter cells.
In contrast to necrosis, which is a form of cell death that results from acute tissue injury and provokes an inflammatory response, PCD is carried out in a regulated process that generally confers advantages during an organism's life cycle.
Bacterial spores store information about the individual growth history of their progenitor cells, thus retaining a «memory» that links the different stages of the bacterial life cycle.
Like animals, individual cells proceed through a life cycle.
Importantly, our technology can follow the dynamic duplication processes in our cells and can therefore reveal the life cycle of these DNA - complexes,» says postdoc Constance Alabert who has been leading the laboratory work.
With this mechanism, scientists showed that they were able to extend the cycle life of the lithium - sulfur cell without compromising its performance.
A human vaccine against malaria has faltered in the face of the sophisticated life cycle of Plasmodium falciparum, the one - celled parasite responsible for the most severe form of the disease.
«Developing a vaccine that blocks the fusion of Plasmodium sex cells would be a huge step forward,» Snell said, noting that Plasmodium has a complex life cycle that depends on both mosquito and human hosts.
«Our method allowed us to look at the consequences of removing senescent cells at different stages of the mouse life cycle,» van Deursen says.
The researchers plan to use the new platform to identify additional weaknesses in the HIV virus's life cycle that could be exploited either by cell therapy or targeted drugs.
The study, commissioned by CHEOPS - a perovskite research project co-funded by the European research and innovation programme Horizon 2020, is being conducted by SmartGreenScans, a CHEOPS member, specialising in Life - Cycle Assessments (LCA) of photovoltaic technologies, to assess the life - cycle environmental impact of the perovskite - on - silicon tandem cells being commercialised by OxfordLife - Cycle Assessments (LCA) of photovoltaic technologies, to assess the life - cycle environmental impact of the perovskite - on - silicon tandem cells being commercialised by OxforCycle Assessments (LCA) of photovoltaic technologies, to assess the life - cycle environmental impact of the perovskite - on - silicon tandem cells being commercialised by Oxfordlife - cycle environmental impact of the perovskite - on - silicon tandem cells being commercialised by Oxforcycle environmental impact of the perovskite - on - silicon tandem cells being commercialised by Oxford PV.
Differences and similarities in viral life cycle progression and host cell physiology after infection of human dendritic cells with modified vaccinia virus Ankara and vaccinia virus.
Nonetheless, building a user - friendly device that allows scientists to track the activity of a single gene in all cell types over the course of a plant's life cycle is a tall order.
Oxford, 04 April 2018 — Oxford PV — The Perovskite Company, the leader in the field of perovskite solar cells, today announced that its perovskite - on - silicon tandem solar cells, currently being used to conduct a life - cycle environmental impact study, have shown positive first results.
The films are part of his groups work to understand the molecular mechanism of the nuclear division cycle in the intact living cell.
Title: Lgr5 marks cycling, yet long - lived, hair follicle stem cells Authors: Jaks V, Barker N, Kasper M, van Es JH, Snippert HJ, Clevers H, Toftgård R Date: November 2011 Publication Details: Nat Genet.
In tumors, the clockwork genetic mechanisms that control the life cycle of cells are entirely disrupted, a fact that may hold the key to defeating cancer.
The researchers showed that i - motifs mostly form at a particular point in the cell's «life cycle» — the late G1 phase, when DNA is being actively «read».
By growing primordial germ cells in culture researchers can make genome edits sequentially without being restricted by the breeding cycle of living birds, and the cultured cells will contribute to the germ line when injected into new embryos.
I am a postdoctoral fellow with the Garner lab employing high - resolution microscopy in live bacteria and archaea towards the understanding of the cell cycle fate.
Human pluripotent stem cells and the human embryo: Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSC) have opened up a previously inaccessible phase of the human life cycle to...
The researchers identified the precise step in which the CD4 T cells die by using different anti-HIV drugs to arrest the virus at different points in its life cycle.
So the team decided to go one step backwards in the life cycle of the cell.
When conditions improve (or when the scientist restores nitrogen to the culture medium and provides light and water), the diploid zygote undergoes meiosis and releases four haploid cells that resume the vegetative life cycle.
As this definition implies, viruses comprise the whole reproduction cycle — and they need other living cells to reproduce.
A grid - format picture capture system allowed the monitoring of living hESC cultures ranging in size from a few hundred micrometers to cell colonies of several millimetres at a defined picture capture cycle rate.
In all living organisms, the cell cycle must be tightly regulated to ensure that new cells are created only when necessary and have an accurate copy of DNA to function normally.
Figure 1: Live - cell imaging of Ki - 67 (green) during the cell cycle reveals its re-localisation from nucleoli to the surface of mitotic chromosomes (magenta).
The ultimate goal is to understand intricacies in the steps of the virus life cycle, such as how the virus enters the host cell, to direct antivirals to those specific steps, Hafenstein said.
These single - celled microbes share many characteristics with human cells, but they can be rapidly grown in great numbers in a flask or petri dish, and they have a life cycle and genome that make their genetics easier to study.
While PALM is typically limited to a single read - out cycle, life cell dSTORM opens exciting possibilities for superresolution imaging of cellular nanostructures over prolonged time scales (1).
Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease that causes skin cells to go through the life cycle more quickly than normal.
Despite the presence of the cell's antioxidant defense system to counteract oxidative damage from ROS, oxidative damage accumulates during the life cycle and has been implicated in aging and age - dependent diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, neurodegenerative disorders and other chronic conditions.
This lining consists of dead and living cells, blood, and glycogen that build up throughout the cycle.
This piling up can also be a symptom of psoriasis, which speeds up the life cycle of skin cells.
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