Sentences with phrase «cell migration speed»

Microfluidic tools for precision measurements of cell migration speed reveal that migratory speed of individual cells changes stochastically from parent cells to their descendants, while the average speed of the cell population remains constant through successive generations.

A team of researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston has developed technologies for precision measurement of cell migration speed before and applied the new tool to study the variations of migration speed in population of cancer cells.

The team from the Massachusetts General Hospital plans to use the microfluidic devices in synergy with some more sophisticated molecular biology tools and identify the control factors of cell migration speed.

Not exact matches

One interesting finding from this study was that the speed of migration, maintained relatively constant throughout the life of a cell, is not inherited from the mother down to the daughter cells.

Instead, the characteristic migration speed of each cell changes randomly through successive generations.

This finding comes as a surprise, considering that the average migration speed of the larger cell population does not change through multiple cycles.

Interestingly, each cell that migrates through the channels maintains its migration speed throughout its lifetime.

«Stochastic variations of migration speed between cells in clonal populations.»