«Stem
cell researchers move toward treatments for rare genetic nerve disease.»
Not exact matches
Led by
researchers at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Heart Institute, the study demonstrates the gene Gm7325 and its protein — which the scientists named «myomerger» — prompt muscle stem
cells to fuse and develop skeletal muscles the body needs to
move and survive.
The
researchers also found they could create
cell balls of different shapes by
moving the lid, changing its shape and the strength of the magnet.
After the treatment, they found that the
cells became uniformly soft — the first quantitative evidence that actin forms the «skeleton» that gives
cells their structure and enables them to contract and
move, say the
researchers.
But
researchers dream of being able to create truly elastic electronic components — soft circuit systems that can act more like live
cells,
moving around autonomously and communicating with each other to form new circuits rather than being stuck in one configuration.
Unlike humans, who use their lymphatic systems to produce and transport white blood
cells, tuna use theirs to
move two of their fins,
researchers report today in Science.
Moving in clumps gives cancer
cells a competitive advantage, the
researchers found.
The
researchers reprogrammed the
cells to create induced pluripotent stem
cells in an FDA - compliant facility at the Broad Stem
Cell Research Center; the use of this facility is an important step in the process as preclinical research
moves toward human clinical trials.
The
researchers found that when the
cells were stressed, they quickly
moved mRNAs from the endoplasmic reticulum to the cytosol.
Proteins that
researchers think are key to long - term memory formation also
move genetic material between
cells in both mice and flies
Certain chromosomes, the
researchers found, exploit this asymmetry to
move themselves over to the «right» side of a
cell during division and wind up in the egg.
The
researchers first
moved the particle to the surface of the
cell membrane.
In pigs that consumed a high calorie diet, the
researchers found that the stem
cells moved out of the protected base of the crypt and potentially exposed themselves to similar damage.
An international team of
researchers has developed miniscule, self - propelled devices that mimic the way
cells move.
Using a powerful imaging technique that allowed the scientists to track the presence and movement of parasites in living tissues, the
researchers found that Toxoplasma infects the brain's endothelial
cells, which line blood vessels, reproduces inside of them, and then
moves on to invade the central nervous system.
Solar
cells based on cadmium and tellurium could
move closer to theoretical levels of efficiency because of some sleuthing by
researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
To show their program's promise beyond plant roots, the
researchers also used it with a different microscope to watch groups of
cells move around in growing zebrafish (Danio rerio) embryos.
After removing the effects of solar rotation and accounting for the angle of view of areas not facing directly toward Earth, the
researchers could discern the so - called giant
cell flow patterns (material
moving east is depicted in red, that
moving toward the west in blue), which cause supergranules to slowly drift across the surface of the sun.
The
researchers then tested whether artificially activating
cells at different points along the ring, essentially
moving the compass needle, would disrupt the flies» sense of direction.
Moving their studies from
cells to whole animals, the
researchers tested the effects of knocking out the Zbp1 gene in mice infected with influenza.
Researchers have hypothesized that an unfolded protein
moves more slowly through the
cell, because it would be a big, stringy mess rather than a tightly wrapped package.
By looking at the dynamics of how the unfolded protein
moved in the
cell (A), the
researchers mapped areas in the
cell with different rates of diffusion (B and C).
«
Researchers observe how unfolded proteins
move in the
cell.»
The
researchers discovered that an integrin called beta - 1 (β1) pairs up with another protein called c - Met and they
move inside the
cell together.
UB
researchers explored how integrins
move in the
cells and discovered cholesterol's key role.
The
researchers found that this loss of identity allows the relatively well - behaved epithelial
cells to transition to bad - acting mesynchemal
cells, which are more likely to
move throughout the body — the hallmark of metastatic cancer, which is the primary cause of cancer recurrence and patient death.
The base simulation will allow
researchers to test more kinesins that
move cargo from the nucleus to the outer limits of the
cell and, eventually, dyneins, larger and more complex proteins that
move cargo toward the center.
The possibility of such
cells has been debated at least since the 1950s, when
researchers found single neurons in the visual cortex of cats and other animals that respond to simple stimuli, such as lines oriented at a certain angle or
moving in a specific direction, or light of a particular wavelength.
In an article published in Science this Thursday, a team of Portuguese
researchers led by Helder Maiato identifies a» Highway Code» within
cells, a finding that changes the way we perceive how chromosomes
move during
cell division.
In experiments, the
researchers found that curved V. cholerae
cells could more easily
move through a thick gel.
Researchers were also able to see natural metals which are produced by the body — such as zinc and calcium —
moving around the
cells.
The
moves also include # 50 million ($ 78 million) for a London - based «
cell therapy technology and innovation center,» and # 60 million ($ 93 million) to develop the secure system that would allow
researchers access to anonymized patient data from the National Health Service (NHS).
While the research reported in this paper manipulated pluripotent mouse
cells, the
researchers have
moved ahead in performing similar studies with human stem
cells and achieved comparable types of results with the microparticle delivery approaches.
A noted U.S. fertility
researcher is relocating to England in a
move that some
researchers say underscores the uncertainty created by the current debate over government funding of research involving embryonic stem
cells (Science, 13 July, p. 186).
Researchers from the Department of Biomedicine at the University of Basel discovered novel mechanisms of
cell migration by observing
cells moving on lines of connective tissue.
Animals learned to
move their eyeballs once every second, a completely internal timing feat made possible by the rhythmic behavior of small groups of nerve
cells,
researchers propose online October 30 in PLOS Biology.
If after several months the
cells seemed safe, the
researchers would
move on to injecting them into a patient's liver, where they should eventually replace A1At - deficient
cells.
«The obstacle structure encountered by a protein
moving through the
cell is porous, much like a sponge,» explains the Heidelberg
researcher.
By developing a new fluorescence microscopy - based technique, the
researchers were able to measure how long it takes proteins to
move over distances ranging from 0.2 to 3 micrometres in living
cells.
The
researchers also found evidence suggesting that the abnormal tau protein was
moving from neuron to neuron across synapses, the junctions that these
cells use to communicate with each other.
Using a miniature microscope inserted into the brains of the mice, the
researchers recorded the activity of hundreds of
cells in the hippocampus as the mice freely
moved around their surroundings.
Researchers have for the first time shown how the world's smallest
moving machines generate the motion needed to transport their chemical cargo throughout
cells.
Researchers combine living
cells with 3D printed skeleton to create bio-bot that can be
moved and controlled.
Zinkicide is a nanoparticle smaller than a single microscopic
cell, and
researchers are cautiously optimistic it will be able to
move systemically from
cell to
cell to kill the bacteria that cause HLB.
According to the three
researchers, ENSO - related warming during El Niño conditions is caused by a stronger Hadley
Cell circulation
moving warm tropical air into the mid-latitudes.
Researcher Gregg Semenza introduces the Vascular Biology Program, where scientists trace
cells as they
move through the body and study the relationship between low - oxygen conditions, blood vessel growth, and cancer.
Stem
cell researchers are getting closer to a new treatment for sickle
cell disease,
moving promising laboratory research into human clinical trials.
In the latest issue of the journal
Cell, a team of scientists led by Gladstone Institutes and University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Investigator Nevan Krogan, PhD, Texas A&M University's Craig Kaplan, PhD, and UCSF Professor Christine Guthrie, PhD, describe a new technique — called the point mutant E-MAP (pE - MAP) approach — that gives
researchers the ability to pinpoint and map thousands of interactions between each of an enzyme's many
moving parts.
A new study conducted by
researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology suggests that a specific type of
cell known as a speed
cell allow individuals to moderate how fast or how slow they
move.
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