W. E. Reintsch, A. Habring - Mueller, R. W. Wang, A. Schohl, F. Fagotto, beta - Catenin controls
cell sorting at the notochord - somite boundary independently of cadherin - mediated adhesion.
Increased cell bond tension governs
cell sorting at the Drosophila anteroposterior compartment boundary.
Investigating the dynamics of
cell sorting at compartment boundaries by real - time in vivo imaging
Katharina Landsberg (Dahmann, MPG)-- «The role of cell bond tension in directing
cell sorting at the anteroposterior compartment boundary in wing imaginal dices of Drosophila melanogaster» (2010)
Amani Said (Dahmann, MPG)-- «Mechanisms underlying
cell sorting at the A-P compartment boundary in the Drosophila wing» (2007)
Not exact matches
While the mechanisms
at play aren't totally understood, he said, young organisms» blood not only contains all
sorts of proteins that improve
cell function; somehow it also prompts the recipients» body to increase its production of those proteins.
This complex biological machine gathers the chromosomes together and
sorts them
at the time of
cell division, then sends them to the opposite poles of the daughter
cells in a process called chromosome segregation.
The experiments included
sorting immune
cells found
at injury sites by molecules on their cellular surfaces, and many hours looking
at mouse
cells through the microscope.
At the University of Cologne, biophysicists in the lab of Professor Berenike Maier were now able to show how differential mechanical forces can lead to
cell sorting in biofilms, thereby determining their architecture.
The exceptional cancer
cells that escape the astrocytes do so by producing a protein called Serpin, which acts as a
sort of antidote to the death signals fired
at them by nearby astrocytes.
The two - part approach netted a set of mutations seen only
at relapse that enabled the team to sift and
sort leukemic and normal stem
cells using tools developed in the Dick lab a few years ago to zero in on specific
cell types fated to relapse.
Depending on which device they buy, researchers can photograph
cells at anywhere from 20x to 60x magnification, and use the included software to
sort them by purely visual characteristics such as shape and size, fluorescent markers, or both.
So if you think about the egg as
sort of a uniform ball, you put a messenger RNA on one end of the egg, and when you cut up the ball, then only the
cells at that end get that information.
«
Sorting these
cells to purity is really difficult and important,» says Darrell Kotton, director of CReM and co-senior author of both papers, with Brian Davis of UTHealth
at the University of Texas.
«
Cells are very good
at recycling and
sorting cellular trash into the correct recycling bins,» Dominguez says.
Research
at Nagoya University on
cell sorting used a microfluidic chip to prevent sample infection.
Study leader Fausto J. Rodriguez, M.D., associate professor of pathology
at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and member of the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, says the new study sought to
sort out what makes the more aggressive NF1 - related tumors genetically different from low grade tumors and normal, healthy
cells.
«Synthetic biology is a new area that's really exciting to young scientists — to have things begin to work in this way is a
sort of validation of the field,» says Pamela Silver, a professor of systems biology
at Harvard University Medical School and co-author of a study demonstrating one of the first synthetic restructurings of a eukaryotic
cell that is described in the journal Genes & Development.
«To really
sort out if [stem]
cells can treat these children, we need to do randomized, controlled trials that are well designed and well controlled, and that's what we intend to do,» says Kurtzberg, professor of pediatrics and pathology
at Duke.
New research
at Rockefeller University, published March 18 in Nature, reveals how
cells sort out the loops meant to encode small RNAs, known as microRNAs, by tagging them with a chemical group.
So, for example,
at the University of California in San Francisco they are trying to engineer E. coli so that it can detect cancer
cells, it can invade tumors, and then once it's inside they can release toxins; and so they are putting in all
sorts of genes from other bacteria to assemble this, you know, this
sort of synthetic E. coli that could become basically a cancer torpedo.
«It's one set of genetically identical
cells that are in communication with one another that have a
sort of common purpose or
at least can coordinate themselves to do something,» Volk explains.
Nevertheless, the
cells survive just 10 days in the bloodstream — and 5 days in donated plasma — so they must contain some
sort of «ticking time bomb,» says Ben Kile, a molecular geneticist
at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI) in Victoria, Australia.
Fluorescence histograms obtained from primary culture of colon
cells (A) and
at the time of second
sorting cycle (B).
March 6, 2013 One region, two functions: Brain
cells» multitasking may be a key to understanding overall brain function A region of the brain known to play a key role in visual and spatial processing has a parallel function:
sorting visual information into categories, according to a new study by researchers
at the University of Chicago.
Guidelines for sample preparation will be discussed prior to preparation, and well before arrival
at the
cell sorting lab.
At various points in this process,
cells use RNA as a
sort of scaffold to help replicate DNA.
Sorted human ILC3s (Lin - CD127 +) were cultured
at 2,000 — 5,000
cells per well of a 96 well plate with irradiated (30 Gy) OP9 - DL1 feeders [70].
The PreSERVE - AMI study looked
at naked bone marrow
cells,
sorted to enrich for CD34 +
cells with progenitor potential.
In the Endocytic Trafficking and Intracellular Delivery team we study the
cell biology of carbohydrate - binding proteins (lectins)
at the level of cellular entry though clathrin - independent endocytosis, retrograde
sorting on early endosomes, and translocation to the cytosol.
Researchers
at SciLifeLab have shown that a high - throughput method using microfluidic droplet
sorting of mutated yeast
cells can be used to improve the production of industrial enzymes.
(C) Flow cytometry on
cells plated
at single
cell density in 96 well plates from each
sorted fraction.
We study the
cell biology of carbohydrate - binding proteins (lectins)
at the level of cellular entry though endocytosis, retrograde
sorting, and translocation to the cytosol.
Specific topics include the abilities to recognize,
sort and transport important molecules; sense the environment; alter shape or surface texture; generate onboard energy to power effective robotic functions; communicate with doctors, patients, and other nanorobots; navigate throughout the human body; manipulate microscopic objects and move about inside a human body; and timekeep, perform computations, disable living
cells and viruses, and operate
at various pressures and temperatures.
In part that's because of the wonderful tools
at our disposal — genetic sequencing, imaging techniques,
cell sorting.
For some time now, scientists have been looking
at using enzymes derived from bacteria to «clip» the A - or B - specific sugars (aka antigens) off of red blood
cells, to create a
sort of generic blood that can be given to anyone.
The three selected Amrose variants share the Q82E, L147M, S158N and H197Y mutations that make up variant 1, where the appearance of Q82E
at sort 15 coincided with a pronounced color change in the DT40
cells from more purple to more blue, see v0 versus v1 in Figure 2a.
CD4 + T
cells sorted by immunomagnetic beads from splenocytes of animals tolerant to donor - type cardiac allografts were plated
at 106
cells / well.
The team
at the HZI providing access through the project has access to state - of - the - art laboratories and animal facilities with BSL2 containment, flow cytometry and
cell sorting facilities, histopathology and in vivo imaging (IVIS).
Dave Asprey: What we did is I had my stem
cells taken out, and my wife, Dr. Lanna, had her stem
cells taken out, actually extracted from our own fat, and then re-injected
at various parts of the body, all
sorts of injury sites.
At first I thought we were talking about something like what I saw, like
sort of a tablet maybe or notebook or netpad or whatever, then I thought we were talking about a smart - phone -
cell - phone, now I am not sure what we are talking about.
; or maybe in a sense we do, but they could be of either the political / social or technological
sort; the more the better, but just political / social could work okay (although that would work partly by boosting R&D to continue technological progress, but I'm not sure if that's necessarily breakthroughs (it wouldn't surprise me if someone got a zinc phosphide, CZTS, or pyrite solar
cell to work economically
at some point in the future, or used light - trapping to make c - Si cheaper and more efficient, or... — it would surprise me if it happenned tomorrow, but...).
«Low - cost, compact, flexible and efficient solar
cells are destined to impact all
sorts of Department of Defense applications, as lightweight solar panels will eventually power all kinds of equipment, particularly in remote, inaccessible areas,» said Dr. Michael Scalora, a research physicist
at the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center.
We started looking
at all
sorts of other ways to dramatically reduce our consumption of energy and to increase our production, including photovoltaic
cells and a Sterling cycle generator (which is one of my own designs), and other things to augment and improve the wind turbine system.
A database is a big nebulous something
at the end of a computer /
cell phone / tablet / laptop, made up of all
sorts of indistinguishable stuff...
Someday we'll probably have wireless earbuds that are so inconspicuous they'll make the Dash look laughably big and obtrusive,
sort of how we snicker when we look back
at old
cell phones.