Sentences with phrase «cell sorting in»

That we observe cell sorting in EB culture also provides direct evidence, albeit in vitro, for the differential adhesion model proposed for the resolution of early PrEn and PrEc in the mammalian blastocyst in this same paper [56].

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.

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• NanoCellect Biomedical, a San Diego - based developer of microfluidic cell sorting technologies for cell - based assays, raised $ 10 million in series B funding.

The close concentration of urban dwellers, combined with plummeting hardware costs and the overlapping layers of wireless data that accompany us — beamed from cell towers, pulsing from Wi - Fi hot spots, radiating from smartphones in our pockets — has made it easier than ever before to track, sort, manage and organize things in a city setting.

This depends upon there being a brain, an arrangement of cells in a particular part of the body which by reason of its peculiar coordination makes the given routing able to «know» in a distinctively human manner — quite different from, although certainly continuous with, the sort of «knowing» that is possible for the higher grades of animal life.

As a physics teacher, I teach the therapeutic effects of gamma radiation in radiotherapy, along with the associated dangers (radiation can cause cells to become cancerous as well as kill cells that are already cancerous), but a common misconception among students is that cancer cells are rather like viruses or bacteria, a sort of alien cell that has entered the body, growing out of control with little relation to the surrounding cells.

The atom, the electron, the proton, the cell, whatever sort of brick or combination of bricks, is the same be it located in the centre of the sun or in the centre of a human brain.

Consciousness, he wrote, is a sort of public spirit in the brain cells.

Stem cells can transform into any other human cells, so they have immense potential for generating all sorts of adult cells and thus can be used in research concerning human degenerative (and other) diseases.

The DNA in the nucleus of the fertilized egg contains all the instructions needed to make all the different proteins and all the different sorts of structures in all the different sorts of cells in the body.

I've known that in a general sort of way for a long time, but the concept really hit me earlier in the semester when I started taking biology and learning more about cells and nutrition.

In that case, your child won't be «ready» for a cell phone until she is able to earn some sort of income.

He added: «The important thing is that you work with people who are like - minded and interested in pursuing the same sort of things where you can, and we will, whether the subject is stem cell or whether the subject is climate change.»

Besides security - related applications — and the privacy concerns that such technology might raise — everyday electronics could also make use of terahertz chips to enable all sorts of technical wizardry, much like the cameras, accelerometers and gyroscopes in today's cell phones.

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.

When female animals form egg cells inside their ovaries, they deposit messenger RNAs (mRNAs)-- a sort of genetic instruction set — in the egg cell cytoplasm.

In humans, however, it sparks a cascade of symptoms that begin when the bacterium injects a sort of syringe into the cells of the intestinal wall.

CRH, in turn, triggered production of the cell surface protein FasL; trophoblasts expressing FasL then form a protective shield of sorts around the embryo by forcing any attacking immune cells to self - destruct.

In a mix of bacteria that interact with each other to different degrees, the cells sorted themselves according to the mechanical forces they exerted among one another.

When dendritic cells not only signal myelin as a «target substance,» but also secrete the messenger substance IL - 6, a sort of molecular switch is flipped in the T cells.

In the future, the question will be in how far this cell sorting strengthens the biofilm's resilience towards external stresIn the future, the question will be in how far this cell sorting strengthens the biofilm's resilience towards external stresin how far this cell sorting strengthens the biofilm's resilience towards external stress.

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.

Once the cells are in place, «the gel provides a natural - like environment in which the cells sort themselves out,» says University of Utah medicinal chemist Glenn Prestwich, who invented the formula.

Geron, the biotech wunderkind, last made big news in November 1998 when scientists they funded — James A. Thomson of the University of Wisconsin and John D. Gearhart of Johns Hopkins — independently isolated two sorts of so - called human pluripotent stem cells.

Using a powerful microscope to observe mouse oocytes as they split, Ellenberg's group found that the spindles assembled into two coherent structures, one for the future egg and one for the future polar body.At first, spindles appeared throughout the cell in a sort of mesh.

The scientists have shown that, in all cancers, a sort of «identity crisis» is observed in cancerous cells: in the organs or tissues in which a tumor develops, genes specific to other tissues or to other stages of the development of the organism express themselves in an aberrant manner.

«If you tried to put any kind of life - form you can imagine on Earth in a brine solution of that sort, the water would be sucked out of the cells,» mission leader Peter Smith told New Scientist.

Those qualities make graphene a tantalizing alternative for use as a transparent conductor, the sort now found in everything from computer displays and flat panel TVs to ATM touch screens and solar cells.

They also developed a unique cell - sorting technique to isolate islet cells from other cells in the pancreas.

CTL1 is also found in animal cells, Chao noted, and thus the study concluded that «characterizing CTL1 as a new regulator of protein sorting may enable researchers to understand not only ion homeostasis in plants but vesicle trafficking in general.»

«All of the cells of the brain are constantly active and are participating, by a sort of algebraic summation, in every activity.

The U.S. National Institutes of Health officials are busy sorting thousands of comments on the agency's proposed stem cell guidelines that poured in up to the deadline of 11 p.m. on 26 May.

«Previous techniques that have been used to investigate DNA control sequences usually rely on sorting cells one by one and measuring gene activity in each of them,» says Dr Eva Yus, lead author of the paper.

On the other hand, the problem is, you know, with embryonic stem cells, they haven't been able to get stem cell lines from livestock animals that can proliferate in that way, without just sort of veering up in their own direction and turning into, instead of muscle, turning into brain tissue or bone tissue or something else.

Such shutdowns are routine in healthy cells if they produce too many misfolded or unfolded proteins, but normal protein production resumes again once the mess is sorted out.

In the last few years, researchers have learned how to turn embryonic stem cells into all sorts of different cell types, such as skin cells, heart

Using a high - speed actuator as the driving source of pump, they succeeded in producing a flow with 16 microseconds for cell sorting.

«High - throughput cell - sorting method can separate 10 billion bacterial cells in 30 minutes.»

«If you can take the patient into the OR, isolate a bunch of their cells, sort them and put them back in that's ideally where we'd like to go with this,» Darling said.

Viruses technically are not alive, but there is some stage that's sort of in between inert and going through a living stage by hijacking the machinery of cells.

Nevertheless, he thinks this sort of technology will be seen in the clinic before a treatment based on a stem cell replacement for photoreceptors.

The bone matrix being produced by cells is stained red in samples of cells that are sorted for not expressing ALPL (left), sorted for expressing ALPL (right), and left as an unsorted control (center).

In the paper, the scientists report that their method produced more than twice the yield of potential bone - makers (9 percent) compared to their best application of another method: sorting cells based on surface proteins presumed to indicate that a cell is a stem cell (4 percent).

An antibody that works well for Western blots on denaturing gels, for example, should not be presumed to work equally well in nondenaturing assays such as fluorescence - activated cell sorting.

Some scientists still hold that the magnetic sensing cells will be found in the beak, or in birds» eyes, but working backward from the brain will help sort it out, says Dickman.

In order to identify the cancer stem cells from other cells in the tumor, the research team studied epigenetic mechanisms that distinguish between the least - sorted cells, with endless division properties and a potential to create growth, and the more sorted cells which lack this abilitIn order to identify the cancer stem cells from other cells in the tumor, the research team studied epigenetic mechanisms that distinguish between the least - sorted cells, with endless division properties and a potential to create growth, and the more sorted cells which lack this abilitin the tumor, the research team studied epigenetic mechanisms that distinguish between the least - sorted cells, with endless division properties and a potential to create growth, and the more sorted cells which lack this ability.

«Scientists used to think that these fungi would make holes in the cell wall that would let in the big enzymes,» he notes, a sort of pretreatment model.

Two years ago, Janelia researchers reported that the flies appear to have a group of about 50 cells connected in a sort of ring in the center of their brains that serve as an internal compass.

«We're sorting individual aggregates full of cells that are active in a simulated environment and with the cell sorter we can grab active cells to study them.

In her experiments, Lopatkin put bacterial cells under a sort of suspended animation where they could neither die nor reproduce but they could still swap genes.