Sentences with phrase «cell types work»

Sacha Escamez concludes in his doctoral dissertation that different cell types work together to build the...

A complete Human Cell Atlas would give us a unique ID card for each cell type, a three - dimensional map of how cell types work together to form tissues, knowledge of how all body systems are connected, and insights into how changes in the map underlie health and disease.

The organization of these tissues let different cell types work together, to enable organs in the body to perform their functions.

Not exact matches

The squeeze mechanism Sharei and his colleagues came up with could also be more effective than other existing ways of getting materials into cells, he says, because it works for more types of cells and materials, and presents fewer risks.

They are an umbrella type stroller but a little more durable with a basket underneath and a «cup holder» (although the cup holder works better to hold your boarding pass and cell phone vs. a hot drink).

«For example, brain enhancers will not typically work in heart cells, which means that you must test your enhancer sequence in the correct cell type,» Dickel says.

Braun and Fan plan to test other ceramic - type materials and determine if the experimental thermal emitters can deliver infrared light to a working solar cell.

Working with human breast tissue, the new study's authors attempted to induce EMT in normal cells; they figured they would just get fibroblasts, a type of connective tissue that is important in wound healing.

«To treat most forms of hearing loss, we need to find a delivery mechanism that works for all types of hair cells,» said neurobiologist David Corey, co-senior investigator on the study and the Bertarelli Professor of Translational Medical Science at HMS.

«Different types of cancer cells with different strengths and weaknesses are both present in the tumor at the same time and can work together to spread faster and more efficiently.

«Novel type 1 diabetes treatment shown to work on human beta cells transplanted into mice.»

The first hESC was isolated in 1998, and researchers are still working to find the strengths and nuances of each type of stem cell.

Once the animals had eliminated the parasites, both cell types started working again.

In the first practical application for the machine learning, the team worked with Assistant Professor Jim Cahoon, Ph.D., in the UNC Department of Chemistry to design a new electrode material for a type of low - cost solar cells.

By tweaking different fly genes and counting how many neuron types were produced as the flies matured, the team identified a network of five genes that work together like coordinated control switches to guide the precursor cells» transformation to mature neurons.

This type of behaviour of the white blood cells served as an inspiration for the postdoc, Daniel Ahmed, who was working in Professor Bradley Nelson's research group at ETH Zurich.

«Our work suggests that the neural pathology of autism manifests in the earliest cortical circuits, formed by a cell type called subplate neurons,» said UMD Biology Professor and senior study author Patrick Kanold.

Previous work from Dekker and colleagues had shown that points of interaction along the chromosome influence gene expression and are the reason why different cell types are organized differently in three dimensions.

«The challenge is finding targets that exist on other types of cancer cells but not on normal cells,» says pediatric oncologist Stephan Grupp of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, who worked with Porter on testing the treatment in mice.

To make sure she understood how nuclei, dendrites, and axons came together to form different types of brain cells, she pulled out her crochet hook and went to work.

The latter type of research, in which human cells or tissue are integrated into animals, was given the green light in the United Kingdom in October 2008, when the British House of Commons approved a bill that expanded the country's rules governing work with human embryos.

X-ray-like imaging without the harmful radiation and cell phones with more bandwidth are closer to reality now that researchers have developed a novel type of lens that works with terahertz frequencies.

New types of solar cells and flexible transistors are also in the works, as well as pressure and temperature sensors that could be built into electronic skin for robotic or bionic applications.

But exactly how the immune system works remains, in many ways, a mystery, as there are numerous cell types whose functions and interactions with our immune systems have not been well understood.

But like the medieval alchemists, today's cloning and stem cell biologists are working largely with processes they don't fully understand: What actually happens inside the oocyte to reprogram the nucleus is still a mystery, and scientists have a lot to learn before they can direct a cell's differentiation as smoothly as nature's program of development does every time fertilized egg gives rise to the multiple cell types that make up a live baby.

Professor Dan Davis and his team at the Manchester Collaborative Centre for Inflammation Research, working in collaboration with global healthcare company GSK, investigated how different types of immune cells communicate with each other — and how they kill cancerous or infected cells.

Although primed, post-implantation embryonic stem cells can still turn into any type of human cell, they are more difficult to work with than the pre-implantation, naive cells.

Working with an animal model, the researchers found that a type of cell present in the brain's primary processing area during early development, long thought to form structural scaffolding with no role in transmitting sensory information, may conduct such signals after all.

«By identifying the full set of genes in each of these two cell types, we provide detailed information that taste scientists can use to help understand how these cells work, both when healthy and also when affected by damage or disease.»

The three genes, Cas, Eya and Hh, work in various combinations, sometimes repressively, to determine which types of cells are formed.

With regard to taste, the findings will allow researchers to create a complete map of all the genes expressed in every type of taste cell within a taste bud, leading to a better understanding of how the taste system works.

«Because of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, we were able to work with other researchers to make patient cells into any type of neuron,» said Young - Pearse, whose lab spent two years fine - tuning protocols with collaborators to generate the neurons needed for her early onset Alzheimer's study.

Researchers do not know if the same thing would work for other types of cancer or cancer cells lodged in other body organs.

Little has been known about the ways in which many diabetes genes work, but a study published in the journal Cell sheds light on a genetic risk component of type 1 diabetes and a new approach for keeping beta cells strong.

Lanza is also working with hemangioblasts, intermediate cells derived from embryos that can make all blood and vascular cell types.

This could be a good way to test new types of drugs that target cancer cells specifically and spare patients the side effects from treatments if they are not working.»

She is working on a special type of solar cell that is made of organic - inorganic hybrid perovskites.

This allows users to determine either where their solar cell would work best or what type of solar cell they should use in their location.

Warnke's technique circumvents these limitations and could be adapted to work with other types of cells.

Though a range of developmental scenarios in multiple brain regions is surely at work in ASDs, the researchers said the ability to place these specific genetic mutations in one specific set of cells — among hundreds of cell types in the brain, and at a specific point in human development — is a critical step in beginning to understand how autism comes about.

«We don't yet know if this type of coordination and control works in stem cell niches of other tissue types,» says DiNardo.

Working with colleagues from the Center for Coastal Studies and NOAA Fisheries, van der Hoop used a load cell to measure the drag forces on various types of fishing gear collected from past right whale entanglements.

He is also working on new receptor types that could allow cell therapies to more effectively penetrate disease sites and reside there for the duration of the treatment.

Kozai's lab is currently working with Franca Cambi, professor of neurology at Pitt, on a project to understand the role of another type of glial cell on brain injury and neuronal activity.

In people with Type 2 diabetes, the process appears to not work properly, contributing to the destruction of beta cells.

Professor Sheila Krishnadath from the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam said: «We have been working for over 10 years on collecting and typing single cells of this large group of Barrett's patients.

Medical researchers have been working to use stem cells, immature cells that can develop into various types of tissue, to regenerate cartilage.

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This work, which appeared online in Cell, sheds light on the development and function of a cell type that is increasingly recognized as having an important role in the body's immune defeCell, sheds light on the development and function of a cell type that is increasingly recognized as having an important role in the body's immune defecell type that is increasingly recognized as having an important role in the body's immune defense.

«Our work is pointing to reserve stem cells as being the critical players in conferring the benefits of intestinal - tissue regeneration after these types of insults.»