Sentences with phrase «cell walls for»

Many of us have weakened cell walls for various reasons.

Scientists have scoured cow rumens and termite guts for microbes that can efficiently break down plant cell walls for the production of next - generation biofuels, but some of the best microbial candidates actually may reside in the human lower intestine, researchers report.

And then a picture of the destroyed art work should be projected on her cell wall for the duration of her sentence.

Beta - barrel proteins form the gates of the cell wall for importing nutrition and secreting important biological molecules.

Eventually I see something more sophisticated like Round - Up on steroids i.e. we give the GM critters some fancy effluent pumps in the cell wall for toxic compounds without analogs in nature and then grow them in open ponds where the water is toxic to everything else and the effluent pumps too complex for natural evolution to produce one anytime soon in a natural competitor.

Not exact matches

The hope one might have once placed in comparative advantage global capitalism and the internet / cell - phone wiring of all, began to look increasingly hollow, as Walmarts filled with cheap Chinese goods, real jobs went missing, real skills became rare, and the internet became known not so much for an Army of Davids shoring up our common commitment to liberty, but for mobbish comment swarms, porn, The Social Network, diversion all - the - more addictive for being personally tailored (see: the fictional fat - slobs of Wall - E, or the perpetually downward phone - gaze of our «dumb» millennials), and unprecedented possibilities for spying, defamation, and demagogic manipulation for those with access to big data.

All of your other fats are superrrr healthy and are perfect for creating healthy cell walls!

Long, slow and gentle cooking actually allows for the breakdown of the cell walls of veggies so that your digestive system can have easy access to the uptake of nutrients.

I always thought frozen broccoli wouldn't work well for roasting because it's just too wet (it is blanched in hot water before freezing and frozen vegetables tend to seep water after thawing because ice crystals poke holes in the cell walls).

Thus, the rate of freezing for plant tissues is extremely important due to the effect of freezing rate on the size of ice crystals, cell hydration, and damage to cell walls (Rahman, 1999).

This rapidly dividing ball of cells separates into two sections: the inner group of cells will become the embryo and the outer group of cells will burrow into the uterine wall for nourishment.

Those two agencies led the 23 - day manhunt by more than 1,100 officers for Richard Matt and David Sweat, who escaped June 6 from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora after cutting their way through the metal wall of their cells with hacksaw blades smuggled to them.

«I am personally not surprised because there are massive cracks in the walls of the cell so it appears quite easy for anyone who is intended to break it and escape,» Adeti reported.

Given that the newly discovered protein FGB1 has such a high affinity and specificity to beta -1,6-glucans from fungi cell walls, it is possibly suitable for the diagnosis of human infections.

For example, to tease out what various sound signals might mean, the researchers had to figure out how kelp tissues respond to sound (turns out that it's highly dependent on alginate content, a gummy cell wall component of kelp).

He determined that epithelial cells lining the brain's blood vessel walls contain a surface protein, or receptor, that can snag insulin, the hormone essential for metabolizing carbohydrates and fats.

David Cullen, a biotechnologist from Cranfield University in England, recently tested sensors designed to identify microbes embedded in the ice by searching for cell - wall molecules and small snippets of DNA.

«Together these studies tell a story about how mushroom - forming fungi evolved a complex mechanism for breakdown of plant cell walls in «white rot» and then cast it aside following the evolution of mycorrhizal associations, as well as the alternative decay mechanism of «brown rot,»» Hibbett said.

People infected with HIV have few signs of microbial translocation during the first six months of infection as it takes time for the virus to kill off epithelial cells and weaken the gut wall so that bacteria can leak through — so treating them early could be more effective.

The end may already be nigh for the lander — after bouncing on the surface, the craft appears to have settled in the shadow of a wall of material, preventing it from receiving enough sunlight to its solar cells to function for more than a few days — but ESA counts the mission as a major success.

Unraveling the tightly wound network of molecules — cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin — that make up the cell wall of plants for easier biofuel processing.

The team's previous research had shown that the white blood cells responsible for inflaming arterial walls also produce ozone and, ultimately, the atheronals: atheronal - a and atheronal - b.

For example, one method involves directly implanting stem cells in the heart wall, but the cells often don't take hold, and sometimes they trigger an immune reaction.

Their study, the researchers say «establishes a role for cell wall - associated GAG in mediating resistance to killing of Aspergillus by NETs and provides the first example of a virulence factor of A. fumigatus that is able to mediate enhanced virulence when expressed in a less pathogenic Aspergillus species».

While the man - made world is built using either tension (for example, suspension bridges) or compression (brick walls), the biological architecture of our cells uses a combination of both called tensegrity.

For the moment, she knows that the organism isn't purposefully bringing excess barium and strontium through its cell walls.

Lignin, which forms in the plant cell wall, is an essential component for tree growth that imparts strength and density to timber.

CAZymes are responsible for breaking down plant cell walls, useful for industrially processing plants the DOE considers candidate bioenergy crops.

Scientists are exploring ways to develop transparent or semi-transparent solar cells as a substitute for glass walls in modern buildings with the aim of harnessing solar energy.

Nor are tubes from fungi or plants for they lack the thick cell walls that these groups have.

Unlike the offspring of asexual reproduction, the fertilized cells have hard cell walls that allow them to lie dormant on the bottom of ponds as they dry out for the summer.

«Overall our data suggest a novel mechanism for hopanoid transport involved in cell wall remodeling, which is critical for mediating multidrug resistance in Burkholderia,» the authors wrote in a project summary.

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim and Goethe University Frankfurt have now shown that tumour cells kill specific cells in the vascular wall.

«Loophole for cancer cells found: Cancer cells kill blood vessel cells so that they can slip through the vascular wall, form metastases.»

These cells have different factors on their surfaces which determines how «sticky» the cells are and whether they are responsible for mediating the cancer cells binding to the blood vessel walls.

The scientists also found that endothelial cells themselves give the signal for their own death: To do this, the vascular wall cells have a receptor molecule called Death Receptor 6 (DR6) on their surface.

The team seeded the walls of the honeycomb with heart cells from 2 - day - old rats and incubated the patch in an oxygen - and nutrient - rich solution for a week.

Whereas place cells in a rat brain may change their firing rates if their environment is altered even a little — for example by changing the colour of the walls — those of grid cells remain robustly unchanged.

The researchers then introduced the carbon nanotubes, which embedded in the cell's fatty walls when treated with DNA to take on a negative charge or chitosan (a derivative of the material comprising insect exoskeletons) for a positive charge.

Others are looking for bits of DNA or fragments of cell walls.

Transmission electron microscopy of the unfertilized ovule revealed a very thin cell wall between the synergid cell and central cell wall, which was assumed to be necessary for rapid disintegration of the cell walls.

They are responsible for adding sugar molecules to numerous different types of proteins, whether it's a cell wall, or it's a small signaling peptide, which is what's responsible for the phenotypes in tomato.»

The study showed that «the control of the secondary cell wall is incredibly complex and detailed, which is important for plant biologists who want to change it to make biofuels,» she said.

Of the three cell wall components, lignin is the most troublesome for the biofuel industry because it limits the extraction of cellulose and hemicellulose for biofuel production, according to Siobhan Brady, an assistant professor in the Department of Plant Biology and Genome Center at UC Davis and a co-author of the study.

Szymanski and his fellow researchers found that actin fibers run throughout the cell, forming a network of long - distance «roadways» along which additional materials for the cell wall are transported.

This led Lippman's team to propose that the ancient function of the HPAT genes is to control tip growth, which, Lippman says, is likely related to key proteins that are critical for forming cell walls.

Subjecting N. gonorrhoeae to the phenotypic microarray screening method for the first time, Sikora's team focused on seven proteins from the bacteria's cell envelope, which consists of the outer membrane, the cell wall and the inner membrane.

As part of the long effort to improve treatment of tuberculosis (TB), microbiologists led by Yasu Morita at the University of Massachusetts Amherst report that they have for the first time characterized a protein involved in making a glycolipid compound found in the TB cell wall, which is critical for the disease - causing Mycobacterium to become infectious.

Mice track the position of walls, for instance, by relying on many distinct clusters of nerve cells, groups called barrels.

Now, the team has found that another type of dwarf phage also targets a gene responsible for a cell wall - building enzyme.