Sentences with phrase «cells as»

He wonders whether these chemical waves will be found in other immune cells as well.

In fact, the human body carries 10 times the number of bacterial cells as human cells.

Immune cells also recognize cancer cells as abnormal, but such cells have the ability to turn off immune responses.

In the U.S., Xcel Energy plans to build a relatively modest eight - megawatt solar power plant in Colorado next year using similar concentrated solar cells as well as other technology.

His hypothesis, essentially, is that the body comes to terms with «other» by dealing with it in an incremental way, by coming to see some circu?lating donor cells as «self» and paving the way for acceptance on a larger scale.

Even though chromosomes mark the cells as male or female, they don't head down that path until after the gonads — testes in a male, ovaries in a female — begin developing and secreting hormones at about 7 weeks.

It is particularly challenging to study epigenetics in egg cells as there are so few of them.

«This study provided information about how the thread coils and fills the cells as it grows,» Fudge said.

«However, the initial mechanism by which the immune system identifies the monobenzone - exposed pigmented cells as dangerous, before attacking them, has been unclear so far,» reports Prof. Dr. Veit Hornung, who recently moved from the University of Bonn to the Ludwig - Maximilians - Universität in Munich.

A multi-disciplinary team of researchers from the Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore (MBI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS), the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) of A * STAR, and BioSyM, Singapore - MIT Alliance for Research and Technology have described the mechanical principles adopted by liver cells as they remove excess bile during obstructive cholestasis.

«If we can culture the other progenitor cells as well, we'll be closer to building a transplantable kidney.»

Environmental and genetic signals cue cells as they differentiate into the many lineages that recognize foreign antigens and fight off invaders

The viruses replicate in the stem cells as they migrate to the site of the tumor.

Two studies finger bone - marrow defects rather than cells as culprits in blood disorders known as myeloproliferative syndromes

Rando's group is now looking to test whether the signatures they've identified in satellite cells generalize to other kinds of adult stem cells as well.

Instead of generating new cells as expected, they cause adult cells to protect vulnerable nerve tissue from inflammation

Tumors (circled areas above) naturally attract stem cells, so doctors decided to use those cells as delivery systems for cancer - fighting agents.

Using fluorescent reporter molecules and time - lapse microscopy, they examined individual cells as they grew and divided.

Carbon nanotubes are becoming increasingly attractive for photovoltaic solar cells as a replacement to silicon.

Muzykantov, who has developed other approaches for using red blood cells as molecular vehicles, says the significance of the new method «exceeds just drug delivery.»

The other finding was of a variant near genes for several so - called semaphorins, proteins that guide developing nerve cells as they grow toward their final targets.

He and a colleague took samples of both visceral and subcutaneous fat from the mice and, using gene chips, identified the genes in the fat cells as well as in precursor fat cells.

«Sniffing out stem cell fates in the nose: Using single - cell RNA sequencing and clever statistical analysis to track stem cells as they mature.»

The newfound protein might eventually help patients who suffer from the untreatable prion diseases: When the group mixed their artificial protein fragment with a fragment of the PrP protein that usually kills neurons in petri dishes, the mixture killed only half as many cells as the prion fragment alone.

The study, published in Nature Communications, examined the changes that occur in cancer cells as they break away from tumours in cell cultures, zebrafish and mice.

Immediately after the subjects viewed the slide shows, researchers drew their blood, exposed each sample to bacteria and then measured the levels of a substance known as interleukin - 6 (IL - 6), which is secreted by white blood cells as a response to stress or trauma.

Adult male mice also started off with fewer of the lymphoid cells in the lungs than adult females, the researchers found: Female mice had about 1 1/2 times as many of these immune cells as males.

«We would be able to mark the treated immune cells as we did the T - cells and to track whether they migrate to the tumors as planned,» says Kneilling.

«Now that we can recognize cells altered by APOBEC3, we could teach tumor neoantigen - based immunotherapies to recognize these cells as well,» Pyeon says.

«This is the only system that can grow healthy and cancer cells as if they were just extracted from a patient, and expand them — a million new cells can be grown in a week — as long as needed,» he says.

The researchers inject cells from the donor, so that T cells in the thymus are exposed to donor cells as well as «self» cells.

That dye stayed in the cells as they divided and moved from the neural tube to form different parts of the skate's body.

But there are also neural stem cells as well as early progenitors that have this plasticity in most of the other systems of the body.

The PKCƐ signal pathway, which is used by cancer cells but rarely by normal cells, could be important in targeting some cancer cells as they rely on this pathway to survive.

«However, our work illustrates the promise of human pluripotent stem cells as it presents a direct path toward realizing the promise of regenerative medicine for certain hormonal disorders.»

The study found that animals that sleep the longest had six times as many immune cells as those that take short siestas.

The women had about twice as many of the cells as did the men, indicating there may be more in the lungs as well, Newcomb says.

But scientists — who want to harness the potential of cells as living computers that can respond to disease, efficiently produce biofuels or develop plant - based chemicals — don't want to wait for evolution to craft their desired cellular system.

Bone marrow from the p16 - deficient mice made 3 times as many blood - forming stem cells as bone marrow from the normal mice did.

However, such molecular treatments reproducibly cause rapid loss of many circulating blood cells, as macrophages now attack some healthy cells as well.

Exploratorium, San Francisco Study live specimens, like mouse stem cells as they progress toward becoming beating heart cells, at the high - resolution Microscope Imaging Station.

They used DNA from blood cells as the basis of their investigation.

The goal of cancer vaccines is to provoke the immune system to recognize cancer cells as foreign and attack them.

10 According to a University of Bristol study, male mosquito «ears» are packed with about as many sensory cells as human ears, helping amorous mosquito males identify and pursue passing females.

Research led by scientists at the Gladstone Institutes has identified the precise chain of molecular events in the human body that drives the death of most of the immune system's CD4 T cells as an HIV infection leads to AIDS.

Although neuroscientists often view single nerve cells as bit players in mental life, new evidence indicates that some star on their own in recognizing specific people or objects.

Fried refers to such brain cells as thinking neurons.

The nucleus of a cell is spherical, not circular, and as scientists, it's up to us to find ways to observe cells as accurately as possible, Shroff said.

But visualizing these bacterial cells as well as communicating with them — both to gather intel on what's happening in the body and give the bacteria instructions about what to do next — is not yet possible.

They found that the protein seems to help maintain several traits in normal breast cells, including the ability to adhere to other epithelial cells, and the presence of molecules marking the cells as differentiated and not capable of self - renewal like breast stem cells.