Sentences with phrase «cells as human cells»

Our bodies are more bacterial than human, with 10x the number of bacterial cells as human cells.

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

Of course, there are 10 times as many microbial cells as human cells in and on any of us, and none of that DNA seems to get mixed up with Goldblum.

The estimate is that normal, healthy adults have ten times as many microbial cells as human cells within their bodies; countless more populate the environment around us.

In fact, here is a wacky fact that might make you feel completely gross: Our bodies are inhabited by 3 to 10 times as many nonhuman cells as human cells.

Not exact matches

This technique has been used, as Arnold reports, to trace the progress of cancers, advance our understanding of obesity and diabetes, and prove that brain cells continue to form through a human being's lifetime.

But in the lab, when the scientists manipulated human cells to be able to create the water bear shielding protein — called Dsup — they showed about half the DNA damage as normal cells.

For example, CRAC channels in T cells have been clinically validated as important drug targets through human mutations and the use of calcineurin inhibitors that act downstream from CRAC channels.

By treating biology as software and reprogramming cells to treat diseases and other ailments, humans have already made tremendous progress in medicine, Kurzweil said Sunday.

But organizers of the International Summit on Human Gene Editing said editing genes in human embryos was permissible for research purposes, so long as the modified cells would not be implanted to establish a pregnHuman Gene Editing said editing genes in human embryos was permissible for research purposes, so long as the modified cells would not be implanted to establish a pregnhuman embryos was permissible for research purposes, so long as the modified cells would not be implanted to establish a pregnancy.

The goal here is to use «single - cell sequencing to understand how many different cell types there are in the human body, where they reside, and what they do,» as Nature reports.

Using advances in genomic sequencing, the human microbiome, proteomics, informatics, computing, and cell therapy technologies, HLI is building the world's most comprehensive database of human genotypes and phenotypes as a basis for a variety of commercialization opportunities to help solve aging related disease and human biological decline.

Scientists have identified an alternative DNA structure described as a «twisted knot» inside living human cells.

Research on a new «gene editing» technology known as CRISPR — which theoretically allows any cell or organism to have its genome altered — is advancing exponentially, with early research ongoing on human embryos created for that purpose.

Benedict argued that non-conjugal reproduction such as in vitro fertilization had created «new problems» ¯ the freezing of human embryos, for instance, and the selective abortion of medically implanted embryos, together with pre-implantation diagnosis, embryonic stem - cell research, and attempts at human cloning.

What about some 2,000 proteins that are used by a human cell as enzymes?

Yes, I'm talking about macro evolution, as in one day monkey years down the road... we have a human... There is adaptation for sure but then there is a big drop off from that and new species evolving from single cells...

However, it is possible to have «brain death» as defined here, whilst human cells themselves still are alive, and organs continue to function.

As I stated in my original article, prior to conducting experiments with human cells, ANT - OAR techniques would need to be rigorously tested in animal models to establish a procedure that guarantees with reasonable certainty that an embryo is not generated.

They probably wanted to redefine «person» so that they could weasel their way into applying the rights we have as living breathing human beings to clusters of cells (fetus) not viable outside the uterus.

The difficulties associated with obtaining nerve tissue at the correct stage of development and differentiation from aborted embryos means that foetal tissue transplantation is no longer in favour, but the creation of human embryos specifically as sources of stem cells, and the push to use «spare» embryos from IVF treatments is gatheringmomentum.

research; since most of the reports have concentrated on justifying the creation of cloned human embryos for research into and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's, «stem - cells» has become synonymous with «embryonic stem - cells» in the public imagination.

If human brains are like body's cells, there is a natural point of specialization, in which new systems break away and form similar but slightly different branches, as cells in a body become fingers, feet, hands, etc..

Regarding the first: I do not care to defend here Hartshorne's psychicalism against the criticism that it commits the pathetic fallacy (or «fallacy of mislocation,» as Shalom contends) by attributing to nature human - like feelings, actions, etc. 3 But I do wish to argue that he is innocent of trying to move from (a human - like) nature («event - cells,» etc.) to human beings and characteristically human activities.

Solzhenitsyn even blesses his prison cell for having purged him of the confusion of his age, for once on the other side of history — free from the petty progressive notions of one's time — one enters history in a new way, as a witness to the inner force that intuitively resists oppression born of the human will to power.

Proponents of human cloning assert that this is the only method of producing pluripotent stem cells with the same genetic make - up as adult patients.

Human cloning has been proposed as a means of generating human embryos that can be destroyed to obtain embryonic stem cHuman cloning has been proposed as a means of generating human embryos that can be destroyed to obtain embryonic stem chuman embryos that can be destroyed to obtain embryonic stem cells.

This discussion concerns individual entities such as protons, molecules, cells and humans.

As we read this history, the furor over stem cells was fueled by numerous factors: the near - universal human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now do anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn human life.

As Bonhoeffer had understood in his prison cell, if brokenness and crisis were to become «that edge where change is possible,» this crisis would have to be sustained by something stronger than the human.

The building block electronic and protonic actual occasions are, in the case of human beings, swept into vastly more complex, Chinese box - like sets of containing societies within which there are social levels that can be identified with cells, others which answer to Aristotle's levels of tissues and organs, and which finally are presided over by what Whitehead refers to as the regnant nexus, a social thread of complex temporal inheritance which, Whitehead suggests, wanders from part to part of the brain, is the seat of conscious direction of the organism as a whole, and answers to what in Plato and Aristotle is called the soul.

Being made of human cells irrelevant, as you can find Jesse James» human cells, and he isn't alive.

Finite human freedom can be realized only in something objective, even if this were to be thought of as consisting merely in brain cells, conceptual mechanisms, associations, that is, basically in social or psychological models of thought, or if it were to belong — but only seemingly — to a merely inner realm of thought.

This unwillingness is based primarily upon what he considers to be an undeniable and irreducible fact of human self - intuition: when one is directly aware of himself in a specific moment, he is aware of «himself» as a single unit of action and not of any system of cells.

Cobb has already alluded to the applicability of this theory to exegeting Whitehead's organic cosmology, arguing that just as the human soul located in the brain may occupy both the empty space in the interstices and the regions occupied by many cells, analogously the region of God includes the regions comprising the standpoints of all contemporary occasions in the world.

Pro-choice euphemisms like «pre-embryo,» «foetal tissue,» and «ball of cells» are materialistic and reflect fully the diminishment of human life as chance — easy come, easy go.

If you claim that as a single cell it has value of a person, then the trillions of single cell organisms you kill every day... they have less value simply because they don't have human DNA?

Q3 Is there any human being outside the womb who has exactly the same DNA as the cells in the set of fetuses / embryos in a given uterus?

Now — estoeric concepts such as «the soul» put aside for a moment (since The Bible states that nobody can know when ensoulment happens despite the many differing opinions from prominent theologians throughout the ages), what characteristics define a human being and how does a single cell possess them all?

Q3 Is it true that there isnt any human being outside the womb who has exactly the same DNA as the cells in the set of fetuses / embryos in a given uterus?

Just as our conscious human experience unconsciously feels the unconscious feelings of the cells of the brain and achieves a unity of its own life of feeling, so the Totality that is God feels our feelings in the unity of perfect experience.

StemExpress describes itself as «a multi-million dollar company that supplies human blood, tissue products, primary cells and other clinical specimens to biomedical researchers,» according to the company website.

This account of «life» as a characteristic of cells means that in the human organism there are billions of centers of life, not one.

If we say such cells have the potential of becoming human life, then Catholics are right to argue that the unjoined sperm and egg also have a similar potential for life, and anything that stops them joining (such as a condom or withdrawal) is morally equivalent to abortion.

However, the argument is still far from clear - cut as, of course, these 14 - day - old human cells have much greater potential than any worm or parasite.

Whilst acknowledging that many questions remain unanswered in the debate between those who would advocate the use of stem cells taken from human embryos, and those experimenting on stem cells drawn from tissues of the adult human body, there is a lengthy discussion of the moral status of the human embryo as being a crucial matter in this regard.

It has been imprisoned in the cells of alien dogma; it has been bound hand and foot in the grave clothes of human tradition; it has been entombed as a sepulcher by systems of theology, and the stone of human power has been rolled up to close its door.»

Really, the human body has a critical need for fats, as the membrane which encloses every cell in the body is made from — you guessed it — lipids (fats)!

There have been lots of cell and animal research, which prove that turmeric has a good influence on a number of illnesses and also several human studies have shown positive results as well.

Before we established in - house human taste cell (HTC) technologies, it was not possible to use human tongue - derived cells as a model, due to the lack of homogenous, proliferating cell lines with defined properties, which is a prerequisite to establish comprehensive research and screening programs.