Sentences with phrase «cells change as»

«Bringing together this team, to do this kind of work means we will be better able to understand how stem cells change as they grow and become different kinds of cells.

We have to find out how cancer cells change as they do this, and how they become resistant to our treatments.

It has long been known that the neural stem cells change as the human brain develops and ages.

Not exact matches

Nevertheless, this research is monumental because a better understanding of how our cells behave could eventually allow for such world - changing breakthroughs such as personalized medicine.

Inmates described cells flooded knee - high with water contaminated by urine and feces, as well as the inability to flush toilets, take showers, or change clothes for two weeks.

Also, they have chosen a cheap populist theme, attacking cell phone, bank and credit - card charges instead of hammering the Conservatives on their dangerous, right - wing deregulation agenda — even though people are still dying as a result of Harper's «self - regulation» changes to food safety.

As a cancer researcher, do you think the mechanisms of tumor growth are somehow changing to come into line with your perceptions, or is it possible that the process of our learning more about DNA mutations and cell architecture and nutrient exchange and epigenetic effects make it possible for us to inch ever closer to understanding that which is already going on under our noses?

Whether it is changing text books to teach religion as a «science,» making laws that prohibit stem - cell research which would without question help those in need, to stopping of any kind of gay rights, trying to put religion (christianity) into schools, a woman's right to choose, etc, etc...

That balance has changed considerably in the past few years, as alternative avenues of stem - cell science have opened up and it increasingly seems like whatever therapeutic potential such cells may someday have could be explored and achieved without the destruction of embryos.

Thus, the transition from instinct to reason results in the radical transformation of the animal into man; matter as it evolves toward the cell becomes radically transformed into living matter; and vegetative life becomes qualitatively changed into conscious life.

Sometimes mutations in DNA can cause changes in the way a cell behaves, as orchestrated by God.

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.

In a similar vein Mr. Percival Lowell writes: «When we have, as we say, an idea, what happens inside of us is probably something like this: the neural current of molecular change passes up the nerves, and through the ganglia reaches at last the cortical cells....

The change in load cell output occurring with time, while under load, and with all environmental conditions and other variables remaining constant; usually measured with Rated Load applied and expressed as a percent of Rated Output over a specific period of time.

It has three outer pockets, straps for attaching to just about every type of stroller, a cell phone pocket on the strap, an outside rear pocket and a changing pad on the inside as well as an inside pocket and a bottle pouch on the outside for easy access.

Just as the structure of our cells doesn't change with our diet, the milk our bodies produce doesn't change depending on our nutrition.

Caucasian babies are more prone to experience changes in eye color as their skin cells gradually build up melanin.

While you are making adjustments for your changing shape, there are a lot of changes going on inside your womb as your baby, who was just a cluster of cells a couple of months ago, has organs, nerves, muscles and is looking more like a little person.

I work as a cytotechnologist and a large part of my job is screening pap tests for HPV associated changes and pre-cancerous cells.

Mobile advertising is still very much a niche application, though that situation may change if cell phones start to dominate Americans» internet usage as they do in some other countries.

We've seen this dynamic at work all around the world, as cell coverage penetrates to areas that wires have never reach, and it's changed lives and whole local economies in the process.

However, in 2007 Professor Wilmut announced that he had decided to change to an alternative method of research pioneered in Japan, known as direct reprogramming or «de-differentiation», which could create human embryonic cells without using human eggs or cloning human embryos.

«The select committee proposes changing the law so that police cells can no longer be used as a «place of safety», but that alone won't fix these problems.

This allowed them to track changes in calcium ion concentrations in the cells around wounds in living tissue (as opposed to the cell cultures used in many previous wound response studies) and to do so with an unprecedented, millisecond precision.

But while chemotherapy and radiation are associated with temporary changes, such as hair loss and tissue swelling, the treatments can have an unseen, permanent effect: infertility due to irreparably damaged sperm or egg cells.

When compared to other religious groups, Evangelicals have often been more wary of science as evidenced in debates about evolution, stem cell research, and climate change.

Now classified as an assistant scientist and paid by Keely's grants, Ponik continues to conduct her own research identifying cell - signaling changes in cancer metastasis.

Other researchers have tried changing cell behavior by creating protein switches from scratch, but Lim's approach — mixing and matching naturally existing proteins — may be more versatile and practical: «It can be useful as a biotechnology device or for repairing cells in humans.

The project's goals were to explore and describe the range of epigenetic changes that take place in bone marrow as stem cells develop into different types of mature blood cell.

By measuring how the light has changed once it emerges through the other side of the slide, the researchers can detect and monitor processes occurring on the sensor surface, such as cell division.

His group assessed the animals for changes in body weight as well as potential toxicity to the liver, kidney, and blood cells — none of which was observed.

As the heart starts pumping a primitive blood - like fluid around the body of an embryo, the change in pressure from the flowing liquid is the cue for cells lining the aorta to change first into blood stem cells, then into all blood - cell types in the body.

Using a mathematical model known as the Ising model, invented to describe phase transitions in statistical physics, such as how a substance changes from liquid to gas, the Johns Hopkins researchers calculated the probability distribution of methylation along the genome in several different human cell types, including normal and cancerous colon, lung and liver cells, as well as brain, skin, blood and embryonic stem cells.

Both ATP and ADP, known as purines, can transmit signals to cells that change their developmental activity.

«This is the first study, to our knowledge, that demonstrates the mechanical continuity, strain transfer, and conformational changes that result from chemical energy release from the atomic scale up through the whole - cell level, as well as how tensegrity guides those changes to drive cellular movement,» says Ingber.

In reaction to infection or inflammation, immune system cells known as effector T cells (Teffs) undergo rapid changes - arming themselves and diversifying into groups that target specific diseased cells.

In cancer cells, the protein networks that control the behavior are changed in such a way as to cause the cells to lose control and break away — a mutated skin cell, for instance, might then migrate into the bloodstream.

The research is also the first to demonstrate beneficial effects of UDCA on dopaminergic neurons, the nerve cells affected in Parkinson's disease, in a fly model of Parkinson's disease which carries the same genetic change as some patients with the condition.

The detector developed at UNH, known as DoSEN, short for Dose Spectra from Energetic Particles and Neutrons, measures and calculates the absorbed dose in matter and tissue resulting from the exposure to indirect and direct ionizing radiation, which can change cells at the atomic level and lead to irreparable damage.

As these cells change, they can acquire mutations that can result in further progression to pancreatic cancer, says senior author Peter Storz, Ph.D., a biochemist and molecular biologist at Mayo Clinic.

It has been particularly difficult to measure changes in electrical functions of cells grown within Organ Chips that are normally electrically active, such as neuronal cells in the brain or beating heart cells, both during their differentiation and in response to drugs.

You play the game by choosing an initial pattern of «live» cells, and then watch as the configuration changes over many generations as the rules are applied over and over again (see «Take two simple rules»).

One recent hypothesis is that changes in how neural crest cells work could lead to common characteristics shared by domestic animals, such as floppy ears, juvenile faces and spotted coats (SN: 8/23/14, p. 7).

As Korch points out, cells change appearance and function as they grow on plastic and are chemically manipulated while being studieAs Korch points out, cells change appearance and function as they grow on plastic and are chemically manipulated while being studieas they grow on plastic and are chemically manipulated while being studied.

One central developmental change — in a temporary clump of cells called the neural crest — may be behind the suite of characteristics known as domestication syndrome.

She also designed a novel spectroscopic cell that allowed the change in the ultraviolet - visible spectrum of her dye molecules to be observed as they were reduced.

And his group has applied for funding to run lab studies to see if the fish hosting blotchy lesions develop more subtle — and disturbing — symptoms with time, such as a slower swimming speed or changes in blood - cell counts.

Contributions from careful, sober - minded scientists can also help defuse controversy in fields that get headlines, such as climate change and embryonic stem cells.

My cancer systems biology team at the University of California, Merced, is tackling diagnosis and treatment of therapy - resistant cancers by elucidating the network of changes within cells as a way to identify new drug targets and circumvent cancer resistance.

Lindquist's group theorized that the trait is passed from one generation of cells to the next by a misfolded protein that triggers other proteins to change their shape as well.