Sentences with phrase «cells destined»

By manipulating a specific gene in a mouse blastocyst — the structure that develops from a fertilized egg but is not yet an actual embryo — scientists with the University of Florida's McKnight Brain Institute and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute caused cells destined to build an embryo to instead change direction and build the cell mass that leads to the placenta.

Normally, the gene acts only in those embryonic cells destined to become myocardial cells.

Cells destined to become sperm instead developed into eggs when injected into the abdomen (beige oval) of female trout.

They found that the populations of cells destined to become face and forebrain began to die.

Instead of issuing orders to make mature macrophages switch roles, they filled the nerve bridge with a biological signal shown to attract younger, undifferentiated cells destined to become pro-healing macrophages.

They discovered that cells destined to become the middle - finger digit in the wing started in the organizer.

For example, domestication had seemingly altered 13 places near a gene called SOX2, which helps maintain cells destined to become part of the nervous system.

Not exact matches

It is not as though each cell in its particular place was initially destined to become a particular part.

Instead of preparing to form fingers and toes and a brain like the rest of the embryo's cells, these ones are destined to form a disc - shaped organ that's chock - full of blood vessels and will take over for the corpus luteum in the second trimester: the placenta.

A United flight destined for Chicago returned to a gate at Newark International Airport after a passenger's cell phone started to smoke, the airline said.

Equally important, they developed surface molecules called integrins that are only produced when CD4 cells are destined for mucosal surfaces, such as those in the vagina.

In July 1998, a programme to remove the white blood cells from blood destined for transfusion began.

Mice with a form of dementia have had the condition reversed by a process that involves «rebooting» brain cells otherwise destined to die.

Selecting for injection only the neural cells that are destined to become neurons will be the key to success, Goldman says.

Hertig expressed the hunch that one of those cells was destined to be placenta, the other the developing organism.

This so - called animal pole is where the primordial nucleus of the one - celled embryo is destined to form.

The proteins that bacteria secrete are labeled with unique amino acid sequences, which tell the cells that the proteins are destined for secretion.

To figure out how cells know which hairpin loops to start trimming, Alarcón set out to look for modifications cells might make to the RNA molecules that are destined to become microRNAs.

But although solar cells are destined to become a more common sight, are rooftops really the best place for them?

Neural stem cells, normally destined to turn into neurons and other brain cells, instead become muscle when they are put in contact with muscle cells, researchers now report.

Given the challenges of beta - cell transplantation, closed - loop technologies are, with continuing innovation potential, destined to provide a viable alternative for existing insulin pump therapy and multiple daily insulin injections.»

The mistakes often happen during an exchange of genetic material between the partners of each pair of chromosomes, known as crossing over, which occurs in the cells of the testes and ovaries destined to become sperm or eggs.

The tumor cells were all undifferentiated and hence provided a homogeneous peripheral field, in contrast to the cells of the normal limb bud, which were destined to differentiate into many types of tissue.

Removal of gata5 from cells normally destined to become myocardial cells caused profound defects in the formation of the heart.

Dr. Gilad Doitsh, who performed many of the studies and is the lead author of the paper stated, «Our study reveals that the virus actually enters the CD4 T cells that are destined to die and that the virus starts to make a DNA copy of its RNA, a process called reverse transcription.

Advanced Cancers Destined to Return After Single Drug Therapies Targeted cancer cell therapies using man - made proteins dramatically shrink many tumors in the first few months of treatment, but new research from Johns Hopkins scientists finds why the cells all too often become resistant, the treatment stops working, and the disease returns.

For example, cells in the left ventricle, the chamber of the heart that pumps blood to the body, are destined to serve that purpose within the first few days of development in an embryo.

We believe that this 10 - lipid phospholipid biomarker panel reflects the breakdown of neural cell membranes in those individuals destined to develop advanced moderate cognitive impairment or Alzheimer's disease and may mark the transition between preclinical states where synaptic dysfunction and early neurodegeneration give rise to subtle cognitive changes.»

Under the technology designation EQ Power, the latest electric model (destined for subsequent series production) from the Mercedes - Benz family combines fuel - cell and battery technology in the form of... Read more →

Under the technology designation EQ Power, the latest electric model (destined for subsequent series production) from the Mercedes - Benz family combines fuel - cell and battery technology in the form of a plug - in hybrid.

Similarly, in larger structures, cells and organisms are destined to die in order to improve the overall functionality of the systems they support.»

«Low - cost, compact, flexible and efficient solar cells are destined to impact all sorts of Department of Defense applications, as lightweight solar panels will eventually power all kinds of equipment, particularly in remote, inaccessible areas,» said Dr. Michael Scalora, a research physicist at the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center.

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