Sentences with phrase «cells increasing efficiency»

Created assembly drawings, bill of materials and detail drawings for design of roll forming equipment and automated assembly cells increasing efficiency and reducing cost.

In January the researchers reported that applying the film to solar cells increased efficiency by 6 percent.

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Specifically, when capsaicin frequently binds to receptors within the human central nervous system's TRPV1 channel (the sensory receptor system for pain and heat detection), these receptors deplete and this depletion results in a whole host of benefits for the central nervous system at large, including terminating cancer cells, increasing the metabolic rate and digestive efficiency, increasing circulatory blood flow, and combatting inflammation, and making you feel better about the world.

Increasing Metabolism and Digestive Efficiency Other research suggests that capsaicin causes the stomach's epithelial cells to secrete more gastric mucus, the glycoprotein which lubricates food masses and facilitates their movement throughout the stomach.

What was also very interesting about the study was that increased mitochondrial efficiency of the cell (needing less oxygen), apparently is owed to the lower levels of proteins... proteins that normally make the mitochondria «leaky» and inefficient.

The adequate presence of myelin increases the speed and efficiency of the function of the nerve cells.

The Chinese government hopes to avoid an auto - driven environmental apocalypse both by mandating increasing fuel efficiency but also by pushing these domestic vehicle manufacturers for homegrown hybrid, electric and fuel - cell vehicles under its «863» program — deriving its name from its launch back in March 1986.

A LUNG - inspired hydrogen fuel cell can cut the amount of expensive catalyst needed and increase efficiency, its designers claim.

The research holds potential for increased energy storage in high efficiency batteries and supercapacitors, increasing the efficiency of energy conversion in solar cells, for lightweight thermal coatings and more.

With this technique, the Empa team has again been able to significantly increase the energy conversion efficiency from sunlight into electricity using CIGS thin film solar cells on flexible plastic foils — to a new record level of 20.4 %, representing a marked improvement over the previous record of 18.7 % established by the same team in May 2011.

The paper not only seemed to validate the group's claim a year earlier that it had created a single cell line from a cloned human embryo, but it also reported a huge increase in efficiency for the technique.

«We have some very encouraging data from an ongoing study that you can modify the status of cells and increase the efficiency of cloning,» he adds.

Chun - Chao Chen, a graduate student in the UCLA materials science and engineering department who is the paper's primary author, said using transparent and semi-transparent cells together increases the device's efficiency, and that the materials were processed at low temperatures, making them relatively easy to manufacture.

Higher efficiency means more electricity produced for a given size of solar cell, which increases power output and lowers overall system costs.

They have recently received much attention, as the efficiency of perovskite solar cells has rapidly increased to the level of silicon technologies in the past few years.

While some of today's solar cells use a blend of cadmium and tellurium to convert light into electricity, adding the optimum amount of selenium in the right places could help increase efficiency from the current mark of about 22 percent to levels approaching the theoretical limit of 30 - 33 percent.

Theoretical calculations show that by harvesting the hot electrons, the maximum efficiency for hybrid - perovskite solar cells could increase from 33 to 66 percent.

«This information can be used as a roadmap for solar cell producers to make improved cadmium - tellurium solar cells that use selenium additions, and hopefully increase the overall efficiency.»

With as many as a thousand tubes fitting into each cell, the tubular scaffold can be used to increase the bacteria's efficiency to make commodities and provide the foundation for a new era of cellular protein engineering.

The efficiency of solar cells depends on trapping and absorbing light and can be increased by using a back reflector: a mirror behind the solar cell material that reflects light that was not absorbed and leads it back into the solar cell.

When combined with lipids to deliver genes to cells, the transposon chalked up a 20-fold increase of efficiency at inserting genes into chromosomes.

In adults, more cannabinoids will force one group of cells to more intensive work, but at the same time it will weaken the efficiency of the other, and in consequence blood glucose level will not change or may even increase significantly.»

Using high - performance computing and genetic engineering to boost the photosynthetic efficiency of plants offers the best hope of increasing crop yields enough to feed a planet expected to have 9.5 billion people on it by 2050, researchers report in the journal Cell.

Researchers in Brazil have found that mouse skin responds to caloric restriction by stimulating fur growth, increasing blood flow, and altering cell metabolism to increase energy efficiency.

Moreover, the efficiency of immunotherapy was further increased by combining this adoptive transfer with the current clinical strategy of reactivating the T cell antitumor response with antibodies to the receptor PD - 1.

«Our new approach can lower the operating temperature of solar cells passively, improving energy conversion efficiency significantly and increasing the life expectancy of solar cells,» said Linxiao Zhu, a physicist at Stanford and lead author on the Optica paper.

Group leader Hikaru Kobayashi says, «Making very high efficiency solar cells is important but we should also consider the economics and practicality of any processes used to increase efficiency.

The study demonstrates that, when added to the Yamanaka cocktail to reprogram mouse fibroblasts, the duo TH2A / TH2B increases the efficiency of iPSC cell generation about twentyfold and the speed of the process two - to threefold.

For every one - degree Celsius (1.8 degree F) increase in temperature, the efficiency of a solar cell declines by about half a percent.

In a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD, who first created induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), and his colleagues at the Gladstone Institutes found a way to increase the efficiency of stem cell reprogramming through research on a rare genetic disease.

The use of viral vectors in research is beneficial for a number of reasons, including but not limited to: helping to get difficult - to - deliver DNA into mammalian cells, increasing the efficiency of gene transduction, allowing for control over which cells are infected through viral pseudotyping, and ease of vector cloning and modification.

The efficiency of perovskite cells — the percentage of sunlight converted to electricity — has increased at a staggering pace in just a few years.

From 1990 to 2010, the efficiency of solar cells only increased 1.3 percent, from converting 25.1 percent of absorbed light to 26.4 percent.

That combination — of just three genes, Oct3 / 4, Sox2 and Klf4, plus valproic acid — not only produced iPS cells but also increased the efficiency of the procedure a hundredfold.

MIT researchers are currently testing a new type of solar cell using carbon nanotubes to increase efficiency.

High - capacity, long - life batteries; fuel cells; the high - efficiency «smart» electricity grid; clean coal and other technologies can help improve the environment, increase efficiency and conserve energy.

Whether a protocol uses cell culture methods to expand edited cells for downstream assays, to increase the efficiency of lentiviral transduction or to let cells «rest» after electroporation, optimized culture conditions are key to maintaining cell viability and biological function.

This could potentially improve the efficiency of successful and ubiquitous editing of the embryo's cells, increasing the germ - line transmission rates of this method of avian genetic engineering.

Milo is the first single - cell resolution western blotting platform which boasts increased efficiency and accuracy.

Methods to enhance the reprogramming efficiency would significantly increase the feasibility of this approach, especially for cell types which tend to be more difficult to reprogram, such as the primary adult human fibroblasts used in this study.

That way we «fast» while we sleep and give the digestive system an extended rest period which allows our cells to increase energy production and efficiency.

Consuming 0.5 ml peppermint oil in a drink for 10 consecutive days was found to improve body performance since it increases respiratory system efficiency through increasing capacity of lungs, oxygen supply to muscle cells, and its inhibitory effect on blood pressure.

Both longer duration, moderate - intensity exercise and shorter periods of high - intensity exercise increase the size and number of mitochondria inside muscle cells and their efficiency.

When metabolism is increased, cells function at a higher rate of efficiency.

DMAE is used for treating attention deficit disorder (ADD), enhancing memory and mood, boosting cognitive function, treating Alzheimer's disease, increasing IQ and physical energy, improving athletic performance, delaying aging, improving red blood cell function, improving muscle reflex and increasing oxygen efficiency, extending life span, treating autism, and treating tardive dyskinesia.

Krill oil - an excellent source of phospholipid bound EPA / DHA with improved efficiency over fish oil at increasing red blood cell levels of omega - 3s, krill oil is an excellent source of phospholipid bound EPA / DHA with improved efficiency over fish oil at increasing red blood cell levels of omega - 3s.

While this technology has been implemented elsewhere, Israeli start - up ZenithSolar — working in conjunction with Israel's Ben - Gurion University — is a pioneer in combining it with a water - based cooling system that increases the photovoltaic cells» efficiency and produces thermal energy to boot...

Researchers at Aalto University have produced black silicon solar cells capable of reaching a 22.1 percent conversion efficiency, which is a full 4 percent increase from the previous record.

Calisolar said solar cell efficiency was «increasing to 16.8 % on average this year on our way to 17 %.»

Cell efficiencies decrease as temperatures increase, and higher temperatures also threaten the long - term stability of solar cells.