Sentences with phrase «cells live inside»

Normally, tiny algae cells live inside coral polyps.

Typically, they carry bits of genetic material that could be of use to the cells they live inside.

Not exact matches

Arctic apples don't brown because they make a special type of RNA molecule, which act as the messengers inside living cells, doling out instructions.

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

The data encoded on the DNA inside every cell of every living thing is a kind of written language.

By redefining the term they were attempting to backdoor their way into going after abortion rights, stem cell research, and anything having to do with little cells of «persons» living inside one big person.

The real debate is when does a baby become a baby, and for some they feel it's at the «twinkle in the eye» stage, i.e. moment of conception, and for others it's when the mass of cell's inside the womb are able to live outside the womb (the current legal definition).

(Cf. the phenomenon of the «runners» at first connected with the mother plant and then separated from it; the fluid transition between various plants and animals which appear to be one; the germ - cell inside and outside the parent organism, etc.) Living forms which present what are apparently very great differences in space and time can ontologically have the same morphological principle, so that enormous differences of external form can derive from the material substratum and chance patterns of circumstance without change of substantial form (caterpillar - chrysalis butterfly).

You put a seed inside the breeding cell, download or create the growth - recipe of your liking and watch your personalized vegetable come to life.

All living organisms maintain a reducing environment inside their cells, all cells contain complex systems of antioxidants to prevent chemical damage to the cells» components by oxidation.

However, «siRNAs on their own won't be effectively taken up by cells, particularly inside a living organism» said Dr. Sharp.

Small protein fragments, also called peptides, are promising as drugs because they can be designed for very specific functions inside living cells.

In this latest advance reported in PNAS, the Wyss team showed that the human gut - on - a-chip's unique ability to co-culture intestinal cells with living microbes from the normal gut microbiome for an extended period of time, up to two weeks, could allow breakthrough insights into how the microbial communities that flourish inside our GI tracts contribute to human health and disease.

To surmount this hurdle, Dr. Hodgson and his colleagues in the Gruss Lipper Biophotonics Center at Einstein devised a new fluorescent protein biosensor that, combined with live - cell imaging, revealed exactly when and where Rac1 is activated inside cancer cells.

A group of scientists at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) and collaborators at Stockholm University showed for the first time how this big protein complex inside living E. coli cells disassembles after each round of division.

«With appropriate scaling, this technology could provide a power source for implanted systems in ATP - rich environments such as inside living cells,» added Roseman.

Trillions of bacteria live inside your bowels, outnumbering your own cells 10 to 1.

Using fluorescence inside living cells as well as biochemistry, they showed that SMN promotes an interaction between the «zipcode» region of a test RNA and a transport protein.

Microbes living in oxygen - rich environments use enzymes floating free inside their cells to digest such plant matter.

The discovery of a relic inside our cells is shaking up our understanding of the origin of life — a marriage of RNA and proteins may be how it all really began

(Freshwater fish like ayu live in an environment less salty than the inside of their cells, so they don't accumulate amino acids and amines.

According to Andrew Peek, a molecular biologist at the University of California, Irvine, deep - sea clams seemed like a good candidate for cospeciation because neither the clam nor the bacteria that live inside its cells have ever been found apart from one another.

The method involves flash - freezing the motors inside living cells.

A balancing act between forces forms similar structures inside cells and dense stellar corpses, suggesting links between astrophysics and life on Earth

They live inside their host's cells and have highly specialized features: They are only able to reproduce inside the host's cells, they have the smallest known genome of all organisms with a cell nucleus (eukaryotes) and they posses no mitochondria of their own (the cell's power plant).

Researchers sequenced ancient DNA from the mitochondria — tiny energy factories inside cells — from a Neandertal who lived about 100,000 years ago in southwest Germany.

ATP (adenosine triphosphate) is the main energy source inside a cell and is considered to be the high energy molecule that drives all life processes in animals and humans.

But like the medieval alchemists, today's cloning and stem cell biologists are working largely with processes they don't fully understand: What actually happens inside the oocyte to reprogram the nucleus is still a mystery, and scientists have a lot to learn before they can direct a cell's differentiation as smoothly as nature's program of development does every time fertilized egg gives rise to the multiple cell types that make up a live baby.

The cell cultures still did not prove whether optogenetics would apply to brain cells inside living, freely moving mammals, however.

While peering through his microscope, Weeks also spotted the possible culprit: Lots of bacteria of a previously unknown species were living inside the insects» cells.

To overcome these problems, Min and his team developed a new modality to visualize glucose uptake activity inside single cells based on stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) imaging, and demonstrated its use in live cancer cells, tumor xenograft tissues, primary neurons and mouse brain tissues.

Like cyanobacteria, these generally single - celled organisms draw energy through photosynthesis, with many living as symbionts inside coral.

The device has been used to separate different blood components, to separate cancer cells from blood and to manipulate nanorod motors inside living cells, to name only a few research areas.

They showed that a natural enzyme from a bacterium that lives in hot springs can form C — Si bonds inside living Escherichia coli cells — when the cells are fed the right silicon - containing compounds.

Snippets of RNA known as short interfering RNA (siRNA) turn off specific genes inside living cells by destroying the messenger RNA molecules that carry DNA's instructions to the rest of the cell.

RNA interference (RNAi), a technique that can turn off specific genes inside living cells, holds great potential for treating many diseases caused by malfunctioning genes.

Using a powerful imaging technique that allowed the scientists to track the presence and movement of parasites in living tissues, the researchers found that Toxoplasma infects the brain's endothelial cells, which line blood vessels, reproduces inside of them, and then moves on to invade the central nervous system.

Inside every cell is a chef of sorts, cooking up the «cuisine» that makes life possible — a vast array of proteins.

Until now, however, production of these artificial structures has been limited to water - based environments, because DNA naturally functions inside the watery environment of living cells.

«So we've never been able to image the cells in high resolution as they produce this all - important biological material inside living plants.»

Researchers sequenced ancient DNA from the mitochondria — the tiny energy factories inside cells — from a Neandertal that lived at least 100,000 years ago in southwest Germany, and found that its mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) resembled that of modern humans.

A high - tech microscope, assembled in a living room (above), revealed molecules (red, inset) nanometers apart inside a cell's mitochondria.

Researchers have printed with live cells before, but until now they only made tiny pieces of gelatinous living material, both because large structures tended to collapse and because the cells inside tended to die from lack of oxygen.

The human kidney cell involved survived the experience, and though we are a long way from the laser eyes of Cyclops from the X-Men franchise, the achievement suggests that «living lasers» might be created inside live animals.

With just 121 protein - coding genes, the diminutive Tremblaya princeps, a symbiotic bacterium that lives inside specialized cells of the sap - eating mealybug, has the smallest known genome of any cellular organism on the planet.

The problem is that the higher the resolution, the harder it is to eliminate the blur from both light diffraction (the glow that sometimes occurs as light bends around objects) and the motion going on inside the live cell.

By making the switch, all molecules made from fatty acids can be observed inside living cells by an advanced imaging technique called stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) microscopy.

Several long - lived worms carry mutations in a gene involved in a process that appears to use chemical signals to trigger activities inside cells.

Some of the colors of both species come from symbiotic algae that live inside the coral animal's cells.

We live in a sonic world, immersed in vibrations that stimulate microscopic hair cells deep inside our ears.