Sentences with phrase «cells produced about»

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Since 72 - cell modules usually produce 350 watts (W), you end up with about 1.4 billion W (or 1.4 GW) of power.

Rive argues that when the factory is up and running it will be able to produce high - output PV cells at about 55 cents a watt — about a 20 % reduction from current prices, which will help Rive get closer to his goal of making solar cheaper than fossil fuels.

They sat down with managers and researchers at a number manufacturing companies in the U.S. and China that produce lithium - ion cells for consumer electronics, asking about cost structures.

The average wind turbine rotates fast enough to produce energy only about a third of the time, and solar cells can similarly underperform in cloudy conditions.

Just before Thanksgiving, news broke about a new stem - cell technique that could produce the equivalent of embryonic stem cells (ESCs) but without using or destroying human embryos.

And let's remember that evolution, while it's a theory, is a theory about the beginning and the transformation of life based on things we have observed, namely that cells change and mutate and that those mutations can produce cells that are unique and new, and that it would follow that it's possible for molecules to form into single - celled organisms which mutate and combine into multi-cellular organisms which mutate, adapt, and grow over time into new forms of life.

There has been a lot of text and talk about the wonders of coconut oil's medium chain fatty acids and how they benefit the brain by producing ketones for brain cells» functional nutrition.

The scientists discovered that the two sides of the cell differ in the composition of messenger RNA, or mRNA: About 30 percent of the genes expressed in the intestines produced mRNAs that appeared either on one side of the cell or on the other.

With about 50 scientists and technicians working furiously to produce cell therapies for trials throughout the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), CHOP can treat about five children each month.

«What's really exciting about this was that the activity differences were detected at a critical time in brain development: when neural progenitor cells are proliferating and expanding in number, just prior to producing neurons,» Silver said.

«We transplanted about 6 million cells,» says Cecilia Götherström of Karolinska, who produced the cells.

Here about 750 cells produce orexin (also known as hypocretin), a hormone that promotes wakefulness.

Moreover, because they had an idea of what cells the genes came from and what kinds of gene sequences produce what kinds of proteins, they were able to draw some conclusions about what all those genes are good for.

Three types of colon cancer cells grew faster, producing about 50 to 60 percent more cells within 24 hours, with the bacteria than they did when cultured with no bacteria or with a harmless, milk - fermenting bacterium called Lactococcus lactis.

These beverages may give some protection against the ravages of oxidizing chemicals that we breathe in or that cells in our bodies produce as the cells go about their normal housekeeping functions.

The tool sprays a microscopic stream of charged solvent onto the tissue surface to gather information about its molecular makeup and produces a color - coded image revealing the nature and concentration of tumor cells.

The researchers first injected the virus about a week before the lipid nanoparticles, giving the liver cells time to begin producing the RNA guide strand and the DNA template.

Lee's study results, which appear in the July 16, 2015 issue of Nature Communications, revealed new understanding about how 14 -3-3 sigma — a cell cycle «controller» - regulates cancer metabolic programming, thus protecting healthy cells from turning into tumor - producing factories.

The results could only mean that the hot electrons produced in the tin - based solar cells took about a thousand times longer than usual to dissipate their excess energy.

This is a different way of thinking about solar cells, which are normally described in terms of how much energy they can produce in lab conditions, rather than in use in a specific environment.

Nor is the Chevrolet Equinox the first fuel cell vehicle General Motors (GM) has ever produced: The 1966 Electrovan, an unwieldy and prohibitively expensive fuel cell van that never made it out of the lab, was the first of about 40 or so hydrogen - fueled vehicles that have been built by the U.S. carmaker.

Using this switch, the researchers were able to generate about 0.8 grams of glucaric acid per liter of the bacterial mixture, while cells that were engineered to produce glucaric acid but did not have the metabolic switch produced hardly any.

Yet, cadmium telluride commands only about 30 percent of the thin - film market, according to DoE statistics, compared with amorphous silicon cells (such as those produced by Sharp and ECD Ovonics), which account for more than 60 percent; CIGS cells make up just about 1 percent of this market.

«The nanoparticle produces about 20 million toxins per hour in each cell.

The researchers noticed that in highly infected mice, NK cells produced IL - 10 about 3.5 days into the infection — days later than when they'd produce IFN - gamma, a protein that helps to mount, rather than defuse, the immune system response.

One of the most intriguing reasons for studying endosymbionts like Tremblayais to learn about the evolution of mitochondria and chloroplasts, membrane - bound structures within cells that produce energy.

The resulting five - ounce burger, cooked by chef Richard McGeown, was made using 20,000 strips of cultured meat — about 40 billion cow cells — and took about three months to produce, «which is faster than [raising] a cow,» Post joked.

In the cold seep worm, the cells at the edges of the trophosome die at about the rate that new cells are produced, slowing the worm's growth and keeping the worm stocked with young cells.

Her hope is that this fundamental understanding of Stentor's regeneration process will help clarify the connections between regeneration and cell division, leading to new, broader insights about how cells produce and maintain their shape.

Bringing the cost of just the photovoltaic cells down to about $ 1 per watt is the magic number solar manufacturers are aiming for, figuring that will make them cost - competitive with electricity produced by burning natural gas.

The model produced a number of predictions about cell wall properties that Szymanski then verified in live trichomes.

They first pooled together information about colors in related modern snake species in the same family, Colubridae (which contains 70 % of all known snakes): specifically, which combinations of pigment cells produce which colors.

Electricity produced by a fuel cell by combining hydrogen and oxygen powered an electric motor to turn the two - seat test glider's propeller and enabled it to fly for roughly 20 minutes at 62 miles per hour (100 kilometers per hour) at about 3,300 feet (1,000 meters) above sea level.

Little is known about these enterochromaffin cells, which produce 90 per cent of the body's serotonin — a chemical mostly known for regulating mood, appetite and sleep in the brain.

The team injected about 2000 mouse embryonic stem cells each into the brains of 25 rats who had previously had their dopamine - producing neurons damaged, which causes a characteristic tendency to move in circles.

New questions are raised about the controversial claim that women have stem cells that can produce eggs into adulthood

That still makes them a potential source of ES cells, and because human parthenote embryos can't develop to term, some people have fewer qualms about using them to produce stem cells.

With the use of this method, described in an article published today in Scientific Reports, it is possible to make virus - infected cells produce just about any protein desired.

The body replaces old red blood cells by generating fresh ones, typically producing about 2 million cells per second.

The chronic disease — which affects about 2 million people in the U.S. and is diagnosed in 13,000 children each year — is an autoimmune disorder, in which disease - fighting cells attack pancreatic cells that produce insulin, a hormone that regulates the level of glucose (sugar) in the blood.

About Splicing Splicing is a normal mechanism that the cell uses in order to produce many different, but closely related proteins from a single gene by varying the processing of the RNA.

If you would like to learn about genetic engineering and biotechnology - for example, if you would like to know how a scientist can «engineer» bacteria to produce something like human insulin - then the HSW article entitled How Cells Work will be incredibly interesting.

But it's one that bioethicists have warned about for at least a dozen years, since advances in stem cell biology made it easier to produce chimeras.

It's about co-funding industrial facilities for developing and producing gene and cell therapies, and to build up a new economic sector.

«Learning more about how different genes cause cells to become and remain pluripotent will help us to produce and use stem cells more reliably.»

For all the talk about research with stem cells, it seems they're not that easy to produce.

Several clinical trials are either about to begin or are already underway to replace and reinforce the dopamine - producing neurons in the aging brain, building on the promise of the first faltering steps in cell therapy for PD.

Once the cells are transplanted, they will gradually begin to populate the brain, establish connections, produce dopamine and within about nine months, it's predicted that Parkinson's symptoms would be reduced.

But because stem cells can become any kind of tissue, human - animal research in the field of «regenerative medicine» raises greater ethical issues and adds, for some, a visceral unease about the organism that could be produced.

Next, Hafenstein hopes to produce higher - resolution HPV maps to learn more about L2 and its role in cell entry.