Sentences with phrase «cells shaped like»

Next will the atheists try to remove Laminin from their body a cell shaped like a cross.

Not exact matches

Want your Petri - dish animal cells to end up shaped like a porterhouse?

Or me and this boy's mama will come after you with a sharp bento pick shaped like a panda and feed you uncut grapes while you talk on your cell phone.

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.

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.

The compound (right panel) has a scorpion - like shape with two arms grabbing EphA2 - expressing cancer cells, and a tail (brown) constituted by a cytotoxic chemotherapeutic agent (paclitaxel used in this work).

The grand plan envisioned by Ohio State University investigator Nicanor Moldovan and his colleagues entails sowing cells harvested from vessel lining, or endothelium, in silicon molds shaped like capillaries.

For instance, to make a rod with collagen fibers aligned along its length (like a tendon) they cultured chondrocyte cells in a dog bone - shaped mold with loops on either end.

Schematic illustration of cells (blue mountain - like shapes) on top of nanoscale mushroom - like structures with silicone dioxide stems and gold caps, which have the potential to detect cell proliferation in real - time.

Adding a final twist to the story, Dimitri Leemans of the Free University of Brussels and Egon Schulte of Northeastern University showed last year that there can be only two shapes like the 11 - cell.

These rod - shaped structures function like grappling hooks between cells: the pili of different cells get caught and then shortened.

Real red blood cells owe their astonishing agility to their «biconcave» or tyre - like shape.

The 120 - foot - long, pickle - shaped prototype at Toledo Express Airport resembles a blimp: Its soft but tough skin, similar to a boat's sail, encases balloon - like cells filled with helium.

Living cells are like miniature factories, responsible for the production of more than 25,000 different proteins with very specific 3 - D shapes.

«When you watch the shapes of the cells, it looks like even the cell nuclei are deformed.»

While most plant cells are brick - like in shape, pavement cells resemble jigsaw puzzle pieces.

«We've shown that any simple or complex cell shape can be captured like music by its pitch, amplitude and timbre,» she explains.

Astrocytes, named for their star - like shape, are ubiquitous brain cells known for regulating excitatory synapse formation through cells.

In patients with the disease, red blood cells are abnormal — hard, sticky and shaped like a crescent moon.

«For a long time, we believed that all cell membrane is liquid - like, allowing embedded proteins to change their shape and perform reactions,» said Principal Investigator Wei Min, a professor of chemistry.

Some of these clusters form at the cell poles, the rounded ends of rod - shaped bacteria like Escherichia coli.

The magnetic field is shaped to pull the gadolinium downward so metal particles push the cells upward, creating a buoyant force just like the one that floats a boat.

The rigid sickle - shaped cells then stack up behind the SS2s, like traffic behind a car wreck.

Cells put a lot of effort into preventing proteins — which are like a string of beads arranged in a precise three - dimensional shape — from unraveling, since a protein's activity as an enzyme or structural component depends on being properly shaped and folded.

The elongated fibroblasts reprogrammed to become more T - cell - like in shape and hundreds of T - cell genes were also expressed in these skin cells.

The team studied the anesthetic ketamine, which blocks NMDA (N - methyl - D - aspartate) receptor proteins that enable charged particles like calcium to flow into nerve cells, like electric switches that trigger and shape messages.

These fibers act like hoops around a barrel, holding the cell in a cylindrical shape as it expands.

These network - like structures maintain the cell's shape, provide mechanical support, and are involved in critical processes of the cell's lifecycle.

They then combined these cells in a special dish shaped like a tiny dog bone.

With their choanoflagellate - like choanocyte cells and a second type of cell, an archaeocyte, that can shift shape and function as needed to absorb food, secrete new skin, or reproduce, they became the first multicellular animals.

Once in the vagina or the urethra, the extremely mobile T. vaginalis flattens its otherwise pear - shaped body against the wall and secretes proteins that destroy surrounding cells while consuming surrounding good bacteria to alter the overall acidity of the environment more to its liking.

And like those transporters, the protein was shaped like a tube and wedged in the outer surface of the cells, resembling the kind of biological valve that would move chloride in and out.

The result — the first complete structure of a virus in the flavivirus family — reveals a layered, soccer - ball - like shape lacking the spiky projections characteristic of many human viruses, the researchers report in the 8 March issue of Cell.

«By changing the surface properties like the shape of the substrate at the nanoscale level, we tricked the stem cells to behave differently,» explains co-author Dr Julien Gautrot, from QMUL's School of Engineering and Materials Science and the Institute of Bioengineering.

«Within 3 weeks after expression of the NeuroD1 protein, we saw in the microscope that human glial cells were reinventing themselves: they changed their shape from flat sheet - like glial cells into normal - looking neurons with axon and dendritic branches,» Chen said.

In future, Gilmour and colleagues would like to understand the interplay between the ability — or decision — to stop and signals that they previously found drive cells to move forward, and how both are influenced by changes in cell shape.

Dr Daniel Ungar, from the University of York's Department of Biology, said: «If we think of the cancer cell like a tent structure; it has fixed sides to hold its shape and is firmly anchored to the ground in order to secure its contents.

Many plant epidermal cells form interlocking shapes that look like jigsaw puzzle pieces.

The cells that group together and stop to form the future organ also change shape, going from flat, crawling cells to upright, tear - shaped cells that come together like cloves in a bulb of garlic.

Why would cells have a protein that changes shape like this?

The first observation of correlation between isotropic growth and puzzle - like cell shape came from the Roeder Lab (Cornell University) and was then explored in collaboration with the Smith Lab (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research).

William Ratcliff, a biologist at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, and his collaborators have discovered a surprisingly simple route to multicellularity: a single mutation in yeast that adheres the mother cell to its daughter to create a snowflake - like shape.

Forced expression of this SMN1 variant in cultured non-neuronal cells induces the formation of neurite - like extensions, a change in cell shape reminiscent of that occurring when motor neurons send out axons to their muscle targets.

Shaped like a tiny doughnut with a depression instead of a hole in the center, each cell rushes through the widest blood vessels and squeezes through the slimmest vessels, known as capillaries.

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Like all solid matter, cells resist shape changes through their material stiffness.

In 1973, a research team headed by Ralph Steinman at the Rockefeller University also described a new immune cell type, which they called the dendritic cell for its branching, tree - like shape.

They belong to a class of cells called the glia, and they're called astrocytes because they're shaped like stars (sort of).

Within three years, Steinman would identify the catalyst, a newly discovered cell that he called the dendritic cell — named after the Greek word for tree because of its branched or star - like shape.

According to Quan Zhu, Ph.D., the co - lead author of the paper, this structure is situated in the middle of the «X» like shape created when a chromosome duplicates itself just before cell division.