Sentences with phrase «cells switch their type»

Deepak Srivastava writes about how by helping cells switch their type, we may have discovered a new way to repair damaged hearts, and potentially revolutionize the future of medicine.

By helping cells switch their type, we may have discovered a new way to repair damaged hearts, and potentially revolutionize the future of medicine.

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To determine how the cells switch from one type to another, they took three human uterine carcinosarcoma samples and sequenced the genomes of cells in two parts of each tumor: the carcinoma and sarcoma components.

«Carcinosarcoma cells show a unique ability to jump horses in mid-stream, switching from one cell type to another,» said Dr. Ian Hagemann, one of the authors of the study.

The researchers thought this ability to switch between different cell types could explain why they can spread so easily around the body; switching cell type effectively disguises the cells in different tissues.

Epigenetic tags help tell genes — stretches of DNA that act as biological instruction manuals — when to switch «on» and «off,» ultimately determining cell type and function.

Nathaniel Hoyle of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, and his colleagues have discovered that genes in a type of skin cell switch on and off during day - night cycles.

Molecular characterization of the cells that undergo cell fate transition upon oncogenic Pik3ca expression demonstrated a profound oncogene - induced reprogramming of these newly formed cells and identified gene expression signatures, characteristic of the different cell fate switches, which was predictive of the cancer cell of origin, tumour type and clinical outcomes in women with breast cancers.

Duke University biologist Pelin Volkan and colleagues have identified a set of genetic control switches that interact early in a fly's development to generate dozens of types of olfactory neurons, specialized nerve cells for smell.

By tweaking different fly genes and counting how many neuron types were produced as the flies matured, the team identified a network of five genes that work together like coordinated control switches to guide the precursor cells» transformation to mature neurons.

Nuclear reprogramming describes a switch in gene expression of one kind of cell to that of another unrelated cell type.

«We want to make an active miRNA dictionary for each cell type, so that if we want to isolate this kind of cell type, we know how to use this kind of switch,» he said.

Saito believes that with further development, miRNA switches will be applicable to all cell types at all cell stages.

These act as inputs, switching a reaction within the two types of cell on or off.

Through more than 1,600 separate experiments, analysis of more than 140 cell types and a massive amount of data analysis, the group found about 4 million of these so - called switches and can now assign functions to more than 80 percent of the entire genome.

Those switches can be both near and far from the gene they regulate and act in different combinations in different cell types to give each cell type a unique genomic identity.

Though most of these proteins are present in multiple root cell types, the researchers found, their statistical models and experiments in living plants suggest the combined effect is to activate the Short - root master switch in some cells but not others.

«The organization of cell colonies and phenotypic switching between different types of colonies becomes a lot more flexible and rapid with reversible aneuploidy than if it depended on random mutations in the genes,» Skupin says.

They found that carcinoma cells from smokers carried the «transcriptional fingerprint» (i.e. the pattern of genes that were switched on or off) of basal cells, suggesting that the tumors may originate from this type of cell.

Nathaniel Hoyle of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, and his team have been investigating how the time of day affects wound healing, after they discovered that genes in a type of skin cell switch on and off during day - night cycles.

In future, other switches could be identified in other types of tumour cell.

By analyzing a dataset of human immune cells stimulated with interferon — a signaling protein created in response to pathogens or tumor cells — the team could precisely identify which genes were switched on in each of 13 responding cell types.

Now, Professor Martin and colleagues have discovered that in response to specific types of cell damage, Parkin can trigger the self - destruction of «injured» nerve cells by switching on a controlled process of «cellular suicide» called apoptosis.

Although, Hedrick and Linden target different cell types, innovations by both groups could encourage clinical tests of drugs designed to switch on a patient's immune cells by eradicating secondary lung malignancies.

For example, Bonin explains, a study might test whether turning on two types of nerve cells — each with a different opsin — gives different results from switching on just one.

When Cellartis was founded in 2001, it initially pursued stem cell - based therapeutics but soon switched business models, opting instead to focus on providing specialized cell types for drug discovery and toxicity testing.

July 2009 - Switching on the power of stem cells Cambridge scientists reveal how the protein Nanog gives stem cells their unique abilities Researchers from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research at the University of Cambridge have pinpointed the role of the protein Nanog in a complex process that gives stem cells pluripotency: the ability to produce all the different cell types of the bCell Research at the University of Cambridge have pinpointed the role of the protein Nanog in a complex process that gives stem cells pluripotency: the ability to produce all the different cell types of the bcell types of the body.

Her research team now reports in Molecular Cell two new types of kill switches that address these challenges.

But by placing the gene under the control of a «promoter» — an on - off switch for gene expression — from a gene (SM22a) that is expressed only in smooth muscle cells, Dr. Parmacek's team found that no matter which types of cells were infected, the gene was only «turned on» in smooth muscle cells.

The researchers now hypothesize that microbes in the gut, where most of this pTreg cell population is switched on, may be responsible for generating these protective cells and thus protecting against the autoimmune attack on pancreatic beta cells that cause type 1 diabetes.

This confirmed that the gene regulatory switch is highly specific to one cell type, monocytes and that tumor cell invasion in the absence of this population had nothing to do with deregulated macrophage activity.

BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99 Definitely a different type of role for Vince Vaughn, though he does a good job of switching between Bradley's caring and violent sides.

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