Sentences with phrase «cells than that of human»

This is due to the fact that the cat's nasal organ is much larger than a human's meaning that it has many more cells than that of human.

Not exact matches

Yesterday's ruling effectively said that Feng Zhang's adoption of the technique in human and mouse cells was, in fact, a new and patentable invention rather than an «obvious» extension of Doudna's and Charpentier's work.

While we thrive thanks to lightning speed Internet connections, cell phones that are smarter than the average human being and other neat gadgets that make our lives feel and seem easier, we are exhausting a number of non-renewable resources.

Francis Crick famously asserted that human life is «no more than the behavior of... nerve cells and their associated molecules.»

A clump of cells with no brain, and no neural tube is no more «a human life» than cells from your skin layer, or a sperm cell with no change of fertilizing an egg.

It is the same when the artificial creation of a human cell is considered: «Nothing more than reproducing those conditions in which under the Law of Control and Direction, life emerges.»

Modern psychosomatic medicine has made some progress in analyzing along these lines; for example, it seems quite possible that the emotional tone of my soul may directly alter the patterns of physical feeling in my stomach.4 Still, we should not suppose too quickly that the aims of a human personality have any very effective direct influence on the molecules of body cells, other than those in the brain.

However, the argument is still far from clear - cut as, of course, these 14 - day - old human cells have much greater potential than any worm or parasite.

So at day 14, the number of nerve and brain cells in the human embryo is zero, and it has less complexity than the simplest microscopic worm and less feeling or intelligence than a parasite in dirty drinking water.

The lab - grown meat — which the company calls «clean meat» — is developed from self - reproducing cells taken from a chicken, with the purpose of creating a product that omnivores can't distinguish from the real thing, but with a fraction of the considerable downsides of meat production, including environmental destruction and using agricultural land to grow animal feed rather than crops for human consumption.

«Advancements in science and research have moved faster than the debates among politicians in Washington, D.C., and breakthroughs announced in recent years confirm the full potential of stem cell research can be realized without the destruction of living human embryos,» House Minority Leader John Boehner, R - Ohio, said Sunday.

In a human brain, the cells would need to travel a matter of millimeters or centimeters, up to 20 times farther than the 500 microns tested here, he says.

The human body has more microbial than human cells, but this rich diversity of micro-helpers that has evolved along with us is undergoing a rapid shift — one that may have very macro health consequences

Hammer and colleagues Dennis Discher and Frank Bates attempted to scale up this process to make vesicles more than 10 micrometers in diameter — the size of human cells.

A new type of human stem cell, never seen in nature, should be better at making replacement organs than existing stem cells

«We've been hearing about their potential for more than a decade, but the results have always been in mice and rats, and no one has shown they're safe or effective in humans long term,» says Robert Lanza of Advanced Cell Technology in Marlborough, Massachusetts, the company that carried out the stem cell interventCell Technology in Marlborough, Massachusetts, the company that carried out the stem cell interventcell intervention.

«That means things that are smaller than the diameter of a human hair, like cells, parts of cells or the fine structure of fibers.»

(A successful derivation of stem cells from a cloned human embryo was not reported until October 2011, and these stem cells had three sets of chromosomes rather than two.)

«The discovery of the microbiome and its significance represents a huge paradigm shift in our understanding of human health — there are more microbes living on us and in us than our own cells,» said Ingber, who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children's Hospital, and Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Like the Rosetta Stone that scholars used to decode hieroglyphics, researchers trained the algorithm with more than 4,600 T cell receptors and then used it to correctly assign 81 percent of the human T cells and 78 percent of mouse T cells to one of 10 different viral epitopes.

In a human brain, 85 billion nerve cells communicate via trillions of connections using complex patterns of electrical jolts and more than 100 different chemicals.

In a series of experiments, the researchers first identified a set of 19 transcription factors that were expressed at significantly greater levels in cultured human glioblastoma stem cells capable of tumor propagation than in differentiated tumor cells.

A nanometer is less than 1/1, 000 the size of a red blood cell and about 1/20, 000 the diameter of a human hair.

The researchers also tested a Runx2 knock - down variant of a human multiple myeloma cell line and found that it produced significantly less tumor growth in immunodeficient mice than the original human multiple myeloma cells.

Compared with earlier methods to tweak the genomes of bacteria, plants, laboratory mice and human cells, the Crispr - Cas9 gene - editing method is fast, precise and cheap, an order of magnitude better than the others.

Despite a dearth of human studies, more than 400 experiments have been done since the early 1970s to determine how cell phone radiation affects animals, cells and DNA.

First, the destabilizing effects of VX - 770 on the corrected CFTR protein might be less robust in the human body than were the effects seen in lab tests using human lung cells.

Think sperm with multiple tails, no tails at all or in the case of one fruit fly, sperm that are nearly 6 cm long — roughly a thousand times longer than a human sperm cell.

With more than 800 members in the human genome, GPCRs are the largest family of proteins involved in decoding signals as they come into the cell and then adapt the cell's function in response.

Despite its many parts, the entire organism is a single cell of only about 10 microns in diameter, which is smaller than most cells in the human body.

Although primed, post-implantation embryonic stem cells can still turn into any type of human cell, they are more difficult to work with than the pre-implantation, naive cells.

In a boost for a controversial theory of aging, mice engineered to make a human protein that sponges up cell - damaging molecules live 19 % longer than other mice.

In the lab, the antibiotics had no harmful effect on normal cells, and since they are already approved for use in humans, trials of new treatments should be simpler than with new drugs — saving time and money.

«In a single dose, APC - mimetic scaffolds led to two - to ten-fold greater expansion of primary mouse and human T cells than Dynabeads.

In a screen of more than 100,000 potential drugs, only one, harmine, drove human insulin - producing beta cells to multiply, according to a study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, funded by JDRF and the National Institutes of Health, and published online in Nature Medicine.

Proponents of ESC research counter that most of the new cell lines could be derived from donated, unused human embryos created by couples seeking fertility treatment, and that more than a third of zygotes fail to implant after conception, so those would be lost by chance anyway.

The researchers showed that cabazitaxel worked better than docetaxel in human prostate cancer cells lines that were resistant hormone treatment, both in terms of slowing cancer - cell growth and in its ability to kill cancer cells.

In humans, as in mice, fat cells of the obese already produced plenty of leptin — more in fact than those of their thin counterparts, since the level of leptin was directly proportional to the amount of fat.

Even better than the real thing, the NIST synapse can fire much faster than the human brain — 1 billion times per second, compared to a brain cell's 50 times per second — using just a whiff of energy, about one ten - thousandth as much as a human synapse.

When retinal cells die they are much more likely to die in the center of the retina than in the periphery, which the researchers say is exactly what happens in humans with age and the problem with macular degeneration.

The technique's success in the body of an animal (rather than just cells in a petri dish) has Dzau hopeful that he can adapt it to treat humans within a decade.

We have more confidence that we can move toward clinical use of these cells in humans with less concern than we've previously had.»

It was found that complex II activity significantly declined with age, per unit of mitochondria, in the cells derived from the lower rather than the upper levels, an observation not previously reported for human skin.

The scientist tested their set - up using frozen human skin cells, segments of pig heart tissue, and sections of pig arteries in volumes almost 20 times larger than previously attempted samples.

After inserting more than 400 human genes into yeast cells, researchers found that almost half of the human genes actually worked and kept the yeast alive!

Suspecting that the disease works differently in humans, whose brains are much bigger and more complex than those of lab animals, Brivanlou, along with research associates Albert Ruzo and Gist Croft, developed a cell - based human system for their research.

Gottschling noticed that after about 25 cell divisions — the equivalent of middle age in humans — DNA errors in daughter cells started appearing 100 times faster than normal.

When transplanted into human cells in the laboratory, the mammoth TRPV3 gene produced a protein that is less responsive to heat than an ancestral elephant version of the gene.

Testing the effectiveness of this molecule in their VLP assay, they found that it reduced the ability of the virus to bud off from human cells in culture by more than 90 percent and was similarly effective against proteins found in Ebola and HIV.

A team of engineers at MIT has harnessed viruses to make components for a remarkable new kind of battery, half the size of a human cell and far more efficient than your usual AAA.