Sentences with phrase «cellular components»

The green glow from these proteins is an integral part of studying the behavior of cellular components involved in producing solar fuels.

Powerful new microscopy techniques enable researchers to observe the whole process in living cells, with bright fluorescent tags highlighting the chromosomes and other cellular components.

The center creates single - cell tools to map how cellular components connect into circuits.

The danger comes from the damage they can do when reacting with cellular components like our DNA and cell membranes.

It allows cells to break down defective cellular components for reuse.

This work has so far relied mostly on using existing cellular components (enzymes, for example), but some researchers prefer to start from scratch.

The ability to recycle nutrients and cellular components helps our cells to survive starvation.

It involves cell degradation of unnecessary or dysfunctional cellular components, which ensures cellular survival during starvation by maintaining cellular energy levels.

Through advances in science we now know these points are areas where a high density of free nerve endings, blood vessels and immune system cellular components are found.

Accumulation of damaged cellular components shortens your lifespan by reducing the metabolic efficiency of cells.

This year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi, a cell biologist at the Tokyo Institute of Technology's Frontier Research Center, for his work on autophagy, the process in which cells degrade and recycle cellular components.

NAD + is central to intermediary metabolism, the intracellular process by which food is converted into cellular components in the body.

In addition, it is protective of important cellular components vulnerable to exposure from rancid fats and heavy metals.

Motor proteins transport cargoes and hold many cellular components in position within the cell.

Glutathione is a well - known antioxidant that prevents damage to important cellular components by ROS.

However, your body uses autophagy to deal with that response to maintain energy, reduce the need for external energy, and remove degraded cellular components.

For starters, drinking water on an empty stomach will purify your colon, enabling better absorption of nutrients all throughout the day, encourage the production of hematopoiesis (the formation of blood cellular components) and fire up your metabolism, thereby priming your entire internal system for a great beginning of the new day.

In contrast, progressive dysfunction and deregulation of these multiple interacting cellular components cause malfunction and ultimately lead to disease development.

Derived from Greek terms meaning «self - eating,» the autophagy system sends protein aggregates and malfunctioning cellular components into acidic compartments called lysosomes, where enzymes chew them up.

The Gladstone Center for Cell Circuitry (GC3) addresses this fundamental challenge by developing single - cell tools to map how cellular components connect into circuits.

Working with the app and equipped with a grip of high - tech parts (a microprocessor, an accelerometer, a lithium - polymer battery and Bluetooth, 2G and 3G cellular components), the collar monitors your dog's overall health and activity levels, lets you remotely play with and train your dog using customizable programs and even helps you keep your dog within an invisible «geofence» perimeter around your yard.

Antioxidants are widely believed to protect cells by sopping up highly reactive compounds known as free radicals before they have a chance to react and tear apart DNA or other vital cellular components.

Platelets are small cellular components in the blood.

Visualizing cellular components and processes at the molecular level is important for understanding the basis of any biological activity.

The vesicles the researchers saw were part of a process known as autophagy, a natural mechanism that breaks down and recycles unwanted cellular components.

Autophagy is a degradation system within cells that removes damaged proteins and other defective cellular components, and autophagy insufficiency is common in obese individuals.

«Our goal was to find what happened to cellular components affected by the WNT10A mutation to make better treatments.»

This metabolic demand makes brain cells particularly vulnerable to damage from oxidative stress, in which reactive oxygen species (ROS), sometimes called free radicals, exert toxic effects on cellular components.

Bradley, Edwards, Shapiro, and their colleagues sequenced part of a gene from the samples» mitochondria, cellular components responsible for generating a cell's energy.

The most common probes, which use fluorescent markers or radioactive labels to pinpoint the virus's location in a tissue sample, sometimes have difficulty distinguishing the target — HIV RNA and DNA — from surrounding cellular components.

New work from Carnegie's Allan Spradling and Lei Lei demonstrates that mammalian egg cells gain crucial cellular components at an early stage from their undifferentiated sister cells, called germ cells.

While previous research had shown that TTLL7 modifies microtubules (hollow tubes that transport cellular components and act as highways and scaffolding in the cell) by adding one or more molecules of the amino acid glutamate, exactly how has remained a mystery.

The finding suggests a model in which mTORC1, located at the surface of cellular components known as lysosomes, receives «go / no - go» signals from a family of enzymes dubbed Rag GTPases.

Our proposed studies will explore the APP molecule as a whole cellular component that could affect brain function and memory processing.

One major goal is to unravel how the self - organization of cellular components results in the morphogenesis of dynamic molecular machines.

For example we can visualize fluorescently labeled proteins and compare the quantity and localization relative to other labeled cellular components.

The new Zeiss LSM880 confocal microscope with Airyscan allows researchers to see tiny cellular components more clearly, like these mitochondria shown in red.

Reductionism, which has dominated biological research for over a century, has provided a wealth of knowledge about individual cellular components and their functions.

Some of their goals include the unravelling of disease mechanisms by using nanomaterials to track cellular components and probe the chemical niche of the cells, the transformation of adult human cells into induced pluripotent stem cells and the delivery of drugs directly to immune and cancer cells.

Dr. Sánchez Alvarado's lab has launched one of the first efforts to deconstruct the molecular and cellular components underpinning regeneration.

Magnesium is mitogenic (causes cell division) in osteoblasts (the major cellular component of bone) and magnesium depletion inhibits cellular growth.

Studies show that ginger is capable of reducing proteins associated with the deterioration of healthy cellular components such as the enzyme MMP - 9.

Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) preserves cellular components for CBC and morphologic evaluation but falsely decreases calcium, phosphorus, and alkaline phosphatase levels and elevates potassium levels; therefore, EDTA plasma samples should not be used for chemical analysis.

Like jewels in a vault, our precious genetic material is stored in the nucleus of a cell — sequestered away from potentially damaging cellular components and toxins so that no harm can come to it.