Sentences with phrase «control organ size»

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An organ about the size of an almond, located just above the brainstem, the hypothalamus controls a variety of processes, including hunger, thirst, thermoregulation, attachment, sleep, and fatigue.

The most advanced qubits are circuits made of superconducting metal, and to control or read out a qubit, researchers make it interact with a microwave resonator — typically a strip of metal on the qubit chip or a finger - size cavity surrounding it — which rings with microwave photons like an organ pipe rings with sound.

To control or read out a superconducting qubit, researchers make it interact with a microwave resonator — typically a strip of metal on the qubit chip or a finger - size cavity surrounding it — which rings with microwave photons the way an organ pipe rings with sound.

«By controlling the geometry and growth rates of groups of cells, you could then scale this up to control the size and shape of an organ such as a leaf, which is crucial for plant productivity.»

Rather, I hypothesized that, because of their fundamental and non-autonomous role in the control of tissue growth and patterning, alterations in morphogen signaling might underlie changes in organ size.

Cell size and cell number regulation are crucial elements of both organ size determination and control of human diseases such as cancer and diabetes [26].

How Things Grow, Including Cancer A protein discovered in fruit fly eyes has brought a Johns Hopkins team closer to understanding how the human heart and other organs automatically determine when they are the correct size, a piece of information that may hold clues to controlling cancer.

The regulation of cell size and cell numbers is an important part of determining the size of organs in development, as well as of controlling cell over-proliferation in diseases such as cancer and diabetes.