In this part of the lab work, the students looked at an Elodea plant cell and an onion cell and investigated it in the lab to identify
the different cell parts.
In one project this past year, for instance, the teens made videos about the functions of
different cell parts.
Not exact matches
This depends upon there being a brain, an arrangement of
cells in a particular
part of the body which by reason of its peculiar coordination makes the given routing able to «know» in a distinctively human manner — quite
different from, although certainly continuous with, the sort of «knowing» that is possible for the higher grades of animal life.
And when the first
cell formed, how did the molecules randomly form all of the
different parts of the
cell like the nucleus and everything else?
Seeking one mechanism to explain the induction of cancer by many
different agents, Huebner and Todaro had suggested that retrovirus oncogenes are a
part of the genetic baggage of all
cells, perhaps acquired through viral infection early in evolution.
When tumor
cells are present in an environment that lacks oxygen and nutrients, they receive a signal that it is time for the
cells to move to a
different part of the body.
Neural crest
cells migrate to
different parts of an embryo and give rise to several tissues including the bone and
These
cells have around 20
different subtypes, each responsible for carrying slightly
different information to a
different part of the brain.
Different parts of her body could have come from different ce
Different parts of her body could have come from
different ce
different cell lines.
It is controlled, in
part, by a series of channels on the surface of heart
cells that regulate the movement of
different ions into and out of the
cells.
One way to get many types of
cells or proteins from the same genetic starting material is by mixing and matching
different parts of one gene to produce multiple gene readouts, a phenomenon known as alternative splicing.
The downside is that people with these eye diseases are losing sight in large
part because they're losing a
different type of eye
cell: the photoreceptors that sense light in the retina.
Cancer
cells may produce unique metabolic profiles, in
part because they grow very rapidly and have metabolic activity very
different from normal
cells.
«This could be useful in developing new combination therapies, where multiple drugs are used simultaneously to treat a cancer by attacking
different parts of the cancer
cells at the same time.»
IDPs may also provide cues that allow
cells to take on traits specific to
different tissues or
parts of the body.
The researchers studied two types of
cells called effector T
cells, which activate the immune system to defend our body against
different pathogens, and regulatory T
cells, which help control the immune system and prevent it from attacking healthy
parts of its environment.
One likely reason for this is that animals undergo cellular differentiation; human life begins as a single
cell that differentiates into the various
cell types needed for
different organs, body
parts, blood, the immune system, etc..
«The DNA sequence itself tells us very little about how
cells actual decodes the DNA, and to understand this we need to map out which
cell components are present in
different parts of the genome at a specific time.
Professor Scheffler provides a comparison for the procedure: «Like a car that is disassembled into its individual
parts to check for damage, we examine the
different cancer
cells.»
Part of the trouble is the ingredients: Subtle variations in tissue - culture chemicals and Matrigel, or in
different stem
cell lines and how they are grown first in 2 - D culture, can have a big impact on how the organoids turn out, Novitch says.
Adult stem
cells: They have less flexibility and «stemness» to change into
different cell types, but they can still produce new
cells, specialized to become
part of a particular organ or tissue, such as muscle
cells or neural
cells.
Professor Zhang's team were able to visualize the pinning, stretching and rupturing of cervical cancer
cells by immunostaining
different parts of the
cells and viewing them under a confocal fluorescent microscope and a high - resolution scanning electron microscope (SEM).
Ten years ago, convinced that bioelectricity plays an important role in development, Levin and his colleagues systematically altered the number of ion channels in
cells in
different parts of a frog embryo.
The team used this change in the variability of the song to look at how the activity of single
cells in
different parts of the brain altered their activity depending on the social environment.
Opioid receptors are
part of the
different systems of
cell communication and are capable of regulating physiological processes that require a high degree of coordination and communication between the
different cell and tissue types.
«Compartments within a
cell are much like
different parts of a car,» explains Vasanth Ramamurthy, PhD, first author of the study.
Not only does this let them build up complex tissue components like the mammary gland, but also to experiment with specifically adding in a single
cell with a known cancer mutation to
different parts of the organoid to observe its effects.
Lab studies are also finding that mesenchymal stem
cells extracted from
different parts of the body can have
different attributes.
It has billions of
parts, many used to activate and silence genes — an arrangement that allows individual
cells to specialize as brain
cells, heart
cells and some 200 other
different cell types.
«Looking at a fixed
cell at high resolution can tell you where
different parts of the
cell are at any given moment; but because much of biology depends on the movement of very small proteins finding each other and interacting, we really needed to look at how things move in a live
cell.»
The idea is that the drug, being within the nano - hydrogels, is transported directly to cancer
cells where it can be released without damaging other
parts of the body, because hydrogels offer the possibility of dosing a myriad of active substances on the site desired and can be administered as dry or swollen hydrogels by
different routes: oral, nasal, buccal, rectal, transdermal, vaginal, ocular and parental.
Researchers have identified a set of DNA - binding proteins in the roots of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana that work in combination to help precursor
cells selectively read
different parts of the same genetic script and acquire their
different fates.
Called tarocin A and tarocin B, these compounds target a
different part of a bacterium's
cell wall, called teichoic acid.
Differences in these systems allow
cells to specialise to form all the
different parts of the body and also helps our
cells respond to the changing world around us.
Zinc is an essential
part of nearly 3,000
different proteins, and it impacts how these proteins regulate every
cell in our body.
That dye stayed in the
cells as they divided and moved from the neural tube to form
different parts of the skate's body.
And we know there are
different things going on in
different parts of the
cell.
The genes for each transcription factor were made from
different bits of DNA that code for the functional
parts of proteins, such as a domain that can bind to DNA and another that provides the protein with access to the
cell's nucleus.
Neuroscientists think that misplaced sensations, called referred pains, arise when sensory fibers from
different parts of the body connect to the same nerve
cells in the spinal cord or brain stem, confusing your brain about which
part of your body the message came from.
Because stem
cells have the unique ability to develop into many
different types of
cells, they are an important
part of the mechanism for repairing body tissue.
These proteins are vital to complex life, forming the transport infrastructure that allows
different parts of
cells to specialize in particular functions.
This 0157: H7 makes the headlines, mainly because it's a problem in the United States, but in the other
parts of the world there are strains of E. coli that still make children very sick, and they kill millions of children every year, and they have lots of
different ways of invading our
cells and manipulating them.
His team has tested
cells from many
different parts of his body, including the cheek and blood.
More recently, researchers have come to understand that the forms are not redundant; some localize to
different parts of the
cells, some are incorporated into
different parts of the cytoskeleton.
The researchers also injected the
cell with gold nanoparticles, then trained a laser on them to heat up
different parts of the
cell.
Philippa Harding and Anna Wilbrey - Clark from Kerstin Meyer's team at the Sanger Institute processed and single -
cell sequenced separate
parts of the spleen at four
different time points.
Few labs could afford to grow enough mini-brains to be useful for research, Song says, and those that did produced tissues with
cells specialized for
different parts of the brain mixed together at random.
However, efforts to examine the in vitro behavior of tumor
cells with endothelial
cells from
different anatomical regions have been prohibited because, in large
part, of the limited number of organ - derived endothelial
cell lines available for study.
«All epithelial
cells — and that's the
cells that make up most of the organs in our bodies — can do this, so you could imagine that this type of local chamber could be forming transiently in many
different parts of the body, whenever
cells need to self - organise and communicate,» Gilmour says.
How is it that
cells can change their behavior based on signals from their neighbors, or even
cells in entirely
different parts of the body?