Sentences with phrase «discovered type of cell»

Now we know how it does this: its active ingredient targets a newly discovered type of cell that lowers the immune response.

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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.

In the present study, the researchers have discovered a reason for reduced fertility in people with autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 1 (APS1), which increases the risk of developing autoimmune disease (caused by the immune system attacking and damaging healthy cells) and which is often used as a model for autoimmune disease in general.

«We and others have been following this family tree from one daughter cell to the next to discover how each cell type is created and how the parent cell «decides» if it should make more of itself or create the next cell type.

The cells are a recently discovered type of immune cell called Th17.

The origin of these complex cell types has long been a mystery to the scientific community, but now researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden have discovered a new group of microorganisms that represents a missing link in the evolutionary transition from simple to complex cells.

A panel of small molecules that inhibit Zika virus infection, including one that stands out as a potent inhibitor of Zika viral entry into relevant human cell types, was discovered by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

The circuit Hasan's group has discovered consists of three types of nerve cells — one set senses and reports the lack of protein in food, a second set integrates this input with metabolic information and the third set controls the hormonal signals necessary to begin pupation.

The newly discovered human cells, named «cord - blood - derived embryonic - like stem cells» or CBEs, are not quite as primitive as embryonic stem cells, which can give rise to any tissue type of the body.

The researchers discovered that both types of cells shut down when the mice were infected with malaria.

Building upon their earlier research on the biology of fat metabolism, Joslin scientists discovered that microRNAs - small RNA molecules that play important roles in regulation in many types of tissue — play a major role in the distribution and determination of fat cells and whole body metabolism.

A University of Wyoming faculty member led a research team that discovered a certain type of soil bacteria can use their social behavior of outer membrane exchange (OME) to repair damaged cells and improve the fitness of the bacteria population as a whole.

They discovered that cells respond to ubiquitin modification of SIRT1 differently according to the type of environmental insult that occurs.

A possible fix arose in 2003, when researchers discovered that certain genes can transform the cells supporting the hair cells into both types of hair cell.

A research group led by Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine Ph.D. student KATSUNUMA Sayaka and Assistant Professor TOGASHI Hideru discovered the mechanism for a mosaic pattern formation of two different cell types.

The researchers discovered that FT was also produced in the same type of companion cells in the phloem of Maryland Mammoth tobacco.

In 2010, it was discovered that enhancers directed expression of RNA on a broad scale in neurons and macrophages, a type of immune system cell.

Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers have discovered that a particular type of protein (hormone) found in fat cells helps regulate how glucose (blood sugar) is controlled and metabolized (used for energy) in the liver.

In experiments in mice, UC San Francisco researchers have discovered that regulatory T cells (Tregs; pronounced «tee - regs»), a type of immune cell generally associated with controlling inflammation, directly trigger stem cells in the skin to promote healthy hair growth.

Spanish scientists have discovered that melatonin consumption helps control weight gain because it stimulates the appearance of «beige fat», a type of fat cell that burns calories in vivo instead of storing them.

The research team with international collaborators analysed more than 100 patient samples from ovarian and other cancer types to discover a distinct population of cells found in some tumours.

An international team of scientists, led by Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute researcher Dr Di Yu, and Dr Axel Kallies from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, have discovered that killer T cells, a specialised type of white blood cells, can find these «hidden» infected cells in tissue and destroy them.

The researchers discovered that this Treg cell type plays a decisive role in the development and manifestation of allergic asthma.

Rutgers University scientists have discovered the three - dimensional structure of a gene - specific transcription activation complex, providing the first structural and mechanistic description of the process cells use to turn on, or activate, specific genes in response to changes in cell type, developmental state and environment.

The researchers discovered that this region is required to both turn Sox2 on, and for the embryonic stem cells to maintain their characteristic appearance and ability to differentiate into all the cell types of the adult organism.

The researchers discovered that cell divisions that deviate from this norm always result in two different types of cells.

One of the team's most exciting new observations suggests a link between autism and a type of neural stem cell called outer - radial glia (oRGs), discovered by the Kriegstein lab in 2010.

They tried hundreds of different recipes; eventually they discovered that if they mixed liver precursor cells (derived from iPS cells) with two other types of standard human cell lines known to be important for embryonic liver development, then the cells would spontaneously form a 4 to 5 - millimeter 3D structure called a liver bud.

Salk Institute scientists have discovered the holy grail of endless youthfulness — at least when it comes to one type of human kidney precursor cell.

Phages, shown here surrounding and attacking a bacterial cell, are part of a newly discovered type of immunity that protects mucus - covered human tissue from bacterial infection.

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.

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.

Scientist at the University of Bonn and TU Munich have now discovered that type I IFN released by immune cells due to increased migration of gut bacteria into the cirrhotic liver incapacitate the immune system.

Researchers from immune biology professor Annette Oxenius's group have now discovered what keeps NK cells from killing off their «colleagues from the other department» of the immune system: healthy CD8 + cells are able to detect the immune messenger substance type 1 interferon, which binds to specific receptors on the surface of these immune cells and thereby conceals their stress.

«We also discovered that this type of regulation is, interestingly, specific to beta cells, and not seen in other metabolic cell types such as liver and fat cells,» he says.

Gladstone investigators also discovered that the p75 neurotrophin receptor — a protein long known for its role in the development of brain cells — plays unexpected roles in metabolic disorders, such as type 2 diabetes.

Scientists have discovered a completely new type of opal formed by a common seaweed which harnesses natural technology by self - assembling a nanostructure of oil droplets to control how light reflects from its cells to display a shimmering array of colors...

Salk Institute scientists discover new type of stem cell that could potentially generate mature, functional tissues

Gladstone scientists have discovered how to make the three types of heart cells — cardiomyocytes, endothelial cells, and smooth muscle cells — out of a new type of cardiac stem cell created in a lab.

Surprisingly, they discovered that fibroblasts, connective tissue cells that are one of the most abundant types of cells in the mucosa, greatly increase HIV infection of immune cells.

Additional CD4 + T cell types have been discovered, including those producing IL - 17 (Th17 cells), that likely participate in the induction of IBD.

Researchers from the Sloan - Kettering Institute, led by Dr. Lorenz Studer, have discovered a novel type of neural stem cell, which has a broader differentiation potential than previously identified neural stem cells.

Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have discovered how to make a new type of cell that is in between embryonic stem cells and adult heart cells, and that may hold the key to treating heart disease.

In 2010, Kriegstein's lab discovered a new type of neural stem cell in the human brain, which they dubbed outer radial glia (oRGs) because these cells reside farther away from the nurturing ventricles, in an outer layer of the subventricular zone (oSVZ).

We have gone on to show that the sensitivity of the germ line genome instability differs across inbred strains of mice, offering a unique opportunity to use systems genetics approaches to discover the underlying pathways governing cell division and survival across a variety of cell types.

Embryonic stem cells, discovered in the Department of Genetics in the 1980s (for which Sir Martin Evans was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007), have become an important tool for developmental biology, understanding disease, and in regenerative medicine due to the ability to give rise to all cell types in culture.

By understanding how certain brain cells are either vulnerable or resistant to neurodegenerative diseases, the lab has also discovered specific «profiles» of vulnerable cell types, thus advancing neuroprotective strategies for Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Instead, they discovered that each V. carteri cell type expresses orthologs of genes from different temporal phases of the light — dark cycle in a related unicellular alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, with somatic cells enriched for expression of dark - phase genes, and gonidial cells enriched for expression of light - phase genes.

«We discovered what looked to us to be an entirely distinct type of cell,» says Steinman.

In addition, in collaboration with the Harvard Medical School bioinformatics team, he discovered (4) how global parameters of the transcriptome differ between various cell types.