Sentences with phrase «drive cell processes»

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Going in with Jurvetson was a lineup of household - name investors that includes Bill Gates, Richard Branson, and Jack Welch; their money will be used to build up Memphis Meats» already formidable trove of intellectual property and to fine - tune the process of combining cells to produce the tastiest steaks and patties, and drive down the cost.

The research team also found that the action of a gene, ATG16L1, kept TNF alpha - driven inflammation from triggering the self - destruction of too many Paneth cells, by an explosive process called necroptosis.

There is no set programme for ageing — the process is driven by the build - up of faults and damage in the cells and organs of the body, which is malleable.»

The BPEC cell developed by the researchers is based on the naturally occurring process of photosynthesis in plants, in which light drives electrons that produce storable chemical energetic molecules, that are the fuels of all cells in the animal and plant worlds.

Cyclin D is synthesized during the first stage of cell replication and is believed to help drive the complex, multi-stage process, including interaction with the retinoblastoma (Rb) protein, whose function is to prevent excessive cell growth by inhibiting cell cycle progression until a cell is ready to divide.

ATP (adenosine triphosphate) is the main energy source inside a cell and is considered to be the high energy molecule that drives all life processes in animals and humans.

Researchers indeed now know fine details about the genes, receptors, and cell - to - cell communications that drive these processes.

The study revealed that growth factors — especially one known as growth differentiation factor 9 — coming from the eggs drove the feeding tube multiplication and growth process, acting directly upon the genetic machinery of the follicle cells surrounding the egg.

With careful observation and experiments with mouse oocytes, the precursors of eggs, they've detected molecular signals that create an asymmetry in the machinery that drives meiosis, the cell - division process that gives rise to gametes.

In contrast, says Kawauchi, the new findings help explain how p53 affects the cytoskeletal processes within the cell that drive invasion.

Another method is for cells to throttle back the processing of glucose during lean times by becoming insulin resistant, which blocks insulin from entering the cell and in essence rations the supply of glucose to last longer while also creating a powerful hunger impulse to drive people to find food.

«This remodeling process of the cell proteome by autophagy is an important immune - suppressive survival mechanism for Ras - driven cancers, and inhibiting autophagy can provide a means to target these aggressive cancers,» notes White, who is also a distinguished professor of molecular biology and biochemistry at Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences.

All are driven by cells and genes that escape the normal process of division and begin their own plan to replicate in the body.

«Not only did we confirm that the presence of blood in the brain recruits peripheral immune cells to the area, which is sufficient to cause myelin destruction, we also identified fibrinogen as the critical protein driving this process.»

«We showed that PLK1 drives migration of normal prostate epithelial and prostate cancer cells through an entirely different process.»

Knowing more about the activation process has led researchers to be able to induce greater vulnerability by cancer cells to an existing first - line treatment for cancers (mainly lung) driven by a receptor called EGFR.

In their latest study, researchers at La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology identified a key signal that drives the commitment of immature Tfh cells into fully functional Tfh cells and thus driving the step - by - step process that results in a precisely tailored and effective immune response.

Previous research has described at least some of the fundamental processes involved in healthy, on - going peripheral nerve growth regeneration, including the critical role of mitochondria — cellular organelles that produce adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the energy - carrying molecule found in all cells that is vital to driving nerve recovery after injury.

Working in flies and mice, researchers at the Buck Institute and elsewhere discovered that TOR, a nutrient sensing pathway which is central to the aging process, drives the loss of adult stem cells.

The three stages of CD8 + T cell development are well known, but the current study identifies a detailed map of the regulatory circuitry, such as interactions between enhancers and promoters — genetic regulatory regions that function together in driving genes to transcribe proteins to carry out biological processes.

«One is that the cells are just along for the ride — they are getting activated by hunger but they're not actually driving the food intake process.

Study authors then further refined the process, identifying additional molecular signaling pathways that drive formation of critical stomach cell types of the fundus.

Although what drives this process has not been clear, studies have indicated that caspace - 2 might be involved, according to senior author Michael Shelanski, MD, PhD, the Delafield Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology, chair of the Department of Pathology & Cell Biology, and co-director of the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain at CUMC.

Furthermore, the process required scientists to engineer the stem cells so they would overexpress several genes, which was necessary to drive the embryonic stem cells to become germ cells.

Now Mei and his collaborators have shown that rapsyn does not just help hold these receptors in place on the muscle cell, but also functions as an enzyme to help drive the formation of the neuromuscular juncture through a process called neddylation.

The simple process involves a special device that squeezes cells in a blood sample through tiny funnels, which drive the cancer cells and blood cells into separate streams based on differences in their size and softness.

The consistent segregation of these regions, in the same way in every cell, suggests that these processes could drive chromosome and genome folding and thus regulate important cellular events such as DNA replication and cell division.

According to the researchers, these findings suggest that differences in shape from cell - to - cell within a tissue are key to their ability to jam and unjam — and that this process appears to drive biological events including embryonic development, wound healing, and, potentially, cancer cell invasion.

La Jolla, CA — Before the engine that drives cell division goes into gear, it must receive a biological spark from its genetic machinery to set the process in motion.

«This [concept] has been previously described in other biological processes, such as circadian rhythmicity, the cell cycle, and even stem cell pluripotency, but is shown here through a systematic analysis of a data - driven computational model.»

As a scientist, I still maintain my focus on performing rigorous, hypothesis - driven science and use creative approaches to answer basic questions about how cells work and how processes go awry in disease.

The model organism offers a way to better understand stem cell - driven regeneration processes, an important step in regenerative medicine and the promise of therapies to repair or replace damaged human tissue.

They have identified that genes belonging to a process called autophagy, which is one of the cells most critical survival processes, promote health and fitness in young worms but drive the process of ageing later in life.

Over the last 3 years, the partnership between the Salk Institute and Ipsen has delivered significant scientific advances in the cancer field such as the development of biological models mimicking human cancerous processes as well as identification of specific cells driving tumor growth.

Alterations accomplished using CRISPR, which enables scientists to edit a cell's DNA with unprecedented precision, are different in one crucial respect: The process can result in «gene drive,» a naturally occurring feature of some genes that enables them to spread through a population over generations, even if they do not help survival (and thus reproduction).

But all of this is about the effects of an agricultural pesticide on the brain, which immediately presses the question: does it really tell us anything about how senescent cells contribute to «regular» PD, driven by the intrinsic aging processes responsible for the great majority of cases of PD?

Today we announced the launch of the GridION X5, a new system that can drive up to five MinION Flow Cells and process all the data produced within a single benchtop device.

P - TEFb is important for a lot of cellular processes, and drives uncontrolled growth in cancer cells.

Visualize your breath as pure energy coming into the cells, oxygenating the cells; see it as the fuel that drives the cellular process that creates energy in our bodies.

Insulin drives a number of processes, including ferrying glucose out of the blood stream and into cells.

Actually, one of the best ways is instead to focus on the processed carbohydrates, which are raising insulin and driving fat cells into a feeding frenzy.

There are two carbon - fiber fuel tanks to hold 5 kilograms of hydrogen at 10,000 psi, a fuel cell to produce electricity through the processing of hydrogen, a pack of affordable, reliable nickel - metal - hydride batteries to store the electricity, and a 113 - kW (151 - hp) motor to power the front - wheel - drive platform.

The initial criteria for fuel cell vehicle ownership, including proximity to hydrogen refueling stations, driving patterns and vehicle needs, all played a part in Honda's customer selection process.

Thus, some heat gets converted to kinetic energy, but that gets converted back to heat, either by viscosity or by thermally - indirect circulations that produce APE while pulling heat downward in the process (LHSO: Ferrel cell (driven by extratropical storm track activity), Planetary - scale overturning in the stratosphere and mesosphere (includes Brewer - Dobson circulation (I'm not sure if the whole thing is the Brewer - Dobson circulation or if only part of it is)-RRB-, some motions in the ocean; LVO: wind driven mixing of the boundary layer and of the upper ocean (though mixing itself tends to destroy the APE that the kinetic energy would create by forcing heat downward)-RRB-.

----- 431 (57i): thermally - indirect circulations that produce APE while pulling heat downward in the process (LHSO: Ferrel cell (driven by extratropical storm track activity)...

The company has modified off - the - shelf machines used to make computer hard drives to create CIGS cells using a proprietary process.

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According to the Sedona Conference, «Electronically stored information includes email, web pages, word processing files, audio and video files [emphasis added], images, computer databases, and virtually anything that is stored on a computing device — including but not limited to servers, desktops, laptops, cell phones, hard drives, flash drives, PDAs and MP3 players.»

Their plan is to survey 3000 drivers to determine the thought processes and reasons why they may or may not engage in dangerous activities like using a cell phone, texting, or driving distracted behind the wheel.

On a full drive with bits of deleted files lying around, the process of writing to the drive is slower because each cell must first be emptied before it can be written to.