They will
examine cell structure and function, body systems, and biochemistry.
«Major innovation in molecular imaging delivers spatial and spectral info simultaneously: Combines spectroscopy with super-resolution microscopy, enabling new ways to
examine cell structures.»
Not exact matches
New research on bacteria
examines exactly how these primitive
cells could have evolved without such crucial
structures.
Tau helps provide
structure to brain
cells, is a marker for axonal damage — and is also what McKee finds spotted throughout the brains she
examines in her Boston U. lab.
In addition, when the
structure of the flies» ears was
examined in detail, the researchers discovered that nerve
cells of the noise - rattled flies showed signs that they had been exposed to stress, including altered shapes of the mitochondria, which are responsible for generating most of a
cell's energy supply.
The new capability is particularly suitable for
examining biological
cells, bacteria and viruses, whose
structure can be damaged by the electron beam.
These
structures were further
examined by tissue - level and immunohistochemical tools, revealing ducts with «excessive layers» of epithelial
cells, potentially pre-cancerous lesions that were «highly proliferative» compared to normal ducts, they add.
They are
examining every aspect of
cell function and
cell structure, looking for clusters of phenotypes that could label a patient's cancer so precisely that it could be linked to therapies proven effective against just that type.
The team also demonstrated the utility of the platform by applying it to
examine a growth - modulating feedback circuit whose dynamics is qualitatively altered by circuit - host couplings and revealing the behaviors of a toggle switch across scales from single -
cell dynamics to population
structure and to spatial ecology.
For example, part of a description of a method for karyotyping —
examining the number and
structure of chromosomes in a
cell — was not only copied from a paper published by a separate group, but was also not consistent with the procedure actually followed by Obokata's team.
Researchers use it to
examine biological materials (such as microorganisms and
cells), a variety of large molecules, medical biopsy samples, metals and crystalline
structures, and the characteristics of various surfaces.
The cultures can be kept alive for different periods of time — 14 to 20 days at most — and not only is it possible to
examine the ultrastructures of the
cells, but also the effects of different agents on those
structures.
However, the exact cytoskeletal strategy that the
cell uses to cross the physical BM barrier depends on the physiological context and the physical environment, as observed by
examining actin
structures in invading cancer and immune
cells, and in
cells that invade during developmental processes such as angiogenesis and anchor
cell invasion in Caenorhabditis elegans.