Sentences with phrase «eye cells on»

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Looking people in the eye, listening to what they have to say and making an intelligent response that lets them know we really heard what they were saying, not acting like we're in a hurry to move on but have time to listen, letting them know they are more important than our stupid cell phones, encouraging them and letting them know we think they can succeed — all of those things are extremely important in building relationships, including relationships with homeless people.

Sullivan went on to suggest that Chaput is using a double standard in the 2008 election by criticizing Catholic supporters of Barack Obama, while turning a blind eye to John McCain's support for embryonic stem cell research.

For example, if I come from a long line of brown - eyed people, can I aim to alter the DNA molecules in my reproductive cells so as to pass on to my son «genes for blue - eyedness»?

The icon, the legend, the 71 year old incredible Cher received the Icon Award and sang Believe and If I Could Turn Back Time... please, go see both Cher and Celine at their residencies — Cher at the Park Theater and Celine at the Colosseum — they are moments of enjoyment that you can never capture on a video — a cell phone camera (I am a big anti-cell catching the entire show person)-- I can not stand seeing a sea of lit up cell phones capturing the performances instead of the people watching them with their own eyes!

A friend of mine (she now has two PhDs, both from excellent institutions) implied that I was a racist and colonial imperialist because I stated that your eye colour is dependent on the DNA in your cell nuclei WHETHER YOU»VE EVER HEARD OF DNA OR NOT (ie, DNA exists whether you believe in it or not).

They're harmless, but do keep an eye on the size and quantity of these spots, since having six or more that are larger than a quarter may be a sign of neurofibromatosis (a genetic disorder that causes abnormal cell growth of the nerve tissue).

BTW, a big chunk of the last - minute appeals were heavy with images, much like the «Eric Cantor's Eyes» message we looked at back in June, probably to catch people away from their desks and on their cell phones.

Da Cruz and his team grew replacement RPE cells from human embryonic stem cells on a thin plastic scaffold, before transplanting the tissue into the back of each volunteer's eye.

The research team found that when it increased levels of E-NTPDase2 in tadpole embryos that consisted of only eight cells, they could cause parts of the eye to form not only on the heads of the amphibians, but also in tissues in other parts of their bodies, including their tails.

Some of the leading non-animal tests are conducted on cell cultures, human and animal corneas from eye banks, corneal tissue cultures, and frozen corneas supplied by hospitals.

Eighteen adults with severe eye disease who were among the first people to receive transplants created from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) continue to have no apparent complications with the introduced cells after an average of nearly 2 years, according to the latest status report on their health.

The accuracy for human eye and hair color is much higher at 0.9, and chronological age — based on T cell receptors — is the same.

And in related experiments, he made tadpoles grow eyes on their stomachs by changing the electrical properties of cells to mimic those associated with eye formation.

On closer inspection, each separate «eye» was a single - celled microbe with a central nucleus and a chromatin dot.

Still, a few stem cell therapies have now been approved, such as a treatment available in India that takes stem cells from the patient's eye in order to regrow the surface of their cornea, and a US product based on other people's bone stem cells.

«Because 85 percent of people in the study reported extending the antenna during calls, we might have expected to find a disproportionate cluster of tumors behind the eye and the ear on the side the cell phone was used since radiation emission is highest at the antenna,» says co-author Mark Malkin, a neuro - oncologist at Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center.

While all distractions impair a driver to some degree, texting while driving draws eyes away from the road for longer than fiddling with the radio or even dialing on a cell phone.

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

It was believed that neurons responded to the size of the image formed on the eye (retinal image); however, size constancy can not be achieved by such cells alone.

After looking closer at the developing retinal cells the researchers found that spiders build their eyes as little embryos complete with all the retinal cells they will ever need and then put the lens on top.

But if these cells follow the patient's perception — whether looking at the defined images on top or Clintush on the bottom — they should respond only when their preferred stimulus is actually experienced in the mind's eye.

Manipulating the voltages in embryonic frog cells led to the formation of a functioning eye (arrow) on the gut.

Treating the potentially blinding haze of a scar on the cornea might be as straightforward as growing stem cells from a tiny biopsy of the patient's undamaged eye and then placing them on the injury site, according to mouse model experiments conducted by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

«Importantly, it demonstrates that one cell type — the corneal epithelium — could be further grown in the lab and then transplanted on to a rabbit's eye where it was functional, achieving recovered vision.

In a four - year study conducted on the mouse model in advanced breast cancer metastasis in the eye's anterior chamber, Petty and colleagues found that the new nanoparticle not only killed tumor cells in the eye, but also extended the survival of experimental mice bearing 4T1 tumors, a cell line that is extremely difficult to kill.

Light stimulates some of the 5,000 microscopic solar cells on the chip to produce a tiny electric current that wakes up the eye's failing photoreceptor cells.

The speed with which an animal sees depends on how quickly the light - detecting cells in its eye can capture snapshots of the world and send them to their brain, the authors report.

The work on moth eye solar cells is still in progress.

Within the eyes, retinal ganglion cells that signal light «ON» open their ion channels directly upon transmitter release.

Atherosclerosis researchers have had their eye on «don't eat me» signaling molecules like CD47 for some time, says Matthias Nahrendorf, a cell biologist at Harvard Medical School in Boston who was not involved in the new study.

«At first we thought we'd made a mistake, but we repeated the experiment, and we were right — the cells responded to inputs from either eye,» says Natalie Zeater, a CIBF PhD Student and lead author on the paper.

Experiments on cells from frogs have shown that sensitive light - detecting cells in vertebrate eyes, called rod cells, do fire in response to single photons.

Work ranges from analysis of the functions of genes identified to cause eye diseases when mutated, to the direct effects of UV - light and other agents associated with the development of eye disease on mitochondrial and other cell functions.

This allowed us to directly compare the patterns of marker expression in normal and induced retina, and identify cell classes on the basis of their distinctive morphology and location within the eye.

Researchers from Aarhus University conducted a case - control study on the condition of the dopamine - producing nerve cells in the brain and cells that participate in the brain's immune system in people suffering from rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder (RBD).

Despite the remarkable ability of EFTF - expressing pluripotent cells to form eye - like structures on the tadpole flank, it was not possible to record ERGs because of the small size of the induced flank eyes (flank eye volume: 0.007 ± 0.003 mm3; control eye volume: 0.021 ± 0.002 mm3, at stage 41, N = 5).

Determining the effect (s) of these extrinsic factors on induced retinal cells and the formation of the CMZ in induced eyes will help define the molecular mechanisms regulating the formation and maintenance of retinal stem cells and the niche in which they reside.

(E) Retinal ganglion cell axons exit the eye as the optic nerve (white arrow), pass under the brain and out of view then reappear on the contralateral side (arrowhead).

ERGs recorded from eyes wholly derived from induced retinal cells were similar to those recorded from eyes on the unoperated side of the same animals and eyes of stage - matched wild - type controls (Figure 6A and 6B).

Research in the lab of Edward P. Feener, Ph.D., Investigator in the Section on Vascular Cell Biology and Director of the Proteomics Core at Joslin Diabetes Center and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, now has shown that a substantial percentage of patients with DME do not have high levels of VEGF in the fluid inside their eyes but do have high levels of a protein called PKal (plasma kallikrein) and associated molecules that are key players in an inflammatory molecular pathway involved in the disease.

Based on a Student's paired t - test, there was no statistically significant difference in the percentage of BrdU - labeled cells when control and flank eyes were compared (p > 0.1).

On the heels of identifying the specific type of cell that gives rise to retinoblastoma, RPB - funded researchers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital are solving a long - standing mystery about how the eyes of vertebrates develop and how a rare pediatric eye cancer progresses.

On the heels of identifying the specific type of cell that gives rise to retinoblastoma, RPB - funded researchers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital are solving a long - standing mystery about how the eyes...

Several agents could be placed on or in the eye, including long - lasting drugs that lower eye pressure, or modified virus particles that put new genes inside the eye cells to slow glaucoma damage.

To avoid such perturbations, researchers have developed a computer program that can distinguish between cell types and identify subcellular structures, among other features — all without the fluorescent probes our human eyes rely on.

Towards our goals we study retinal cells throughout their life, from embryonic stem cells to retinal progenitors to differentiating and mature neurons and glia — with one eye on neuronal regeneration (meaning de-novo neurogenesis) in the mammalian retina — and with another eye on retinal disease pathomechanisms.

Last year, the FDA promised to crack down more harshly on spurious clinics that blinded people with eye injections of stem cells derived from people's fat.

Hot on the heels of last weeks report of the successful use of gene therapy to treat the eye disease Leber's congenital amaurosis comes a report that scientists lead by Nathalie Cartier and Patrick Aubourg of the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research have combined gene therapy and stem cell medicine to successfully... Continue reading Gene therapy on the brain

The finding is based on studies of mice with altered levels of the growth factor PDGF in neural stem cells, which play a key role in the development of the eye.

Now, in this we're very focused not on intraocular pressure at all but on the back of the eye, on the retinal ganglion cells.