Sentences with phrase «focused on cell division»

Because a previous lesson focused on cell division, one student confidently responded, «When they are dividing.»

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«As scientists, we have focused a good deal of attention on understanding the role of stem cells in the development of cancers, but there hasn't been a focus on mature cells,» said senior investigator Jason C. Mills, MD, PhD, a professor of medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology.

The researchers chose to focus on the cell - division machinery, studying the meiotic spindle, the structure composed of microtubules that attaches to chromosomes, pulling them to opposite sides of a cell before it divides.

The approach developed by the MGH team focuses on small areas of the human genome — so - called polyguanine (poly - G) repeats that are particularly susceptible to mutation, with genetic «mistakes» occurring frequently during cell division.

The research group working at IBMC focused on the exact moment of cell division, when cells assemble a new microtubule network, which is then arranged as a very well - known structure: the mitotic spindle.

The complexity of the 3 - D multicellular environment can be overwhelming, Betzig says, but the clarity of his team's imaging permits them to computationally «explode» apart the individual cells in tissue to focus on the dynamics within any particular one, such as the remodeling of internal organelles during cell division.

Dr. Tu's research focuses on the metabolic state of cells and responses to conditions that induce or halt cell division to promote survival and homeostasis.

Previous studies of beta cell proliferation generally have focused on mechanisms that kick off the cell cycle that leads to successful cell division.

Our present studies are focusing on the molecular interactions which prevent excessive T cell death after the initial period of clonal expansion and which are essential for promoting late T cell division and providing long - term survival signals.

The Kops group studies the processes involved in chromosome segregation during cell division, with a focus on molecular mechanisms, evolution and chromosomal instability.

Since the mid-2000s, he has focused on a signaling mechanism that serves as a gatekeeper for cell division and growth.

I have worked in the area of microbiology and molecular biology for over 15 years during which time I focused on the study of cell division and cytoskeletal regulation in prokaryotes.

The Ellenberg group studies cell division and nuclear organisation, focusing on chromosome organisation, the formation and segregation of mitotic chromosomes, as well as nuclear pore complex structure and assembly.

In particular, I focus on chromosome segregation and cell division, using the nematode C. elegans as a model system.

Some of these anomalies might also spark cell division, in which case focusing on only the original one would not stifle disease.

That said, the drama mostly focuses on the divisions within the Israeli government, led by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (played by Lior Ashkenazi) and his hawkish defence minister Shimon Perez (Eddie Marsan, face caked in distracting latex), and the complicated motivations of Wilfried Böse (Daniel Brühl) and Brigitte Kuhlmann (Rosamund Pike), the bourgeois members of the Baader - Meinhof - affiliated Revolutionary Cells, whose sympathy for the people of Palestine is tied up with their own guilt and hatred of their homeland's Nazi past.

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