Sentences with phrase «from different types of cells»
Those chemicals serve as signals that prompt reactions from different types of cells in the bloodstream.
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From that bag of chemicals, an entire life form with scores of different types of cells forms, all by chemistry.
Only a special systemic order of atoms in certain molecules of different types of brain cells, steady activity of these cells and excitations coming from sensoric nerves and running to associative and motoric centers are the basis of the peculiarity of brain function.
The mind, while not being an ontologically different type of individual than the cells, is numerically distinct from them, and can thus be thought to interact with them.
Monica knew from the start that he wanted to use a different type of foam than the black, open - celled polyurethane that is standard among competitor models.
If your baby's jaundice happens because he has a different type from his mom, your doctor may need to give him a blood protein through an IV that helps stop the breakdown of red blood cells.
Our powers of color vision derive from cells in our eyes called cones, three types in all, each triggered by different wavelengths of light.
Each of us develops from an unspecialized single cell into hundreds of different specific cell types.
Julius's team compared gene activity in different types of nerve cell from diamondback rattlesnakes, which all have shallow pits on their faces that detect heat.
Previous research from the institute revealed there are different subtypes of dendritic cells, each primed to recognise certain types of infections.
Using a mathematical model known as the Ising model, invented to describe phase transitions in statistical physics, such as how a substance changes from liquid to gas, the Johns Hopkins researchers calculated the probability distribution of methylation along the genome in several different human cell types, including normal and cancerous colon, lung and liver cells, as well as brain, skin, blood and embryonic stem cells.
Smider and colleagues took serum — blood with the cells removed, leaving antibodies behind — from four immunized cows and tested it against different types of HIV virus in a test tube.
«By observing entorhinal - hippocampal neurons based on their birthdate, we realized that these cells were somehow special and very different from the other surrounding cell types, which was instrumental to find out how and to what extent they influenced the assembly of the network.»
In their latest study, they tested compounds against cells from nine different types of human cancer, including common types affecting blood, colon, breast, prostate, ovaries, kidneys, and lungs.
DNA from the cell nucleus, which includes both maternal and paternal lines, tells a different story: The two types of elephants are in fact separate species, leading recently to a proposed relisting of the forest elephant as Loxodonta cyclotis.
One way to get many types of cells or proteins from the same genetic starting material is by mixing and matching different parts of one gene to produce multiple gene readouts, a phenomenon known as alternative splicing.
The study published in Cancer Cell shows that exosomes from tumor cells of breast cancer (and other tumor types such as ovarian and endometrial) are different in size and composition than those of healthy cells.
The researchers then took naïve immune cells — which transform into different types based on the invaders they encounter — from the blood of healthy individuals and exposed them to bacteria in the guts of MS patients.
Previous work from Dekker and colleagues had shown that points of interaction along the chromosome influence gene expression and are the reason why different cell types are organized differently in three dimensions.
Antibodies derived from a type of immune cell found in unusually high numbers in HIV - infected individuals with chronically uncontrolled virus levels are less effective at neutralizing HIV than antibodies derived from a different type of immune cell more common in people without HIV, scientists report.
«Unlike previous studies we isolated different immune cell types from the actual site of disease to determine whether specific subsets of immune cells (specific T cell groups) have equal sensitivity to vitamin D.»
Using tumor samples from a patient, they do lab tests to determine which substances can first make the different types of cancer cells uniform and then effectively kill them.
The researchers studied two types of cells called effector T cells, which activate the immune system to defend our body against different pathogens, and regulatory T cells, which help control the immune system and prevent it from attacking healthy parts of its environment.
PTEN prevents tumor cells from growing uncontrollably, and mutations in the gene encoding this protein are commonly found in many different types of cancer.
Cellular toxicity was unrelated to the type of «carrier» solution used in the cell cultures, the use of HES made from different origins (potato versus corn starch), or the time cells spent in culture with HES.
«This tells you that all the different types of stromal cells in breast tissue are affected by the GT198 mutation because they all come from a common progenitor cell.»
But how the production of daughter cells from the different stem cell types is coordinated within a single niche is virtually unknown.
By placing different types of cells at various distances from the bubbles, researchers can begin to explore the details of how cells respond.
Isolated and grown from the patients» fat, these specialized cells have the potential to develop into several different types of tissue.
This striking finding shows that regulation of cytokinesis is how this niche coordinately produces daughter cells from different stem cell types.
After 3 months, the researchers drew blood samples from the monkeys, purified five different types of immune cells, and measured gene expression across their entire genomes.
The specific pattern of epigenetic marks in a cell type specifies identity and this epigenetic control is vital to what makes our cells different, for example a skin cell from a liver cell, when they all contain the same genetic instructions.
«From a health perspective, oxidative stress in the cells causes different types of damage in the body, for example, skin ageing or various infections, contributing to illnesses such as arthritis and Alzheimer's,» says Harri Latva - Mäenpää.
One example is the generation of different types of blood cells from their precursors, the hematopoietic stem cells.
«Although right now we are focusing on developing a cancer vaccine, in the future we could be able to manipulate which type of dendritic cells or other types of immune cells are recruited to the 3D scaffold by using different kinds of cytokines released from the MSRs,» said co-lead author Aileen Li, a graduate student pursuing her Ph.D. in bioengineering at Harvard SEAS.
Researchers are trying to figure out how a plant or animal makes different cell types from the same set of genetic instructions.
The researchers discovered that cell divisions that deviate from this norm always result in two different types of cells.
Such measurements could be used to sort different types of cells — to distinguish cancerous cells from healthy ones, for example — or to measure how cells change when exposed to drugs.
In order for these unspecialized cells to acquire the characteristics that make a leaf cell different from a root cell or a blood cell different from a muscle cell, they must turn on different subsets of genes to produce the proteins responsible for each cell type's distinctive properties.
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While it is present on a number of different types of cells in the body, it is expressed at higher levels on metastatic tumour cells, including those which have spread from the lung.
«Our group pioneered the development of cell culture technology for harvesting large numbers of stem cells from human bone marrow and human umbilical cord blood,» Dr. Yeh said, noting that stem cells from these two sources are abundant and can be guided into different types of cells using tissue engineering.
There are different types of glioma, classified according to an established system based on which cell type the tumor arises from.
Chen said proving that the channels work in concert helps explain how sensory cells can process numerous types of environmental signals, including itching that results from different things.
So, at the dawn of our universe — and I have to emphasize our universe, because there could be others — so, dawn of our universe, physicists think there was one type of force, one type of matter and that as the cosmos expanded, as space expanded, it cooled and things started to condense out like snow flakes, and over time that single force broke, it differentiated; and something similar happens in the human body as we develop from a single cell; we differentiate, different tissues form in our bodies, different layers of tissues.
They analysed about a million different cell mutations in more than 7,000 tumours from the Cancer Genome Atlas covering 24 types of cancer.
Basically, when you look at different types of cells, such as fibroblasts, which form connective tissue, or epithelial cells, from saliva, you see general correlations within a person.
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.
To monitor the behaviour of the different cell types, the heart muscle cells were furthermore altered by genetic engineering in such a way that cells from the atrium and the ventricle lit up differently.
In the present study, the researchers carried out a large - scale analysis of sympathetic nerve cells, from which they were able to demonstrate that there are many different types of sympathetic neurons and that the different types are associated with a particular functions.