Sentences with phrase «healthy cytoplasm»

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For example, cancer cells tend to use glycolysis in the cell cytoplasm in their metabolism, an ancient system, whereas healthy cells use oxidation - phosphorylation.

With an egg where the cytoplasm surrounding a nucleus isn't good, we can take the nucleus and transfer it into a healthy donor egg.

So they decided to try adding «healthy» cytoplasm from a donor egg.

One possibility is that the infusion of healthy donor cytoplasm might allow development to proceed when it otherwise would not.

Cytoplasmic transfer involves injecting a bit of cytoplasm — the jellylike substance that surrounds the nucleus of an egg — from a healthy donor egg into the egg of an infertile woman before the egg is fertilized.

In healthy cells Bax is present as a soluble, single protein, which moves back and forth between the cytoplasm and the surface of mitochondria.

Doctors take the cytoplasm of a youthful and healthy egg — containing not the dna but the proteins and enzymes for healthy cell growth — and inject it into the problematic egg to boost its quality.

In a healthy egg Oskar initiates the formation of what's known as the germ plasm — a gathering of proteins and RNAs within the cytoplasm, which then goes on to form a new germ cell.

The resulting embryos can grow up to be healthy adults, indicating that something in the egg's cytoplasm must prompt the nucleus to reverse the biochemical events that turned it into a specialized adult cell.

In healthy cells, RanGAP helps transport molecules through nuclear pores that connect a cell's cytoplasm — the liquid that fills most of a cell — and the nucleus — the central compartment containing genetic material.

They showed that if you transfer the cytoplasm, which is where the mitochondria is, from a healthy cell into a cell that has the potential to develop cancer, that potential is suppressed, or that tendency to develop cancer is suppressed in that cell.

On the other hand, if you transfer the nucleus of a malignant cell into the cytoplasm, which, again, is where the mitochondria is, of a healthy cell, then the tumor potential of that initially malignant cell is inhibited.