Sentences with phrase «helps cells produce»

Iron helps your cells produce adenosine triphosphate, or ATP, a source of energy.

In 1966, Margulis provided evidence that mitochondria, molecular machines that help cells produce energy, and chloroplasts, which help plant cells turn sunlight into sugar, originated from symbiotic bacteria.

Copper also supports your metabolism to help your cells produce energy.

Based on our understanding of human physiology and longevity, coffee reduces your risk of death by helping your cells produce energy, increasing your metabolism, and therefore improving thyroid function.

Actually, the body makes its own ALA to help cells produce energy.

Not exact matches

Rive argues that when the factory is up and running it will be able to produce high - output PV cells at about 55 cents a watt — about a 20 % reduction from current prices, which will help Rive get closer to his goal of making solar cheaper than fossil fuels.

Scientists now recognize that intense exercise helps your brain produce brain - derived neutrophic factor, an important protein that helps stimulate the process of neurogenesis, which is the growth of new brain cells.

The potential health benefits of the sweet potato sporamins in helping prevent oxidative damage to our cells should not be surprising since sweet potatoes produce sporamins whenever subjected to physical damage to help promote healing.

B - vitamins improve energy levels and iron helps our bodies produce oxygen - rich red blood cells.

Protein is in each and every single cell in our bodies and also contains amino acids that help produce enzymes and hormones.

These vitamins help you extract the energy from food and produce red blood cells.

Anabolic steroids work by helping the body's muscle cells produce more protein which, as long as the athletes works out, leads to increased muscle size and strength and, at the same time, also allows the body to produce more ATP, the «fuel» muscles need to move.

These cells also produce a protein called «complement, «which is involved in a series of reactions that help establish immunity.

A study shows, for the first time, how these functional impairments arise: Social isolation during early life prevents the cells that make up the brain's white matter from maturing and producing the right amount of myelin, the fatty «insulation» on nerve fibers that helps them transmit long - distance messages within the brain.

Lungs: Your babies» lungs are developing «branches» of the respiratory «tree» as well as cells that produce surfactant, a substance that helps air sacs inflate easily.

The mammary glands and milk - producing cells also help regulate how much of what you eat and drink actually reaches your baby through your milk.

Babies have very sensitive stomachs; in fact, the cell lining of a baby's stomach is not equipped to handle any solid foods until at least 4 months of age, when gut enzymes have also started producing to help aid in digestion.

Amniotic fluid contains fetal cells and chemicals produced by the baby that, when analyzed, can help determine certain types of birth defects.

This is partly because cooking produce helps break down the cell walls (making the food easier to digest and to puree!)

Their little bodies produce the extra bilirubin to help pass these extra cells but often due to a bit of a traffic jam at the liver, the excess bilirubin is transferred to the blood and stored in the skin, thus resulting in the yellow tint.

Here moms are, taking two cells, feeding them, nurturing them, helping them divide and grow to produce an entirely new human being.

An engineered bone that has its own marrow can encourage donor stem cells to produce blood, a feat that could help people with anaemia and rare immune diseases

RNA molecules can attach to particular DNA sequences to help control how much protein these particular genes produce within a given time, and within a given cell.

Cells engineered to produce insulin under the command of a smartphone helped keep blood sugar levels within normal limits in diabetic mice, a new study reports.

The work confirmed the expected role of this protein: helping a cell respond to viral infection by producing interferon.

The success was intriguing, because triclosan attacks one of the enzymes that help produce fatty acids — the stuff that cell membranes are made of — in plants and bacteria.

The finding could help engineers and materials scientists produce solar cells and other opto - electronics without the help of the high temperatures required to shape glass today — making this ancient arrangement a boon for modern technology.

Muscle stem cells which help replace damaged muscle tissue produce myoblasts that will either reproduce (proliferate) or form muscle tissue (differentiate).

«The required enzyme can be produced biotechnologically with the help of cell cultures,» says Dierks.

By studying infected cells grown in a laboratory, the team found that a large number of CMV's genes help it hide from the immune system by allowing it to destroy many of the proteins produced by the body during virus infection and preventing them from activating immune cells to destroy the virus.

When rats experience trauma, cells in the hippocampus — an area important for learning — produce signals for inflammation, helping to create a potent memory.

Through their signaling prowess, IDPs help regulate the gas and brake pedals for producing proteins from the DNA code, according to evidence that has accumulated over the past decade, as well as the process by which cells divide.

The viruses also exploit an enzyme that cells use to destroy RNA to instead produce short stretches of RNA that, among other things, may help the virus avoid the immune system of its host.

In test tubes, this gene caused the cells to produce extra amounts of a chaperone molecule that ordinarily helps a cell recognize misfolded proteins.

The genes O, S, and K were known to help the cells become pluripotent, which allows them to produce any other cell type in the body.

This helps us respond to threats, but also swamps cells with toxic free radicals produced during metabolism.

Normally, plants adapt to drought - related stress by producing osmoprotectants — molecules like soluble sugars that help prevent water from leaving cells.

A protein used to help bones mend can also force pancreatic cells into producing insulin.

TIGR is made by the eye's trabecular meshwork cells, which help regulate eye pressure by controlling the drainage of fluid from the eye as new fluid is produced.

The treatment not only led the spinal cord cells to produce and secrete ChABC in large quantities over areas spanning the injury epicenter, it helped to maintain the overall health of the damaged spinal cord and restored hind limb function in the animals within 12 weeks.

In a study led by the University of Montana and co-authored by Purdue mycologist M. Catherine Aime, researchers show that lichens across six continents also contain basidiomycete yeasts, single - celled fungi that likely produce chemicals that help lichens ward off predators and repel microbes.

Second, it helps cells that produce Hedgehog (Sonic hedgehog in humans) to survive and proliferate in order to induce the expression of Dpp (BMP in humans), a molecule that organises the patterning and growth of the whole wing.

In his own research, he's found evidence suggesting that producing certain mitochondrial proteins right where they're needed helps the cell better regulate energy production.

Using a nuclear protein expressed in follicle stem cells (FSCs), the researchers found that castor, which plays an important role in specifying which types of brain cells are produced during embryonic development, also helps maintain FSCs throughout the life of the animal.

Though viruses are generally thought to take over whatever organism they invade, Sullivan's lab has identified a few viruses, called prophages, which coexist with their host microbes and even produce genes that help the host cells compete and survive.

Cells isolated from human umbilical cord tissue have been shown to produce molecules that help retinal neurons from the eyes of rats grow, connect and survive, according to Duke University researchers working with Janssen Research & Development, LLC.

Sometimes telomerase is a good guy because it helps produce immune cells and stops telomeres from shortening, but it can also make cells immortal, which prompts them to turn malignant.

Encapsulated toxin - producing stem cells (in blue) help kill brain tumor cells in the tumor resection cavity (in green).

That's why DARPA is hoping it can help scientists get much better at modifying the metabolic and genetic machinery of cells to produce useful products such as fuels.

Pancreatic beta cells help maintain normal blood glucose levels by producing the hormone insulin — the master regulator of energy (glucose).