Sentences with phrase «hold cells together»

These sugars hold cells together, they allow cells to communicate together and they are extremely important across medicine and biotechnology.

that hold cells together.

«How nature engineered the original rotary motor: Study finds tether protein that measures bacterial flagella, holds cells together.»

A wound - healer run amok In the 1970s, a scientist at the University of Geneva in Switzerland discovered cells in healing wounds that seemed to be intermediate in character between fibroblasts, which secrete fibers such as collagen that make up the matrix that holds cells together in tissues, and smooth muscle cells, like those in the intestines and blood vessels.

Once on the surface of the lungs, Der p1 (the most studied and understood enzyme) attacks and dissolves the «glue» that holds the cells together.

When cholesterol's busy holding cells together, it's not available for hormone production and other fun uses.

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It's an adhesive that holds the cells of our bodies together.

Molecular biology, contrary to the article, does not support evolution by natural chance because evolution can not occur without inheritance, inheritance can not occur without DNA and DNA is so complex it could not have evolved by chance unless we are to assume that molecules just happened to arrange themselves into the DNA molecule at the same times as a nucleus formed to hold the DNA, at the same time as the cell membrane just happened to form around it, at the sametime as all the cell maintaining process in the cytoplasm just happened to come into existence to form a single cell and that all these aspects just happened to come together and work harmoniously.

In the cell, for example, there is a «holding together» of the levels of chemistry and life.

Vitamin C helps make collagen which is the structural protein that imparts skin strength by forming a mesh - work that holds together our skin cells.

All living cells are held together by membranes, which provide a barrier to the transport of nutrients.

Specifically, they can break the crosslinks that hold the fibers together, allowing cells to change fiber density near their edges.

The role of DNA topology in holding sister chromatids together before anaphase was investigated by analyzing the structure of a small circular minichromosome in cell cycle (cdc) mutants of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

The cell scaffolding holds muscle fibers together and protects them from damage.

Gabriela Cabral, a PhD student in the lab of Alex Dammermann at the Center for Molecular Biology of the University of Vienna, explains: «Many people thought that centrioles are held together by the same glue as chromosomes, a substance called cohesin, which is destroyed during cell division.

In all other cases, as in the subsequent cell divisions following fertilization, the glue that holds centrioles together is actually the PCM.»

Researchers at the Feinstein Institute know how to make cartilage from a mixture of cells called chondrocytes, nutrients to feed them, and collagen, which holds it all together.

He says that being able to calculate the strength of the forces holding the knots together would «help in understanding how cells divide and how the processes involving RNA and DNA work.»

The cells of many - celled organisms are marshaled and held together by specific physical and chemical factors.

In a study published in Science, University of Utah researchers report the eludication of a mechanism that regulates the length of the flagellum's 25 nanometer driveshaft - like rod and answers a long - standing question about how cells are held together.

This makes bone marrow stem cells more likely to form cells that hold bone together than cells that make bone itself.

There are two - dimensional polymer - like assemblies that occur naturally, such as in cell membranes, where large molecules line up parallel to each other and are held together in a layer by electrostatic attraction.

In fact, if the bonds holding the key molecules of life together could be broken at the energy levels of cell phones, there would be no life at all because the various natural sources of energy from the environment would prevent such bonds from ever forming in the first place.

For example, cells that in modern reptiles hold melanin — melanophores — are smushed together in an amorphous layer, he says.

«Each food has its own microstructure,» Singh says, «Whether it is porous or compacted or its cells are held together through some binding agent.

And the membranes that form a cell's compartments hold it all together.

Scientists taking a close look at how a dangerous food - borne bacterium invades the gut have identified a new culprit, a molecule that normally helps hold the intestinal lining and other sheets of epithelial cells together.

If we could understand what holds these things together, we might be able to change the code on the fly the way the cell does.»

In my case, the hope was that the two drugs would work together to override the breaks holding back my own defenses, flipping the switch on my T cells to go find and kill my cancer.

Among its many benefits, honey is an excellent natural exfoliant as it contains acids that loosen the glue that holds dead skin cells together.

Green tea oil — dissolves the oil that holds dead skin cells together, reducing skin flaking and improving appearance

In the skin it holds skin cells together.

This works at every level: our atoms working in harmony to create and keep our cells whole, our cells coming into harmony to create our bodies, our body's ability to come into harmony with other bodies to create communities and cultures, our culture's ability to get along and stop fighting in order to create a world of people living in harmony as one planet, the plants creating the harmony that hold our solar system together, and on and on.

When something that is foreign to the intestine is found, the tight junctions that hold the intestinal cells together come apart (think of it as really strong Velcro that keeps particles in or out).

Think about the structure of our bodies — it is protein that does the work of holding together our cells, organs, muscles, connective tissue and bones.

Collagen is the protein that holds your membranes together, and taking hydrolyzed collagen will give your cells all of the amino acids they need when it's time to patch up.

All plant and animal cells produce enzymes, made from protein molecules (long chains of amino acids held together by peptide bonds).

The tissue of your small intestine is made up of epithelial cells held together by several junctions, the most important being the tight junctions.

Lactic acid dissolves the oil complex that holds dead skin cells together, leaving skin renewed, vibrant, and more able to absorb moisture and nutrients.

Bodily tissues are made up of tons of cells that are held together by junctions.

As with most tablets with removable keyboards, the IdeaTab Lynx can hold quite a bit of charge when the two pieces are together: Lenovo quotes about 16 hours of usage, and the tablet will run off of the keyboard's battery before draining its own internal cell.

We have identified a genetic deletion for a gene that functions by holding cardiac cells together.