Sentences with phrase «how cell size»

We are currently studying how cell size controls SAC strength, and whether different tissues have different SAC activities.

How cells regulate their size and how cell size affects organism growth are among the remaining mysteries in cell biology.

Not exact matches

• «I was an early RS consumer having spent paperboy delivery money on countless «free» baseball bat sized d - cell flashlights, the mystical p - boxes and subsequently, Band - Aids (early life lesson on how hot a solder iron can get...) to returning later as a college co-op student to the Fort Worth, TX headquarters.

But were we to dwindle to the size of a tiny cell and explore the environment, we would see how different these chambers were.

The size affects how many cells and inserts will fit in the tray, which will affect what grows best in the trays, from seedlings to mature plants.

Here is how: Software gathers a Web page's content from the computer's operating system, converts the words and images into a digital version of Braille and then represents that via a touchable row of finger - sized rectangular cells lined up side by side like dominoes.

After just a few hours, they could clearly observe how the contact points between the affected neurons and their neighbouring cells increased in size.

By comparing the numbers of nerve cells, or neurons, among eight species of carnivores (ferret, banded mongoose, raccoon, cat, dog, hyena, lion and brown bear), researchers now have a better understanding of how different - sized brains are built.

Ibañes» and Caño Delgado's teams used three hypotheses to explain how cells know when to stop growing: a certain period of time passed since they got divided, they detect their root's position, or cells are able to detect their size.

To find out why, computational biologists came up with a computer model to predict how microbial metabolism and cellular composition change as cell size varies, using details about how much space a bacterium needs for its components — DNA, proteins, and the molecular factories called ribosomes — to function.

A team led by John W. Weisel, PhD, a professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, describes in Nature Communications how specialized proteins in platelets cause clots to shrink in size.

The teams suction - cupped a cell - phone sized device called a Dtag to study how fishing lines changed the whale's diving and swimming behavior.

Apart from advancing our understanding of how plants regulate their growth and shape, this research presents new questions for stem cell researchers in regards to cell size checkpoints and their importance during organism development.

The researchers explored how to tune the size, shape and morphology of materials known as cell - penetrating self - assembling peptide nanomaterials, or CSPNs.

MADISON, WISCONSIN — Larger bodies may come with larger brains, but size means little when it comes to how much DNA an organism can pack in each cell.

«Our next step is to find out more about how we can vary the size of the embryoid body by changing the printing and structural parameters, and how varying the embryoid body size leads to «manufacture» of different cell types» adds Rui Yao, another author on the paper.

The new model, which is a scaled - down version of an earlier numerical model by Shaqfeh and colleagues that provided the first large - scale, quantitative explanation of the formation of the layer, can predict how blood cells with varying shapes, sizes, and properties — including the crescent - shaped cells that are the hallmark of sickle cell anemia — will influence blood flow.

In existing vertebrates, genome size correlates very closely with bone cell size, so Organ used the size of dinosaur bone cells to predict how much genetic material the extinct animals possessed.

«How size splits cells using protein to measure.»

«For the first time we can show how cells sense size and what aspect of size they measure, such as volume, length, mass or surface area.»

Until now, however, none has actually seen how human cells manage to divide into two equally - sized daughter cells during mitosis.

Such «active» phenomena hold the key to understanding how, for instance, a micron - sized bacterial cell is able to incorporate perception, learning, and action in the absence of a neuronal system.

It describes how a population evolves from different mating types producing same - sized sex cells (or gametes) to mating types producing different - sized gametes, such as where there are distinct males and females.

We are investigating the genes that are the target of this pathway, how it influences the cells of growing worms, the size differences between the sexes (hermaphrodite worms are larger than males), and the way in which it mediates signals from the environment.

«Unicellular models are great tools to address the many fundamental questions which remain unanswered such as controlling the size of cilia and how cells determine the proteins to be placed into these sensory organelles.

At that point, the team injected the new heart with microbeads and fluids similar in size to blood cells and observed how the fluids flowed through the spinach leaf's veins.

Until now, however, none has actually seen how cells manage to divide precisely into two equally - sized daughter cells during mitosis.

By looking at how these brain cells reacted to light and dark stimuli, the team was able to determine that the brain could accurately visualize the size of a dark object.

The grand prize of USD 25,000 goes to Liron Bar - Peled for his work describing how multicellular organisms rely on environmental cues to dictate cell size.

New Biophysical Approaches to Cell Biology At the «Organization, Quality Control and Remodeling» minisymposium, Marina Feric, a graduate student in Cliff Brangwynne's lab at Princeton University, presented her work on understanding how gravity limits cell sCell Biology At the «Organization, Quality Control and Remodeling» minisymposium, Marina Feric, a graduate student in Cliff Brangwynne's lab at Princeton University, presented her work on understanding how gravity limits cell scell size.

Our findings fill an important gap in our understanding of how the fat body transmits nutritional information to the insulin producing cells to control body size.

For over a century, distinctions between types of cells relied on how they appeared under a microscope: their shapes, sizes, locations and their uptake of staining dyes.

These results clearly indicate that analysis of future xenograft experiments should take careful note of the size of the xenografts as well as how hypoxia influences CSC in the specific cell line used.

The size of synapses gives us an idea of how much information is flowing between brain cells.

Tests have exhibited how this natural ingredient can trick the cancer cells into killing themselves, which has resulted to tumors shrinking to almost half of its original size.

How To Fix Exercise Induced Anemia — Ken says @ 00:57:01 At a recent checkup at the doctor he found out that although his hematocrit and hemoglobin levels are normal, his red blood cell size is on the low side of normal (mean carpuscular volume) and his ferritin is about 50 % of normal.

Mock Congress: Cell Phone Surveillance Reform Time required: 4 class hours Grade level: 10 and up Class size: 18 or more Pages: 51 Contains: 18 individualized profile sheets, Background information on NSA surveillance, Graphic organizer for assigned roles, Graphic organizer with word - for - word format on how to run committee meetings and floor debate, Sample rubrics for 3 - minute speeches and participation, Socratic seminar questions for students observing speeches / committee hearings, Maps to various educational standards, Sample follow - up quiz on the legislative process, Teacher instructions and preparation period suggestions.

Since different customers will read the eBook on a variety of screen sizes and aspect ratios, from cell phones to HD tablets, and since the customer can adjust the type face, font size, background color, and internal margins, you can't predict which information or how much information will show on any given screen.

Then in cell J24: = C24 *.48 to account for the 48 % of the fund held in international stocks (with foreign stocks, it doesn't matter how much is growth or value, nor does size matter).

Whether the inflammation is successful in removing the damaged tissue depends on the size of the lump, number and activity of the cells and how quickly fibrous tissue surrounds and replaces the dead tissue.

The outcome for patients with malignant mammary gland tumors depends on several factors including tumor type, histologic grade (appearance of the tumor cells under the microscope and how similar or dissimilar they are to normal tissues), tumor size, and tumor stage (presence of regional and distant metastasis).

Pressed flowers trapped within a lightbox enclosure, the size of an average cell (1.98 m2); a five - screen film of journeys around the prison's corridors, grounds and perimeter (Vanishing Point); a film and book (My Shadow's Reflection) comprising architectural images of the prison and pinhole camera images of the prisoners — blurred beyond recognition and speaking, Clark says, of how prisoners are not really seen in contemporary political discourse; and a longer 74 - minute film work (Oresteia), showing a form of psychodrama episode, based on the Greek tragedy, with prisoners playing — and responding to — the various characters, exploring notions of acceptable violence, catharsis and empathy.

GCM»S IMO are not computer science, figuring out how to reduce the cell size by 1000x, while at the same time reducing time steps another by 1000 on current technology would be science (without a loss of fidelity).

Like others above, I suspect a cell size of well under 200 km will be needed, maybe even smaller to allow an extrapolation to a limiting case (like the missing exponent in how long is the coastline of Britain, Mandelbrot).

Any type of prognosis for the effectiveness of treatment and the future of the disease depends upon different and varying criteria including a tumor's resistance to treatment, the cell type of the tumor, tumor stage and size, and how much the tumor has progressed prior to detection.

Prostate cancers are grouped according to tumor size, any spreading outside the prostate (and how far), and how different tumor cells are from normal tissue.

How to make self sizing cells in Swift both for table & collection views supporting orientation changes and dynamic font types.