Sentences with phrase «how cells function»

Fatty acids help the body with inflammation and help with how cells function.

There's a huge difference in how your cells function, depending on whether they are cold or warm.

As a former science teacher, Kelly Lane believes embryonic stem cell research will unravel the mystery of how cells function.

Despite the difficulty she has experienced with the material, Morris finds that she has gained a new appreciation for how her cells function and work together in her body.

One way to study how cells function is to control the availability of a particular biomolecule by encapsulating it in a chemical box until a flash of light sets it free.

By repeating the experiment over and over, however, they are assembling a picture of what types of cells exist, how those cells function during tasks of place memory, and what kinds of connections they form with other cells.

But several new imaging techniques at a range of resolutions provide new views — and new understanding — of how cells function.

In the cerebral but engaging Myth, he deconstructs two decades of research and argues that flawed early studies led to years of simplistic assumptions about how these cells function.

It allows biologists without strong math or computer programming skills to build models and simulate how a cell functions.

To determine what sets ILCs apart from T cells, Dr. O'Shea's team looked to the foundation of a cell's identity — its genetic information, which provides detailed instructions for how a cell functions.

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In this course, you'll learn everything from manipulating cells, to the difference between functions and subroutines, to how to fix an error.

Essentially the model reproduces the inner workings of all of the proteins within the organism and allows scientists to see everything from how cells interact with each other to the functions of genes in a larger context that had not been previously understood.

So how could both come about accidentally at the same time and at the same place and not die before a cell formed, which requires some 2,000 proteins for it to function.

The answer depends entirely upon how the science of that time — science in the broadest sense — understands the cell and its functioning.

Knowing TH17 cells need to function in a variety of tissue environments throughout the body, Sundrud's team wondered if and how these cells might use different tools to behave normally in one environment — or tissue — than they'd use in another.

The fields within biology are further divided based on the scale at which organisms are studied and the methods used to study them: biochemistry examines the fundamental chemistry of life; molecular biology studies the complex interactions of systems of biological molecules; cellular biology examines the basic building block of all life, the cell; physiology examines the physical and chemical functions of the tissues and organ systems of an organism; and ecology examines how various organisms interrelate.

Visit the cell screen and learn more about how each structure functions.

The scientists also discovered that the stem cells released tiny packets of microRNA, bits of genetic material that control how genes function.

The environment in which cells grow and develop can greatly influence their quality and function, but surprisingly little is known about how the ovarian stroma changes with age.

We examined the function of this structural differentiation by determining how cell ensembles in rat CA3 and CA1 generate representations of rooms with common spatial elements.

Now, a research team at Lund University in Sweden has uncovered a completely new mechanism that controls how proteins are produced to direct stem cell function.

«The key point here is that we can say something about how the gene acts to influence this behavior — that is, is by functioning as a chemical messenger in cells that control this behavior in the brain.

A detour on the road to regenerative medicine for people with muscular disorders is figuring out how to coax muscle stem cells to fuse together and form functioning skeletal muscle tissues.

Therefore, it is essential that we learn how specific types of chemical modifications normally regulate RNA function in our cells, in order to understand how dysregulation of this process contributes to human disease, says Cristian Bellodi.

Another is how cells in a single organism take on different functions despite having identical genomes.

We're funding researchers to investigate how drugs alter what genes are activated such that they modify the function of the cells, and how this, in turn, modifies the functions of brain circuits, and how that modifies behavior.

Their next experiment, Coles says, is to transplant the cells into mice with degenerating retinas to see if they restore function and later to figure out how to activate and manipulate them.

«We still don't know very much about how individual cells in the brain coordinate the activity of higher - level function that defines us as humans,» he says.

Once researchers understand the rules for how to get specific shapes with TZPs that also assemble into larger structures, they can design materials with desired functions — for example, a membrane for a battery, a catalyst for a fuel cell, or even a therapeutic drug.

When building these structures, the location of the cells is significant in that it will impact how the structure will ultimately function.

Published in Molecular Neurobiology, the study led by Dr Elodie Siney under the supervision of Dr Sandrine Willaime - Morawek, Lecturer in Stem Cells and Brain Repair at the University, analysed how enzymes called ADAMs affect the movement and function of the human tumor cCells and Brain Repair at the University, analysed how enzymes called ADAMs affect the movement and function of the human tumor cellscells.

In the meantime, the MUSC team, led by Yu, will continue their work and try to extend the current findings by investigating how other miRs may be involved in regulating T - and B - cell function during allogeneic BMT.

This allows us to reveal how drugs affect heart functions in a scenario where the two cell populations are closely coupled,» said Ben Maoz, Ph.D., a co-first author on the second study, who also is a Technology Development Fellow at the Wyss Institute and a member of Parker's group.

As it can take weeks to grow human cells into intact differentiated and functional tissues within Organ Chips, such as those that mimic the lung and intestine, and researchers seek to understand how drugs, toxins or other perturbations alter tissue structure and function, the team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering led by Donald Ingber has been searching for ways to non-invasively monitor the health and maturity of cells cultured within these microfluidic devices over extended times.

By understanding how different cells age, Murphy says, researchers may one day not only extend reproduction, but also life span and organ function.

«In that case, we will also have to ask how such changes affected the functions and connectivity of the nerve cells involved.»

Researchers still don't know how this range corresponds to their versatile functions, but being more like a string than like a lump with keyholes means that a protein can make many contacts with other molecules to regulate the network of signals that drives the cell.

By controlling how the cells assemble, the researchers engineered films that carry out a wide range of motor functions.

Choosing animals for tameness might be selecting for ones that have changes in how their neural crest cells function, the researchers proposed in Genetics in 2014 (SN: 8/23/14, p. 7).

Scientists are studying how oscillations generated by nerve cells affect brain function.

The newly unmasked genes play a role in three distinctively different bodily functions, including systems that control inflammation and cholesterol and the regulation of how brain cells clean up toxic proteins.

But little is known about how ionizing radiation affects the extracellular matrix (ECM), a patchwork of proteins and other biomolecules that surrounds cells and plays a vital role in their shape, movement and signaling functions.

Researchers are using the sea hare model to learn about individual cells function, discover the chemical pathways controlling various brain activities and to study how memories are processed and stored.

What scientists haven't been able to do is identify how the cells decide which function to fulfil.

They bombarded a cell with X-rays to see how often different mutations appeared as a function of the radiation's frequency and intensity.

How microRNAs might intercept immune cells in cancer is unknown and we were able to provide insight into a critical means by which cancer cells exploit miR - 183 to dampen immune cell function.»

Using computational data analysis, Hughes hopes to create evolutionary trees of these genes and regulatory mechanisms in order to figure out how they work together to make cells function and how they contribute to the physiology of the organisms they are found in.

But exactly how the immune system works remains, in many ways, a mystery, as there are numerous cell types whose functions and interactions with our immune systems have not been well understood.

In the April 25 issue of Cancer Cell, a research team, led by Xin Lu, PhD, Ludwig director and member at the University of Oxford and a team of scientists from both institutions, describes how p53 is silenced in advanced melanomas by a protein named iASPP, and applies that information to restore p53 function in such cells.

Developmental biologists would like a comprehensive picture of how the embryo manages to direct a handful of cells into a myriad of specialized functions in bone, blood, and skin tissue.