Sentences with phrase «how cells in the body»

Prof Timothy Aitman, Director of the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, who co-led the study, said: «Our findings give us insight into how cells in the body adapts to injury.

Genomic elements work together in «circuits» that determine how cells in the body process information and respond to their surroundings.

This means it controls how cells in the body take in and use nutrients for energy.

Not exact matches

Hoping to learn something about how the human body defends itself against cancer, he had zeroed in on a complex regiment of lymphocytes called T cells, common to the immune systems in both mouse and man.

The goal here is to use «single - cell sequencing to understand how many different cell types there are in the human body, where they reside, and what they do,» as Nature reports.

In a rare appearance Dr. Chandan Sen, Director, OSU Center for Regenerative Medicine & Cell - Based Therapies will explain how this breakthrough came about and how the technology is leading to other medical discoveries and how the principle can be used to generate any tissue out of skin or fat which is abundant in human bodIn a rare appearance Dr. Chandan Sen, Director, OSU Center for Regenerative Medicine & Cell - Based Therapies will explain how this breakthrough came about and how the technology is leading to other medical discoveries and how the principle can be used to generate any tissue out of skin or fat which is abundant in human bodin human body.

Professor Dawkins speaks of «cells» and «protoplasm», but that is not how the ordinary person thinks of their body in «plain English».

Several studies show that it can improve insulin sensitivity, as in how well the body's cells respond to insulin (24).

Some studies even indicate the possibility of carrying around cells from our great - grandmothers, though more research is needed on this to determine how far one can go back to tracing how many fetal cells are in a woman's body.

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.

Scientists have uncovered how tumor cells in aggressive uterine cancer can switch disguises and spread so quickly to other parts of the body.

«In addition, changes in how the genes are expressed (turned on or off) could be used in the future to predict how and when the cancer cells will spread to other parts of the body and how fast they will grow.&raquIn addition, changes in how the genes are expressed (turned on or off) could be used in the future to predict how and when the cancer cells will spread to other parts of the body and how fast they will grow.&raquin how the genes are expressed (turned on or off) could be used in the future to predict how and when the cancer cells will spread to other parts of the body and how fast they will grow.&raquin the future to predict how and when the cancer cells will spread to other parts of the body and how fast they will grow.»

«That is really the greatest challenge, because many scientists can come up with new materials for certain applications,... but if they don't know how these materials are going to be placed in the body and interact with the cells, interact with biological fluids and so on, they have no appreciation of the total problem,» Peppas says.

When the human body breaks down a foreign substance, one can typically find chemical by - products in hair or urine that provide clues about how it has interacted with cells.

«If we learn how to control dendritic cells, we could strengthen our immune response to infection when needed, or weaken the action of certain immune cells that attack the body's own tissues in autoimmune disease.»

Over the past 15 years, the GFP gene has enabled scientists to watch a plethora of previously murky biological processes in action: how nerve cells develop in the brain, how insulin - producing beta cells form in the pancreas of an embryo, how proteins are transported within cells, and how cancer cells metastasize through the body.

Ours is the first study to rebuild the native tracks and gaps that exist in tissue to investigate how cells use these as superhighways to move quickly to spread throughout the body,» says Reinhart - King.

Shape plays an important role in how bacteria infiltrate and attack cells in the body.

Now, Johns Hopkins scientists report direct evidence in mice for how those cell clusters control sleep and relay light cues about night and day throughout the body.

They've figured out how to turn human stem cells into functional pancreatic β cells — the same cells that are destroyed by the body's own immune system in type 1 diabetes patients.

Current laureates in residence include Peter Doherty, who shared the 1996 prize for discovering how the body's immune system recognizes virus - infected cells, and Barry Marshall and Robin Warren, who received the award last year for their discovery that the bacterium Heliobacter pylori causes stomach ulcers and gastritis.

For example, nobody knows how many different kinds of cells there are in our bodies.

«To date, there has been no systematic means of assessing the fidelity of cellular engineering — to determine how closely cells made in a petri dish approximate natural tissues in the body,» says George Q. Daley, MD, PhD, Director of the Stem Cell Transplantation Program at Boston Children's and senior investigator on both studies.

López - Barneo's main interest had been in how carotid - body cells sense falling blood oxygen levels.

Collins said that because Hydra is such a simple animal and because it is able to regenerate after complete dissociation into individual cells, it offers researchers the opportunity to use similar techniques as the ones employed in their experiments to examine how an organism develops from an unstructured group of cells into a complex body plan.

«But mounting evidence confirming angiotropism and EVMM has revolutionized the knowledge of how cancer spreads through the body to the point that other scientists have confirmed the process in other solid tumor cell types such as pancreatic cancer.»

Associate Professor Palmer said that this next - generation test showed that HIV hides in the body's immune memory T - cells, which is how it avoids detection from the immune system.

Two studies published in the June issue of Cell Metabolism clarify how a protein regulates fat burning when the body switches from carbohydrates to fat reserves for energy.

Now a UC Santa Barbara researcher has added to that body of knowledge by determining how stem cells produce different types of «daughter» cells in Drosophila (fruit flies).

Research published on August 7th in PLOS Pathogens comparing the two pathogens reveals how S. Typhi avoids recognition and elimination by patrolling immune cells called neutrophils, allowing it to disseminate throughout the patient's body.

How cells behave in the body depends on numerous factors.

Exactly how the tea protects against heart disease remains unclear, but Kuriyama speculates that antioxidant chemicals in green tea, called polyphenols, reduce the action of free radicals in the body, which may damage cells.

Every cell in our bodies has its proper place, but how do they get there?

Effector memory T - cells are the cells in the body that «remember» previous infections and how to defeat them.

The researchers used the new lab - on - a-chip to study how adult stem cells in adipose tissue develop into mature fat cells, conducting their investigations outside the body.

Understanding how cancer cells are able to metastasize — migrate from the primary tumor to distant sites in the body — and developing therapies to inhibit this process are the focus of many laboratories around the country.

The immune system is loyal to cells in the body, but how this works is not fully understood.

The findings, published today in the journal Cell, give new insights into how the brain regulates body fat and may lead to more effective ways to lose weight and prevent obesity by promoting the conversion of white fat to brown fat.

«The cells in our bodies share the same genes and DNA sequences, and differ only in how these genes are expressed,» Bose said.

How can an element that is in every cell in our bodies, that we excrete every day, and that is eternally recyclable become a resource that may peak by 2030?

«This year's Nobel Laureates have been studying this fundamental problem and solved the mystery of how an inner clock in most of our cells in our bodies can anticipate daily fluctuations between night and day to optimize our behavior and physiology... since the paradigm shifting discoveries by Hall, Rosbash and Young, circadian biology has developed into a highly dynamic research field with vast implications for our health and well - being.»

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.

«Understanding how the drug also enables crosstalk between fat cells and the liver in obese mice allows us to see more of the amlexanox picture — and also sheds light on communication between different tissues in the body.»

They also calculated how many times the cells in their trauma - related body regions have been replaced since their last contact with their abusers.

Researchers used data from different people's genotypes and metabolism to build personalized models that simulate how a drug will affect a particular set of cells in the body.

Scientists have found a new way to study how cancer cells divide and thrive in difficult - to - reach crannies of the body.

Hemagglutinin, which plays a role in how the virus binds to host cells, has 18 known types; neuraminidase, which helps the virus detach from the cell so it can spread through the body, has 11.

Researchers are studying how NK cells recognize cancer cells as abnormal and how other cells, known as regulatory T cells, can command NK cells to hold their fire, in order to prevent them from attacking the body's own tissues.

Kipnis and his colleagues wondered how smart mice would be if they had a normal supply of T cells everywhere in their bodies except the meninges, so he injected a compound into mice that prevented T cells from reaching the meninges.

Zinc is an essential part of nearly 3,000 different proteins, and it impacts how these proteins regulate every cell in our body.