Sentences with phrase «how cellular behavior»

The question of how cellular behavior is controlled is at the center of stem cell biology, and understanding the mechanisms of cell fate regulation is key for treating diseases that occur upon dysregulation, such as cancer or diabetes.

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So in 1974, he headed south to Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, for graduate training in physiological psychology: the study of how the brain influences behavior at the neurochemical and cellular levels.

The sea slug was the model organism for Kreiner's thesis research, which explored how cellular mechanisms mediate simple behaviors and led to a publication in Science.

In the past decade, researchers have used mouse models to unravel how cellular changes in the nucleus accumbens (NAc), a brain structure involved in action selection associated with arousal and reward, may contribute to addiction - related behavior.

Manipulating biological processes with minimal interference, from the cellular level to the behavior of whole organisms, is a burgeoning scientific effort to better understand how living things work and to develop more effective treatments for a range of medical disorders.

Neuroscience can range from studying psychology or behavior to investigating how the nervous system functions at a cellular or molecular level.

Although some of the key molecular components involved in the formation of cellular structures and tissue formation are known, we currently lack a bottoms up understanding of how the behavior of these molecules gives rise to the formation of large structures, partly because of the lack of tools for both studying the spatial regulation of soluble proteins and biophysically characterizing the behavior of large structures and tissues.

Swedish - born Sten Griller has defined the principles that govern at the cellular level how nerve circuits that control vertebrate motor behaviors work.

By comparing the regulatory networks of pathologic conditions, I expect to gain new insights into the central question: how do regulatory networks instruct cellular behavior under diseased condition and can we discover drugs that can alter these regulatory networks.

Beyond the internal interactions of the protein itself, these designed oligomers can be used to explore basic questions about how the structure of signaling molecules affects the behavior of receptors and cellular response.

identify molecular, cellular, and anatomical similarities in how these molecules work across species that represent the fundamental principles through which brain neurochemistry affects social behavior in vertebrates.

«Our ongoing project aims to elucidate how cells recognize temperature or cellular events caused by the temperature changes and control the expression of DESAT1 to adapt the cellular processes and behaviors,» Umeda said.

«Vertical integration of gene function» describes how gene expression initiates a series of biochemical, cellular, and physiological changes that ultimately culminate in an observable behavior.