Sentences with phrase «how different cell»

Stem cell research is helping scientists understand how the different cell types in the retina function together, which has led to exploring ways to replace both rods and cones and the supporting RPE cells.

In addition, his lab has used cutting - edge molecular tools to dissect how the different cell types in the downstream brain regions work together with dopamine for control of actions.

An article authored by a team of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists has characterized how different cell membranes behave.

Our Intestine - Chip also allows researchers to culture intestinal epithelial cells alongside other cell types, such as immune cells, and analyze how these different cell types interact.

«Only then can we understand in detail how the different cell colonies arise,» Skupin asserts.

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

But, much remains to be learned about how these different cells recognize and translate information from a given taste molecule and then activate a nerve to carry this information to the brain.

Not exact matches

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.

What is in contention is the «how» exactly we came from single - celled organisms, and there are many different theories on how that happened, but not IF that happened?

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

there is endless evidence via fossils and other remains of how certain cells evolved light sensitivity and spent billions of years evolving through simple compound eyes to what we see today; the myriad different eyes used by species that presently inhabit the earth.

And when the first cell formed, how did the molecules randomly form all of the different parts of the cell like the nucleus and everything else?

How is it then that the cells of the different species don't get mixed up in aggregation?

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 scientists hope understanding how immune cells adapt as they enter different tissues will spur the design of better, more specific, medicines.

In a new study, researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science examined how the interaction of two genomes in animal cells — the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes — interact to affect adaptation of the Atlantic killifish to different temperatures.

The mystery was how different bacteria or viruses release their DNA into the infected cell to activate AIM2.

In his second semester, he started doing research in three different labs, including that of Carolyn Decker, a molecular biologist who was investigating how the cell controls gene expression through the destruction of messenger RNA.

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

However, it remains unclear how these different stem cells populations balance proliferation, differentiation and migration during the healing process.

We know that bacterial cells have different ways of metabolizing energy in oxygen - rich environments, but for the longest time we couldn't figure out how they were doing it when oxygen is difficult to access.»

Using a mathematical model known as the Ising model, invented to describe phase transitions in statistical physics, such as how a substance changes from liquid to gas, the Johns Hopkins researchers calculated the probability distribution of methylation along the genome in several different human cell types, including normal and cancerous colon, lung and liver cells, as well as brain, skin, blood and embryonic stem cells.

The work, funded by the US National Human Genome Research Institute, aims to create human cell lines with subtly different genomes in order to test ideas about which mutations cause disease and how.

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«By observing entorhinal - hippocampal neurons based on their birthdate, we realized that these cells were somehow special and very different from the other surrounding cell types, which was instrumental to find out how and to what extent they influenced the assembly of the network.»

The group then ran dozens of microscopy tests with Dan Wagner, Rice associate professor of biochemistry and cell biology, to see how different formulations and amounts of biochar affected cell signaling.

«You take a biopsy of those cells, you put it into this device, grow them and see how they respond to different treatments.»

The Duke researchers who made this discovery say it may help explain how a relatively small number of genes can create the dazzling array of different cell types found in human brains and the nervous systems in other animals.

«We want to start looking system by system to see how widely acting this process is on different types of cells,» he says.

By tweaking different fly genes and counting how many neuron types were produced as the flies matured, the team identified a network of five genes that work together like coordinated control switches to guide the precursor cells» transformation to mature neurons.

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.

He and colleagues have determined what gives cholera bacteria their curved shape and whether it matters (a polymer protein, and it does matter; the curve makes it easier for cholera to cause disease), how different wavelengths of light affect movement of photosynthetic bacteria (red and green wavelengths encourage movement; blue light stops the microbes in their tracks), how bacteria coordinate cell division machinery and how photosynthetic bacteria's growth changes in light and dark.

To make sure she understood how nuclei, dendrites, and axons came together to form different types of brain cells, she pulled out her crochet hook and went to work.

Some may stem directly from how the altered digestive system works — secreting different levels of hormones, for example — or changes in nerve cells that communicate with the gut.

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.

Extend that logic to a cell, though, and things can get ugly: Because IDPs regulate how different components of the cell communicate with one another, having extra copies floating around could leave them sending signals that shouldn't get sent.

Here's a gene that's central to how nerve cells communicate with each other, so it's curious to us to see a grossly different protein variant.

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

The inside back cover image of the Nov. 20, 2017 issue of Advanced Materials illustrates how ion migration in a hybrid perovskite crystal affects solar cell performance in different areas of the crystal.

«The DNA sequence itself tells us very little about how cells actual decodes the DNA, and to understand this we need to map out which cell components are present in different parts of the genome at a specific time.

Riffell and his colleagues hope these nerve cell recording experiments will help them understand how insects integrate and interpret different signals from their environment and use this information to make decisions.

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

Professor Dan Davis and his team at the Manchester Collaborative Centre for Inflammation Research, working in collaboration with global healthcare company GSK, investigated how different types of immune cells communicate with each other — and how they kill cancerous or infected cells.

The scientists were further able to demonstrate how the brain implements this placebo effect: although the subjects were given the same pain stimuli, the nerve cells in the second run triggered a different pattern of brain activity.

Slusher teamed up with Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center immunologist Jonathan Powell, M.D., Ph.D., who has studied how cancer cells use different metabolic pathways to evade destruction by immune cells.

Pathologists classify tumors by how far their cells deviate from their normal forms, while hematologists identify and count different leukocytes by sight.

Researchers in this study used budding yeast, creating populations of cells with more than 10 million different randomised genomes, to investigate how genetic diversity affected resistance.

But now we can actually see how the cells acquire different identities.»

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).

To understand how these multi-colored lesions originated they examined blood from these mice and found that tumor cells in circulation frequently occurred as clusters comprised of different colored cancer cells.