Sentences with phrase «how different types of cell»

With this in mind, three Kent State University researchers, Andrew Lepp, Ph.D., Jacob Barkley, Ph.D. and Jian Li, Ph.D., and a Kent State graduate student, Saba Salehi - Esfahani, surveyed a random sample of 454 college students to examine how different types of cell phone users experience daily leisure.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Researchers at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease (GICD) and the University of California, San Francisco have unraveled a complex signaling process that reveals how different types of cells interact to create a heart.

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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.

«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 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.

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.

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.

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).

«A taste cell encyclopedia: Single cell RNA - seq will provide key insight on how different types of taste cells function.»

In the last few years, researchers have learned how to turn embryonic stem cells into all sorts of different cell types, such as skin cells, heart

Cells require certain nutrients to perform tasks, he noted, and food preferences may be the body's way of telling us how best to survive different types of infections.

This information is helping us understand how genomes are interpreted to make different types of cells and different people - and crucially, how mistakes can lead to disease.

But how the production of daughter cells from the different stem cell types is coordinated within a single niche is virtually unknown.

By placing different types of cells at various distances from the bubbles, researchers can begin to explore the details of how cells respond.

«We wanted to understand how the monarch is processing these different types of information to yield this constant behavior — flying southwest each fall,» said Shlizerman, who is lead author on the team's recent paper in the journal Cell Reports.

Understanding how a particular DNA sequence gives rise to a particular protein provides us with some insight into that protein, but a deeper investigation of how the protein is made, where it is located, and how much of it is present in different cell types is required to enable a true understanding of its function.

This striking finding shows that regulation of cytokinesis is how this niche coordinately produces daughter cells from different stem cell types.

In addition, they also counted the numbers of various types of single - celled organisms called testate amoebae, whose population changes depending on the amount of water in the bog, giving an indication of how wet or dry the climate was during different periods.

«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.

Researchers are trying to figure out how a plant or animal makes different cell types from the same set of genetic instructions.

Such measurements could be used to sort different types of cells — to distinguish cancerous cells from healthy ones, for example — or to measure how cells change when exposed to drugs.

They also looked at how accessible different regions of DNA were inside each cell type.

And that differentiation could provide a structural basis to help explain how cells with the same overall genome nonetheless can differentiate into hundreds of different cell types.

«We're interested in learning more about what other proteins LRP6 interacts with, as well as how it acts in different types of brain cells at different developmental stages of circuit development and refinement.»

Hannon says detailed analyses will be needed to figure out how the flatworm's stem cells are able to develop into a variety of different cell types.

Chen said proving that the channels work in concert helps explain how sensory cells can process numerous types of environmental signals, including itching that results from different things.

Dr. David Gilley's laboratory at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis and Dr. Connie Eaves» laboratory at the BC Cancer Agency's Terry Fox Laboratory in Vancouver, Canada, collaborated to determine how telomeres are regulated in different types of normal breast cells.

Using the spinal cord as a model, Jessell deciphered at the molecular level how different types of nerve cells are generated as well as the steps that drive their assembly into the circuits mediating motor coordination and reflexive behaviours.

How do the nerve cells differentiate into thousands of different types?

During the 20th century molecular techniques have enabled researchers to investigate how different genes and proteins are used in different parts of tissues, to understand how cell types collaborate in tissues.

Can you tell us how it's different from other types of T cell therapies?

Studying cancer with single - cell technology will allow us to unlock the interactions between different types of cells in tumors — and monitor how these interactions change over time, affecting patients» outcomes.

Understanding how organisms grow from one cell type to many different cell types is the overall goal of lineage tracing or fate mapping experiments, the first of which date to the late 19th century.

July 2009 - Switching on the power of stem cells Cambridge scientists reveal how the protein Nanog gives stem cells their unique abilities Researchers from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research at the University of Cambridge have pinpointed the role of the protein Nanog in a complex process that gives stem cells pluripotency: the ability to produce all the different cell types of the bCell Research at the University of Cambridge have pinpointed the role of the protein Nanog in a complex process that gives stem cells pluripotency: the ability to produce all the different cell types of the bcell types of the body.

I was analyzing how tightly different types of HEK cells attach to silicon wafers.

Overton studied the elaborate structures on the surfaces of cells in order to understand how single cells established and maintained connections with their partners as they matured to form different types of tissues in the developing embryo.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have new evidence that pushes aside old theories about how skin is able to create layers of different cell types while simultaneously forming a...

Using the spinal cord as a model, Jessell deciphered at the molecular level how different types of nerve cells are generated, as well as the steps that drive their assembly into the circuits mediating motor coordination and reflexive behaviors.

That has been in part a result of how much response efficacy that has been achieved with some patients in addition to work with different types of gene therapy applications and coupling those with cell therapy advancements.

This is a reflection of how extremely difficult it is to understand the complex functions of a three - dimensional organism with its many different cell types and substances without animal research.

Dr. Vijayanand also oversees a large - scale effort to map epigenomic modifications in more than a dozen different types of human immune cells from normal individuals to understand how epigenetic variations cause susceptibility to disease.

They will focus on how those genes, from different parts of chromosomes, work together to determine what type of heart cells will be made, and how these mechanisms are disrupted by gene mutations that cause congenital heart defects.

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.

«We've always suspected that different cell types are involved in determining how a heart is built,» said GICD Director and senior author Deepak Srivastava, MD. «Our research showed that the signals from cardiac fibroblasts contribute to the different responses of cardiomyocytes.»

How can blocking the same pathway have the opposite effect in two different types of cells?

«If we can understand how these early cells are regulated in the actual embryo, this knowledge will help us in the future to treat patients with diabetes, or Parkinson, or different types of blindness and other diseases,» he says.

The Society believes that research involving the transfer of a human nucleus into an animal egg will lead to important new knowledge about cell nuclear replacement (CNR) technology and, if it were to prove possible to produce embryonic stem cells by this route, would increase understanding of how to programme these cells to develop into different tissue types.

Vijay also oversees a large - scale effort to map epigenomic modifications in more than a dozen different types of human immune cells from normal individuals to understand how epigenetic variations cause susceptibility to disease.