Sentences with phrase «how hair cells»

The study dives into mechanotransduction — how hair cells sense mechanical sound waves, or in this case, water waves, and convert them into brain signals.

A new study led by scientists at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM SOM) has found a key clue to how these hair cells develop.

Not exact matches

Still, researchers now have a far better understanding of the molecular pathways in the ear and how to regenerate hair cells and repair synaptic connections.

This app create a great interactive learning experience: How do cells divide to grow new hair, repair skin, or strengthen bones?

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.

Even though experts know the condition is primarily due to the loss of hair cells in the inner ear (among other factors), they remain no closer to figuring out how to prevent it.

International Space Station astronaut Karen Nyberg made a video showing how she washed her hair — and inevitably put her microbe - laden cells in the air.

We already knew that E. coli can grip to human cells using hair - like appendages that have tiny protein hooks on their tips, but until now no one had worked out the structure of this protein, called FimH, or how it interacts with human cells.

It also shows how different hair cells require, or can function independently, of the deafness gene tmc2b.

Séralini's report in BioMed Research International describes how pesticides kill cultured human cells, with the hair - raising conclusion that pesticides may be vastly more toxic than assumed by regulatory authorities.

«Knowing about these Lgr5 cells is valuable for us because it gives us a target cell population to study as we try to figure out how to better manipulate them and turn them into hair cells in an adult,» Edge says.

The scientists also identified a genetic pathway for hair cell regeneration and detailed how proteins in that pathway cooperate to foster the process.

Since that 1998 announcement, scientists have discovered more about how hair loss works, how it's inherited and how genes and stem cells can be manipulated to solve the problem.

I have found that hair mineral analysis tests can illustrate how the body's cells and tissues are taking up the minerals from your diet, whereas general blood tests show what is in your blood.

You may understand how having such an abundance of toxins in the cells and tissues and such a mass of horrible waste in the colon would inevitably cause hair loss, and lead to long - term illness.