Sentences with phrase «human muscle for»

YOU won't be able to swing between buildings on strands of spider silk any time soon, but an unexpected discovery has just opened a whole new range of applications for this super-tough material: it contracts and lengthens with changes in humidity, doing 50 times the work of human muscle for a given mass.

Not exact matches

On the logistics end, it is easier to manufacture certain stem - cell therapies, which will be key for human trials like the heart - muscle - regeneration program.

A model that debuted in 2015, for example, simulated a human leg, its skin, muscle, bone, large arteries, and even small veins.

On a normal diet, the human body breaks down carbohydrates into glucose, which are used for energy or stored as glycogen in liver and muscle tissue.

Twitter today is taking another step to build up its machine learning muscle, and also potentially to improve how it delivers photos and videos across its apps: the company is acquiring Magic Pony Technology, a company based out of London that has developed techniques of using neural networks (systems that essentially are designed to think like human brains) and machine learning to provide expanded data for images — used, for example, to enhance a picture or video taken on a mobile phone; or to help develop graphics for virtual reality or augmented reality applications.

To think of the first humans in terms of dependence, need, and vulnerability makes me wonder whether Adam could have stubbed his toe, or whether he ever asked Eve for a backrub to relieve his sore muscles after a long day's work.

The muscles of a human throat or hand are the inescapably necessary conditions for such expression.

And you need the protein for all of that working out your doing to achieve your New Year's resolutions... or just because you're a functioning human and protein is essential to helping you focus and keeping your muscles lean and mean.

Thoughts on woo: The oo sound is the loudest sound possibility, generally, for humans, due to the resonance developed by mouth formation, and less muscle use in mouth and throat to form, therefore, also the easiest to scream (along with long «O» but this doesn't allow for maximum efficiency of transdiaphragmatic pressure conversion to sound projection).

People expect you to start talking like Kate Middleton the moment you become responsible for a small human being, but it's hard to un-learn 35 years of muscle memory.

«Just like adults» muscles strengthen when used over and over, the same is true with babies,» explains Roni Cohen Leiderman, Ph.D., dean of the Mailman Segal Center for Human Development at Nova Southeastern University, and co-author of Let's Play and Learn Together.

(Aquatic mammals store much more oxygen in their muscles than humans do and so can remain without for longer.)

To narrow my search for appropriate poses, I decided to photograph a human climber, preferably a female adult and preferably without clothing, so that I could see how the various muscle groups were being used.

Sensory neurons in human muscles provide important information used for the perception and control of movement.

But unlike a human on bed rest for, say, six months, bears in dormancy don't experience severe muscle atrophy.

«The results show we can now produce the number of cells needed for human therapy and get formation of new heart muscle on a scale that is relevant to improving the function of the human heart,» Laflamme said.

«It is our hope that Dr. Yin's research will lead to additional potential therapeutic agents like ZF143 to reactivate mechanisms for the repair and regeneration of damaged heart muscle tissue in humans.»

«Although zebrafish look quite different from humans, they share an astonishing 70 percent of their genetic material with humans, including genes important for the formation of new heart muscle,» Yin said.

«This possibility, combined with what we already know about how microgravity affects muscles and bones, paints a very bleak future for human space flight unless we start to develop effective countermeasures.»

Those findings — published this week in Current Biology — suggest that the gene, known as FOXP2 is involved in learning the muscle movements necessary for speech, explains co-author Simon Fisher, a professor of molecular neuroscience at Oxford's Wellcome Trust Center for Human Genetics.

Additional support could come from the chimpanzee genome, which may allow researchers to clock when the genes for slow - twitch muscle fibers — crucial for running long distances and plentiful in people but not chimps — diverged in the common evolutionary history of humans and apes.

Just as the technique restored kidney, muscle, and insulin - producing function in the mouse models, he sees a future for rejuvenating neuronal populations, maybe even one day in human patients.

For the first time, a research team led by Dr. Ralf Gilsbach and Prof. Dr. Lutz Hein from the Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Freiburg have mapped out the gene regulators in the DNA of human cardiac muscle cells.

She has found muscles in the chimpanzee face, for example, that were once believed to be uniquely human.

The gene for these muscle transporters, called SLC2A4, also underwent natural selection in humans, but in the opposite direction.

This was done using shRNA technology specific for BRCA1 in human myotubes (skeletal muscle fiber cells).

Researchers already knew that shutting off the gene for the muscle - limiting protein myostatin doubles the muscle mass of rodents, cows and humans.

For many mammals, including humans, the speed of muscle repair slows as they grow older, and it was once thought that complete repair could not be achieved after a certain age.

Thanks to our new tools for studying human muscle cellular clocks in vitro, we now have the possibility to investigate this hypothesis in our next study.»

On the opposite extreme, independently operated coiled polymer muscles having a diameter less than a human hair could bring life - like facial expressions to humanoid companion robots for the elderly and dexterous capabilities for minimally invasive robotic microsurgery.

Geneticist Kay Davies of the University of Oxford, U.K., says that in order for the approach to be successful in humans, the stem cells will have to be delivered to every muscle.

«For a stem cell therapy for Duchenne to move forward, we must have a better understanding of the cells we are generating from human pluripotent stem cells compared to the muscle stem cells found naturally in the human body and during the development process.&raqFor a stem cell therapy for Duchenne to move forward, we must have a better understanding of the cells we are generating from human pluripotent stem cells compared to the muscle stem cells found naturally in the human body and during the development process.&raqfor Duchenne to move forward, we must have a better understanding of the cells we are generating from human pluripotent stem cells compared to the muscle stem cells found naturally in the human body and during the development process.»

SNPs in the human IL15 and IL15RA genes have been associated with responses of skeletal muscle to resistance training (17), baseline measures of skeletal muscle and bone (16), and markers of the metabolic syndrome (16), suggesting a role for these genes in skeletal muscle.

The researchers found that stability was the key for cells to make large amounts of myoglobin, which is explains why deep - diving mammals can load their muscle cells with far more myoglobin than humans.

The finding that myostatin is not the sole regulator of muscle mass in mice raises the question as to whether targeting myostatin alone will be the most effective strategy for manipulating this signaling pathway in humans.

SNPs in the human IL15 and IL15RA genes have been associated with muscle phenotypes (16), muscle responses to resistance training (17), metabolic syndrome (16), and obesity (18 — 20), providing additional rationale to support a role for these molecules in muscle.

They have also used it to prepare pig organs for human transplants and to beef up the muscles in beagles.

The researchers concluded that WBV can mimic the benefits of exercising regularly for muscle and bone health, and could potentially help morbidly obese humans» metabolism.

The study is entitled, «Testing for Recombinant Human Erythropoietin in Urine: Problems Associated with Current Anti-Doping Testing,» and was conducted by Carsten Lundby, Niels J. Achman - Andersen, Jonas J. Thomsen, Anne M. Norgaard and Paul Robach, all of the Copenhagen Muscle Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark.

IHC - P mouse tumor tissue (from lung) with human cell line injected, some muscle tissue attached as well sees high background for human cellswith priamry Ab as well as isotype ctrl, but also for muscle (does not contain any EGF) Ab: 1 ug /...

Human cytomegalovirus downregulates expression of receptors for platelet - derived growth factor by smooth muscle cells.

Abstract Skeletal muscle is a major site of metabolic activity and the most abundant tissue in the human body accounting for almost 40 % of the total body mass.

Sadly only a few of these are associated with an sufficiently extensive set of evidence such that responsible human trials are an immediate possibility: myostatin knockout for muscle growth and telomerase gene therapies to offset some of the declines of aging.

The finding, the first discovery of a so - called «master» gene for myocardial, or heart muscle, cells in an animal model, puts researchers on track for exploring the capability of homologous genes in mice and humans.

There have been human trials of myostatin blockade via antibodies, for example, and there are even a few well - muscled natural human myostatin loss of function mutants.

MMP - 14 is necessary but not sufficient for invasion of three - dimensional collagen by human muscle satellite cells.

Because humans have a limited capacity for heart tissue regeneration, damaged heart muscle is normally replaced with a nonfunctional scar.

Researchers discover that the inhibition of a lysine methyltransferase allows for the long - culture and amplification of human muscle stem cells

Recent Scientific projects as principal investigator: • 2003/2005 (EU V Frame Program): «International Bank of DNA, cell lines and nerve - muscle - cardiac tissues» - «European Network of Human Biological Material for Rare Diseases - Eurobiobank».

This is the first study to show that the repeat genome can be effectively targeted using CRISPR technology, the first use of CRISPR inhibition for a human disease, and the first use of CRISPR technology in primary human muscle cells.