Sentences with phrase «important changes in cell»

The immediate application of the research, Sinha explains, is in helping scientists pinpoint important changes in cell behavior.

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He added: «The important thing is that you work with people who are like - minded and interested in pursuing the same sort of things where you can, and we will, whether the subject is stem cell or whether the subject is climate change.»

«Our studies imply that the change of oxygen levels in different tissues can be sensed by Treg cells and that this process is critically important for maintaining the correct balance between activation and suppression of the immune system,» says Liu.

Existing experimental evidence showed that mechanical forces were at play in the changes in both fibrosis and cancer and that these forces were important to their development and progression but could not explain the long - ranging changes cells were able to produce to change their environments.

Mapping the epigenetic changes in developing retinoblastoma mouse and human cells yielded similar important insights, Dyer said.

Those tests will answer basic questions about changes in cells and genes; they are not the elaborate, years - long studies exposing lab animals or examining humans that can answer most important health questions.

Low energy electrons are ubiquitous and are known to play important role in variety of phenomena relevant to astrochemistry (where they participate in synthesis of new molecules), in radiation biology (where they cause chemical changes in living cell, plasma chemistry), atmospheric chemistry, radioactive waste management and nanolithography — to name but a few.

«Viruses impact important microbial processes in plankton — killing their cells, moving genes from one cell to another and reprogramming the cells to change their ecosystem output,» said Sullivan.

«What George's team has accomplished is a technological tour de force,» said Wyss Institute Founding Director Don Ingber, M.D., Ph.D. «By spotting incredibly subtle but incredibly important changes in gene expression and precisely defining their position inside the cell, they have helped open the door to a new age of cellular diagnostics.»

This inflammation is important in the normal healing process, affecting tissue growth and blood flow changes that allow the tissue to heal; when the inflammation subsides, skin cells start growing to cover the wound and help the tissue knit together.

This will be an important approach for studying redox changes in disease states including cancer, neurodegenerative disorders, cardiovascular disease, sickle cell disease and many others which are known to involve oxidative stress.»

Cells use these forces to sense mechanical changes in their environment, which plays an important role for example in wound healing.

A new study places lactic acid in an important role within cells and may change how physicians treat a blood disorder associated with diabetes and AIDS.

The study has important implications for human health, and is particularly useful for understanding the changes that occur in cells during the development of the tumors that underlie cancers.

«The technology could also greatly improve our ability to study how tumor cells change in response to treatment and could help answer important biological questions about how treatment resistance arises.»

Over the past few decades it has become increasingly clear that epigenetic changes - heritable changes in the cell that do not result from DNA sequence alteration - may be just as important as gene mutations in cancer development.

Why that's important is that we showed that there are many changes in that retinal ganglion cell that are akin to what you see in other neurodegenerative diseases.

What's important is that the CFC has shown that there are many changes in the retinal ganglion cell akin to what is seen in other neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's.

«Being able to directly image and quantify changes in the nucleus is enormously important and has been on cell biologists» wish list for many years.»

The most important changes occur in T cell immunity, manifested sometimes dramatically as altered clonal expansions of cells of limited antigen specificity and a marked shrinkage of the T cell antigen receptor repertoire.

Researchers have answered an important question in biology by discovering the exquisite mechanism by which channels in the cell membrane sense voltage changes that trigger them to snap open or slam...

A very specific and important event occurs after 5 — 6 days: the blastocyst changes very subtly and the cells in the inner cell mass lose the ability to read all of their DNA.

These red blood cell changes can be subtle but important diagnostic clues in an otherwise normal CBC.

While some genes important to cancer development have clear alterations in their genetic codes to explain changes in their expression in cells, some do not exhibit such defined defects.

A reasonable conceptual hypothesis for it is based on limiting factors — summer temperatures were a primary environmental parameter controlling cell wall thickening in conifer latewood at some sites but due to environmental changes, e.g. warming, other factors have become more important and obscured this relationship.

In announcing the change, President Obama emphasized the need to «make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology,» yet the new policy, as well as the language that the president used to explain it, underscores that the stem cell debate is in important ways not about scientific facts at all, but about the difficulty of balancing competing moral preferenceIn announcing the change, President Obama emphasized the need to «make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology,» yet the new policy, as well as the language that the president used to explain it, underscores that the stem cell debate is in important ways not about scientific facts at all, but about the difficulty of balancing competing moral preferencein important ways not about scientific facts at all, but about the difficulty of balancing competing moral preferences.