Sentences with phrase «in normal biology»

There is growing interest in the physiological role of DNL in normal biology and in disease states such as obesity, Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

A small but growing cohort of scientists suspects that if this style of misfolding is a generic property of proteins, it's likely to play a role in normal biology.

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So, the term «extended breastfeeding» assumes that the specific cultural and material conditions that middle - and upper - class contemporary Westerners experience — widespread misunderstanding and stigma surrounding women's breasts and children's biology; widespread availability of commercial formula; clean water to prepare it with; the time and space to wash, sterilize, and store bottles, and so forth — are «normal,» while literally everything that has ever existed outside of this limited cultural experience and relatively short, unique period in time is somehow abnormal.

But T. auensis is particularly hard to culture in Petri dishes and study with the normal tools of molecular biology.

Cell lines are the workhorses of biology, routinely stocked and studied in every laboratory to understand cellular pathways, receptors, targets, hormones, and all aspects of normal and malignant physiology.

We've also opened up the biology of happiness, showing that you can produce an animal that is more relaxed than normal, and this recruits activity in the pathways that are involved in positive reinforcement.

The research, using cells from the Breast Cancer Now Tissue Bank and due to be published in Nature Communications, also shows that the epigenetic changes are inherited as long as the cell divides, and that the team's manipulations permanently and negatively affected the biology of a normal breast cell from a healthy individual.

Given his training in developmental biology, Raman focused the team to seek a novel drug target on genes important to the development of model organisms — fruit flies (Drosophila) and yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae)-- rather than on oncogenes that transform a normal cell into a cancer cell.

Founded by Paul F. Glenn in 1965, the mission of the Glenn Foundation For Medical Research is to extend the healthy years of life through research on mechanisms of biology that govern normal human aging and its related physiological decline, with the objective of translating research into interventions that will extend healthspan with lifespan.

The research just published proposes that the normal biology of mRNA regulation in neurons, in which RNA is generally silenced and only activated in the correct place and time, makes it susceptible to both age - related decline and disturbance by genetic mutation.

Surprisingly, her lab is finding that in some circumstances, an alternative fold in a protein may underlie vital aspects of normal biology.

Since its founding in 1965 the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research («GFMR») has supported basic research to better understand the biology that governs normal human aging and its related physiological decline, with the objective of developing interventions that will extend the healthy years of human life.

«Thanks to improvements in the understanding of AML biology, a multiplicity of so - called targeted therapies and therapies based on differential pathophysiology of leukemic stem cells compared with normal counterparts have emerged,» noted Richard M. Stone, MD, clinical director of the Adult Leukemia Program at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, and colleagues, writing in a review for the ASCO 2017 Educational Book.

He and his lab study stem cell biology to provide insights into many areas, such as developmental biology, homeostasis in the normal adult and recovery from injury.

«We really need to understand the basics of cell biology in a normal setting in order to comprehend changes in disease,» he explains.

We use various approaches including genetics, genomics and cell biology to study gene functions in normal development and disease such as cancer.

The goal of research in this area is to define normal stem cell biology and developmental pathways as well as to define genetic, molecular, and biochemical mechanisms that regulate cell proliferation, apoptosis and autophagy and relate these pathways to carcinogenesis.

New data and research approaches have created opportunities for researchers to study in detail many aspects of cancer biology, including how the normal biological programs of cell proliferation and death are altered during cancer and how the immune system responds to tumors.

In real life, «there is no normal barometer for sexual activity,» says Jan Shifren, MD, an assistant professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School in BostoIn real life, «there is no normal barometer for sexual activity,» says Jan Shifren, MD, an assistant professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School in Bostoin Boston.

Prepare to gain it all back when you do — and biology says you will — cave in to normal food.

Additionally, screening tests provide information on what's «normal» for your pet, and allows your doctor to quickly evaluate changes in his or her biology.

The biological systems and pathways linking adverse childhood experiences to biology and behaviour also extend to the regulation of parenting behaviours, which implies that there is a disruption of the usual behavioural and physiological processes involved in normal parenting, including stress regulation.

It is normal for every person to zone out in a boring biology class, forget their homework in the kitchen counter, and act in a excited — high energy way.