Sentences with phrase «in the test tube as»

Significantly, disabling both anti-apoptotic proteins, Bcl - 2 and Bcl - xL, in conjunction with Mcl - 1, caused profound cell death of leukemia cells in the test tube as well as in animal models of AML.

The hnRNPA2 protein forms liquid droplets in a test tube as seen by light microscopy.

It starts with an intriguing premise: Anna Fitzgerald (Abigail Breslin) was created in a test tube as «spare parts» for her older sister, Kate (Sofia Vassilieva), who has leukemia.

(And of course in this instance there is that uncomfortable reality that we all happen to be in the test tube as we're running the experiment, as scientists have noted with concern for 50 years.)

Not exact matches

While testing a new vacuum tube that drives a radar set known as a magnetron, he discovered that a chocolate bar he had in his pocket melted.

Falk wrote that the book contains many incorrect claims such as «Meyer correctly concluded that no RNA molecule had ever been evolved in a test tube which could do more than join two building blocks together.

It is an amazing process of refinement by which the exceedingly human activity that goes on in the laboratory — broken test tubes, bright ideas, discussions with colleagues — ends up as a single sentence in a journal: «The reaction was found to be aided by the addition of 3 % NaOH.»

DR. WALTER ZIMDAHL, SYRACUSE «They called me «the opportunist,»» recalls Walter Zimdahl, who made his way through medical school, after three seasons as a Syracuse fullback, by washing dishes, sweeping out the gym, helping in the county morgue and scouring test tubes.

Discover 11 mind - blowing experiments such as creating a sunset in a test tube and many more.

The audience roars with laughter as Polish tells how he initiated select new members into the cell biology lab he worked in after college with strategically placed miniature dry - ice bombs fabricated from plastic Eppendorf test tubes.

Hughes ran into conflict with the university and his former sponsor, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), over his efforts to diagnose genetic diseases — such as Tay - Sachs disease and cystic fibrosis — in test - tube embryos scheduled for implantation (Science, 24 January, p. 472).

In 2012, she and postdoctoral fellow Prashant Mali teamed up on CRISPR - Cas9, a molecular complex that bacteria use as a primitive immune system; other scientists had recently gotten it to cut specific locations on DNA floating in test tubeIn 2012, she and postdoctoral fellow Prashant Mali teamed up on CRISPR - Cas9, a molecular complex that bacteria use as a primitive immune system; other scientists had recently gotten it to cut specific locations on DNA floating in test tubein test tubes.

But the test tube burger, rolled out to the press in 2013, has helped put a spotlight on the question of how the U.S. government will regulate the emerging field of cellular agriculture, which uses biotechnology instead of animals to make products such as meat, milk, and egg whites.

If these test - tube results are confirmed in infected animals and people, the viral proteins could be targets for anti-Ebola vaccines as well as for drugs that treat Ebola infections.

The recent birth of two test tube foals in the UK, as part of a collaborative project conducted by leading fertility experts, could help benefit rare breed conservation and horses with fertility problems.

One is being tested here as the midwife uses a finger stick to collect 300 microliters of blood, just five or six drops, in a small tube, then she treats the samples with a DNA / RNA shield, essentially detergent to prevent degradation.

Shea notes that although he and his colleagues have yet to finalize their measurements on how well their nanoparticles bind to various PLA2 molecules, their test - tube results suggest that they could have a similar high affinity for PLA2s as their previous nanoparticles had for melittin, the bee venom protein that stopped the toxin in animal studies.

The catalyst is initially dissolved in the ingredients (left) but begins to form oily clumps as the reaction progresses (middle), ending up as a solid in the bottom of the test tube (right) after all the ingredients are used u

It's not as though someone has created a Frankenstein's monster in a test tube — they have given the best gift there is.»

But the Doudna / Charpentier team, as they reported in a landmark paper published online by Science on 28 June 2012, at that point had only used CRISPR to cut DNA in test tube studies.

The molecular biology wars may also be ending in a rapprochement, he says, as the «test tube jockeys» belatedly recognize that they need the «stamp collector» systematists after all.

Their test tube experiments suggest that the resulting molecule behaves in almost exactly the same way as natural carbonic anhydrase.

Never had a test tube looked as colourful and appetising as the one Catarina Prista, Joana Moura, and their team presented at the 2007 Rencontres Sciences, Art & Cuisine in Paris, an international molecular gastronomy contest promoted by Hervé This, one of the pioneers of molecular gastronomy.

To solve such a complex puzzle, Jasmine McCammon, a postdoctoral researcher in Sive's lab, enlisted the zebrafish as a «living test tube.»

Now the whole world is a test tube into which antibiotics and antivirals are being dumped, and we simply may not have them on demand in the future as these microbes become increasingly resistant.»

The researchers note that this study of digestion in the test tube is limited by not including the roles of gut cells, which absorb and secrete metabolites as well.

The term in vitro, from the Latin meaning in glass, is used, because early biological experiments involving cultivation of tissues outside the living organism from which they came, were carried out in glass containers such as beakers, test tubes, or petri dishes.

For this particular research problem they developed a so - called y - maze experiment, a proboscis choice test in which a y - shaped tube system is used as an extension of the flower's corolla.

Practically speaking, Zhang's saCas9 — with an adeno - associated virus serving as a vector — allows CRISPR to work in vivo, as opposed to simply in test tubes.

In tests at SLAC's Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests (FACET), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, beams of positrons stayed tightly bundled as they traveled through the plasma tests at SLAC's Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests (FACET), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, beams of positrons stayed tightly bundled as they traveled through the plasma Tests (FACET), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, beams of positrons stayed tightly bundled as they traveled through the plasma tube.

The research was carried out by experts in synthetic and theoretical chemistry, materials and electron microscopy and builds on Professor Khlobystov's concept of carbon nano test tubes (World's tiniest test tubes, Guinness Book of World Records 2005), where the nanotube acts as a container for molecules.

As a result, it strongly bound elastase in the test tube, preventing the enzyme from degrading connective tissue.

Study after study has found that while these substances do work as antioxidants in the test tube, popping the pills does not provide any benefit.

Saccharin was listed as an «anticipated human carcinogen» in 1981, sucralose has been shown to weakly mutate genes in test tubes, and aspartame has triggered fears about everything from autism to multiple sclerosis.

«Vaccines, antibiotics, organ transplants, and test - tube [in vitro] babies were each initially viewed as unnatural,» Stock says.

Using genetic techniques, the Imperial team knocked out the Hhat function in pancreatic cancer cells and, as they hoped, the cancer cells showed substantially reduced growth and ability to spread in a test - tube assay.

Currently, lung function is measured using a test known as spirometry, in which patients blow through a tube; their progress is tracked over time.

Just as silicon - based components use electric current to represent 1's and 0's, bio-based circuits use concentrations of DNA molecules in a test tube.

Furor about in vitro fertilization after Louise Brown, the first «test tube baby,» was born in 1978 gave way to acceptance as grateful parents gave birth to more and more healthy babies and welcomed them into their families.

Hartl and Horwich challenged the widely held notion put forth by Nobel Prize winner Christian Anfinsen that proteins fold spontaneously in cells, just as they do in test tubes.

In research published in this week's issue of the journal Science, a team from Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research used common baker's yeast as a living test tube to show how just a small amount of a Parkinson's - related neuronal protein called alpha - synuclein (aSyn) can convince neighboring proteins to abandon their normal shape and form these deadly clusterIn research published in this week's issue of the journal Science, a team from Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research used common baker's yeast as a living test tube to show how just a small amount of a Parkinson's - related neuronal protein called alpha - synuclein (aSyn) can convince neighboring proteins to abandon their normal shape and form these deadly clusterin this week's issue of the journal Science, a team from Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research used common baker's yeast as a living test tube to show how just a small amount of a Parkinson's - related neuronal protein called alpha - synuclein (aSyn) can convince neighboring proteins to abandon their normal shape and form these deadly clusters.

In Lindquist's lab, yeast cells — which share the core cell biology of human cells — serve as living test tubes in which to study the problem of protein misfolding and to identify possible solutionIn Lindquist's lab, yeast cells — which share the core cell biology of human cells — serve as living test tubes in which to study the problem of protein misfolding and to identify possible solutionin which to study the problem of protein misfolding and to identify possible solutions.

In previous experiments, Rust has demonstrated that Kai proteins isolated in test tubes are able to maintain their ability to function as a biological clock and respond to metabolic signalIn previous experiments, Rust has demonstrated that Kai proteins isolated in test tubes are able to maintain their ability to function as a biological clock and respond to metabolic signalin test tubes are able to maintain their ability to function as a biological clock and respond to metabolic signals.

Therefore, iPS cells displayed properties of ES cells in animals as well as in test tubes.

My go - to herbalist, author and American Herbalist Guild member David Winston of Broadway, New Jersey, says in his book, Herbal Therapy and Supplements: A Scientific and Traditional Approach, that animal and test - tube studies are convincing enough to recommend eating maitake regularly as part of a treatment plan for high cholesterol, high blood pressure, insulin resistance, and even hepatitis B. (Placebo - controlled studies in people have yet to be conducted.)

As with other suspicious substances in our food, most research on BHT and BHA has been confined to animals and test tubes, and not directly studied in people, making it hard to say conclusively that this is dangerous.

«Looking at a biopsy and deciding if its cancer and what kind is not as precise as measuring glucose in a test tube.

In test tubes, peppermint has been discovered to have substantial antiviral and antimicrobial activities, strong antitumor and antioxidant actions, as well as some antiallergenic potential.

However, while these studies may show that limonoids in foods such as grapefruit may offer some protection from cancer, these were test tube studies and clinical studies need to be conducted before claims can be made.

However, adding ascorbic acid (vitamin C) will not increase the number of lactobacilli in test tube experiments, possibly because ascorbic acid isn't as strong of an acid as citric acid: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21411170