Sentences with phrase «including cell division»

It plays a role in several important body functions, including cell division, wound healing, immune function, and the removal of ammonia from the body.

Healthy hair growth requires effective cell activity, including cell division in the hair follicle.

The cytoplasm is the site of important cellular activities, including cell division, many metabolic processes and protein degradation.

«This includes the cell division, cell growth and the differentiation into various cell types, such as shoots, leaves or fruit.

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And so he drew up a grid over Europe, each cell incorporating Bjerknes's weather data, including locational variables such as the extent of open water affecting evaporation, and five vertical divisions in the upper air.

UTSW co-authors include: Co-lead author Maria Winter, a research associate; Dr. Luisella Spiga, a postdoctoral researcher; visiting fellow Lisa Büttner; graduate students Elizabeth Hughes and Caroline Gillis, all of Microbiology; Dr. Breck Duerkop, Instructor, Immunology; Cassie Behrendt, a research technician, Immunology; Dr. Lora Hooper, Professor and Chair of Immunology with appointments in Microbiology and in the Center for the Genetics of Host Defense, a HHMI Investigator and holder of the Jonathan W. Uhr, M.D. Distinguished Chair in Immunology, and the Nancy Cain and Jeffrey A. Marcus Scholar in Medical Research, in Honor of Dr. Bill S. Vowell; Dr. Luis Sifuentes - Dominguez, Instructor of Pediatrics; Dr. Kayci Huff - Hardy, clinical fellow, Internal Medicine in the Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases; Dr. Andrew Koh, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology and in the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center as well as Director of Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation at Children's Health; and Dr. Ezra Burstein, Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular Biology and Chief of the Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases.

The method has allowed researchers to study key players involved in cell division — which include proteins that form much of the structure of chromosomes, and fragments of DNA that help to orchestrate the process.

Findings from the study could help improve understanding of the causes of some diseases — including cancer — that are triggered by errors in the cell division process, the team says.

Cohen, whose background includes developing operating systems support for computer games, has developed a program called LEVER - short for Lineage Editing and Validation program - that can identify, tag and track live cells, capturing patterns of motion and cell division, using sequences of microscopic time - lapse images.

«This study adds to an important body of work that has shown the ubiquity of a circadian clock across species, including humans, and its role in metabolic regulation in cells, organs, and organisms,» said Dr. Michael Sesma, Program Director in the Division of Genetics and Developmental Biology at the of the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of General Medical Sciences, which partially funded the research.

This protein is important to milk production, bone growth, and cell division in all animals, including humans.

MAPK regulates cell functions, including proliferation, gene expression, differentiation, cell division and a form of cell suicide known as apoptosis.

For proteins in the cytosol, the liquid inside the cell, these random molecular processes include differences in the break - down of proteins, or random partitioning into the two cells that form during cell division.

The research group has found that this technology allows scientists to inactivate critical biological phenomena, including cell migration and cell division, by using only lights, and without the assistance of chemical drug treatments or genetic modification.

These include Cenix Bioscience, which has developed a new lab technique to identify the genes that are involved in cell division, predicted to be very useful for finding potential new targets for anticancer drugs.

Those proteins include cyclins that regulate cell division, a process often disrupted in cancer.

HXR9 targets the HOX gene family, which includes 39 fairly similar genes that help enable the remarkably rapid cell division in growing embryos.

Study collaborators include Clive Svendsen, PhD, director of the Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute and professor of biomedical sciences and medicine; Dhruv Sareen, PhD, director of the Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Core and assistant professor of biomedical sciences; Mehrnoosh Saghizadeh, PhD, assistant professor of biomedical sciences; Yaron Rabinowitz, MD, director of the Division of Ophthalmology Research; and Vincent A. Funari, PhD, director of the Genomics Core and assistant professor of pediatrics.

«We are learning that these two fundamentally different cells are changing each other dramatically, and this might be relevant for other symbiotic systems, including human and parasitic microbe relationships,» said study co-author Eunsoo Kim, an assistant curator in the Museum's Division of Invertebrate Zoology.

The American Academy of Arts & Sciences has announced its new members, including Fred Hutch biologist Dr. Sue Biggins, who studies the mechanisms of cell division.

The staff in the internationally recognised division are supported by excellent facilities in cell and tissue culture, molecular biology, novel biomaterials development and testing, physical, biological and mechanical characterisation and state - of - the - art imaging facilities, including spectroscopy, multi-photon microscopy and endoscopy.

The Zheng lab studies cell division including the study of stem cells, genome organization, and lineage specification.

Some highly conserved eubacterial enzymes appear not to be encoded by U. urealyticum, including the cell - division protein FtsZ, chaperonins GroES and GroEL, and ribonucleoside - diphosphate reductase.

The mechanistic complexity of the cascades will be explained using the examples of crucial Cdk1 targets including Sic1, the Cdk1 target and inhibitor controlling the G1 / S transition in budding yeast, and Far1, the molecule defining the decision between mating and entry into cell division.

Providing rigidity to the cell, actin filaments are involved in a host of processes including muscle contraction, cell mobility and cell division.

Stathmin is essential for the regulation of the cell cytoskeleton, which is required for numerous cell processes including regulating the cell cycle, cytoplasmic organization, cell division and cell motility...

Flow cytometry is an evolving field with a wide range of applications that includes immunophenotyping, cell division and apoptosis, cell activation, intracellular pH shifts, phagocytosis, oxidative burst and much more.

Studies in the Orr - Weaver lab have illuminated fundamental aspects of this process, known as the cell cycle, and shed new light on a broad range of diseases caused by breakdowns in cell division, including cancer and certain birth defects.

They include genes of the origin of replication complex (orc), the minichromosome maintenance (mcm), and the cell division cycle (cdc) families.

Fluorescence - based assays Fluorescent markers such as EGFP, YFP, mCherry and mTomato or fluorescent biosensors can be used to measure a variety of real - time cell - based activities, including, intracellular transport, protein signaling, receptor desensitization, migration, division, apoptosis, metabolism, differentiation, chemotaxis, transcription and translation.

The acquired immune division includes various types of T - cells and B - cells that produce antibodies.

Because DNA is encoded with the instructions for cell behavior, damaged DNA can alter cell processes including those that regulate growth and division.

It appears to offer a number of ways to help our health including blocking the division of some cancer cells.

This download includes Personal Learning Checklists for GCSE Biology (AQA Specification) and covers the topic of «Cell Division».

This download includes 8 Personal Learning Checklists for GCSE Biology (AQA Specification) and covers the topics of: Cell Biology Cell Division Organisation Infection And Response Bioenergetics Homeostasis And Response Inheritance, variation and evolution Ecology.

Included in this bundle: Biodiversity and Human Interaction Biologists Cell Division Cellular Transport Chemistry of Life Ecology Evolution and Natural Selection Genetics Human Body General Terms Human Body Circulatory and Lymphatic Systems Human Body Digestive System Human Body Endocrine System Human Body Excretory System Human Body Integumentary System Human Body Muscular System Human Body Nervous System Human Body Respiratory System Human Body Skeletal System Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration Plant Structure and Function Scientific Method Taxonomy The Cell Types of Science What is Life

Exploring the sometimes sketchy ethics of stem cells and basic cell division, this resource explores mitosis, and for good measure I have also included the later resources for meiosis, its not supposed to be in B2 but it just makes sense... right?

Activity includes: • original cells in Prometaphase I showing bivalents and chiasma • cells in Prophase I showing chromosome line up during independent assortment • resulting gametes • (includes also - for an easier activity - cells in Interphase II showing cells after first round of division) Students to find matching cards (Prometaphase I, Prophase I and 4 resulting gametes) Aim: to get a greater appreciation of the variety in gametes created through crossing over and independent assortment during meiosis Print, laminate, chop up all cards, mix them up, go!

These books supports the teaching of various topics / units including: Speed, velocity, acceleration, forces, energy transformations, atomic structure, ionic bonding, covalent bonding, energy resources, states of matter, magnets, terminal velocity, volume, elements, periodic table, genetic, diseases, floating and sinking, pressure, chemical reactions, enzymes, cell division, combustion, momentum, smoking and much more....

Activities include cell organelle functions, specialized cells, plant vs. animal cells, and cell division.

This product includes: - Phases of Cell Division Flip Book - Phases of Cell Division Vocabulary Chart - Phases Card Sort / Memory Game