Sentences with phrase «individual cell fragments»

«The method we used involved the sequencing and quantification of RNA molecules in individual cell fragments, something that was never done before,» says Dr. Thijs Ettema, associate professor at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, who led the study.

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«Our hypothesis was that Lyme bacteria shed vesicle - like particles — or fragments — derived from the cell wall of the bacteria circulating in the serum of individuals.

Kuo's method starts with tissue fragments rather than individual stem cells and grows them in a gel partly exposed to air instead of submerged in nutrient medium.

The fossil, a shell fragment from a large individual of the genus Doedicurus, yielded enough genetic material to completely reconstruct DNA from the creature's mitochondria, the tiny energy factories found in each living cell.

As it also generates transcriptome data from separate Stentor cell fragments, it paves the way for future investigations of transcriptional responses below the level of individual cells.

Using tiny, alpaca - derived, single - domain antibody fragments, Whitehead Institute scientists have developed a method to perturb cellular processes in mammalian cells, allowing them to tease apart the roles that individual proteins play in these pathways.

Other artists seminal in using the body as a metaphor for psychological conditions are Bruce Nauman, whose severed heads are forever frustrated in their inability to communicate with the rest of the body, and Louise Bourgeois, whose assemblages of cast body fragments and objects inside cubelike interiors, or «cells,» as she calls them, are the symbolic plasma of an individual.