Sentences with phrase «individual cells using»

Highly parallel genome - wide expression profiling of individual cells using nanoliter droplets.

«A very futuristic view is that maybe we will be able to extract energy from individual cells using similar designs,» she says.

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Regarding intensity, a study published in PLOS ONE found that workout intensity was not affected for individuals talking on the phone, compared to those not using a cell phone, but when it came to texting, workout intensity was significantly lower.

Scientists can create tissue to see how it will respond to chemicals or medicines, and an individual's own cells can be used to create a replica tissue sample for a more accurate forecast of how that person's body will react.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is planning a pilot project to test a system that allows individuals to invest in solar energy - generating cells and effectively receive rent from consumers that use the hardware.

Structural constraints in the telecom industry still limit the use of cell phones as a mass communications tool in U.S. politics, but individual Obama supporters and organizers of course used text messaging, video and voice calls extensively in their own personal outreach.

The team created microscopic wounds in the pupae's epithelial layer using a laser that can be focused down to a point small enough to punch microscopic holes in individual cells (less than a millionth of a meter).

A new research tool using light allows scientists to watch individual brain cells react in real time.

There, a team led by Uma Ramakrishnan, known for using DNA to trace the heritage of ancient South Asians, set to work identifying individual tigers from intestinal cells in the excrement.

Unlike conventional chemotherapies and radiation that indiscriminately eradicate fast - growing tissues and ravage people's bodies with side effects, new therapies specifically target tumors using tailored cells from individual patients.

Using the same adaptive optics principles that let astronomers see distant objects with such instruments as the Keck Telescope, researchers have created a new device for ophthalmologists to see the eye's retina at the individual cell level.

«It would be really nice to derive and compare iPS cells and cells made using the Dolly technique from the same individual to see which were most normal,» says Robin Lovell - Badge of the National Institute for Medical Research in London.

In animals, implanted electrodes were used to measure the activity of individual grid cells directly, but this is not a practical option in humans.

Richard Jones, M.D., professor and director of the Bone Marrow Transplant Program at Johns Hopkins, developed a now commonly used assay to study ALDH levels in individual cells.

Living cells are micrometer - scale units capable of replication, growth, chemical synthesis, and movement using technologies operating on individual molecules at the nanometer scale.

They used this novel simulation approach to build a model of a sperm cell that demonstrates cellular movement from individual dynein protein molecules in the tail all the way up to the whole cell, allowing them to observe how changes at the atomic level are reflected in larger - scale structures.

Existing European patents involving embryonic stem cells — most of which were issued in the United Kingdom — will not be invalidated immediately, but lawsuits challenging individual patents will use the ruling as guidance.

The presented approach uses untethered magnetic micro-robotic coding for precise construction of individual cell - encapsulating hydrogels (such as cell blocks).

Using this biosensor in highly invasive breast cancer cells taken from rodents and humans, the Einstein team discovered that when an individual invadopodium forms and is actively degrading the ECM, its Rac1 levels are low; on the other hand, elevated Rac1 levels coincide with the invadopodium's disappearance.

«We are really just beginning to explore the many possibilities in using this micro-robotic technique to manipulate individual cells or cell - encapsulating building blocks.»

Using a technique known as single - cell RNA sequencing, the team explored more than 65,000 individual cells that exist under normal or inflammatory conditions, looking for genes that were more active in one state or subpopulation versus another.

«The next step of progress is to use this knowledge to decipher what potential impact the genetic variants can have on the health of individuals, when we conduct health - related research,» added Professor Michael Pepper, Unit Director of the South African Medical Research Council's (SAMRC) Stem Cell Research and Therapy Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Pretoria.

Using a standard inverted microscope, researchers can then lift the desired cells and transfer them into individual sample tubes or microtiter wells.

The researchers used a technique called laser scanning photostimulation to map the connections between individual subplate neuron cells in the brains of the mouse pups.

To trace individual neurons, Jeff Lichtman of Harvard uses engineered mice whose DNA includes jellyfish genes so that the cells contain fluorescent proteins.

Another key finding of the research was that the impact of vitamin D on inflammatory disease can not be predicted using cells from healthy individuals or even from the blood of patients with inflammation as cells from the disease tissue are very different.

Researchers are using the sea hare model to learn about individual cells function, discover the chemical pathways controlling various brain activities and to study how memories are processed and stored.

In May 2013, Mitalipov was the first scientist in the world to demonstrate the successful use of somatic cell nuclear transfer, or SCNT, to produce human embryonic stem cells from an individual's skin cell.

sNuc - Seq bypassed those problems by using individual nuclei extracted from cells as a starting point instead.

Although the new JNCI study did not analyze individual cell phone usage — preferring instead to take a broader look at the population at large — other research has examined subgroups of cell phone users to try to discern different trends among more frequent use.

Building on the newly - published pilot study, the team will conduct experiments using a windtunnel which measures the behaviour of mosquitoes towards odours and electrodes which track the response of individual odour - detecting cells from within the antenna of the mosquito in specially - designed secure laboratories at the School to measure the responses of malaria - infected Anopheles gambiae s.s. females to human odours.

When a standard hearing test was performed on these hearing - impaired individuals, the responses of their auditory sensory cells and neurons, although normal to begin with, gradually worsened as the test went on as a result of the sounds used.

His research largely focuses on new means to incorporate imaging methods to view cells of brain tumors with a hand held instrument that a neurosurgeon can use to visualize the individual cells during the progress of the operation.

Collins said that because Hydra is such a simple animal and because it is able to regenerate after complete dissociation into individual cells, it offers researchers the opportunity to use similar techniques as the ones employed in their experiments to examine how an organism develops from an unstructured group of cells into a complex body plan.

In the past year, biologists have been using the natural form of GFP to track the production of individual proteins or the activity of particular genes in living cells.

Linked to green fluorescent protein (GFP), the biosensors can be used to trigger individual cells to give off visible fluorescence in a rate directly proportional to how well they are able to produce a desired chemical commodity.

The Epigenetics Research group used these cells to perform genome - wide profiling across more than 20,000 individual genes in these patients.

Lei and Spradling used a technique that allows individual cells and their progeny within a living animal to be followed over time by marking the cells with a new gene.

The research team first used the blood of healthy individuals, spiking some of the blood with living breast cancer cells to see if the NanoFlares could detect them.

Prof Tony Green, an author from the Wellcome Trust - MRC Stem Cell Institute and Cambridge University, said: «The SC3 tool was able to use patterns of gene expression to distinguish, within an individual cancer, subclones that carried different mutations.

Using single - cell RNA sequencing, the team was able to profile molecular features and metabolic activity of individual beta cells to determine how dividing beta cells differ from non-dividing cells.

These individual transcriptomes can be used to define cell types and to understand the functions of healthy and diseased cells in the human body.

Split Pool Ligation - based Transcriptome sequencing (SPLiT - seq) is a scalable technique for characterizing RNA in individual cells that can be used to identify the various cell types found in the brain and other tissues.

The team first used the tried - and - true method of growing yeast in Petri dishes and painstakingly counting how many times an individual yeast cell produced a daughter cell.

In brain research, these tools have been used successfully to regulate individual nerve cells in millisecond time scale using light instead of electrical stimulus.

«Using high - power microscopy, we can watch individual cells and follow along with how they replicate in real time,» says Lenhart.

Using live imaging in zebrafish to track oligodendrocytes in real time, researchers reporting in the June 24 issue of the Cell Press journal Developmental Cell discovered that individual oligodendrocytes coat neurons with myelin for only five hours after they are born.

Part of the answer is simply that the most commonly used DNA probes tell whether or not a given sequence is present, not how many times it appears in an individual cell.

«Nano - sized mesoporous silica particles have already been established as useful for manipulating individual cells from the inside, but this is the first time that larger particles, in the micron - sized range, are used to create a 3D in vivo scaffold that can recruit and attract tens of millions of immune cells,» said co-lead author Jaeyun Kim, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University and a former Wyss Institute Postdoctoral Fellow.

The assay uses time - lapse microscopy to monitor individual yeast cells undergoing a small number of divisions to form microcolonies.