Sentences with phrase «just about every cell»

Hypothyroidism, an underactive thyroid, can impact just about every cell in your body.

Yet in 2006, Shinya Yamanaka at Kyoto University in Japan reported a «crazy» experiment (Hochedlinger's word) to show that mouse skin cells in a petri dish, aided by four genes and viruses that inserted the genes into the cells» DNA, could achieve something like the newt's developmental reversal, becoming just about any cell in the mouse's body.

So, when the thyroid makes thyroid hormone, it makes it, the majority is T4, also known as thyroxine, and then, really in a number of different tissues in the body, the liver and the kidney, well, I'll say this, T4 is converted to T3 in just about every cell of the body.

This means that inflammation can negatively affect just about every cell in the body by damaging the very structure we need to make energy.

Most of us know this, but as a refresher, ATP is the energy molecule manufactured by the mitochondria that lie within just about every cell in our bodies.

The nanosuit can hack into just about any CELL system including doors, containers, turrets and even minefields.

Not exact matches

Laptops, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), and Blackberries (wireless cell phone and PDA units) use wireless data transfer technologies to provide users with almost instant access to information stored on a company's computer networks and servers from just about anywhere within reach of a cell phone tower or wireless Internet transmitter.

The batteries in the Smartscooter start to degrade after about five years, just like the lithium - ion cell that powers your smartphone.

Yeah, he carries a cell phone (just his second in six years), but that's about as wired as he gets.

As they point out, there's plenty of room for optimism about the eventual therapeutic applications of stem cells, but clinics offering to cure Parkinson's or to fix broken spinal cords are not just misleading but seriously dangerous.

And it's hazardous if you're driving to text or even talk on a cell phone (even with a hands - free setup, some studies estimate that dialing your phone is just about the most dangerous thing you can do while driving).

Because if you think about it without a soul all we are is just a bunch of cells.

Just before Thanksgiving, news broke about a new stem - cell technique that could produce the equivalent of embryonic stem cells (ESCs) but without using or destroying human embryos.

However, the biggest problem is that it is extremely unlikely to happen, and we are just talking about single celled organisms.

Loosing a few brain cells every now and the isn't a huge worry, but considering that these MSG - like neurotoxins are in just about ALL of our foods (anything with natural flavor of any kind, malted barley, carregenan, guar, xanthan or vegetable gums, «spices»... the list of names used to hide the fact that these are neurotoxins is very long) we're all basically consuming LOTS of these neurotoxins daily.

It has three outer pockets, straps for attaching to just about every type of stroller, a cell phone pocket on the strap, an outside rear pocket and a changing pad on the inside as well as an inside pocket and a bottle pouch on the outside for easy access.

She was talking about the cells in my experiment that kept failing, but I think it is just as apt for motherhood: It is not you.

And in the world of presidential campaigns, where money does flow in relatively big chunks, we HAVE seen campaigns try just about everything: connecting with people through official campaign sites, through video, on just about every social networking site under the sun, through cell phones, via email lists, blog postings, search ads, blog ads, etc..

I reached Benjamin on his cell phone, and he confirmed that he did indeed make that statement, but insisted he hadn't really meant to, telling me: «I was thinking about God, and it just came out... I was speaking from the heart.»

He says they took his cell phone, calendars and «just about everything.»

as for cuomo, he reportedly did just about everything he could to keep dinapoli from reelection — the implications of his sham investigation (will any of those crusty dems see the inside of a cell or at least something more than lashes with a wet noodle?)

Scarborough, who served in the legislature for more than 20 years, told reporters that officials from the FBI and the office of New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman seized his cell phone, calendars and «just about everything,» another report said.

Currently, photovoltaic cells supply about 140 gigawatts, or just 1 per cent of...

«What's really exciting about this was that the activity differences were detected at a critical time in brain development: when neural progenitor cells are proliferating and expanding in number, just prior to producing neurons,» Silver said.

Human ES cells had just been isolated for the first time, and researchers were excited about their potential use in regenerative medicine.

We are not just talking about the T cells and B cells that are specific for HIV or SIV, we are talking about the vast majority of all immune cells in the body.

To make just one unit of blood — roughly a pint — it would require growing cells in about 400 flasks that were about 30 centimeters by 20 centimeters, he says.

Altogether, about 92 % of the «dirtied» mice survived the flu, compared with just 17 % of «clean» lab mice, the researchers report today in Cell.

Doudna and others have learned much more in just the past two to three years about how CRISPR editing works at the molecular level, and how it can be delivered to specific cells and tissues.

Researchers are just beginning to understand how this paradigm shift will change what we know about the goings - on in the cell.

Transplanted stem cells can differentiate into just about any other kind of cell, including neurons to potentially reconnect a severed spinal cord and repair paralysis.

For pluripotent stem cells, that means exposing them to just the right growth factors or inhibitors at just the right times, over about a month, says James Wells of the Center for Stem Cell and Organoid Medicine at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

«These national guidelines are directed not just to hematologists but to all medical practitioners who might encounter sickle cell disease patients, to inform them about hydroxyurea and how to best offer general medical care to them,» Dr. Buchanan said.

«Something that would be very useful for the brain is to have information not just about whether there was an error but how big the error was — whether the Purkinje cell needs to make a minor or major adjustment,» Medina said.

Today stem cells have been used to grow ears, tracheae, and bladders; tomorrow it will be just about any tissue, any structure, of the human body.

Even better than the real thing, the NIST synapse can fire much faster than the human brain — 1 billion times per second, compared to a brain cell's 50 times per second — using just a whiff of energy, about one ten - thousandth as much as a human synapse.

In the cases, just this last couple of elections, where stem cell politics, for example, has been played out in the electoral process, stem cell research is [has] done better than the winning candidates for offices; and I think, apart from that, I think that we do have a serious problem in general education of the sciences and that accounts for the reluctance of a large segment of the population to accept the principles of evolution and think that there is still a debate about it, which there isn't — and that's a problem we need to solve, — but I still think there is an incredible constituency for science in this country.

What is most impressive about the chip, says Michael Shuler, a biomedical engineer at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, is that it mimicked not just the physiology of the lung, but also the mechanical forces that act on lung cells as the chest expands and contracts with each breath.

Read about the latest in quantum computing, advancements in growing organs from stem cells, the discovery of Earth's biggest volcano and signs of life on Mars — just a few of the top science stories of 2013.

Yet, cadmium telluride commands only about 30 percent of the thin - film market, according to DoE statistics, compared with amorphous silicon cells (such as those produced by Sharp and ECD Ovonics), which account for more than 60 percent; CIGS cells make up just about 1 percent of this market.

«The exciting part of this work is not just that we made hydrogels, but that we're now equipped with this powerful technique that lets us ask fundamental — and very challenging — questions about them,» says Takanari Inoue, Ph.D., an associate professor of cell biology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and senior author of the report on the research published online Nov. 6 in the journal Nature Materials.

In van Andel - Schipper's case, it seemed that in the twilight of her life, about two - thirds of the white blood cells remaining in her body at death originated from just two stem cells, implying that most or all of the blood stem cells she started life with had already burned out and died.

«We think about proteins now as always moving and doing things, not just bricks that are coursing through our veins or in our cells.»

During that early stage of infection, about half the T cells in the gut can be wiped out in just four days.

«Just studying how molars become taller should tell us about the first steps in the arrival of stem cells,» Klein says.

An intracortical BCI uses a tiny silicon chip, just over one - sixth of an inch square, from which protrude 100 electrodes that penetrate the brain to about the thickness of a quarter and tap into the electrical activity of individual nerve cells in the motor cortex.

Bringing the cost of just the photovoltaic cells down to about $ 1 per watt is the magic number solar manufacturers are aiming for, figuring that will make them cost - competitive with electricity produced by burning natural gas.

«By taking a careful, modern look at an old problem, we got surprising results that change the way we think not just about heat shock, but about how cells sense and respond to their environment at the molecular level,» Drummond said.

On van Andel - Schipper's death, about two - thirds of the white blood cells left in her body originated from just two stem cells.

In fact, it might derive from something as simple as a street photo snapped with a cell phone camera, or you could use photo editing software to devise an image that just about any human would recognize is irrational or nonsensical, but that even today's smartest computers might pass over as reasonable.