Sentences with phrase «key cellular structures»

Scientists do not yet fully understand how antibiotics work on the molecular level, but they think that the drugs are effective in part by introducing reactive oxygen to bacterial cells, which damages key cellular structures.

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that two key cellular structures, called mitochondria and lysosomes, come into direct contact with each other in the cell to regulate their respective functions.

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When this model was in its softest mode, normal (benign) mammary epithelial cells behaved normally within it, forming cellular structures referred to as acini that capture many key features of the normal in vivo mammary epithelium.

Although some of the key molecular components involved in the formation of cellular structures and tissue formation are known, we currently lack a bottoms up understanding of how the behavior of these molecules gives rise to the formation of large structures, partly because of the lack of tools for both studying the spatial regulation of soluble proteins and biophysically characterizing the behavior of large structures and tissues.

Since then, Dong has established his small lab as a key player among researchers interested in the assembly of the centriole, a barrel - shaped cellular structure central to the formation of cilia, antenna - like cell surface protrusions essential for cell motility and signal transduction.

Therefore, key challenges for biology in the twenty - first century are the exploration of the structure and the dynamics of this complex inter - and intra - cellular web of interactions that contribute to the structure and function of a living cell.