Sentences with phrase «key molecules in»

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The key molecules in oils are known as triglycerides.

By giving patients an antibody targeting a key molecule in the inflammatory pathway, investigators reduced heart disease and stroke by 15 %, they reported last week.

«Researchers identify a key molecule in psoriasis development.»

A mouse heart, in gray, shows signs of heart failure because it is missing a newly discovered key molecule in the process that culls unhealthy mitochondria from cells.

It shows signs of failure because it is missing another key molecule in mitochondrial quality control.

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The Company focuses on discovering and developing small molecule drugs directed against tumor and immune cell targets that control key metabolic pathways in the tumor microenvironment.

(Hemomglobin A1C is a form of the key protein in our red blood cells — hemoglobin — in which the protein gets linked up with a sugar molecule through a process called glycosylation.

The keys to success start with good ingredients (since there are so few in the mix, it pays to reach for the top - shelf stuff) and end with emulsification, thoroughly blending the oil's fat molecules and the watery vinegar.

Following this in 2015, an article (Alsaweed et al.) described over 300 novel milk microRNA molecules, components that are known to play a key role in the regulation of gene expression.

Dr. Ahmed and his colleagues are now looking for other molecules beyond CIB2 that play a key role in the process.

The researchers were on the lookout for molecules that could bind precisely with defective RNAs — like keys fitting in the right locks.

«A molecular atlas of calcific aortic valve disease: Study builds molecular networks of calcific aortic valve disease to identify key molecules and therapeutic targets for a disease that affects one in four older Americans.»

Many drugs today are «small molecule» drugs in which molecules of active ingredients easily dissolve and diffuse because they are small enough to cross key membranes in the body.

Like a key fitting into a lock, the carrier molecules bind to certain receptors or biomarkers and the radioactive atoms enable PET or SPECT scanners to image areas where the tracers have collected in large numbers.

Two protein molecules that fit together as lock and key seem to promote the abnormal formation of blood vessels in joints affected by rheumatoid arthritis, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, who found that the substances are present at higher levels in the joints of patients affected by the disease.

Sheryl Smith and colleagues at the State University of New York reckon this could be due to a temporary increase in a receptor molecule that inhibits activity in a brain area key to some types of learning.

The unaltered hemagglutinin is akin to a key that unlocks a so - called receptor molecule in cells lining the upper airways of humans and other mammals.

They showed for the first time how three key molecules interact together to generate the cells, which are later found in adult bone marrow.

For the first time, the response of more than 10,000 genes was followed simultaneously, which identified brassinosteroids and auxins and their signalling molecules as key to the growth stimulation observed in biochar.

Our guide is a small, «elegant» molecule called carbon disulfide — a compound that is a key ingredient in the making of viscose (better known as rayon) and is also insidiously toxic, having devastated the minds and bodies.

Scientists have long known that ribose molecules, a key constituent of RNA, form easily in Miller's «prebiotic soup,» but they normally break down too quickly to link together to form this simple genetic material.

The discovery of new materials for separating ethylene from ethane by adsorption, instead of using cryogenic distillation, is a key milestone for molecular separations because of the multiple and widely extended uses of these molecules in industry.

Lanza also designed the nanoparticles to carry targeting molecules that home in on and bind to cancer cells that carry the complementary receptor, like a lock and key.

Yet in a study led by Aimy Sebastian, a graduate student in the School of Natural Sciences at UC Merced who is conducting her Ph.D thesis work under Loots, identified the secreted bone protein Sclerostin (SOST), as a key molecule dysregulated as a result of prostate cancer - bone microenvironment interactions.

The researchers observed the effect of the synthetically produced molecule, JK - 31, on the growth and proliferation of a model human breast cancer cell line and found that it effectively blocked the protein cyclin - dependent kinase 1 (CDK1), which plays a key part in the process of the division of cancer cells, and therefore inhibited the proliferation of the cells.

Researchers at the University of Leeds have made a new synthetic anti-cancer molecule that targets two key mechanisms in the spread of malignant tumors through the body.

The key to sleep turns out to be one of the body's most important molecules: ATP, the compound that stores energy for use in metabolism.

Treatment for advanced melanoma has seen success with targeted therapies — drugs that interfere with division and growth of cancer cells by targeting key molecules — especially when multiple drugs are used in combination.

«This is a seminal step in identifying key pathways and molecules involved in kidney cancer so that specific therapies that target these new genes can be developed to treat this cancer.»

Small molecules also are key elements in technologies like solar cells and LEDs.

The key to Gather and Yun's biolaser is green fluorescent protein (GFP), a molecule that has proved endlessly useful to biologists since its discovery in the jellyfish Aequorea victoria in the early 1960s, partly because living cells can be so easily programmed to produce it.

Signaling by molecules called prostaglandins plays a key role in the body's response to inflammation.

They then purified messenger RNA — a molecule that plays a key role in the production of proteins — from the cells in the animals» upper intestines, injected the mRNA into immature eggs cells, and looked for changes in iron uptake.

«In 1969, our coauthor, Michael Cashel, discovered that a new molecule appeared in E. coli when the bacteria were starved of key nutrientIn 1969, our coauthor, Michael Cashel, discovered that a new molecule appeared in E. coli when the bacteria were starved of key nutrientin E. coli when the bacteria were starved of key nutrients.

This small protein molecule contains a loop which fits, like a key in a lock, into the ion channel proteins found on nerve cell membranes, which are used to transport sodium and potassium ions in and out of the cell.

Dr. Doug Zochodne and his team have discovered a key molecule that directly regulates nerve cell growth in the damaged nervous system.

The trick is that the bromine and chlorine atoms in the halon molecule — the very ones that are so damaging to the stratospheric ozone — are also incredibly aggressive scavengers of hydrogen atoms, which are key to maintaining a combustion chain reaction.

In just two years of work with the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope, astronomers have discovered eight new organic molecules near the center of the Milky Way, bolstering theories that key chemical precursors of life were first forged in deep spacIn just two years of work with the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope, astronomers have discovered eight new organic molecules near the center of the Milky Way, bolstering theories that key chemical precursors of life were first forged in deep spacin deep space.

Because Zika typically has trouble establishing infections in mice, the researchers used animals that were genetically altered so that they could not produce interferon, a key immune system signaling molecule, thus dampening the animals» immune response to the virus.

Research in the laboratory of Rebecca Wingert, the Gallagher Family Associate Professor of Adult Stem Cell Research in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, has confirmed the key role of a certain small molecule in the development of kidney structures in zebrafish, a widely used model for human kidneys.

While the bulk of CureVac's prize money will go to basic molecular immunology research, Hoerr says he also wants to set aside a portion to pay tribute to Miescher, the biologist from Switzerland who identified nucleic acids, a family of key biological molecules that includes DNA and RNA, in his lab in Tübingen.

An international research team identifies for the first time a key enzyme for the synthesis of glycoconjugates (sugars linked to other molecules) in Plasmodium falciparum and other intracellular parasites belonging to the large phylum Apicomplexa.

Dr Paul Clarke, from the University of York's Department of Chemistry, said: «The origin of important biological molecules is one of the key fundamental questions in science.

«Molecule identified that helps give resident T cells in the skin their anti-cancer punch: The molecule CD103 is key to the long - term residence of T cells in the skin and to their potent anti-tumor response against melanomaMolecule identified that helps give resident T cells in the skin their anti-cancer punch: The molecule CD103 is key to the long - term residence of T cells in the skin and to their potent anti-tumor response against melanomamolecule CD103 is key to the long - term residence of T cells in the skin and to their potent anti-tumor response against melanoma.»

When Rumi binds, the six - amino - acid «signature» sequence that accepts the glucose molecule fits very precisely into the active site on Rumi in a classic «lock - and - key» manner.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has committed more than $ 1.3 million in funding from 2006 through 2011 for a project led by Alexey Onufriev, an associate professor in Virginia Tech's departments of Computer Science and Physics, to represent water computationally, because water is key to modeling biological molecules.

Frapiccini and colleagues thus reveal in this study key aspects of the ionisation process on atoms trapped inside a fullerene molecule.

The molecule CD103 is key to the long - term residence of T cells in the skin and to their anti-tumor function, report a team of researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and the Dartmouth - Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center In the April 14, 2017 Science Immunologin the skin and to their anti-tumor function, report a team of researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and the Dartmouth - Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center In the April 14, 2017 Science ImmunologIn the April 14, 2017 Science Immunology.

PARIS — As scientists race to finish a rough draft of the human genome, a European consortium is about to launch an effort to pinpoint every key spot in our genetic code where cells turn genes on and off by adding a molecule called a methyl group.