Sentences with phrase «large numbers of cells»

How do large numbers of cells, each with only limited local information, collaborate to create something much larger and more complex than themselves?

In operation the plant would consist of large numbers of cells exposed to the sun.

More important, with the capacity to rotate large numbers of cells in parallel, researchers will be able to perform high - throughput single - cell studies.»

1982: In the early 80s, scientists realize that retroviruses have tremendous potential to deliver genes stably into large numbers of cells, and start producing lab - safe versions.

He and others are experimenting with more benign ways to reach large numbers of cells with siRNAs.

So we were faced with a Catch - 22: how to expand a sufficiently large number of cells for hair regeneration while retaining their inductive properties.»

They are also trying to culture the undifferentiated cells for longer before adding Sonic hedgehog, so that they can grow larger numbers of cells.

Many methods already exist for doing this, but they tend to be clumsy and destructive, not allowing researchers to precisely control how and when they insert the DNA or requiring them to burn through large numbers of cells before they can get it into one.

Analyzing large numbers of cells, each with slight differences in their DNA, for their ability to carry out a behavior or survive a drug treatment can reveal the importance of particular genes, or sections of genes, in those abilities.

«However, because NGS measures large numbers of cells, genomic variations within tissue samples are often masked.»

While levels of RNA and protein are strongly correlated when averaged over large numbers of cells, the authors discovered that this correlation breaks down at the level of single cells, with protein information more stably representing cell identity.

One of the team's new biosensors is made from a nanoplasmonic material that is able to accommodate a large number of cells on a single substrate and to monitor cell proliferation, a fundamental process involving cell growth and division, in real time.

When levels of arbitrium build up — after a large number of cells have died — phages stop killing off the remaining bacteria and retreat to lie dormant in bacterial genomes instead.

To answer these questions, the scientists went in a new direction: They performed infection trials in a large number of cell cultures at different temperature levels.

They chose this region because it has a large number of cells and because the bird's feet hadn't been treated with arsenic, leaving the DNA there in better shape than on the rest of the preserved carcass.

While either method can transfect some fraction of a population, researchers can not control whether any individual cell will incorporate the desired genes, and large numbers of cells may be damaged or destroyed in the process.

Cell lines are therefore indispensable in medical research and a large number of cell lines exist that originate from many different tumor types.

In regenerative medicine a large number of cells are required to construct an organ.

This distributed biological memory leverages the large number of cells in bacterial cultures and encodes information into their collective genomic DNA in the form of the fraction of cells that carry specific mutations.

However, the root tips of space - grown plants (top) showed a tendency to skew a bit more than their earthbound counterparts (bottom) when they encountered an object, mostly due to their larger number of cells (edges of cells denoted by blue tick marks), the researchers say.

An important model system for differentiation is hematopoiesis where a single hematopoietic stem cell gives rise to a large number of cell types (essentially the entire blood system) through a series of characterized intermediate progenitor cells.

In addition, producing a large number of cells is very costly, so it's difficult to scale up for big experiments.

It might be possible in the near future to use one of the new forms of genetic technology to tackle the clonal expansions of specific mutations, provided there are only a few of them and they are present in large numbers of cells.

The functional disruption leads to oxidative stress inside the cell; an accumulation of highly reactive oxygen compounds takes place and a large number of the cell's molecules are damaged.

The strength of ROBOCAT II and FACSCalibur analysis is the ability to look at large numbers of cells and to quantify results.

If a large number of cell deaths occur at a given moment, then the body would deem it necessary to undergo inflammation, which may not bode well on the scalp.

Women with higher density have a greater risk of developing cancer because they have more glandular tissue, which involves a larger number of cells that can fall victim to the disease.