Sentences with phrase «like cell division»

Signaling pathways involve molecules in a cell that control cell functions — like cell division — by cooperation.

This study will help us to understand how genes control biological processes like cell division and behaviour.

This improves the performance of the mitochondria in their role as the power plants of the cell, thus ensuring that enough energy is available for a complex event like cell division.

The results show — for the first time, Briggs thinks — that the bacterial genomes change with depth: the micro-organisms at 554 metres carry more mutations in genes that code for energy - related processes like cell division and biosynthesis of amino acids than are seen in their shallower counterparts.

Not exact matches

Like others before him, Schrödinger was struck by the fact that chromosomes are accurately duplicated during ordinary cell division (mitosis, the way in which an organism grows) and during the creation of the sex cells (meiosis).

Insulin - like growth factor promotes cell division and growth, while insulin shunts fuel consumed either into immediate energy use or into storage for a later time.

It interferes with the process of meiosis — the form of cell division that creates sex cells, called gametes, like eggs and sperm.

William Sullivan (UCSC), collaborator of this work, adds: «Like a car with its engine out of tune, over many cell divisions this is likely to result in severe disruptions in chromosome organization.»

His hunch is that the mechanisms controlling cell division have gone wrong — somewhat like what happens in cancer — and that plaques and tangles are the result.

Membrane remodeling typically occurs during cell division, during cell movement as it slithers around, and during vesicle formation, when a small piece buds off like what you might see in a lava lamp.

It also undergoes cell division by first creating copies of chromosomes like most human cells and has a very fast replication cycle, all of which facilitated the study.

With each cell division these get shorter, so as we age they wear away like a candle wick burning down.

«Because of relatively low survival rates and their advancing age, these patients tend to be poor candidates for aggressive therapies, like a bone marrow transplant,» said senior author Catriona Jamieson, MD, PhD, professor of medicine, chief of the Division of Regenerative Medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine and director of the Stem Cell Research Program at Moores Cancer Center.

«Telomeres function a bit like the plastic caps at the ends of shoelaces and protect the coding DNA from loss during cell division.

Processes like regeneration and cell division can be slow.

Biologists who study the mechanics of cell division have for years disagreed about how much force is at work when the cell's molecular engines are lining chromosomes up in the cell, preparing to winch copies to opposite poles across a bridge - like structure called the kinetochore to form two new cells.

«P53 was already known to monitor many things, like DNA damage and having the wrong number of chromosomes, that make division dangerous for cells,» says Andrew Holland, Ph.D., an assistant professor of molecular biology and genetics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Like most machinery, the mitotic spindle can malfunction, and when it does, DNA can be broken or unevenly divided, errors implicated in the uncontrolled cell division of cancer.

Jennifer Fish (Huttner, MPG)-- «The evolution of neuronal progenitor cell division in mammals: the role of the abnormal spindle - like microcephaly associated (Aspm) protein and epithelial cell polarity» (2007)

According to Quan Zhu, Ph.D., the co - lead author of the paper, this structure is situated in the middle of the «X» like shape created when a chromosome duplicates itself just before cell division.

The potential to create new muscle cells through cell division, much like a salamander does, could offer new hope to the millions living with damaged hearts.

Like other cancers, breast cancer arises when the cells of the breast lose control over their division and start to invade neighboring tissues.

The videos confirmed the unorthodox new mode of division Obernier's labeling experiments had implied, but also revealed the cells» surprising dynamism: a long tail that touches and probes nearby blood vessels, short arms that poke and prod other stem cells, and a tongue - like antenna that pokes into the nearby ventricular space, as if to «taste» the cerebrospinal fluid there.

Pollak says the hormone does make people produce more insulin - like growth factor 1, which stimulates cell division as well as an increase in cell size.

Antioxidants, like many other natural effective, non-pharmaceutical treatments, not only outsmart cancer cell division and cause cancer cell death, but also help healthy cells maintain optimal cellular viability.

The chickpea miso and nama shoyu provide the living probiotics, the green onions and leeks offer the essential prebiotics to feed those yummy microorganisms and to top it off, I've added homemade bone broth rich in a plethora of gut - loving amino acids like L - Glutamine which help promote rapid cell division of friendly bacteria (9).

This B Vitamin is a critical nutrient in proper cell division, which is important for the areas of the body, like the cervix and colon where cell division is constant and rapid.

Cancer cells develop what is referred to as metabolic autonomy which means they are able to self - mediate growth and division instead of being stimulated by an external signal like a normal cell (1).

When the cell wants to carry out a function like cellular division or transporting molecules across the cell membrane, it breaks this bond, releasing the energy.

Because of this, it has been used as a treatment in issues that involve cell division like in the treatment of infertility in men as cell division is necessary for sperm production.

Portman plays Lena, a professor specializing in the origins of division of cells and the like, who finds herself being interrogated about mysterious goings - on as the film gets under way.

Cell division, a process more scientifically known as mitosis, requires microscopic protein fibers acting like structural cables to pull dividing cells apart.

Many anti-cancer drugs like vinca alkaloids can trigger a severe and irreversible cancerous cell division if an inappropriate dose is administered.

Near the end of their CES 10 keynote address, Robbie Bach, President of Microsoft's Entertainment & Devices Division, announced the news as he promised 2010 to be the biggest year the Xbox 360 has had yet; in part thanks to the launch of Natal and in part thanks to exclusives like Splinter Cell Conviction, Crackdown 2, Mass Effect 2, Alan Wake, Fable III and Halo Reach.

With games like The Division 2, The Crew 2, and the possibility of the return of the Splinter Cell franchise, this could be a great year for Ubisoft's team.

The curved divisions in some later work mesh like jigsaw puzzles, while the image often resembles a biological cell.