Sentences with phrase «like cell structure»

«Once the dough is mixed, we give it time to ferment; this gives bread a web - like cell structure or what some know as bread's «holes,»» Wildflower says.

Not exact matches

In various experiments with various conditions, scientists have been able to create a wide range of cell - like structures of increasing complexity on the road toward a simple self - replicating organism.

The human body has about 1,000 kinds of such receptors, structures on the surface of cells, which let the body respond to a wide variety of chemical signals, like adrenaline.

The question as to whether the structure of a cell is more like that of a brain or of a tree is a factual one.

That everyone can now use a cell phone to access the Bible anywhere, anytime, and can link with like - minded people anywhere, anytime, will only accelerate the process of chipping away at the monolithic structure of Christianity.

I like to let my breads rise slowly, and for as long as possible before baking because it helps with cell structure, but I can't say I ever have the patience to wait that long!

Since the first human brain organoids were created from stem cells in 2013, scientists have gotten them to form structures like those in the brains of fetuses, to sprout dozens of different kinds of brain cells, and to develop abnormalities like those causing neurological diseases such as Timothy syndrome.

«That means things that are smaller than the diameter of a human hair, like cells, parts of cells or the fine structure of fibers.»

This intricate regulation process allows stem cells to maintain their ability to undergo self - renewal and form blood vessel - like structures.

The researchers confirmed this hypothesis by showing that if they blocked YAP1 they could inhibit stem cells from undergoing self - renewal, forming blood vessel - like structures, and reduce lung cancer cell growth in mice.

Scientists we sent Anand's poster presentation to said that although the team has indeed grown some kind of miniature collection of cells, or «organoid», in a dish, the structure isn't much like a fetal brain.

Schematic illustration of cells (blue mountain - like shapes) on top of nanoscale mushroom - like structures with silicone dioxide stems and gold caps, which have the potential to detect cell proliferation in real - time.

«At the very microscopic level,» he says, «we have developed techniques like two - photon microscopy, which allows extremely detailed examinations of structures and processes within cells.»

Now they report recovering not just collagen — which conveys little evolutionary information because it is the same in almost all animals — but also haemoglobin, elastin and laminin, as well as cell - like structures resembling blood and bone cells.

Ear cells have a hair - like structure that enables them to pick up sound vibrations.

Specifically, it targets the cochlea, a snail - like structure in the inner ear where sensitive cells convey sound to the brain.

Over 12 days, the retinal cells formed a vesicle which subsequently transformed into a cup - like structure.

These rod - shaped structures function like grappling hooks between cells: the pili of different cells get caught and then shortened.

This year those breakthroughs include tools for reprogramming living cells and rendering lab animals transparent; ways of powering electronics with sound waves and saliva; smartphone screens that correct for the flaws in your vision; Lego - like atomic structures that could produce major advances in superconductivity research; and others.

Finally, the team grew the tissue in a three - dimensional system, which coaxed it into forming all the structures found in gut tissue, including the finger - like villi that protrude inwards to increase surface area, and recesses called crypts containing the intestinal stem cells that renew the gut lining weekly (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature09691).

Surprisingly, they included vessel - like structures with possible red blood cells inside.

«However, cholesterol is involved with many key processes and structures in the body like cell membranes, bone health and the immune system.»

That allows the printer to build in tiny cell wall — like structures on each scale that prevent fractures and other common problems.

In particular, the highly branched tree - like fungal structures, called arbuscules, normally found inside cells of the host root — which are required for nutrient exchange — remain underdeveloped.

The brittlestar Ophiocoma wendtii, a relative of starfish, can scan the sea floor, thanks to light - sensitive cells scattered across its skin, rather than by using eye - like structures, a study suggests.

Kemp and Payne realized that if they could anchor the reporter protein to microtubules — fibrous structures that crisscross cells like railroad tracks — they might obtain the location information they needed.

They depleted their reserves of these chemicals rapidly each time a new auditory signal came in, and they decreased the amount of space within the cells that housed sac - like structures called vesicles — biological storage tanks where neurotransmitter chemicals are kept.

The spring - like structures can stretch and bend, making the cell flexible without deforming the anode and cathode.

In a typical algorithm, the software first scans each image for spheroid - like structures, then defines the boundaries of likely cells within the spheroids.

Now, 60 years after Turing's death, researchers from Brandeis University and the University of Pittsburgh have provided the first experimental evidence that validates Turing's theory in cell - like structures.

Under a light microscope, Schweitzer saw groups of red circular structures that looked for all the world like red blood cells.

At Brandeis, Seth Fraden, professor of physics, and Irv Epstein, the Henry F. Fischbach Professor of Chemistry, created rings of synthetic, cell - like structures with activating and inhibiting chemical reactions to test Turing's model.

«We called it a nanocell because it looks like a nucleus and surrounding lipid structure, but it's significantly smaller than a cell,» Sengupta says.

«Tardigrades can tell us about how some fundamental biological problems have been solved, like how to preserve cell structures including DNA without any water present in the cell,» says Ingemar Jönsson at Kristianstad University in Sweden.

One way to do this is to make the protein in a bacterial cell and reconstitute it in nanodiscs, which are water friendly, membrane - like structures that the receptor can reside in.

Lütolf's lab found that this attachment itself is immensely important for growing organoids, as it triggers a whole host of signals to the stem cell that tell it to grow and build an intestine - like structure.

To determine whether endothelial cells — the cells that line the interior surface of blood vessels — directly influence breast cancer cell growth, they then created unique organotypic models of lung and bone marrow microvascular niches, in which endothelial cells formed blood vessel - like structures in culture as they would in the original organ.

In June Italian scientists announced the first human embryonic stem cells derived from parthenotes — embryo - like structures formed when an egg starts to divide on its own, with no sperm involved.

In the mouse study, the insulin - producing cells were placed under the kidney capsule — a thin membrane layer that surrounds the kidney — where they developed into an organ - like structure with its own blood supply.

Why Engineers Want It Like the moth eye, butterfly wings can improve sunlight absorption, and their relatively flat structure may make it even easier to apply the feature to solar cells.

The cells act as sentries, engulfing toxins, cellular wastes and microbes and then encasing them in sphere - like structures called vesicles.

Others, like that of Stigmatella aurantiaca, are more complex branching structures in which some cells form the support structure and only some get to form spores.

In healthy cells, telomeres protect the chromosome by tucking away any overhanging ends of DNA strands to form a lasso - like structure known as a T - loop.

The researchers, based at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA, used extrusion - based 3 - D printing to produce a grid - like 3 - D structure to grow embryoid body that demonstrated cell viability and rapid self - renewal for 7 days while maintaining high pluripotentcy.

Under the microscope, the tissue held more surprises, revealing structures that looked like blood vessels and bone cells.

The cells transformed into the six major types of retinal cells and spontaneously arranged themselves into a layered cup - like structure, mimicking the adult retina (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature09941).

They are sticky finger - like structures the cancer cells extend to sense their environment and to navigate — imagine a walking blind spider, explains Dr Jacquemet.

Researchers have uncovered a sieve - like structure in lymph nodes that regulates the transport of proteins and migration of white blood cells into lymph nodes.

We already knew that E. coli can grip to human cells using hair - like appendages that have tiny protein hooks on their tips, but until now no one had worked out the structure of this protein, called FimH, or how it interacts with human cells.

One of the most intriguing reasons for studying endosymbionts like Tremblayais to learn about the evolution of mitochondria and chloroplasts, membrane - bound structures within cells that produce energy.