Sentences with phrase «machinery of the cell»

The goal of these drugs is to, in various ways, destroy this message, denying the protein making machinery of the cell the instructions for making a specific protein.

Areas often affected by fluctuations in thyroid hormone production are the skeleton, the heart, and the metabolic machinery of your cells.

That's why DARPA is hoping it can help scientists get much better at modifying the metabolic and genetic machinery of cells to produce useful products such as fuels.

Once inside the cells, the virus hijacks the protein manufacturing machinery of the cell to generate its own viral proteins and create more viral particles.

«It's a master switch that turns on hundreds of genes necessary to build the powerhouse machinery of the cell.»

Mitochondria are the energy - producing machinery of our cells.

For biased transmission to occur, the Penn team reasoned, something about the physical machinery of cell division must enable it.

Genes when active are transcribed into strands of RNA that may then be translated into proteins, the main machinery of cells.

Lacking the biological machinery of a cell, the genome itself is not alive, but it should be possible to create full - blown artificial life by transplanting it into a cell — which is the researchers» next step.

Adriana Klyszejko (Mueller, TUD)-- «Investigating structure and assembly of the energy conversion machinery of the cell by atomic force microscopy» (2010)

The present study employed computer simulations to screen 300,000 fragments using an atomic resolution structure of the cancer target MTH1, an enzyme part of the DNA - repair machinery of the cell.

Study strengthens link between amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and problems in protein production machinery of cells and identifies possible treatment strategy

«It could be that there is something within the very complex machinery of a cell that allows the Cas9 enzyme to more easily accomplish deletions and insertions,» Sansbury said.

There is another huge advantage: organisms with an altered genetic code would be immune to viruses, which rely on the protein - making machinery of the cells they infect to make copies of themselves.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is hoping it can help scientists get much better at modifying the metabolic and genetic machinery of cells to produce useful products such as fuels.

But just as a virus can not reproduce except by commandeering the machinery of a cell, sin can not reproduce except by taking over the machinery of conscience.

We thought the machinery of the cell was beautifully elegant — but it has turned out to be a hideously complicated mess that goes wrong all too often

In these and other inherited diseases, 10 to 15 percent of the single - base pair mutations that cause the disease create a misplaced, premature «stop» codon in the middle of the gene — causing the machinery of the cell to prematurely halt synthesis of the protein, which destroys its ability to function.

Ataluren appears to persuade the machinery of the cell to «run» that stop sign and allow a functioning protein to be made.

Other researchers are trying to harnass the machinery of cells to produce a new generation of tiny machines that could do useful work in the body.

Viruses technically are not alive, but there is some stage that's sort of in between inert and going through a living stage by hijacking the machinery of cells.

We're going to start by injecting that into a cell whose chromosome we've killed to see if it could initially take over the machinery of that cell and go on from there.

At the heart of the «bit» of memory is essentially a fragment of DNA called a promoter, which enables the machinery of a cell to make a given protein.

But it's still a mystery how the amino acid building blocks were first assembled according to coded nucleic acid templates into the proteins that formed the machinery of all cells.

Such a project — involving new gene construction, a predictive behavioral model, and the synthesis of their desired functions — is a major step forward for the fledgling field of synthetic biology, which seeks to better understand and co-opt the machinery of cells.

MicroRNAs lower the levels of proteins such as BDNF by binding to messenger RNA, the molecular middleman that carries instructions from genes to the protein - making machinery of the cell, and tagging it for destruction.

To make a protein, the sequence of genetic letters in each gene gets copied into matching strands of RNA, which then float out of the nucleus to guide the protein - making machinery of the cell.

Proteins are the building blocks and machinery of our cells.

Somehow this expansion flags the machinery of the cell nucleus to silence the gene, by packing its DNA into a more tightly twisted form, known as heterochromatin.

Thirdly, Insulin is a storage hormone, so it tells the machinery of the cell to store the excess glucose as body fat, thus creating the «spare tire» effect in the belly.