Sentences with phrase «make cell parts»

In the Nature Communications study, UTSW researchers also reported how miR - 17 causes cyst proliferation: the molecule essentially reprograms the metabolism of kidney cells so that cellular structures called mitochondria use less nutrients, freeing up resources to instead make cell parts that become cysts.

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«He came in, he and his right hand man Aditya Sood came in and became a part of the terrorist cell and my God we made a movie.»
The Ontario Institute for Regenerative Medicine (OIRM) is part of a community of researchers and organizations that are making world - leading scientific discoveries in stem cell and regenerative medicine.
We can see it at play in MRSA and many single celled organisms — but Christians deny it because it makes us PART of the environment rather than having dominion OVER it.
This depends upon there being a brain, an arrangement of cells in a particular part of the body which by reason of its peculiar coordination makes the given routing able to «know» in a distinctively human manner — quite different from, although certainly continuous with, the sort of «knowing» that is possible for the higher grades of animal life.
Typically, a checkweigher for produce is made of mild steel, and one that will be cleaned with harsh chemicals, such as bleach, will be made with all stainless steel parts, even the Load cells.
This may entail making small holes in the bone to allow new cartilage to grow (microfracture), taking cartilage from another part of the athlete's knee and transplanting it into the defect (osteochondral autograft transfer), taking cartilage cells from the knee and then having them grown in a lab for later re-implantation (autologous chondrocyte implantation), or taking cartilage from a person who has passed away and placing it in the defect (osteochondral allograft transfer).
Embryo: All of your babies» organs and body parts will develop from the two layers of cells that now make up the embryo: the epiblast and the hypoblast.
The party when embraced market reforms, you know, these media outlets realized that they needed to deliver something that people wanted to watch and so real journalism was part of that and so when this man was able to stand up to the government and the word got out in the international media, it quickly made its way onto the Internet, so people in China could see it and then it spread very quickly on text messages on cell phones and on instant messaging, and e-mail.
«My part of the project is to develop and use techniques to make it easier monitor the development of the cells into cartilage in real time which is important to knowing if and when you can use it for the patient.
Improper disposal is a significant problem because cell phones, like many other electronic devices, are packed with parts made from toxic metals such as arsenic, cadmium, and lead.
Autophagy involves breaking down the cell's parts — its protein - making, power - generating, and transport systems — into small molecules.
His research career, peppered with landmark discoveries that go all the way from uncovering the basic principles of how DNA instructs cells to make proteins to unraveling the genetic blueprint of the puffer fish, is an indelible part of the history of molecular biology.
When your telomeres are finally eaten away after many years, your cells begin to show signs of age, and this process may be a key part of what makes us grow old.
In solution form, their solar absorber layer — the part made from the copper indium diselenide or CIGS materials and critical to the performance of the cell — can be easily painted or coated onto a surface.
At this point, if you leave the cell alone, it will usually mend CRISPR's cut — but it will occasionally also make a mistake in the repair process, breaking a gene or other parts of the genome.
The larger organelles, such as the nucleus and vacuoles, are easily visible with moderate magnification (although sometimes a clear view requires the application of chemicals that selectively stain parts of the cells); they were among the first biological discoveries made after the invention of the microscope.
Then he cut open Hernandez's thigh and inserted a paper - thin slice of the same material used to make the pixie dust: part of a pig's bladder known as the extracellular matrix, or ECM, a fibrous substance that occupies the spaces between cells.
But when the cell gets to the «broken record» part of the instructions, it makes a protein with far too many copies of a molecule called glutamine.
Using electroporation — in Corn's words, «we run an electric current and make holes in the cells» — he'll inject the complex and replacement parts through the cells» protective membrane.
A-beta is made by cells in the brain, but also by blood platelets, skin cells, muscles and other parts of the body.
Solar cells are expensive in part because they are hard to make.
RNA, widely known as a cellular messenger that makes proteins and carries out DNA's instructions to other parts of the cell, is now understood to perform sophisticated chemical reactions and is believed to perform an extraordinary number of other functions, at least some of which are unknown.
Image courtesy of iStockphoto / BakiBG SAN ANTONIO, Texas — So much of our information from — and interaction with — the world is now mediated by computers, cell phones and tablets that health experts have been practically running themselves ragged trying to find ways to use these conduits to help people make healthier choices.Great success stories have come out of parts of the developing world, where cell phones have been used to improve maternal and infant care and help people adhere to medication guidelines.
«The long - term vision is simple,» said Saif, who is also part of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the U. of I. «Could we make elementary structures and seed them with stem cells that would differentiate into smart structures to deliver drugs, perform minimally invasive surgery or target cancer?»
A healthy gut depends on a balance of inflammatory and tolerant T cells, which make up part of the adaptive immune system.
The method, now part of the field known as optogenetics, made it possible to control brain cells in mice with laser light.
And now we're going to look through their bodies, and we're going to look to see what parts of the body the human embryonic stem cell makes.
The sugars that are part of these cell walls can't be accessed and fermented to make biofuels unless the walls are broken down by agents like CAZymes.
Long dismissed as a mere messenger, RNA is perhaps best known for its role ferrying instructions from the genome, which is cloistered in the nucleus, to more far - flung parts of the cell, where it is made into protein.
Still unclear is how the methuselah gene mutation makes flies more stress - resistant, but the amino acid sequence of the protein it makes may be part of a signaling pathway that controls how well cells resist or repair these stresses.
When EBOV makes copies of itself inside cells, it does so by taking over and hijacking parts of that host cell's basic machinery to make its own proteins.
Unregulated growth is due in large part to the fact that tumor cells can rebuild protective ends of their chromosomes, which are made of repeated DNA sequences and proteins.
The problem with making blood stem cells proliferate outside the body is that the artificial growth gives rise to an accumulation of abnormal proteins in a part of the cell called the endoplasmic reticulum, ER.
Thanks to two innovations, ITOP can make life - sized body parts in which cells thrive.
Part of what makes each cell type unique is its distinctive pattern of DNA structure and regulatory factors.
Previous studies in the lab showed that once HCMV is inside the cell, it quickly becomes latent by entering the cell's nucleus and co-opting a cellular protein called Daxx — part of the intrinsic immune system — to shut down its own replication, the process of reproducing its genetic material to make more copies of itself.
It gets stuck in the earliest stage of wormy development, making the same larval cells repeatedly while failing to form the organs and body parts needed for later life — including the vulva required to get the eggs out of its body.
«The exciting part of this work is not just that we made hydrogels, but that we're now equipped with this powerful technique that lets us ask fundamental — and very challenging — questions about them,» says Takanari Inoue, Ph.D., an associate professor of cell biology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and senior author of the report on the research published online Nov. 6 in the journal Nature Materials.
This allowed other researchers to mix and match BioBrick parts via a standard construction process, and then insert the composite parts into cells to make them carry out a designed genetic program.
A considerable part of phytoplankton is made up of cryptophytes, complex single - cell algae.
On - demand replacement body parts inched closer to reality with the announcement from San Diego biotech company Organovo that its organ «printer» had created the first artificial blood vessel made entirely from human cells, with no synthetic scaffolding.
By removing a specific gene, researchers reduced the amount of lignin (stained red) by 36 % in cells in a plant's stem, making it easier to recover sugar - rich parts of the plant that can be converted to automotive
Being fat makes all these diseases strike earlier, and that seems to be at least in part because fat cells spur more inflammation.
Tiny «brains» that include parts of the cortex, hippocampus and even retinas, have been made for the first time using stem cells.
The genes for each transcription factor were made from different bits of DNA that code for the functional parts of proteins, such as a domain that can bind to DNA and another that provides the protein with access to the cell's nucleus.
As part of the long effort to improve treatment of tuberculosis (TB), microbiologists led by Yasu Morita at the University of Massachusetts Amherst report that they have for the first time characterized a protein involved in making a glycolipid compound found in the TB cell wall, which is critical for the disease - causing Mycobacterium to become infectious.
They found that there was no measurable difference between the concentrations of stem cells in the various samples, despite the fact that the in vivo sample was part of a dynamic environment — which included enzymes and blood flow — making it easier for the stem cells to migrate away from the target site.
This 0157: H7 makes the headlines, mainly because it's a problem in the United States, but in the other parts of the world there are strains of E. coli that still make children very sick, and they kill millions of children every year, and they have lots of different ways of invading our cells and manipulating them.
AIM2 is present in all immune and epithelial cells, which make up a large part of the intestine's cell population and help to maintain a healthy gut.
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