Sentences with phrase «make cells function»

Using computational data analysis, Hughes hopes to create evolutionary trees of these genes and regulatory mechanisms in order to figure out how they work together to make cells function and how they contribute to the physiology of the organisms they are found in.

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Mitchell has also equipped her house with power packs that can charge off her car engine, three cell phones from three different telecommunications carriers to make sure she can always be in touch with clients, and she has begun to offload things like her accounting and CRM functions to software as a service providers XERO and NetSuite respectively.

Dehydration saps your productive cells making you sluggish, tired and unable to function at 100 percent.

Prior to the development of a fully functioning nervous system, and the activation of said system, a human embryo is «alive» in the same sense a tumor is «alive»: the individual cells that make it up are alive, but there is no higher - level functionality.

Copper — is also found in shredded coconut which works together with iron to fuel your metabolism, support energy function, as well as to make functional red blood cells.

These vitamins have a variety of functions that help maintain a healthy body - to metabolize carbohydrates and maintain blood glucose levels, fatty acids for energy, and they help make hemoglobin, the red and white blood cells.

Plant based fats like those found in nuts, seeds and coconut oil, contain fatty acids that make up our cell membranes, help with brain function, are necessary for the absorption of fat soluble vitamins (including A, C, E, D & K) and for the production of energy and hormones.

-- Its antioxidant action makes it an alternative medicine for curing and preventing cancer, inhibiting the growth of cancer cells by stimulating the detox function of the liver.

Made up of essential fatty acids and B vitamins, lecithin supports healthy function of the brain, nervous system and cell membranes.

It's an ingredient that fights free radicals and improves cell function, making it beneficial to the whole body.

It will make your life a lot easier if you find the bag with easy - to access zippered interior and exterior compartments, that can function as a wallet and storage for things you always need, such as baby wipes, pacifiers, and your cell phone.

The term HELLP is an anagram, made up of the first letters of the three main signs of the illness: Hemolysis (the breakdown of red blood cells in the body), Elevated Liver function, and Low Platelet count (which contributes to poor blood clotting).

These proteins constantly move along the strands of our DNA, turning specific genes on and off to make sure cells function as expected.

That success represents a dilemma for neuroscience, said bioethicist Hank Greely of Stanford University: «When you make a chimera with human cells in its brain, the closer the resulting brain is to human» in structure and function and «the greater the ethical and public concern.»

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

Feinberg thinks that a main function of a cell's nucleus might be to partition the genome to make sure that regions of low or high stochasticity are well - defined.

These proteins, made by our cells, help transform chemicals in our body, functioning as a catalyst.

Recent work also shows that some plants, such as the cabbage and mustard relative Arabidopsis, make proteins that are involved in the development and functioning of eyespots — the ultrabasic eyes found in some single - celled organisms such as green algae.

Because of their importance in cells, fatty acids» functions and metabolism, or breakdown have been widely studied by biologists, but the standard techniques makes it difficult to visualize precisely where these molecules are located within the cells.

Different drug molecules make it possible to affect the function of these receptors and, consequently, to prevent cell activation and mediator release.

Researchers still don't know how this range corresponds to their versatile functions, but being more like a string than like a lump with keyholes means that a protein can make many contacts with other molecules to regulate the network of signals that drives the cell.

«Before we get too excited about this being a new form of infertility treatment, these cells can not as yet be made into functioning sperm, so we have no idea if they can pass «the acid test» — the ability to fertilise female eggs as is achieved with donor sperm in IVF treatment,» says Malcolm Alison of the London School of Medicine and Dentistry in the UK.

Making purpose - built tissues may be far in the future, because figuring out the exact recipes to turn cells into functioning bone, heart or spinal cord will take time.

The UPR is triggered when the normal functions of the endoplasmic reticulum — the cell's largest organelle in charge of making and folding proteins — are compromised.

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.

«It's taken years of trial and error, making educated guesses and taking baby steps to finally produce functioning human muscle from pluripotent stem cells,» said Lingjun Rao, a postdoctoral researcher in Bursac's laboratory and first author of the study.

Although not nearly as well studied as neurons, astrocytes — named for their star - shaped appearance — make up one - third to one - half of all the cells in the brain and are increasingly being found to be critical for neuronal function.

Bio-engineers are working on the development of biological computers with the aim of designing small circuits made from biological material that can be integrated into cells to change their functions.

Obesity is a key driver of Type 2 Diabetes, given that excess abdominal fat causes fat cells to release a «pro-inflammatory» chemical which can make the body less sensitive to the insulin it produces and disrupt the ability of insulin - responsive cells to fulfill their function.

First, they managed to make the bacterial lysostaphin gene function effectively in cultures of mammalian cells.

To see if her recipe worked, she ran a test, applying a drug that should cause spheres made of normal, functioning cells to fill with fluid.

Made of a biological component — such as a fluorescent protein — and a «detector» that responds to the presence of a specific chemical, biosensors act as the switches and levers that turn programmed functions on and off inside the engineered cells.

The loss of beta cell function may be driven by a defect in Clec16a, a gene responsible for getting rid of old mitochondria, the powerhouses of cells, and making room for fresh ones.

Modern cells use RNA to make proteins, the workhorses of cellular function, but RNA likely preceded both proteins and DNA.

They found that exposing lung cells with the ΔF508 mutation to VX - 770 long - term — mimicking what happens in patients who take the drug for extended periods — often made the CFTR protein function poorly when compared with short - term exposure.

The conventional view is that the main function of RNA is to convey instructions from DNA to the protein - making factories in cells — a task carried out by large molecules of «messenger» RNA.

GM - CSF helps improve the function of existing immune system cells and prompts the bone marrow to make new cells, which can help normalize the immune response.

For instance, says Boston College physicist Michael J. Naughton, the cells» two functions — capturing light and making energy — pull the optimum design for a solar panel in opposite directions.

Understanding how a particular DNA sequence gives rise to a particular protein provides us with some insight into that protein, but a deeper investigation of how the protein is made, where it is located, and how much of it is present in different cell types is required to enable a true understanding of its function.

HCV invades cells in the body by binding to specific receptors on the cell, enabling the virus to enter it.2 Once inside, HCV hijacks functions of the cell known as transcription, translation and replication, which enables HCV to make copies of its viral genome and proteins, allowing the virus to spread to other sites of the body.2 When HCV enters the host cell, it releases viral (+) RNA that is transcribed by viral RNA replicase into viral -LRB--) RNA, which can be used as a template for viral genome replication to produce more (+) RNA or for viral protein synthesis.

The hepatocytes are first patterned onto surfaces dotted with tiny spots of collagen, and then surrounded by supportive tissue made up of stromal cells, which act as connective tissue and support the hepatocytes in carrying out their liver functions.

These functions have made it possible to quickly fluorescence - label only GLUT4 that is translocated to the cell membrane by fluorogenic probes and clearly detect fluorescence of GLUT4 translocation to the cell membrane.

Human cells follow this code to make individual protein molecules, which then fold up into 3D structures and carry out their function.

This process, called cell differentiation, gives rise to all the various cell types, such as nerve, muscle, or blood cells, which are diverse in shape and function and make up tissues and organs.

It's the first step in making proteins, the stuff of all the structures in the body and molecular players in the countless dramas unfolding every second as cells execute tasks that enable our organs to function.

Normally, they open and close very quickly and in sync with other cell functions to make the heart work.

When a new granule cell neuron is made in the dentate gyrus, it needs to get «wired in,» by forming synapses, or connections, in order to contribute to circuit function.

They can copy only certain sequences of nucleotide bases, the building blocks that make up RNA and DNA, and those sequences don't carry out any important function inside cells.

Although the transferred nucleus isn't adequately reprogrammed to make an animal, it can be tested to see if it functions well enough to make a line of stem cells.

The report «provides hope that even primitive tissues made from stem cells will one day restore the function of dead or diseased organs in patients,» he adds.