Sentences with phrase «mechanical cues in»

«Knowing how cells respond to mechanical cues in the living embryo and how they physically sculpt tissues and organs in the 3D space will transform the way we think about developmental processes,» said Otger Campàs, a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UCSB and senior author on the paper that reports this novel technique in Nature Methods.

Not exact matches

By fiddling with the cytoskeletons of real - life hydras, researchers found that the pond polyps rely on mechanical forces as well as molecular cues to regenerate head and tentacles in the right places (SN: 3/4/17, p. 19).

«How bacteria maintain and recover their shape: Mechanical stress may cue shape recovery in bacteria.»

An external cue — possibly a drop in air pressure — triggers the ejection of pioneer spores, causing mechanical changes in the surrounding tissue that trigger more ejections.

«It's been well established in the plant field that mechanical cues can bias plant growth.

Scientists have focused for decades on the role of biochemical cues in embryonic development, Campàs said, because no techniques existed to measure the mechanical cues that cells are exposed to during the formation of tissues and organs.

«However, we have little knowledge of how bacteria read out mechanical stimuli and how they change their behavior in response to these cues,» says Jenal.

Leveraging the phylogenetic position of Cnidaria and the accessibility of Nematostella tentacle tubes to optical observation and experimental manipulation (see Video 2), we will define the biochemical and mechanical cues that drive the morphogenesis of epithelial tubes in a broad evolutionary context.

In a second step, the female integrates sensory information from chemostimulatory and chemodeterrent cues, together with other chemical (e.g., pH, alkalinity) and mechanical cues (7), to resolve whether the water container represents a suitable oviposition site.