Sentences with phrase «molecular processes involved»

We carried out genome and transcriptome sequencing of E. invadens to identify molecular processes involved in stage conversion.

Working with the research group led by Vijay G. Sankaran, M.D., Ph.D., of Boston Children's Hospital and the Broad Institute, Rajiv K. Khajuria, a doctoral student at Charité's Berlin - Brandenburg School for Regenerative Therapies, studied the molecular processes involved in the differentiation of stem cells and their development into mature blood cells.

Further studies in Raff's lab are aimed at producing better understanding of the molecular processes involved when titanium dioxide catalyzes the breakdown of ammonia.

The scientists studied the molecular processes involved in these changes and discovered that the activation of the Ret receptor counteracts the muscle degeneration.

These findings causally link sleep deprivation to the etiology of biological aging, and further supports the hypothesis that sleep deprivation may be associated with elevated disease risk because it promotes molecular processes involved in biological aging.

But it is not just the function of immunological molecules in the developing brain that the new findings might help illuminate — they could also help explain the molecular processes involved in neurodegeneration, the researchers say.

Combined, the molecular processes involving the HIPPO / TAZ / YAP and Gαs feedback circuit indicate it acts as a fulcrum that balances Schwann cell proliferation and differentiation in peripheral nerves, according to the authors.

Not exact matches

Defined as the harnessing of living processes to achieve healing and repair of damaged and diseased tissues by Tim Hardingham, director of the UK Centre for Tissue Engineering, it is a field that requires collaborative research involving cell and molecular biologists, chemical engineers, materials scientists, and surgeons.

According to a study published on the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution, most genes involved in complex processes are present in sponges.

Further, the research demonstrated that far - from - equilibrium self - assembly processes involving energy and molecular exchanges between a structure and its local environment were possible for a simple composite formed from surfactants, water, and sugar.

«Until now, the spinal cord circuitry involved in processing pain has remained a black box,» says Martyn Goulding, Salk professor in the Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory and a co-senior author of the paper.

«It really reinforces the idea that evolution of the code itself was a progressive process,» said Paul Schimmel, a professor of molecular and cell biology at the Scripps Research Institute, who was not involved in the study.

«I think it's becoming increasingly clear that exaptation is very important in the evolution of biologically important processes,» said Joe Thornton, a molecular evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago and the University of Oregon, who was not involved in the study.

Being able to compare how gas atoms diffuse in the two different molecular straws and understand the fundamental processes involved is an active research area that could have industrial impact in gas separation and membrane technology down the line, Shimizu says.

Researchers have developed a fast and practical molecular - scale imaging technique that could let scientists view never - before - seen dynamics of biological processes involved in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and multiple sclerosis.

«It is important to understand the fundamental processes involved in the molecular electrical doping of organic semiconductors more precisely,» explains Salzmann, continuing: «If we want to successfully employ these kinds of materials in applications, we need to be able to control their electronic properties just as precisely as we customarily do today with inorganic semiconductors.»

While the disease is caused by a single gene mutation, the manifestation of the disease at a molecular level is nevertheless highly complex and involves multiple cellular processes.

It involves processing swabs immediately on a portable device combined with a rapid molecular test and, as samples do not need to be sent to the laboratory, results can be delivered within an hour as opposed to a number of days.

Therefore, a group of experts from the University of Seville and the Andalusian Center for Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine (Cabimer) has published a study that indicates a new element involved in this process: chromatin.

Like many biological processes, it involves an entire sequence of molecular signals that result in the formation of new cells and tissue.

Traditional hydrogels made up of either synthetic polymers or natural biomolecules often serve as passive scaffolds for molecular or cellular species, which render these materials unable to fully recapitulate the dynamic signaling involved in biological processes, such as cell / tissue development.

By systematically exposing and analyzing the proteins involved in neurotransmitter release, Südhof and Scheller have transformed our description of the process from a rough outline to a series of nuanced molecular transactions.

Synapses operate by means of a chemical called a neurotransmitter that is released from the presynaptic terminal by a process involving the influx of Ca2 +, whose molecular bases our two Lasker Basic Science Prize winners, Richard Scheller and Thomas Sudhof, have pioneered in defining.

Our ultimate goals in this activity include (1) a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms governing cellular processes and especially those involved in certain kinds of diseases such as cancer and (2) the development of computational tools that can be used for diagnostic / prognostic purposes based on genomic data.

The Kops group studies the processes involved in chromosome segregation during cell division, with a focus on molecular mechanisms, evolution and chromosomal instability.

A team of researchers at Martin Luther University Halle - Wittenberg (MLU) joined forces with the Leibniz Institute for Plant Biochemistry (IPB) to discover which molecular processes are involved in plant growth.

We are developing a broad range of advanced fluorescence - based imaging technologies to assay the functions of the involved molecular machinery non-invasively, automate imaging to address all its molecular components, and computationally process image data to extract biochemical and biophysical parameters.

This four - year project funded through the NIH National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) propose to revisit the processes involved in caries development by combining carefully chosen and highly complementary new analytical and molecular biology tools.

«The more we understand the molecular mechanisms involved in the infection process and in plant resistance, the more effective we're going to be in breeding resistant crops,» said Martin.

The laboratory is also using chemical crosslinking - based structural mass spectrometry techniques coupled with molecular modeling to determine structures of large protein complexes and characterize protein conformational changes involved with physiological processes.

«The oxidation of water to molecular oxygen is a four - electron process involving multiple steps,» Frei says.

in the short - term, further understand the molecular pathways involved in the process of oncogenic transformation in human hemopathies, using fine structural in vivo analysis of clinical materials, combined with the development of functional in vitro experimental systems and in vivo models of genetically modified mice;

Using these neurons, we can replay the disease process in a dish and use this as a model to study the molecular mechanisms involved.

Recent technological breakthroughs have allowed new insights into the aging process, and scientists are finding that the core elements of aging involve a surprisingly small list of molecular processes.

A vicious cycle exists in which molecular mechanisms involved in the aging process, such as oxidative stress, DNA damage, senescence, and inflammation, lead to tissue NAD decline which subsequently exacerbates the processes that caused its decline in the first place.

(Within a typical atmosphere, as on Earth, heat transport by conduction and molecular mass diffusion are relatively insignificant for bulk transport (there is some role in smaller - scale processes involving particles in the air), except when the net radiative flux and convective flux are very very small (not a condition generally found on Earth).