Sentences with phrase «most abundant»

Surprisingly, they discovered that fibroblasts, connective tissue cells that are one of the most abundant types of cells in the mucosa, greatly increase HIV infection of immune cells.

Abstract Skeletal muscle is a major site of metabolic activity and the most abundant tissue in the human body accounting for almost 40 % of the total body mass.

Given that water makes up 60 % of our bodies and is one of the most abundant molecules in the universe, it's no wonder that water is known as the «matrix of life.»

We take the earth's most abundant resources - the strength of the wind, the force of water, and the heat of the sun, - and put them to work with breakthrough technology that unleashes their true possibilities.

Thus, in humans, MAIT cells are the most abundant T cell subset able to detect and kill bacteria infected cells.

Preprint: Biology and taxonomy of crAss - like bacteriophages, the most abundant virus in the human gut — Emma Guerin et al. — bioRxiv

Soil bacteria are the most abundant and diverse organisms on Earth.

Our findings are consistent with a proteomic study that found that W01A8.1 b is among the most abundant proteins associated with LDs (Zhang et al., 2012).

... up of carbon dioxide, and water vapour was the second most abundant gas.

The result is good news for geochemists because alpha - quartz is the most abundant silicate mineral in the environment.

Among the thousands of exoplanets astronomers have found, Neptune - sized worlds are the most abundant.

That is, sea salt is the most abundant, followed by mineral dust, etc.?

We will know even more in late July and August, when the comet begins to warm up near the water - ice line outside of the orbit of Mars, and we can detect the most abundant frozen gas, which is water, as it boils away from the comet.»

For millennia, the sleek long - distance flyer was the most abundant bird in North America and perhaps the world.

Most of his work focuses on the pharmacologic manipulation of mammalian brain circuits which use the most abundant inhibitory neurotransmitter in the central nervous system gamma - aminobutyric acid (GABA) as their chief signaling molecule.

In humans, MAIT cells represent the most abundant T cell subset reacting against bacteria.

This remarkable ability has allowed them to become one of the most abundant animals in the terrestrial tropics, and they've got their gut bacteria to thank.

While the toxins are likely to be most abundant in the air around lakes, they exist all over the planet, even in deserts.

A Florida State University geology researcher is going deep below the Earth's surface to understand how some of the most abundant minerals that comprise the Earth's crust change under pressure.

«Two genus of picocyanobacteria - Synechococus and Prochlorocccos - are the most abundant carbon fixers in the ocean.»

Before the dinosaurs, around 260 million years ago, a group of early mammal relatives called dicynodonts were the most abundant vertebrate land animals.

Hydrogen is the lightest and the most abundant element in the universe.

Then, they used that information to show that this enzyme exists in some of the most abundant marine microbes.

It was then that arthropods evolved their exoskeleton — an innovation that has helped them become the most abundant animal group on the planet, with over a million species described to date.

The materials the team studied belong to a class known as alkaline - earth - metal binary oxides, whose constituents are «among the most abundant class of materials on Earth,» Yildiz says.»

Once considered biologically inert, the body's most abundant sugar can permanently alter some proteins.

But the second most abundant greenhouse gas is methane, and molecule - for - molecule it's a far more efficient heat - trapper.

Equally surprising, Gordon says, was the communities» consistency: the viral makeup changed less than 5 % over the course of the year, and the viromes of the most abundant phages changed less than 1 %.

«Collagen is the most abundant protein in the body,» says Eliceiri.

These duck - billed, herbivorous dinosaurs were probably the most abundant large animals in Alaska.

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Two of the most abundant crystallins, CRYAA and CRYAB, are produced in response to stress or injury.

Scientists at CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics near Geneva, report in the 19 September issue of Nature that they have produced about 50,000 slow - moving atoms of antihydrogen, the antimatter doppelgänger of the most abundant element in the universe.

«Yawunik is the most abundant of the large new species of the Marble Canyon site, and so, as a predator, it held a key position in the food network and had an important impact on this past ecosystem,» said Caron.

Manganese is the third most abundant metal in Earth's crust after titanium and iron, and presents much lower toxicity as compared to many other metals used in CO2 hydrogenation.

Since silica is one of the most abundant elements in Earth's crust, how is it that rubies managed to avoid it but at the same time connect with the exceedingly rare chromium?

Prior to this discovery, many of the most abundant microorganisms in the ocean that have been successfully cultured were done so with the aid of natural seawater media.

The collapse of the Atlantic cod fishery in the early 1990s saw the most abundant fish in the North Atlantic disappear due to overfishing.

2005 proved a banner year for microbes, the world's oldest and most abundant inhabitants.

Here, ultrasensitive mass spectrometric analyses revealed that the sialyl - Lewisx sequence [NeuAcα2 - 3Galβ1 - 4 (Fucα1 - 3) GlcNAc], a well - known selectin ligand, is the most abundant terminal sequence on the N - and O - glycans of human ZP.

An international team of scientists has identified and cloned the first gene known to control the production of cellulose — the most abundant organic compound on Earth.

So far they are most abundant in sediments,» says Eva Fernandez - Caceres, co-lead author from Uppsala University.

The scientists worked with calcite (CaCO3), which has the same composition as chalk and marble and was one of the most abundant minerals in our planet's earliest days.

The belt, which extends from a few hundred to about 2000 kilometers above Earth, «constitutes the most abundant source of antiprotons in Earth's vicinity,» Bruno says.

Silicon is the second most abundant element in Earth's crust, but it doesn't naturally bond to carbon.

Cellulose, the world's most abundant organic compound, has long interested researchers as a source of renewable fuel.

«Hurricanes carry a lot of interesting stuff inside, from sand grains to dust particles, microvegetation, bacteria and pollution, but the most abundant are salt particles,» he says.

Now researchers have figured out how one of the world's most abundant phytoplankton control their color change.

A promising source of hydrogen is the organic compound cellulose, which is a key component of plants and the most abundant biopolymer on Earth.

A closer look at the miRNAs in beebread suggested that the 16 most abundant could bind to 96 bee genes, some of which are known to affect development.