Sentences with phrase «most other cell»

But you can't lose sight of how «excitable» this system is (I'm a neurophysiologist, and excitability — decision - making episodes of positive feedback usually called impulses or action potentials — are what make nerve and muscle so different from most other cell types).

Culturing pluripotent stem cells, including embryonic stem cells, is much more complicated and expensive than culturing most other cell types.

While blood cells live in a convenient, easily studied liquid, most other cell types have been harder to analyze in the laboratory.

But most every other cell carries with it the full set of how - tos for creating and maintaining every part of the whole.

Like most other cells, the cells that make up each of our roughly 10,000 taste buds replace themselves over and over throughout our lives.

Unlike most other cells in the human body, heart cells do not have the ability to self - repair or regenerate effectively, making heart attack and heart failure severe and debilitating.

The cDNA insert from this phage hybridized to messenger RNA found in B lymphocytes, but not in most other cells.

While most other cells in the body can survive at least temporarily on alternate sources of energy, the CNS must have glucose, of which carbohydrates are the primary source.

Not exact matches

And the NTSB has listed distracted driving — everything from cell phones to in - dash systems and other hands - free devices — on its 2014 «Most Wanted» list, which identifies the year's biggest transportation challenges.

Most large studies documenting cancer rates haven't found significant evidence that cell phone use raises cancer rates or causes other negative health effects.

Especially as your business grows, you may well find a need for most or all of your employees to have a company - owned cell phone or other mobile device.

The problem with cell phone plans, much like cable plans, gym memberships, magazine subscriptions, household lighting, or countless other money sinks that we need to optimize, is that most people grossly overpay for what they actually use.

Unlike most other philosophers of science, he does not immediately cast scorn on the likes of William Dembski and Michael Behe, who have focused on the apparent design of cells and organisms.

But the discovery of genetic identities between human cells and those of most other organisms does not negate the distinctiveness of human beings.

Wesley's emphasis on the small group — most famously, his disciplined, close - knit «CLASS meetings» — has shaped the landscape of modern American spirituality through «cell groups,» Bible studies, and many other small - group modes of fellowship and worship.

Even as we are the selves we are only in relation to others and most directly to the others, the organs and cells, that constitute our own bodies, so God, too, exists as the supreme self only in relation to the cosmic body which is the world or the universe as a whole.

You say that bodily cells or molecules are the other self most completely intuited on the Whiteheadian view, while human neighbors are mostly imagined or inferred.

Unfortunately, at this formative stage in their lives one viewpoint is pushed to the fore on campus, and that's the opinion that euthanasia, abortion, embryonic stem cell research and a host of other practices which strip humans of their most fundamental right are good things.

What makes me laugh is that you think that you know it all with your remarks to other fan's comments, but if you had more than 2 brain cells you would know that Sky sports and the BBC are the most reliable regarding transfer news!

Most other lubricants, freshening gels, and massage oils on the market are hypo or hypertonic (too low or too high of a salt concentration compared with vaginal tissues), and cause water to be pushed into, or pulled out of the vaginal cells.

In fact, it is the most abundant mineral in our bodies, with over 99 per cent stored in our bones and teeth and the rest stored in other parts of the body, including muscles, blood and the fluid in between cells, where it acts as a «messenger» for the central nervous system.

But most of the Genspace DIY - ers come from the arts, banking, architecture, and other areas far removed from the world of genes and cells.

We are accustomed to thinking of ourselves as singular autonomous individuals, and these foreign cells seem to belie that notion, and suggest that most people carry remnants of other individuals.

In principle, scientists can modify AAVs to infect some cell types more than others to deliver their therapeutic payloads where they are most needed.

The researchers studied triple - negative breast cancer cells, which grow and spread faster than most other types of cancer cells.

Also, researchers could carefully select which blood types to culture with each batch of stem cells, creating stockpiles of needed blood products for people with extremely rare blood types whose blood cell makeup makes it challenging to find good blood matches for transfusions because they would reject most other types of blood.

Although blood cells serve multiple roles in the body and have complex interactions with other cellular materials, most synthetic blood products have aimed to just stick to the bare basics — shuttling oxygen from the lungs to different vital organs and then bringing carbon dioxide back to the lungs to be exhaled.

Action potentials can be created by many types of cells, but are used most extensively by the nervous system for communication between neurons and to transmit information from neurons to other body tissues such as muscles and glands.

Imagine further (and this may be the most difficult part) that neither twin has a cell phone or any other device with which to communicate back and forth.

«For a long time now, the entire field was collecting data on MYC, LIN41, and other genes and proteins without knowing what most of it meant,» said Yamanaka, who is also director of the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA) at Kyoto University, and professor at UC San Francisco.

«Most researchers have relied on cell lines to screen the effect of drugs and other treatments including viruses,» said Dr. Cripe, who also is a professor at The Ohio State University College of Medicine.

In his thirties, he learned about a new way to stain tissue developed by the Italian Camillo Golgi: a new silver - based stain that turned some nerve cells completely black while leaving most others entirely untouched, rendering the delicate branches of the nerve processes clearly visible (as seen in the image on the left).

When stimulated, the cells» channels open up within microseconds, much faster than most other ion channels in the body.

As with all of our other genes, the DNA that encodes the telomerase enzyme is present in all of our cells — but because it's needed only after quite a few cell divisions have occurred, it's not needed in most cells for most or all of the time, so it's turned off.

Each tentacle is covered with stinging cells (cnidocytes) that can stun or kill other animals: most jellyfish use them to secure prey or as a defense mechanism.

Stem cells harvested from embryos rather than adults remain the most powerful for cloning and other purposes; Yang's team showed that cloning from such cells succeeded in 49 percent of attempts and led to 18 mouse pups.

One cell line produced ten times more than any of the others, most produced very few, and some produced none at all.

We hope that by using human cells in a physiological environment we can help to direct resources toward the most promising new drug candidates and determine that other new drug candidates will fail, faster.»

Most resistance genes, in wheat and other plants, code for protein receptors located inside cells; the Stb6 gene codes for a receptor protein on the cell's surface.

Most MGUS cases are never diagnosed; MGUS is characterized by a detectable M protein without evidence for end - organ damage or other related plasma cell or lymphoproliferative disorders.

«Compared to any other device that converts chemical energy into electricity, the fuel cell, and in particular the solid oxide or ceramic fuel cell, is hands down the most efficient,» says veteran fuel cell researcher Eric Wachsman, director of the University of Maryland Energy Research Center, who published research pointing the way to lower temperature SOFCs on November 18 in Science.

Proteins control essentially all biological processes in a cell, and while they may sometimes act alone, proteins most often interact with other proteins to carry out their normal biological functions.

But when Morono's team treated the cells to what he calls a «luxury meal» of glucose and other nutrients, most of them incorporated some food — suggesting that they are, in fact, alive.

They then tested eight of the most promising candidate drugs against cells grown from other human vestibular schwannomas.

Totipotent cells are the most versatile of all stem cells; a single one can develop into an embryo with a placenta, and hence give rise to a fully formed animal — in other words, a clone.

Fossel says the most likely reason for our cells» finite life span is preventing «wholesale, unrestricted growth» — in other words, malignancy.

If tumor cells are not present in the sentinel node, the primary tumor most likely has not spread to lymph nodes or other organs.

But that first mitochondrial host may have already possessed some sophisticated features, most notably the ability to engulf other cells.

Copeland's team also noted that these mice suffered from a host of immune - related problems, the most crippling being a flood of macrophages — a type of white blood cell — damaging the lungs and other organs.

In neurons of DIXDC1 mutant mice (center) the dendrites — neural antennae that receive input from other brain cells — have fewer of the dendritic spines (white with red arrows)-- the receiving half of most synaptic inputs — compared to dendrites in wild type mice (left).