Sentences with phrase «nearby cells»

Now a new generation of scientists is using light to study the activity of neurons — including those previously inaccessible — without damaging nearby cells.

When they selectively eliminated supporting cells in newborn mice, nearby cells rapidly replaced them, thereby preserving hearing.

If a bubble is too big or too close, however, the technique can damage or destroy nearby cells.

Then free radicals are created that damage nearby cells.

HUD requires its certified appraisers to take the presence of nearby cell towers into consideration when determining the value of a single family residential property.

In addition to GPS location data provided by most smartphones, it's also easy, but less accurate, for carriers to track your movements by triangulating data from nearby cell towers.

In fact, there's reason to believe that all of the properties of cell biology that made complex life possible in the next geologic era were put in place here: cytoskeletons that allow eukaryotic cells to change shape, and cell polarity that allows cells to send a molecular message to one side of the cell but not the other, and to interact with nearby cells.

Whereas such a wound in humans gets covered with skin tissue, axolotls transform nearby cells into stem cells and recruit others from farther away to gather near the injury.

When exposed to a magnetic field, these magnetic droplets deform, pushing on nearby cells.

In studies in mice, the scientists also found that CRIPTO helped the animals form new mammary tissues, which led the team to hypothesize that CRIPTO may be produced by nearby cells in the fat to spur the growth of breast tissue.

Ultrasonic therapy often uses targeted ultrasound waves to create cavitation bubbles — tiny balloons of rapidly oscillating air pockets that stretch nearby cell membranes when they burst.

The Smart Unit Luggage Tracker ($ 80) goes inside your bag and uses nearby cell towers to give you a real - time view of its whereabouts as soon as you (and it) land, via an app.

However, implanting them can further damage hearing, and electrical currents can spread easily through the neural tissue to stimulate nearby cells, which the patient hears as noise.

In addition, the researchers showed that Cbf - beta maintains the osteoblast lineage commitment in two ways — through the Wnt paracrine pathway to affect nearby cells and through endogenous signaling within the cell to suppress adipogenesis gene expression.

Cells growing into the wound had 12 genes that were activated much more or much less than nearby cells sitting idly on the sidelines.

When an axolotl suffers a spinal cord injury, nearby cells called glial cells kick into high gear, proliferating rapidly and repositioning themselves to rebuild the connections between nerves and reconnect the injured spinal cord.

We calculated the activity profiles in Fig. 9B from the raw data in Fig. 9A by averaging the spike - density functions of nearby cells according to a Gaussian weighting function (width σ = 0.25 mm) and sorting them according to their location in the motor map (Methods).

In the new research, when a spheroid of induced pacemaker cells was surrounded by a layer of cardiac muscle cells, the IPM cells were able to drive the previously quiescent nearby cells at around 145 beats per minute.

Antioxidants can «donate» electrons to unstable free radicals so they don't have to snatch electrons from unsuspecting nearby cells.

Quartz discovered that Android was tracking nearby cell - towers and was feeding that information directly to Google, regardless of location services being on or off.

When you move about a city, your phone, whether it has GPS or not, is constantly pinging nearby cell towers and saying, «Here I am.»

They are in constant conversation with nearby cells, exchanging molecular bits of information that tell the cell how to function, much the same way the information that comes in through our eyes, ears, nose, mouth and skin tells us how to function.

Upon insult to the intestine, zonulin is released from epithelial cells, where it can act locally on receptors on the apical (lumen - facing) membrane of nearby cells.

«The radionuclide we used delivered radiation only to HIV - infected cells without damaging nearby cells.»

And because of their speed and randomness, it is very difficult to study their effects on nearby cells.

As the wound heals, the gel breaks down into amino acids — the building blocks of proteins — that can be taken up by nearby cells and used for tissue repair, according to MIT neuroscientist Rutledge Ellis - Behnke.

They work by tricking cell phones into connecting to the Stingray rather than nearby cell towers.

They found that even the briefest of pulses in the nanosecond to femtosecond range produced a microscopic explosion called a cavitation bubble powerful enough to damage nearby cells.

His trick was to insert the gene coding for CREB into a version of the herpesvirus that can infect neurons without spreading to nearby cells.

To determine the effect ASIC1a activation has on neighboring cells, Braga's group bathed BLA cells in an acidic solution in the laboratory and measured the signals sent to nearby cells.

Maria Braga, DDS, PhD, and colleagues at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, found that activating ASIC1a decreased the activity of nearby cells and reduced anxiety - like behavior in animals.

I grabbed my nearby cell phone and called the campus nurse.

This approach captures the data of all nearby cell phones, including countless cell phones of individuals unrelated to the criminal investigation.

At each new location, they activate the stingray and capture the cell phone data for all of the nearby cell phones.

When they are activated, they release those compounds and sometimes cause collateral damage to nearby cells.

Tumors orchestrate vessel formation, or angiogenesis, by secreting various proteins called growth factors that can drift into contact with nearby cells that line blood vessels.

Tumors with high levels of E-cadherin tend to be tightly tethered to nearby cells and less likely to break free and travel to other sites.

Inside the cell, Listeria is protected from antibacterial products and then spreads surreptitiously to nearby cells.

In the paper, the authors use several animal models to show that the progenitor cells could contribute to the formation of new lymph ducts, both by becoming part of the lymph ducts and by stimulating the growth of nearby cells.

That will cause cells to «fire,» or send signals, to nearby cells.

When the internal structure of the cancer cell collapses their anchoring with the nearby cells is loosened.

It allows a specific neurotransmitter called histamine to build up in the spaces between nerve cells by blocking its uptake into the nearby cells.

After that, the virus gets into the bloodstream and thus attacks all nearby cells, duplicating itself in geometric progression.

It was also a few metres from the exhaust fans from air conditioning units of a nearby building, and as Watts was standing by the thermometer, he could even feel warm exhaust air from the nearby cell phone tower equipment sheds blowing past him!

He became enraged by routine noises — the sound of doors opening as the guards made their hourly checks, the sounds of inmates in nearby cells.