Sentences with phrase «nematode experiments»

Weeks later, officials recovered the canisters that contained Conley's nematode experiments.

Whereas in the nematode experiment the researchers targeted nanoparticles to temperature - sensitive ion channels that naturally exist in the membranes of the worms» nerve cells, the scientists inserted the gene for a heat - activated ion channel called TRPV1 into the human and rat cells.

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In one of her experiments she studied gene expression in nematodes subjected to 15 - G pressures, using Ames's human centrifuge.

Singh eventually settled on a Glycine tomentella plant known as PI 441001 for these experiments because the wild plant was immune to soybean rust and to soybean cyst nematode.

A final experiment used a mutant that created an excess of an enzyme that degrades cytokinin, finding that a base level of plant cytokinin was also necessary for nematode growth.

Experiments with mice, fruit flies, yeast cells, and tiny worms called nematodes, or roundworms, have pointed to environmental modifications that can extend life span dramatically.

Researchers projected images of plates containing the nematode C. elegans, describing how the worms are used in lifespan experiments.

Proving their hunch, the researchers found ascarosides in the secretions of every nematode they examined, and a few subsequent experiments showed that the small compounds also acted as signaling molecules in the species» they investigated.

Study The researchers experimented with various types - or strains as scientists prefer to call them - of the minuscule nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.

In another experiment the researchers gave the nematodes the toxic protein amyloid - beta [Abeta].

Second, Ron's arguments are based on Cynthia Kenyon's experiments in the nematode worm C elegans, in which she found that mutations to Daf - 2, which is an insulin - like receptor in C elegans, extended maximum lifespan.

In laboratory experiments designed to determine what might have caused the nematode treatment to fail, the effectiveness of the nematodes was strongly influenced by the relative amounts of sand and clay in the soil, and how wet it was.