Sentences with phrase «of algae cell»

Living Ink has been developing its own line of algae cell cultures specifically for their colors, which can range from yellow to magenta to cyan, as well as their suitability as pigments for printing inks.

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Maybe algae will scale up from a few thousand gallons a month to billions of gallons a day, or solar energy can be converted to hydrogen, which will then power the planet's 600 million vehicles via fuel cells; but the market has no way to price the possibility than essential resources will enter permanent depletion declines and that no cheap, scalable substitute exists.

Jordan happened to be the favorite player of research fellow Steve Miller, the discoverer of the gene family whose leaps enabled Miller and biologist David Kirk to isolate four genes in the algae Volvox that regulate aspects of cell life.

Touching your time machine down on Earth at a random point in the planet's history, roughly nine times out of 10 you would only find single - celled life or algae and would risk suffocation in the oxygen - starved open air.

Everybody is looking for a naturally occurring algae that is going to be a miracle cell to save the world and, after a century of looking, people still haven't found it.

Corals, in turn, depend upon single - celled algae that inhabit them, providing most of their food and giving them their color.

The man responsible for one of the original sequences of the human genome as well as the team that brought you the first living cell running on human - made DNA now hopes to harness algae to make everything humanity needs.

Wash water from two of the three tunnels made the algae grow slower, and the liver cells started producing detox proteins.

In the lab, they also did an experiment to see if wash water from tunnels affected the protein activity in liver cells, or reduced the growth of an algae called Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata.

In order to obtain such a third - generation biofuel from algae, polysaccharides like cellulose, which are main components of cell walls, have to be dissolved.

Recent work also shows that some plants, such as the cabbage and mustard relative Arabidopsis, make proteins that are involved in the development and functioning of eyespots — the ultrabasic eyes found in some single - celled organisms such as green algae.

Using frozen samples of Nannochloropsis oculata, a type of single - celled ocean - dwelling algae, Dina Pasini (University of Kent) set out to test the conditions which early life would have had to survive if it did indeed travel through space.

The scientists were able to see distinct inner cell structures and so - called cell fountains, the bundles of packed and splaying filaments that form the body of the fleshy forms and are characteristic of red algae.

The E. coli directly secretes the resulting biodiesel, which then floats to the top of a fermentation vat, so there is neither the necessity for distillation or other purification processes nor the need, as in biodiesel from algae, to break the cell to get the oil out.

In an experiment they conducted largely for fun, Weibel, George Whitesides of Harvard University and their colleagues yoked nanosize polystyrene beads to a single - cell green alga called Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.

So just as different cells in a leaf contain different amounts of chlorophyll, coral cells seem to house different amounts of the photosynthetic algae that makes their food, Symbiodinium.

In the lab, the team mixed each strain of K. veneficum with a species of algae on which it preys, and recorded the three - dimensional motions of thousands of cells using a high - speed holographic microscopy technique they described in 20071.

Whereas the chiefly single - celled prokaryotes barely figure in the CBD, fungi at least get a mention in the updated Global Strategy for Plant Conservation, which is part of the convention: «Parties may choose on a national basis to include other taxa, including algae, lichens and fungi.»

This is the case of diatoms, algae consisting of a single cell surrounded by a silica skeleton, recommended by the European Union and Switzerland as one of the ideal bioindicators for rivers and lakes.

The rub was if algae are deprived of nitrogen, the cells become stressed and begin to produce lipids, but their growth rate slows.

«This alga is colony - forming, which means that a lot of individual cells grow to form a colony.

Next steps include examining whether the viral infections play a role in controlling the population of toxic algae and continued studies on the nutrients these cells use to grow.

The oldest form of life studied for auxin were single - cell, green algae, dating back to the deep past of a billion years ago.

As a graduate student at Stanford, he found ways to insert the gene of a light - sensitive protein found in algae into nerve cells.

Fossils of single - celled algae survived a volcanic eruption to reveal the origins of an island chain.

But silicon (an element that has properties both of metals and non-metals) seems to occur only in bioinorganic compounds, such as those in the silica shells of the single - celled algae diatoms.

Most of the vibrant color probably comes from algae living in the single - celled bodies of the dinoflagellate Noctiluca scintillans.

Some of the algae, or phytoplankton, manufacture saxitoxin, a poison so devastating it is the underlying cause of paralytic shellfish poisoning, an often - lethal reaction to shellfish that are storing toxic algal cells.

Now Alison Sweeney of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and her team have discovered that the clam uses specialised cells, called iridocytes, to give these algae the perfect amount of light to photosynthesise.

To remedy that absence, Golden's lab, along with plant physiologist Takao Kondo and colleagues at Nagoya University in Japan, developed an easy - to - read gauge of changing photosynthetic activity in colonies of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus, a blue - green alga whose one - celled organisms divide as often as once every 5 to 6 hours.

The nucleus (blue) of this single - celled chlorarachniophyte is surrounded by chloroplasts (red) that once belonged to a free - living green alga.

Researchers have known for decades that some microorganisms, such as single - celled green algae, have proteins that respond to light by opening a channel in the microbe's membranes, allowing the passage of electrically charged ions (such as calcium and sodium).

Some of the colors of both species come from symbiotic algae that live inside the coral animal's cells.

Unlike traditional eukaryotic cells — i.e. all cells with a nucleus — cryptophyte cells resemble a Russian doll in the form of an alga within an alga.

A considerable part of phytoplankton is made up of cryptophytes, complex single - cell algae.

Algae need silicate for the structure of their strong mineral cell membranes, which are composed of two overlapping parts like a cardboard shoe box with a lid.

Strictly speaking, Pfiesteria is not an alga but belongs to a group of single - celled organisms called dinoflagellates.

Despite having only six cell types, whereas humans have about 200, and no nervous system, Trichoplax appears to coordinate a complex sequence of behaviors culminating in external digestion of algae.

The work is part of a growing field called optogenetics, and used light - activated proteins from photosynthetic algae to switch nerve cells on and off.

The scientists first genetically modified E. coli to consume sugar and secrete engine - grade biodiesel, which can float to the top of a fermentation vat — no need for distilling, purifying or breaking cells open to get the oil out, as is the case for making biodiesel from algae.

By sequencing the genome of the extensively studied moss Physcomitrella patens and comparing it to the sequenced genomes of rice, the flowering plant Arabidopsis, and single - cell algae, an international team has been able to look at what the ancestral land - plant genome looked like.

The authors then found that cells of a certain cell type, called lipophils, simultaneously secretes granules whose contents rapidly break down the algae.

Scientists unleashed Metridia longa, a copepod of the northern seas, into tanks of algae and found that an algal cell didn't have to bump into a copepod to be detected.

«Ocean acidification: The limits of adaptation: World's longest laboratory experiment with the single - celled calcifying alga Emiliania huxleyi reveals that evolutionary adaptation to acidification is restricted.»

In an unprecedented evolutionary experiment, scientists from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and the Thünen Institute of Fisheries Ecology demonstrated that the most important single - celled calcifying alga of world's oceans, Emiliania huxleyi, is only able to adapt to ocean acidification to a certain extent.

After four years, or 2100 algae generations later, the scientists concluded: The cells of adapted populations divided considerably faster than the non-adjusted when exposed to ocean acidification.

Experiments in three major types of biological organisms — human cells, algae, and fungi — found in each case that levels of magnesium in cells rise and fall in a daily cycle.

The study is based on a single cell of the calcifying alga from Raunefjord in Norway.

This pair of «ribbon diagram» images compares the three - dimensional structures of two closely related proteins, determined by X-ray crystallography: (L) the HAP2 protein from the single - celled alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and (R) the fusion protein from dengue virus.

His team found distinct cellular structures inside the fossils characteristic of red algae, which are eukaryotic, meaning they have complex cells, like plants and humans.