Sentences with phrase «of cell movement»

Results: Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of California, San Diego have created the first comprehensive profile of cell movement.
«We want to reconstruct the elemental building plan of animals, tracking each cell from very early development until late stages, so that we know everything that has happened in terms of cell movement and cell division,» Keller says.
In this study, the scientists used tracheal cells of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster to unravel the signalling mechanism involved in the regulation of cell movements.

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Adding in information from personal assistants such as Google Assistant and Android cell phone movement and use, Google can map much of a person's activity throughout the day.
Wesleyanism shares much with Reformation evangelicalism - so much so that many interpreters (William Cannon, Franz Hildebrandt, Philip Watson, George Croft Cell, and others) have emphasized the continuities and basically seen the movement as a recovery of the basic impulse of the Reformation.
What frustrates me about the pro-choice movement is the lengths to which advocates go to de-humanize unborn children and sanitize the abortion procedure, reducing life to nothing more than a cluster of cells and the implications of pregnancy to little more than a choice.
Let us be thankful that a tool for discrediting the pro-life movement (shaming us for opposing magical cures promised by embryonic stem - cell research) has itself been taken out of their hands.
Laurentius Siemer, the stout anti-Nazi provincial of the German Dominicans, joined the Cologne resistance cell — the «Cologne Circle» — organized by the Catholic Workers» movement, most of whom were executed after the July 1944 assassination attempt on Hitler.
Waddington's paper in Towards a Theoretical Biology follows on from one by Brian Goodwin («A Statistical Mechanics of Temporal Organization in Cells») in which Goodwin looks at the question of how ordered systems like cells, and still more macro-organisms, supervene on the movements of their constituent molecules, and how one is to close the gap between molecular biology and cell physioCells») in which Goodwin looks at the question of how ordered systems like cells, and still more macro-organisms, supervene on the movements of their constituent molecules, and how one is to close the gap between molecular biology and cell physiocells, and still more macro-organisms, supervene on the movements of their constituent molecules, and how one is to close the gap between molecular biology and cell physiology.
Sodium plays a role in your critical body functions by regulating the movement of water in and out of your cells.
She says, «Our new findings show that in the absence of embryonic movement the cells that should form articular cartilage receive incorrect molecular signals, where one type of signal is lost while another inappropriate signal is activated in its place.
This is a harmless mixture of amniotic fluid that your baby has swallowed, digestive secretion and dead skin cells that will form your baby's first bowel movement after birth.
«Our new findings show that in the absence of embryonic movement the cells that should form articular cartilage receive incorrect molecular signals, where one type of signal is lost while another inappropriate signal is activated in its place,» Paula Murphy, a professor of zoology at Trinity College Dublin who co-led the study, says.
After examining chick and mouse embryos, researchers determined movement stimulates molecular interactions that guide the cells and tissues of an embryo to become functional bones and joints.
This unnatural and forced movement of water changes vaginal cell shape and biology for the worse and can lead to tissue damage, irritation, and general disruptions to the vaginal ecosystem.
III: Direct movement of monovalent ions, water, and glucose across the apical membrane of the cell.
Moving up to 2006, Mike mentioned an SMS - driven electoral victory in South Korea, a successful petition drive in South Africa and a movement to send peace messages to Iraqi cell phones (for a look at less pacific uses of cell phones in the war in Iraq, see this article from a couple of months ago).
A longtime Albany reporter was arrested early Wednesday afternoon after he used his cell phone in the lobby of the New York State Senate — a move that gave birth to a hashtag movement and saw Gov. Andrew Cuomo step in to free him.
Garcia is accused of threatening the victim with a weapon and restricting the victim's movements and escape, then seizing and disposing of the victim's cell phone.
Developed by General Electric, the devices can be mounted inside prison cells, where they keep track of inmates» movements and vital signs using Doppler radar.
p75NTR - independent transport was also more erratic, with a larger proportion of viruses moving in the wrong direction, i.e. away from the cell body and towards the tip, suggesting that p75NTR facilitates the directed fast movement of the virus.
They show that turning on this signaling hub activates the movement of the cancer cells.
Neurons that fire in response to horizontal and vertical movements had already been found in the retinas of mammals, but the only cells known to be sensitive to approaching objects were in the brain.
«We don't know what [the government] will do with it, but we shall remain vigilant,» says Alain Trautmann, co-director of the cell biology department at the Cochin Institute and spokesman for the protest movement.
One of the molecular mysteries hindering development of regenerative therapy for muscles is uncovering the precise genetic and molecular processes that cause skeletal muscle stem cells (called myoblasts) to fuse and form the striated muscle fibers that allow movement.
It's easy to understand why you would not want to be consciously aware of the intricacies of your muscle movement, but this can be less intuitive when applied to your perceptions, thoughts, and beliefs, which are also final products of the activity of billions of nerve cells.
The motor may also provide insight into the workings of the biomolecular machines that harness energy from food to perform mechanical work such as cell division and muscle movement.
Living cells are micrometer - scale units capable of replication, growth, chemical synthesis, and movement using technologies operating on individual molecules at the nanometer scale.
They used this novel simulation approach to build a model of a sperm cell that demonstrates cellular movement from individual dynein protein molecules in the tail all the way up to the whole cell, allowing them to observe how changes at the atomic level are reflected in larger - scale structures.
Stem cells have long been heralded as a potential treatment for a range of brain ailments, but research has so far focused on movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease.
Sonia Coontz of Long Beach, Calif., received stem cell treatment two years ago after a severe stroke impacted movement in her right arm and leg and garbled her speech.
Because according to a report in the May issue of Current Biology, the jellyfish can accelerate their stinging cells to over five million g — it might be the fastest cell movement in nature.
Published in Molecular Neurobiology, the study led by Dr Elodie Siney under the supervision of Dr Sandrine Willaime - Morawek, Lecturer in Stem Cells and Brain Repair at the University, analysed how enzymes called ADAMs affect the movement and function of the human tumor cCells and Brain Repair at the University, analysed how enzymes called ADAMs affect the movement and function of the human tumor cellscells.
New research at the Weizmann Institute of Science has shed light on the subject, especially on the movement of immune cells that race to the sites of infection and inflammation.
The cerebellum is the part of the brain responsible for posture, balance and movement, and the researchers focused on those cells that control blinking.
One of the mysteries of the living body is the movement of cells — not just in the blood, but through cellular and other barriers.
It is controlled, in part, by a series of channels on the surface of heart cells that regulate the movement of different ions into and out of the cells.
Using tiny electrodes, they monitored the response of brain cells responsible for movement.
The new findings prove that a group of cells in the brain can turn a short - lived sensation into complex, long - lasting muscle movements, says physiologist Simon Alford of Northwestern University.
As water is lost out of the leaf cells through transpiration, a gradient is established whereby the movement of water out of the cell raises its osmotic concentration and, therefore, its suction pressure.
In the lung cancer cell shown above at left, red shades indicate the presence of actin, a structural protein important in cell movement.
The tremors and other movement impairments of Parkinson's are triggered by the death of dopamine - producing cells in the brain, so the investigators used flies that had been genetically engineered to have their dopamine cells die off as they age.
Using a mouse model, the team also demonstrated that two processes during neurodevelopment are regulated by the gene: proliferation — the replication of neuronal stem cells that have the potential to become multiple different kinds of cells, including neurons — and migration — the movement of neurons to specific locations in the brain during development.
The olfactory system comprises six million to 10 million receptor cells (of which there are nearly 400 different types) and links to multiple brain structures and neural pathways, including those involved in memory, emotion and movement.
When patients had high levels of activated CaM kinase II floating around in their brains, nerve cells got overstimulated, and symptoms of OCD or a movement disorder could erupt.
When the researchers administered drugs to inhibit the movement of certain «motor» proteins that transport mitochondria and other cargo within the cell by traveling along microtubules, the mitochondria accumulated in the axon of the neuron and never made it to the synaptic terminal.
Work on animals has suggested that ultrasounds can in fact interfere with fetal brain development, derailing the normal movements of cells that populate the brain.
This research provides a new insight into the movement of electrons that could potentially change the way solar cells and semiconductor devices are built.
He and colleagues have determined what gives cholera bacteria their curved shape and whether it matters (a polymer protein, and it does matter; the curve makes it easier for cholera to cause disease), how different wavelengths of light affect movement of photosynthetic bacteria (red and green wavelengths encourage movement; blue light stops the microbes in their tracks), how bacteria coordinate cell division machinery and how photosynthetic bacteria's growth changes in light and dark.
Reichert says that such ultrathin layers of water are a common phenomenon, and understanding the behavior of HDL and LDL water may lead to insights into water's behavior in diverse situations, from ice skating to ion movement across biological cell walls.
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