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.
Not exact matches
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 physio
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 physio
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 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 c
Cells 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.