Sentences with phrase «of cell organization»

We have introduced chimeric genes which express GFP in a variety of organelles within the plant cell in order to study the dynamics of cell organization.

Not exact matches

The majority of the fuel - cell industry is rooted in the Northeast, but fuel - cell businesses there have only been cooperating for the past decade or so, says Joel M. Rinebold, director of energy initiatives at the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, the East Hartford, Conn. - based organization that oversees the cluster.

But in June, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative — the philanthropic organization in Palo Alto, California, that funds the Biohub — contributed an undisclosed amount of money and software - engineering support to the Human Cell Atlas data platform, which will be used to store, analyse and browse project data.

More interesting, he said, would be working with organizations like police or fire services to station fleets of drones — similar to how you have cell towers today — to help facilitate their work.

The Ontario Institute for Regenerative Medicine (OIRM) is part of a community of researchers and organizations that are making world - leading scientific discoveries in stem cell and regenerative medicine.

Thus, at the lowest level, electrons tend to unite and converge in the atom; atoms converge by molecularization, crystallization; molecules unite by polymerization; cells unite by conjugation, reproduction, association; nerve ganglions concentrate and localize to form a brain by what might be called a process of cephalization; the higher animal groups form colonies, hives, herds, societies, etc.; man socializes and forms civilizations as foci of attraction and organization.

Self «organization too is understood by him very broadly; it begins at the microphysical level and is exhibited most strikingly at the level of the living cell.

(i) a woman's right to an abortion; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls (and boys) against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (vi) gay marriage; (vii) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» Catholics; (viii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (ix) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (x) population control; (xi) buying alcohol on a Sunday in many places; (xii) use of condoms and other contraceptives; (xiii) embryonic stem cell research; (xiv) little 10 year - old boys joining organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America, regardless of the religious views of their parents; and (xv) gays being allowed to serve openly in the military.

Such human social organization may be compared with the life of plants, whose individual cells may be highly specialized and interdependent.

It is the central problem of biological evolution in which groups of cells form larger and larger organizations by generating hierarchical constraints on subgroups.

RS: According to the hypothesis of formative causation, outlined in my book A New Science of Life, systems such as molecules, crystals, cells, organs and organisms are organized by specific morphogenetic fields, which give them their characteristic form and organization.

As one moves up levels of organization — electrons, atoms, molecules, cells, and so on — the properties of each larger whole are given, not merely by the units of which it is composed, but by the new relations among these units.

The organization of cells into complex living organisms may have taken millions of years to achieve.

Spontaneous self - organization is invoked by biochemists in the evolution of the prebiotic world in which a variety of atoms assembled into organic molecules eventually giving rise to molecules of RNA, DNA and proteins which led to further complex assemblies and eventually to cells.

Collectively, though, they're all single cells in the organization known as The New York Metropolitan Baseball Club Inc., which has the moral compass of a sea anemone.

With 212 million cell phone users in the US — about 75 % of the population — the potential for using mobile phones («mo - phos,» as the kids call them) as a tool to grow your organization's visibility and spread your message is enormous.

«What this research shows is that they're using the same cell types with the same kinds of connections we see in the neocortex, but with a very different kind of organization.»

Aside from the variation of paracrine factors between male and female cells, the team also found important differences in organization, distribution and morphology of actin filaments in male and female hAMSCs.

Neurobiology is the study of cells of the nervous system and the organization of these cells into functional circuits that process information and mediate behavior.

And speaking of partnerships, Beckett expects that the network and the Centre for Stem Cell Research will collaborate, with the latter providing the physical space and common facilities for stem cell investigators who belong to both organizatiCell Research will collaborate, with the latter providing the physical space and common facilities for stem cell investigators who belong to both organizaticell investigators who belong to both organizations.

The idea that tensegrity dictates the shape and organization of living cells was initially controversial, but as a result of experimental validation in multiple systems, it has gained greater acceptance over time.

CIRM leaders have said that the organization is now entering a second stage in which the focus of its funding will shift to translating basic stem cell science into therapies.

The technique analyzes the spatial organization of chromatin in a cell and detects all the genomic regions that interact with a particular region of interest.

In an article that appears in the online edition of Science, UMMS Professor Job Dekker, PhD, and colleagues show new evidence for a general principal of condensed, mitotic chromosome organization and structure that is highly adaptable and common to all cells.

This unique organization of tubulin is preserved among all living plant and animal cells, because it is essential for way in which microtubules assemble, Al - Bassam said.

Annual meetings of organizations like the American Society of Cell Biology often include education sessions.

NIH is also in active discussions with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a philanthropic organization set up by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan as well as international organizations, about a project to assemble the atlas of human cells, something Collins likened to a «Google map of the human body.»

William Sullivan (UCSC), collaborator of this work, adds: «Like a car with its engine out of tune, over many cell divisions this is likely to result in severe disruptions in chromosome organization.»

By investigating the interactions within algal colonies, researchers hope to understand how single cells took the evolutionary leap to mass organization hundreds of millions of years ago.

And in May, a week after Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy was diagnosed with a glioma, The EMR Policy Institute, a Marshfield, Vt. — based nonprofit organization that supports research on the effects of electromagnetic radiation, released a statement linking his tumor to heavy cell phone use.

Cell processes are also determined by the chemical labeling (or marks) and specific spatial organization of our genomes, which are epigenetic characteristics — that is, nongenetic but nonetheless inheritable traits.

For instance, by building molecules on cell membranes, they hope to one day be able to manipulate the spatial organization of membrane proteins.

Sheldrake's basic folly, argues Wolpert, is that he is pushing the notion of morphic resonance at precisely the time when strictly biochemical analysis of cell structure and organization is close to providing a comprehensive explanation for morphogenesis, the process by which living creatures acquire their shapes.

Weaving together perspectives from the fields of gene regulation and chromatin, Turner offers a concise discussion of the relations between the packing and organization of DNA within the cell nucleus and the regulation and expression of genes.

«If we could turn back the clock and peer inside this cell, would its cellular organization have been like that of an archaeal cell or more eukaryote - like?»

It is key for positioning the formation of individual microtubules in plant cells and also important for the organization and function of plant cell skeletons overall, beyond just the division process.

«We found that mitochondria communicate changes in cellular organization to initiate a specific metabolic reconfiguration that supports primitive hMSC properties,» said Dr. Teng Ma, senior author of the STEM CELLS study..

«In addition to the new insights into plant cell microtubule organization, these observations of GCP - WD function will be of interest to scientists studying microtubules in animals, where GCP - WD has been challenging to observe it in action,» Ehrhardt added.

Dyer and his colleagues also mapped the three - dimensional organization of the retinal epigenome to discover how retinal cells package their genes in concentric regions of the cell nucleus.

Microscopic anatomy is the study of minute anatomical structures assisted with microscopes, which includes histology (the study of the organization of tissues), and cytology (the study of cells).

What was even more interesting is that maternal and paternal genomes of the zygote seem to have different organizations within the same cell.

«Additionally, we found unique differences in the three - dimensional organization of the zygote's chromatin compared to other interphase cells.

Using this method, features of genomic organization including compartments, topologically associating domains (TADs) and chromatin loops were detected in single cells when averaged over the genome.

«Because the structure we detected was similar in all three experimental conditions, we think that we are picking up the fundamental organization of place cells in the hippocampus,» said Itskov.

«We designed a technique able to image molecular organization in cells and tissues that can ultimately let us see the early stage of this detachment and how lipids are organized within this myelin sheath,» said Brasselet.

The technique was even sensitive enough to measure the organization of lipids around red blood cells, which have only a single lipid membrane.

Instead of mimicking the complex 3D organization of the developing pituitary gland, this approach relies on the precisely timed exposure of human pluripotent stem cells to a few specific cellular signals that are known to play an important role during embryonic development.

«The organization of cell colonies and phenotypic switching between different types of colonies becomes a lot more flexible and rapid with reversible aneuploidy than if it depended on random mutations in the genes,» Skupin says.

To find out the specific metabolic pathways affected by disease or stress, the Tufts scientists looked at three parameters: the ratio of FAD to NADH, the fluorescence «fade» of NADH, and the organization of the mitochondria as revealed by the spatial distribution of NADH within a cell (the energy producing «batteries» of the cell).

The team found deep conservation of certain processes that likely reflects similar underlying regulatory processes between mouse and man, but there were also significant differences in gene expression during kidney development, as well as in the timing, scale, organization, and molecular profile of key cell types and cell structures.