Sentences with phrase «of face cells»

Using this code, we are able to reconstruct the face the monkey saw and predict responses of face cells to an arbitrary face.»

They discovered that each of the face cells is tuned to view faces in slightly different ways — as if photographing a face from multiple angles at once.

The researchers then investigated how neurons reacted to different aspects of emotions, and how the activity of the face cells related to the decision made by the subjects.

It may also explain why primates are so good at facial recognition and how we can potentially distinguish among billions of different people without needing an equally massive number of face cells.

The researchers found the firing rate of each face cell corresponds to separate facial features along an axis.

Not exact matches

I won't reveal yet who my favorites are, but I will say that these young scientist - founders came up with very creative solutions for preventing infections in some common surgeries, tackling resistance in targeted antibody drugs, improving gene vectors for cell therapies, helping the vision - impaired «see» faces and better read their environments, imaging hard - to - see spots in the lungs and other organs, improving genetic risk analysis, and expediting the logistical operations of hospitals.

Speaking of Novartis — the company's experimental CTL019, which is expected to be the first approved drug in a revolutionary new cancer treatment space that turns the body's own immune cells into cancer - killers, is already facing some apprehension from doctors and patient groups who are worried about its eventual pricing.

The wireless industry has for years successfully fought regulations that would force mobile phone networks to be hardened so they work during storms, but it may face renewed demands after Hurricane Harvey knocked out seven of 10 cell towers in the hardest - hit counties of Texas.

Even so, they faced an unexpected challenge: a shortage of platelets, cells that help the body stop bleeding.

«Cells in Temporal Cortex of Conscious Sheep can Respond Preferentially to the Sight of Faces.»

As we read this history, the furor over stem cells was fueled by numerous factors: the near - universal human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now do anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn human life.

We reported on iPS cells in Cutting Edge of the Jan / Feb 2008 issue, concerning Prof. Ian Wilmut's volte - face in his attitude to cloning, after embracing iPS research.

We can begin to make our way toward wisdom by clearing out the data smog — by fasting from TV, computer, cell phone and pocket planner long enough to talk with a friend face - to - face, read a book or simply sit still and listen for the way of wisdom.

Called absentminded, they are in fact present - minded, because they do this in order to be present with some particular point of the world — to love it and know it — the artist and lover with a particular face, for instance, the scientist with a particular cell or organism.

Imagine ourselves back some four billion years ago on this planet facing two scenarios: on one side, a vast turbulence, terrific volcanoes belching forth from the inexhaustible fires of the earth's core; on the other side the beginnings of living cells, microscopic, invisible along the water's edge of some shallow sea, quiet, vital.

The «in your face,» noisy proclamations are an attempt to assert the atheist's rights to not be discriminated against via public support of religion, usually Christianity, e.g. stem cell research, gay marriage bans, creationism in science class, etc..

It is a bad thing for football reporters who face the potential for delays on public transportation, additional headaches when walking from their hotel to the bar and the stronger likelihood of that woman from Telemundo showing up in her bikini to get stared at by 65 - year - old guys with their cell phones on a clip and a branded polo shirt they got from a gift bag.

he is not in Ireland and is not a US citizen so that will definitely work against him.plus he sent 5 people to the hospital and could face at least 5 multi-million dollar lawsuits and 5 order of protections meaning he can in no way try to contact the 5 named or else violate his bond... his career is over and they will have his jail cell waiting for him...

As members of society, the way that we act has the ability to impact others in big ways (global warming, racism) and in small ways (person talking on cell phone during a movie, smoker blowing smoke in your face as they pass you on the sidewalk).

If your child is faced with cyber bullying, whether it be the use of cell phone or computer or other kind of technology, the important thing is, not to respond.

One of the biggest challenges facing parents today is how — and how much — to reduce the amount of time their children spend on electronic devices such as cell phones, tablets, video games, TV, and computers.

Over the summer, all I could think about when I wasn't looking at my sweet baby boy's face was how fat I felt and that thought was taking up more of my brain cells than was healthy or necessary.

I would love to try the Acyl - Glutathione in order to give my face a good scrubing in order to remove all of the dead skin cells, yet it appears to be priced at 175.

What's more, the live cells in breast milk that protect babies from infection can be even more important for premature babies: Preemies face a higher risk of infection because their immune systems are particularly immature.

Stewart, who is now serving 33 years to life for murder, claimed in his Manhattan federal suit that he got sepsis after cops laid him face - down on the floor of a cell at the 25th Precinct station house in July 2014.

A Correction Officer was talking to inmate Lugo, Jimmy # 8251600031 who was inside his cell when without provocation Lugo reached his arm through the cuffing slot and cut the left side of the officer's face.

Jim Gerlach talking to himself: Let's see, I can run for an open, Executive Branch, Governors Seat or I as a member of the Republican Main Street Partnership who supports Stem - Cell Research, some LGBT Rights and Environmental Issues, where my primary opponent would be an ultra-right conservative who already ran another moderate GOP member to the Democratic party, and if I survived that bloody primary fight, would then face the six - term incumbent senator with long roots in the same part of the state as me and who had a 60 % approval rating among Pennsylvania Democrats before he decided to switch parties and will have a popular president campaigning for him in an already 55 - 45 Democratic state.

Imagine having to hold most of your conversations by shouting through your cell door at voices whose faces you can not see; imagine -LSB-...]

Rupert and James Murdoch capitulated to Parliament last night and agreed to appear before MPs investigating phone hacking after facing the bizarre threat of imprisonment in a cell halfway up Big Ben.

In experiments with mice, the researchers found that Paneth cells engineered to lack a functional ATG16L1 gene were five times more likely to die in the face of rising TNF - alpha signals than normal cells.

The scientists further discovered that whenever food enters the bowels, cells in the intestinal lining immediately respond by increasing the production of ribosomes, particularly in the food - facing part of the cell.

The discovery, reported in June in Cell, completely breaks with the standard model of facial recognition, which claims each face you recognize is represented by a single neuron (one cell firing when you see your grandmother, another when you see Jennifer AnistCell, completely breaks with the standard model of facial recognition, which claims each face you recognize is represented by a single neuron (one cell firing when you see your grandmother, another when you see Jennifer Anistcell firing when you see your grandmother, another when you see Jennifer Aniston).

The field of live - cell imaging has expanded greatly in recent years, but still faces many challenges, such as how to improve spatial and temporal resolution as well as how to keep cells healthy for extended periods of time.

Faced with the complexity of the brain, neuroscience focused on questions that could be subdivided into manageable units: How we see, how we move, how nerve cells work.

The cells are also lost naturally because of the aging process, especially in the face, which leads to permanent, deep wrinkles, something anti-aging treatments can't fix in a cosmetically satisfactory way.

Faced with an often - hostile Congress, Obama enacted many of his signature policies by executive order — from reversing restrictions on research with human embryonic stem cells to helping communities prepare for climate change.

Bands on gels that form the Manhattan skyline, graphs that resemble comedy breasts, or smiley faces hidden in the nuclei of cells are the mainstay of every lab notice board, but they rarely make it to publication.

Julius's team compared gene activity in different types of nerve cell from diamondback rattlesnakes, which all have shallow pits on their faces that detect heat.

The research group studied the role of oxidative stress (see «The Two Faces of Oxygen») in cell senescence, and at Packer's request, Smith began teaching Pereira - Smith cell culture techniques.

But the factor that may make the discovery very significant is that umbilical cord blood can be saved, stored and multiplied without any of the ethical dilemmas facing embryonic stem cell use, which are derived from human fetuses.

But if you open the hood on one of these programs, you will not find any processor behaving like a grandmother cell, responding only to a single face and being solely responsible for recognizing it.

Although the face and heart don't end up so close together, they arise from the same type of precursor cells called neural crest cells.

«In pancreatic, ovarian and liver cancers, we hope that by adding anti-cancer stem cell drugs to standard of care, we can control proliferating cells within the tumor that could otherwise help the tumor regenerate in the face of existing chemotherapies.»

SN 10 scientist Kerwyn Casey Huang of Stanford University is a physicist by training who uses that knowledge to explore the challenges that bacterial cells face.

In healthy cell membranes, phospholipids called phosphatidylserine (PS) and phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) are located in the inner membrane leaflet facing the inside of the cell.

Irregular background noise, wind and variable distance from mouth to microphone all make transcription perfection on a cell phone a towering task — and the results are much less accurate than what you would get using PC dictation software, which faces none of those difficulties.

Visel and his colleagues studied gene expression in a developing mouse embryo, and found 120 enhancers active in cells of the face.

The early cleanup workers faced a higher dose, with the risk of acute radiation sickness, resulting in nausea, low blood cell counts and neurological issues.

In a series of laboratory experiments, the researchers found that antibodies against HSV - 1 remain in the trigeminal ganglion (a group of nerve cells that receives signals from the eyes and face and is a key site of HSV infection) long after active virus infection is cleared, and that these maternal antibodies can travel to the fetal trigeminal ganglia.

By devising a dual - objective system with two microscope lenses facing each other, Xu and colleagues viewed the front and back of the sample at the same time and achieved unprecedented optical resolution (of approximately 10 nanometers) of a cell.