Sentences with phrase «of other cells»

The workshop will show the participants, in a very playful way, how you can find a cancer cell among millions of other cells.

Your muscle cells are thousands of times bigger than the majority of other cells in your body.

They invite lots of other cells to the site of the party, making it hard to identify them while the party is in full swing.

To that end, cooperative cells exhibit behaviors that improve the ability of other cells to transmit their genomes, sometimes at the expense of minimizing their own genetic contribution to the next generation.

We found that it is very selective and potent at stopping the growth of blood vessel cells without having negative effects on the growth of other cell types from the eye and elsewhere in the body.

Data from the laboratory shows that signals from these molecules through their receptors control the activities and long - term survival of T cells, as well as affecting the activities of other cell types including dendritic cells, macrophages, and epithelial cells.

The unique structure allows just one inhibitory chandelier cell to block or modify the output of literally hundreds of other cells at one time.

A typical neuron receives input from thousands of other cells, some of which inhibit rather than encourage the neuron's firing.

In a recent article we discussed the amazing process known as «fetal microchimerism» by which the fetus contributes stem cells to the mother which are capable of regenerating her damaged heart cells, and possibly a wide range of other cell types.

Phagocytes — of which the macrophage is the prototypical cell but which also include a variety of other cell types such as microglia, dendritic cells, fibroblasts, and osteoclasts — play a broad role in host homeostasis in addition to host defense.

Platelets contain growth factors that can stimulate the growth of other cells.

Single - cell embryos have a unique pattern of gene expression that is characteristic of a zygote and not of any other cell type.

Prof. Jean - Christophe Marine (VIB - KU Leuven): «Unexpectedly, this ability to divide and contribute to melanoma development contrasted with the activities of other cell populations, such as melanocyte stem cells found in hair follicles, for instance.

One of the problems was that cell biologists were focusing on compartments that they already knew about from studies of other cells, such as early endosomes and lysosomes.

To create different cell types in the lab, stem cells must be coaxed down the road of determination — the branching paths that fetal cells normally travel to become neurons, skin cells, muscle cells, or any number of other cell types.

Microbiologists recently found that a particularly virulent strain of the bacterium Enterococcus faecalis deploys a sonarlike system to «hear» the approach of other cells, then kills them with a blast of toxin.

A surprise emerged in how neurons» branched arms connect with each other: Instead of synapsing with their conveniently close neighbors, as previously thought, two branches may seek each other out repeatedly amid the thicket of other cells.

Nishizawa expects this work to act as a basis to evaluate cell lines for the preparation of other cell types.

Even though the transplanted cells never integrated with the host, mice that received this transplant showed better recovery, including less necrosis and fibrosis, compared with mice that received transplants of other cell types.

None of the other cells were hit.

Receptors on T - cells recognize antigens, or pieces of other cells that trigger an immune response, particularly antibodies.

Are single cells like transistors in a computer or pixels on a television screen, contributing just minute pieces of information that only when combined with the output of thousands or millions of other cells form the complex pattern that means Rocky?

The nuclei of other cells are in blue.

A team led by Mónica Bettencourt - Dias at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC; Portugal) have cracked this mystery, shedding light upon a critical mechanism whose deregulation leads to infertility, and that is important for the working of other cell types.

After running thousands of drugs through the supercomputer, they found that methyldopa not only blocked DQ8, but it didn't harm the immune function of other cells like many immunosuppressant drugs do.

The study of mice suggests that a high - fat diet drives a population boom of intestinal stem cells and also generates a pool of other cells that behave like stem cells — that is, they can reproduce themselves indefinitely and differentiate into other cell types.

Thinking of glaucoma as a retinal degenerative disease, and looking at the pathways of these other cells and how they may contribute, gives us a broadened target for intervention.

These factors work together to activate genes involved in fashioning heart muscle cells, while suppressing genes characteristic of other cell types.

That would be fine if it only disabled sperm cells, but nonoxynol - 9 also dissolves the membranes of other cells in the vagina, including those of friendly bacteria that help prevent yeast infections, and those that make up the tissues of the vaginal walls.

«One of the unique features of µSCALE is that it allows researchers to rapidly isolate a single desired cell from hundreds of thousands of other cells,» said Bob Chen, a doctoral student in Cochran's lab who wrote the software to examine and detect signs of interesting protein activity within the test tubes.

He used adult cells — first in mice, although the technique is now feasible in human cells — to make stem cells that can form a wide range of other cells, essentially turning their cellular clocks back to infancy so they could mature into different adults.

Dr. Ding's work revolves around chemical reprogramming — the use of small molecule drug mixtures to coax fibroblasts into becoming a variety of other cell types.

«Healthy fats and cholesterol create and protect the white blood cells and millions of other cells that repair the wall linings of blood vessels, which can help improve cognition and also protect against (or slow) brain ageing trajectories implicated in dementia and cognitive decline.»