Sentences with phrase «on aquaporins»

«About the year 2000, after we'd worked on aquaporins for almost a decade, we'd answered the questions we felt were most important,» Agre said in an interview in July at the Euroscience Open Forum meeting in Turin, Italy.

Not exact matches

This work builds on more than a decade of research conducted by the University of Adelaide's Professor Andrea Yool on the water channel proteins known as «aquaporins.»

This particular aquaporin is abundant on the surface of roots.

Shapiro's team realized that increasing the number of aquaporins on a given cell made it stand out in MRI images acquired using a common clinical technique called diffusion - weighted imaging, which is sensitive to the movement of water molecules.

This means that when a gene of interest is turned on, the cell will overexpress aquaporin, making the cell look darker under diffusion - weighted MRI.

«Overexpression of aquaporin has no negative impact on cells because it is exclusive to water and simply allows the molecules to go back and forth across the cell membrane,» Shapiro says.

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It seems like Nobel Laureate Peter Agre ’ s lecture on “ Aquaporin Water Channels ” was not only educational and informative but also made the young scientists laugh.

Nobel Laureate Peter Agre's lecture on «Aquaporin Water Channels» was not only educational, but also made the young scientists laugh.

«Life Without» will be on view through June 3rd, 2018, at the Primer Space in Aquaporin, Nymøllevej.

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