Sentences with phrase «on cell systems»

Permeability was tested on cell systems at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (Israel) and the biological effect in mice at Queen Mary University of London (UK).

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Panoskaltsis - Mortari's team has been working on rebuilding lungs and other parts of the respiratory system using human stem cells.
And the NTSB has listed distracted driving — everything from cell phones to in - dash systems and other hands - free devices — on its 2014 «Most Wanted» list, which identifies the year's biggest transportation challenges.
The medicines, which help unleash the immune system on cancer cells, were tested in patients with advanced lung cancer.
The Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy will focus on the emerging field of cancer immunotherapy, which harnesses the body's immune system to fight cancer cells.
The institute, which includes over 40 laboratories and more than 300 researchers, said the research would focus on modifying a patient's own immune system T - cells to target a tumor, studying ways to boost patient response to current immunotherapy drugs.
The companies» R&D will focus on on a gene mutation present in a wide swath of patients with ALS, a degenerative nervous system disease that eats away at nerve cells and weakens muscles.
«If you really want to go past cell phones, you want to get a digital single lens reflex system, which basically is a camera body with the lenses that come on and off.
Hoping to learn something about how the human body defends itself against cancer, he had zeroed in on a complex regiment of lymphocytes called T cells, common to the immune systems in both mouse and man.
The Napster founder and former Facebook president created the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, which will focus on using the body's immune system to combat cancer cells.
Some geolocation systems use GPS and cell site triangulation (and in some instances, local Wi - Fi networks) in combination to zero in on the location of a device; this arrangement is called Assisted GPS.
If you need to make international calls, want to save on your monthly minutes, or have all your phone numbers (home and cell) integrated into one system, Google Voice is a good option.
It's a type of cancer immunotherapy, which harnesses the body's immune system to take on cancer cells.
Guideline # 5: Working Remotely — In today's business environment, both exempt and non-exempt employees may be able to work from home on bad weather days thanks to remote access to computer systems, cell phones and e-mail.
Just as the digital information stored on a disc is useless without a device for reading the disc, so too is the information on DNA useless without the cell's information - processing system.
The GPS system wouldn't work if classical physics was used, semiconductors and hence computers, cell phones, Internet, etc wouldn't be possible, lasers wouldn't work, the list goes on and on.
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 physioCells») 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 physiocells, 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.
This is the group of genes which act as the immune system markers on cells, protecting them from being attacked by the system's anti-bodies.
Given a system or composite of individuals, all on a comparable level, for instance molecular or cellular, then in some cases, given integration of activities (thus molecules in a cell, or cells in a vertebrate animal), there may be what Leibniz called a «dominant monad» or what Whitehead calls a «society of presiding occasions.»
The old episode on the immune system took us into the blood vessels and showed us the drama of white blood cells marking strep bacteria for death, then engulfing and digesting them.
Dramatically reducing calories on two days per week not only kick - starts weight loss, but also rejuvenates the body's systems, repairs cells and restores vitality.
By reducing calories on two days per week, you can kick - start weight loss, rejuvenate the body's systems, repair cells and restore vitality.
The restoration of the site also includes the installation of a combination of on - site renewable energy generating systems, such as power generating photovoltaic cells, a bio-fuelled steam - generating boiler and 6kW hydro - electric water wheel.
And then whether you're on WiFi or your on your cell phone with cellular service, we'll have a distributed antenna system that's throughout the building, that'll give you great service through various carriers.»
Although these spots themselves are harmless, if some of the spots are bigger than a 50 cent coin, then it could be due to Neurofibromatosis (NF), which is a genetic disorder of the nervous system that causes abnormal cell growth of nerve tissues or benign tumours to form on the nerves anywhere in the body at any time.
Speaking of cell phone connectivity, what about home security systems that don't rely on electricity or telephone lines?
Psoriasis (Ps) and psoriatic (so - rye - AT - ick) arthritis (PsA) are conditions of the immune system that affect the normal production of healthy skin cells on the body.
- Navigation system - Yeah, many of us have it on our cell phones now.
The design features a central viewing chamber with a system of mirrors that allows a single guard to keep watch on the entire prison population in their cells.
Changing technology has the Amherst Town Board considering a moratorium on the installation of new cell towers, including newer «small cell» systems on utility poles.
Off topic questions included his speech tomorrow to Britain's Labour Party, Chirlane McCray's attendance at an NYPD CompStat meeting, whether ISIS and the recent U.S. military strikes will cause a ramped - up security / counter-terrorism effort by the City, Governor Cuomo's efforts at supporting a Democratic state senate, Congressional approval of military strikes ordered by President Obama, the City school system's policy on student cell phones and continuing problems at Rikers Island.
The fields within biology are further divided based on the scale at which organisms are studied and the methods used to study them: biochemistry examines the fundamental chemistry of life; molecular biology studies the complex interactions of systems of biological molecules; cellular biology examines the basic building block of all life, the cell; physiology examines the physical and chemical functions of the tissues and organ systems of an organism; and ecology examines how various organisms interrelate.
Using the mouse as an experimental model, LMU neurobiologist PD Dr. Conny Kopp - Scheinpflug and her research group have now demonstrated that the activity of nerve cells in the auditory system has a direct effect on myelinization — higher levels of activity correlate with the formation of thicker myelin sheaths.
A decade ago a drug based on an internal protein of the flu virus, called NP (for nucleoprotein), set the immune system's killer T cells into action, but it only partially protected mice from the flu.
They use molecules on the bacteria's surfaces as reins, to ride towards host cells, or backstage passes to sneak past the immune system.
A controller, using a model of the system, can then in real - time decide which dynamic disturbances to apply based on the expected future behaviour of the cells.
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«Chronic inflammation of the intestine is thought to be caused by abnormal interactions between gut microbes, intestinal epithelial cells and the immune system, but so far it has been impossible to determine how each of these factors contribute to the development of intestinal bowel disease,» said Hyun Jung Kim, Ph.D., former Wyss Technology Development Fellow and first author on the study, speaking about the limitations of conventional in vitro and animal models of bacterial overgrowth and inflammation of the intestines.
New research from Australian and Singaporean scientists has revealed how immune cell «spies» are created, providing clues on how the immune system could be manipulated to better fight disease.
When blank slate stem cells are exposed to a soft as opposed to a hard surface on which to grow, they begin to transform themselves into neurons, the large, complex cells of the central nervous system.
Our studies involve the use of a whole - cell patch clamp, an electrophysiological approach to measure the transmembrane current of a single cell, to identify the effects of herbs on the cardiovascular system.
Moreover, in the aftermath of surgery, the immune system concentrates most of its efforts on healing the surgical wound, lowering its guard against cancer cells.
The researchers are building on their current findings, which they say establishes a system for reconstituting cell fusion in mammalian cells, a feat not yet achieved by biomedical science.
As might be expected of an autoimmune disease, where the immune system turns on healthy tissue, all the genes play a role in controlling the growth and multiplication of cells in the immune system.
Eager to sort through the pile of curriculum vitae's on his desk, Rudnicki is particularly looking for molecular geneticists working on different stem cell systems; scientists with genomics bents like proteomics, microarray analysis, and bioinformatics; and a couple of clinician scientists.
«Current therapies in clinical trials are focused on targeting genetic changes in tumors and helping to boost one's immune system to fight the cancer cells.
The immune system depends on molecules called T cell receptors on the surface of T cells to recognize and respond to foreign antigens from virus - infected cells, tumors and other threats.
The Cologne molecular biologist is an expert on root - colonizing fungi and the plant immune system, the Würzburg chemist is a specialist for sugar molecules and their functions in cells and organisms.
Dr Tomi Pastinen, senior author on the second study, from McGill University said: «We have created an expansive, high - resolution atlas of variations that deepens our understanding of the interplay between the genetic and epigenetic machinery that drives the three primary cells of the human immune system.
Last year Cuervo collaborated with Sheng Zhang, a professor at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston on experiments showing that huntingtin — the Huntington's disease protein — helps the cell's autophagy system identify what it should eliminate.
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