Sentences with phrase «on nearby cells»

And because of their speed and randomness, it is very difficult to study their effects on nearby cells.

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The driver said it was a foggy morning and he ran off the road into a pole, then knocked on the door of a nearby residence because he'd left his cell phone at home.

In a bid to progress beyond the shotgun approach to fighting cancer — blasting malignant cells with toxic chemicals or radiation, which kills surrounding healthy cells in the process — researchers at the Harvard - MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) are using nanotechnology to develop seek - and - destroy models to zero in on and dismantle tumors without damaging nearby normal tissue.

Depending on the current, the wires can either boost activity in nearby brain cells or reduce it.

If the cell suspects that a signal gradient is nearby, it assembles the multitool at a random position on the membrane.

Once inside, researchers found that the antibodies zeroed in on their targets — viral antigens — and the radioisotopes destroyed nearby cancer cells without damaging surrounding healthy tissue.

Mitchell and her colleagues eliminated this possibility when they deleted these nearby regions in the genome of mice and found there was no impact on the gene's ability to be turned on in embryonic stem cells.

Cells growing into the wound had 12 genes that were activated much more or much less than nearby cells sitting idly on the sidelCells growing into the wound had 12 genes that were activated much more or much less than nearby cells sitting idly on the sidelcells sitting idly on the sidelines.

Cancer cells and tumors at first rely on nearby blood vessels to get what they need to survive, but, as tumors grow, they need to form new vessels.

If you are at a noisy cocktail party and suddenly hear someone nearby talking about you, your ability to eavesdrop on that conversation and ignore all the others around you could result from the synchronous firing of cells.

Previous work had shown that the DNA region in question, a promoter located on chromosome 17, switches on a nearby gene coding for a protein that shuttles serotonin back into nerve cells so they can reuse it as a neurotransmitter.

While past attempts to treat melanoma failed to meet expectations, an international team of researchers are hopeful that a compound they tested on both mice and on human cells in a petri dish takes a positive step toward creating a drug that can kill melanoma cancer cells without harming nearby healthy cells.

Meanwhile, a nearby stem cell company was targeted by a pipe bomb, putting the entire industry on edge.

Specifically, 75 % of college students who walked across a campus square while talking on their cell phones did not notice a clown riding a unicycle nearby.

Here is some advice on how to protect your home from the incoming radio waves from the cell phone towers nearby, and from the neighbors:

Upon insult to the intestine, zonulin is released from epithelial cells, where it can act locally on receptors on the apical (lumen - facing) membrane of nearby cells.

At diagnosis, inflammatory breast cancer is either stage III or IV disease, depending on whether cancer cells have spread only to nearby lymph nodes or to other tissues as well.

As online daters and those downloading the Tinder mobile dating app continue to watch Tinder explode, it's no wonder that researchers, psychologists, and dating experts all have opinions on whether Tinder is helping singles or is just a game for people to play on their cell phones as they swipe left or right at the millions of profiles nearby.

The Equinox Fuel Cell includes safety features such as ABS, traction control system, and GM's OnStar telematics service, which offers drivers advice on operating the cars as well as information on nearby hydrogen filling stations.

Patrons at the outdoor bar are cackling in the background and a man in a maroon - colored shirt who's wearing dark sunglasses is talking on his cell phone as an unkempt dog lies nearby slowly licking his genitals.

In more than half a dozen restaurants in four square blocks, and a couple more places nearby, hip couples in de rigeur black chat on cell phones, women in saris admonish their kids, and cab drivers leave their taxis idling — all as they down a mango lassi or quick tandoori kebab.

One simple but really neat feature you might've seen introduced in Splinter Cell: Conviction is the way the game displays mission objectives across nearby walls, the floor, or on objects in the environment.

The pieces are often staggering in scale and sensually arresting, frequently employing food and drink as media: one ton of ribs with honey dripping on them from the ceiling; 2,000 hard - boiled eggs with a pile of latex gloves nearby to pick them up; 1,521 doughnuts hanging on a free - standing wall; a room - sized cell padded with 1,800 cones of pink cotton candy.

Nearby, a sixteen - second video of Oliveros breathing once into a paper bag, which Lozano - Hemmer recorded on his cell phone, plays on a small screen.

Even better, if you can land a Shock arrow on the Power Cell located on its back, you'll trigger an explosion electrifying anything in the nearby area.

The radios on a device use a large amount of power, communicating with cell towers, scanning for and connecting to nearby Wi - Fi networks, waiting for incoming Bluetooth connections, and occasionally checking your location via GPS.

If Location Services is on, your device will periodically send the geo - tagged locations of nearby Wi - Fi hotspots and cell towers to Apple to augment Apple's crowd - sourced database of Wi - Fi hotspot and cell tower locations.

Quartz discovered that Android was tracking nearby cell - towers and was feeding that information directly to Google, regardless of location services being on or off.