Sentences with phrase «only cells in the human body»

Stem cells are unique because they are essentially the body's building blocks; these are the only cells in the human body that have the ability to regenerate more cells with specialized functions.

Not exact matches

Only 10 % of the cells in and on your body are human, the other 90 % is the trillions of life forms that inhabit and live on your body... some of them can kill you if they get too numerous.

Evidence of the fact that union differentiates is to be seen all round us — in the bodies of all higher forms of life, in which the cells become almost infinitely complicated according to the variety of tasks they have to perform; in animal associations, where the individual «polymerises» itself, one might say, according to the function it is called upon to fulfil; in human societies, where the growth of specialization becomes ever more intense; and in the field of personal relationships, where friends and lovers can only discover all that is in their minds and hearts by communicating them to one another.

Capsaicin only inflames human cells because heat - detecting proteins in our nerve endings called TRPV1 receptors become activated in the chemical's presence, mistakenly interpreting capsaicin as a sign of extreme heat, and sending the body's burn defenses into overdrive.

Growing to just one millimeter in length, these simple creatures have only 302 neurons, or nerve cells, in their bodies, a tiny fraction of the 80 billion or so neurons in the human brain.

A byproduct of the discovery of RNAi was the finding that although cells in the human body only contain one strand of RNA, they do have micro-RNA — tiny sections of RNA that can act a little like double - stranded RNA and also silence the activity of certain genes.

Despite its many parts, the entire organism is a single cell of only about 10 microns in diameter, which is smaller than most cells in the human body.

Because the cells inside the droplets are free - floating, the technique allows them to contact each other in every direction, as they would in the human body, rather than only touch side to side as they do in a flat dish.

Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies recently found that the DNA sequence in human neurons can vary not only from that of the rest of the body but even from one brain cell to the next.

Not only muscle cells, but also all other cell types continually generate forces in the human body.

Researchers are also trying to learn about: - The level of MM - 121 that remains in the human body at different time points when MM - 121 is combined with docetaxel or pemetrexed - The relationship between the biomarker, heregulin, and cancer cell growth (disease progression) in people dosed only with docetaxel or pemetrexed.

Human biology is not only manipulated by mutations; it is also influenced by the trillions of microbial residents — including viruses — that make up an estimated fifty percent of the cells in the human Human biology is not only manipulated by mutations; it is also influenced by the trillions of microbial residents — including viruses — that make up an estimated fifty percent of the cells in the human human body.

When HIV enters the human body, it typically does so by clinging to only a handful of cells attached to a mucous membrane such as those in the genitals or rectum.

Only one in ten of the cells in your body is human.

«It turns out that we are only 10 percent human: for every human cell that is intrinsic to our body, there are about ten resident microbes,» says Michael Pollan in a brilliant 2013 New York Times Magazine essay.

We have 10 times more bacteria in our gut than we have cells in our bodies and this bacteria makes up 99 % of the DNA in our bodies... which means only 1 % of our DNA is human!

Only 10 % of the cells in the human body are human, the rest are microbial.

Glutathione is one of the most powerful antioxidants active in the human body and the only one, which works inside the cell.

«for every human cell that is intrinsic to our body, there are about 10 resident microbes — including commensals (generally harmless freeloaders) and mutualists (favor traders) and, in only a tiny number of cases, pathogens.

You're only 10 % human — 100 trillion cells in your body are bacteria.

Of the entire number of cells alive in our body, only 10 % are actually human.