Sentences with phrase «other cell biology»

Analysis of F - actin cytoskeletal dynamics, integrin activity, cell migration and other cell biology parameters

Supported by 18 other cell biology experts, he drafted a widely distributed «white paper» calling for an end to contamination.

Not exact matches

By treating biology as software and reprogramming cells to treat diseases and other ailments, humans have already made tremendous progress in medicine, Kurzweil said Sunday.

If you think evolution complicates the world, wait until you hit cell biology, or any other field that requires extremely detailed knowledge of how things work.

I could go on and elaborate on a number of other disciplines or facts that creationists have to pretend into oblivion to retain their faith, including the Ice Ages, cavemen and early hominids, much of microbiology, paleontology and archeology, continental drift and plate tectonics, even large parts of medical research (medical research on monkeys and mice only works because they share a common ancestor with us and therefore our fundamental cell biology and basic body architecture is identical to theirs).

But cholesterol is actually an important component of our cell membranes and influences hormone biology, among other functions.

Some of the researchers at the centre will study the differentiation of stem cells into other cell types, one group by using human embryonic stem cell biology and another by studying early embryo development.

He introduced Scott to three other scientists, all members of Susan Finnegan's cell biology laboratory.

To acquire new insights into the biology and possible therapy of these tumors, Feigin et al. looked for aberrant expression of G protein — coupled receptors, cell signaling proteins that have been successfully targeted for treatment of other disorders such as depression.

Studies of the lens of the eye not only could reveal ways to prevent cataracts but also might illuminate the biology of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other diseases in which cells commit suicide

«In our human airway epithelial model system, one of the drugs destabilizes and deactivates the protein that the other drug tries to correct,» said Martina Gentzsch, PhD, an assistant professor of cell biology and physiology and senior author of the UNC Science Translational Medicine paper.

Weinberg, who is also a professor of biology at MIT, says he has created cancer cells in culture by adding oncogenes — as, he stresses, have hundreds of others.

In fact, there's reason to believe that all of the properties of cell biology that made complex life possible in the next geologic era were put in place here: cytoskeletons that allow eukaryotic cells to change shape, and cell polarity that allows cells to send a molecular message to one side of the cell but not the other, and to interact with nearby cells.

The startling feat prompted President Barack Obama to ask his newly formed bioethics commission to examine the implications of the Venter study and other kinds of synthetic biology, such as creating biological circuits by putting components together in a cell.

These areas include developmental research, neurobiology and cell biology, high - content screening, medical imaging, and materials science, among others.

However, little is known in humans about the biology of CD4 - CTL generation, their functional properties, and heterogeneity, especially in relation to other well - described CD4 + memory T cell subsets.

Moreover, as genomes of other animals are sequenced, «there will be a lot of biology that will be clarified,» says Tom Pollard, a cell biologist at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

Wei - Chuan Shih, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, said fluorescence microscopy is «a workhorse,» used in biology, medical diagnostics and other fields to reveal information about cells and tissue that can't otherwise be detected.

As for next research steps, the investigators will seek to exploit the SRY database and its evolutionary linkages to other SOX transcription factors to explore applications to stem - cell biology and cancer.

Jeff Smith, a first - year postdoc at OISB who studies cell signaling using proteomics, notes that with no specific categories for systems biology on research - grant applications, he has no choice but to place himself in direct competition with biochemists and biologists in other fields.

The therapy has several advantages over other sight restoration therapies now under investigation, says vision scientist John Flannery, UC Berkeley professor of vision science and of molecular and cell biology.

«Looking at a fixed cell at high resolution can tell you where different parts of the cell are at any given moment; but because much of biology depends on the movement of very small proteins finding each other and interacting, we really needed to look at how things move in a live cell.»

Other senior authors on the paper are Wayne Anderson, professor of molecular pharmacology and biological chemistry at Feinberg, and Ottavio Arancio, M.D., associate professor of pathology and cell biology at Columbia.

So it could be RNA or DNA like we have in modern biology or it could be some related kind of material; and we are also thinking about some kind of cell envelope or cell membrane — not that that's necessarily the very first way Darwinian systems began, but at some point they had to transition into a system more related to modern biology where cells are all bounded by membranes — so we're thinking about how to assemble these two components and get them to interact with each other.

I don't know too many other consortia which can integrate expertise in embryonic and tissue stem cell biology, tissue regeneration and repair, bioengineering and nanotechnology, materials science, genomics and bio-informatics.

Dr. Nagy is renowned for his work in stem cells, blood vessel biology, and creating genetic tools in cancer cells, among other areas.

His research and clinical focus includes prognostic factors, genetics, and stem cell biology in AML, MDS, and other myeloid malignancies as well as establishing new prognostic scoring systems in MDS.

«We were interested in the origins of lamprey gut neurons because in other vertebrates they arise from a particular embryonic cell type, called neural crest cells,» says Stephen Green, postdoctoral scholar in biology and biological engineering and co-first author on the paper.

The effects of mutations and other genetic changes in cancer cells play out in the complex networks of molecular interactions or «signaling pathways» involved in cell growth, proliferation, and other hallmarks of cancer biology.

Researchers from immune biology professor Annette Oxenius's group have now discovered what keeps NK cells from killing off their «colleagues from the other department» of the immune system: healthy CD8 + cells are able to detect the immune messenger substance type 1 interferon, which binds to specific receptors on the surface of these immune cells and thereby conceals their stress.

Pennington Biomedical's research enterprise includes approximately 70 world - class faculty researchers and specialists in neuroscience, stem cell biology, skeletal muscle biology, statistical genetics, diabetes, behavior modification, eating disorders and other areas.

Here we used our knowledge of the developmental biology of many other animal models to provide the positive and negative signaling factors to guide the developmental choices of these tissue and organ stem cells.

At Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin, they are needed to understand the deep, inner structure of matter to improve solar cells, for example, or to answer long - standing questions in archaeology, biology and many other fields of research.

I didn't groan at this idea unlike most other Star Wars fans — many of whom were outraged by the perceived reduction of the Force from a grand, almost magical power to a function of biology — because I'm a biologist who studies bioenergetics: How organisms convert various molecules (food) into chemical energy (adenosine triphosphate or ATP, a compound that enables energy transfer between cells) that can be used to power life.

«Cytokines provide the intercellular communication links between the immune system and other tissues and organs... Thus, the study of cytokines has helped to propel immunology from the limited areas of immunological specificity to larger concerns of the cell biology, biochemical, molecular, and clinical aspects of host defense.»

It also supports our belief that in the future, one might be able to use this approach for replacement of cells lost or malfunctioning due to other more common diseases of the retina,» said lead study author cell biologist Jason Meyer, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology in the School of Science at Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis.

The NIH Common Fund's Library of Integrated Network - based Cellular Signatures (LINCS) program aims to create a network - based understanding of biology by cataloging changes in gene expression and other cellular processes that occur when cells are exposed to a variety of perturbing agents.

By surveying gene expression in over 53,000 cells from the small intestine, researchers have created a rich reference for understanding the biology of inflammatory bowel disease and food allergies, among other conditions.

In addition, the lab coordinates with other local and international training programs within the areas of psychiatry, neurology, neuroregeneration, stem cell biology, and regenerative medicine.

The authors note that the formation of each different organ bud type may require some fine tuning to optimize tissue self - organization, and further addition of neural cell types may be necessary, but this research may soon provide exciting model systems for the study of basic biology and pathology as well as providing appropriate replacement tissues for the treatment of many patients with no other viable options.

Stelzer concentrates his efforts on applications and further developments of advanced light microscopies in the modern life sciences, working on various aspects and applications of three - dimensional cell biology, lateral root development in Arabidopsis thaliana and the embryogenesis of, amongst other insects, Tribolium castaneum.

Features This full - color book is divided into six major sections, covering basic stem cell biology, general methods, organ system - based applications, and regulations and ethics, among other topics.

Here at La Jolla Institute, I am excited to continue utilizing noncoding RNAs as a tool for better understanding other aspects of T cell biology.

Amsbio has announces MagSi - Direct - a new technology that brings the power, simplicity and convenience of magnetic separation to researchers involved in cell biology, protein chemistry, flow cytometry, diagnostics development and many other fields.

«Humans have very limited capacity for regeneration, while other species like salamanders have the remarkable ability to functionally regenerate limbs, heart tissue and even the spinal cord after injury,» said lead researcher Karen Echeverri, PhD, assistant professor in the department of genetics, cell biology and development at the University of Minnesota.

Susan Lindquist, PhD, professor of molecular genetics and cell biology, and colleagues showed that an improperly folded protein in yeast cells clumps together and then corrupts other, healthy molecules of the same protein to do likewise, in a process much like the «seeding» of a crystal.

The Human Emulation System creates an environment where cells exhibit an unprecedented level of biological function, and gives researchers the ability to control complex human biology and disease mechanisms that is not possible with other techniques.

With key strengths in advanced medical imaging, cell biology, genomics, immunology and stem cell biology, our scientists and their skilled staff conduct research on some of the most debilitating diseases of our time: heart disease and stroke, Alzheimer's, cancer, organ failure, diabetes and many others.

Decades of research in developmental biology have provided clues to how genes in a developing embryo direct different proteins and other chemical factors to create all manner of specialized cells.

Even today, Reinisch, now associate professor of cell biology at the Yale School of Medicine, is the only structural biologist in her department (though there are many other structural biologists at Yale).