Sentences with phrase «other cells form»

Are single cells like transistors in a computer or pixels on a television screen, contributing just minute pieces of information that only when combined with the output of thousands or millions of other cells form the complex pattern that means Rocky?

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Only whole cells may contain all the necessary machinery for self - reproduction... Not only is DNA incapable of making copies of itself, aided or unaided, but it is incapable of «making» anything else... The proteins of the cell are made from other proteins, and without that protein - forming machinery nothing can be made.»

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.

The democratic societies have no one supreme or dominant member, with examples being such things possibly as stones and probably as some cell - colonies and even special forms of many - celled plants and animals.42 Monarchic societies, on the other hand, do have a supreme or dominant member which radically subordinates the parts to its ruling purpose but which can never completely rob the parts of all measure of control over themselves.

Other exciting developments: Baby's bone marrow begins making white blood cell, the pituitary gland starts to secrete hormones, and your baby's vocal cords form.

Camp Nurse The camp nurse is accessible to staff during camp hours by cell phone and reviews all emergency forms, medical forms and accident reports, assists in medical distribution, checks first aid supplies and assists in other areas.

«These attacks have grown in magnitude and they include attacks on security services, we have incidents where military officers have been lynched by mobs, we have instances where these vigilante groups calling themselves variously; Invisible forces, Delta forces, etc. invade police stations, break into cells and release suspects because they claim the NPP members are immune to any form of arrest in other words, they are living above the law because they happen to be members of a party living in power», he said.

Disruptions to the ability of developing brain cells to form branching connections with other cells, using a specific microRNA — miR - 9, was associated with an increase in the strength of fear - related memories in adulthood.

Several physical measurements, including electron microscopy, assured us that our product was a closed loop coiled tightly around the virus - DNA template and that it was identical in size and other details with the replicative form of DNA that appears in the infected cells.

The research team found that when it increased levels of E-NTPDase2 in tadpole embryos that consisted of only eight cells, they could cause parts of the eye to form not only on the heads of the amphibians, but also in tissues in other parts of their bodies, including their tails.

In this way, protons avoid indiscriminately mutilating a high proportion of healthy cells along with cancerous cells as photons do in other forms of radiation.

The virus needs this one lipid to form the new particle and infect other cells,» Stahelin said.

The cells waste no time finding their cancerous cousins, slashing their way through a lab - prepared gel to quickly join other melanoma cells and form tumors.

They may supply crucial insulating material for neurons, called myelin; digest and clean up dead cells in the brain; and help form and maintain the connection points between neurons and other cells.

Melanoma cells move quickly, extending cables to reel in other cells and form tumors.

Using this biosensor in highly invasive breast cancer cells taken from rodents and humans, the Einstein team discovered that when an individual invadopodium forms and is actively degrading the ECM, its Rac1 levels are low; on the other hand, elevated Rac1 levels coincide with the invadopodium's disappearance.

In research that has implications for diabetes and other metabolic diseases, an international study based at UT Southwestern Medical Center found that the protein connexin 43 (Cx43) forms cell - to - cell communication channels on the surface of emerging beige fat cells that amplify the signals from those few nerve fibers.

That three - or - so - pound lump of soft tissue, housed within the cranium, has about 100 billion nerve cells or neurons (roughly equal to the number of stars in our galaxy), which form trillions of connections with each other, giving rise to millions of operations going on simultaneously.

There are specific cells that form bone and other cells that resorb it.

Like a cruel form of mind control, some cancerous tumours can reprogram some immune cells to «block» other immune cells from attacking, leaving the tumour free to grow.

In other words, this forms a crucial pathway in which cells talk to others.»

Escherichia coli and many other bacteria produce cellulose as a key component of the extracellular matrix that coats the cells to form a biofilm, a complex multicellular community consisting of numerous bacteria, exopolysaccharides (like cellulose), protein fibers, and DNA (4 — 6).

But researchers dream of being able to create truly elastic electronic components — soft circuit systems that can act more like live cells, moving around autonomously and communicating with each other to form new circuits rather than being stuck in one configuration.

They then tried to reprogram skin cells from the animals, turning them into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS), which are capable of forming other types of cell.

LPA receptors are all over neural progenitor cells, which go on to form neurons and other types of cells in a young brain.

The upwelling resembles a feature on Earth called a Hadley cell, where warm air at our equator rises and creates trade winds, hurricanes and other forms of weather.

In 2012, Korch, Masters and 16 other scientists formed the International Cell Line Authentication Committee (ICLAC).

These findings of the MLU research group on Developmental Genetics suggest that the same genetic program may operate in germ cells of other, more complex organisms as well — albeit in a timely less compressed form.

Esrp1 and Esrp2 are active specifically in epithelial cells, which form the skin, the inner layers of the gut and lung, and other tissues in the body.

Nerve cells exchange information with each other in the form of electrical signals via so - called synapses.

The study evaluated 56 patients with ovarian clear cell adenocarcinoma (CCA), an aggressive form of ovarian cancer that is more likely to be resistant to chemotherapy and to have a poorer prognosis than other forms of this disease.

«We hope that these cells can eventually lead to new treatments for glaucoma and other forms of optic nerve disease.»

What federal oversight should embryonic stem cell research have that other forms of biomedical research, including those involving human subjects, do not already have?

It is well established that melanoma cells can spread through the blood to accumulate and form new tumors (metastases) in other parts of the body away from the original tumor.

In a typical 3D culture system, cells cling to each other, forming spheroids that float in liquid culture media or expand into a soft matrix.

Nevertheless, as Tobias says, it is still ``... a field beset with relatively few facts but many theories... The story of early hominid brains has to be read from carefully dated, well identified, fossilised calvariae, or from endocranial casts formed within them... Such materials confine the Hercule Poirot, who would read «the little grey cells» of fossil hominids, to statements about the size, shape and surface impressions... of ancient brains...» The other major limiting factor at the moment is the lack of suitable fossil skulls for such studies.

In other species, including humans and homing pigeons, these cells have always been found to contain magnetite, a form of iron oxide.

The successful growth of human skin cells in culture has made it possible to restore epidermis after severe burns and other forms of damage

While the disease can take many forms, recent advances have better characterized how lymphoma cells proliferate and interact with other cells and tissues, leading to the development of powerful, targeted therapies with fewer side effects than traditional approaches.

They also tested other chemicals known to prevent the other two forms of cellular suicide, but only CGP3466B protected mouse nerve cells in the brain from death by cocaine.

In the last few years, scientists have found that the supposedly placid cells help neurons form connections with each other (ScienceNOW, 26 January 2001) and might even be stem cells themselves (ScienceNOW, 15 June 1999).

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.

Her team decided to try a cell - growing approach, called 3D cultures, that's been successful for other types of cells that need to form complex structures as they grow.

In Volvox, some cells coalesced to form a flagella and propel the organism, whereas others are devoted to reproduction.

They then put the dishes into special chambers called bioreactors that keep them warm and in gentle motion reminiscent of a womb, encouraging the cells to form blobs with working neurons and many other features of a full - size human brain.

The study provides evidence for how FGF23 signals to cells by forming a complex with a-Klotho and the two other molecular partners.

Sheldrake contends that the shapes cells assume and the forms of tissues, organs, and the whole animal — in other words, morphogenesis itself — are not explained by protein synthesis alone.

One reason group A Streptococcus and other invasive pathogens are so dangerous is they release pore - forming toxins that can poke holes in the membranes of cells within a person's body, leading to cellular dysfunction or cell death.

Misfolded proteins can make other proteins fold incorrectly, creating a chain reaction of misfolded proteins that form clumps that the cell can't deal with.

Totipotent cells are the most versatile of all stem cells; a single one can develop into an embryo with a placenta, and hence give rise to a fully formed animal — in other words, a clone.