Sentences with phrase «oxygen environment»

This results in cancer cells needing to adapt to low oxygen environment.

Cancer cells thrive in high - sugar, low oxygen environments.

Newborn babies are born with an abundance of red blood cells because of the low oxygen environment of your womb.

They tested how good the geese were at coping with exercise in reduced oxygen environments by simulating the conditions of Mount Everest in a clear box and then getting the birds to run as fast as possible on a treadmill inside the box.

Subsequent randomized clinical trials helped to reveal that enriched oxygen environments for premature infants caused blindness and did not decrease infant mortality.

Peppermint extract is extremely effective at killing anaerobic bacteria, the type of bacteria that thrive in a low oxygen environment such as the mouth, and can cause gum disease.

However, the rapid burial of Dakota in a waterlogged, low - oxygen environment allowed fossilisation to outpace the normal processes of microbial decay, preserving areas of soft tissue.

Those conditions create the low - oxygen environments where the botulism toxin - producing bacteria thrive.

Levin encountered such blooms recently in low - oxygen environments off India's coast, where «the jellyfish were as thick as soup,» she says.

A new study demonstrates just how cancer - resistant Spalax are, and suggests that the adaptations that help these rodents survive in low - oxygen environments also play a role in their longevity and cancer resistance.

Semenza says scientists have long known that low oxygen environments affect tumor growth, but, in the case of advanced tumors, there was a paradox.

Tumors in low - oxygen environments tend to be more resistant to therapy and spread more aggressively to other parts of the body.

Since cancer often grows in tissues with poor circulation — and thus poor nutrition and oxygenation — and since cancer cells do not thrive in a high oxygen environment, improving circulation can help reverse the cancer process.

Our multiple state - of - the - art oxygen kennels provide a highly concentrated oxygen environment consistently for patients who are having trouble breathing normally or getting enough oxygen into their systems on their own.

Set on the Hyperion Moonbase, players will explore the low - gravity no - Oxygen environment at the behest of a younger Handsome Jack.

Much like making DIY biochar, making charcloth is simply a process of burning organic - based textiles in a restricted oxygen environment.

A majority of these genes are involved in metabolism and presumably allow the amoeba to use bacterial metabolic pathways to adapt to the low oxygen environment of the gut.

The drug blocks the action of an enzyme that hampers not only sexual ability but also the function of the lungs in low - oxygen environments.

Thinking that more hemoglobin might help plants better survive a low - oxygen environment, Leif Bülow and colleagues at the Center for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering in Lund, Sweden, inserted the Vitreoscilla bacterium's hemoglobin gene into the tobacco genome.

Deactivating the VHL gene makes animals react as if they're in a low - oxygen environment, also called hypoxia.

Mitochondria (in blue) are the cell's energy boosters, and a new study suggests that mice with faulty mitochondria can be helped by low oxygen environments.

They can thrive in hostile spots — from the acidic, low - oxygen environment of the stomach to boiling hot springs or frozen tundra.

By examining the collection of bacteria living under the foreskin of men who either went on to become infected by HIV or remained HIV - negative, the researchers showed a connection between the amount of anaerobes — bacteria that thrive in low - oxygen environments — and an increased risk of becoming infected by HIV.

A low - oxygen environment — comparable to a vessel wall not receiving enough blood — caused cells from patients with a high angiogenesis score to make more than three times as much VEGF RNA.

Spaceflights and reduced gravity habitats will expose astronauts also to low oxygen environments.

Researchers at the University of Southampton have engineered cells with a «built - in genetic circuit» that produces a molecule that inhibits the ability of tumors to survive and grow in their low oxygen environment.

One possible reason for the rarity of the find may be that the brooding behavior of T. eatoni was relatively unusual in the trilobite world: The species tended to prefer a harsh, low - oxygen environment, and may have kept a closer eye on their eggs than other trilobite species.

Blind mole - rats (genus Spalax) can live more than 20 years, are resistant to cancer and tolerate extremely low - oxygen environments.

Like naked mole - rats (Heterocephalus gaber), blind mole - rats (of the genus Spalax) live underground in low - oxygen environments, are long - lived and resistant to cancer.

RoR dams can cause a spike in methylmercury in two ways — they can form small reservoirs, called headponds, which flood soil and create slow - flowing, low - oxygen environments; or they can create higher temperatures in the stream as a result of the reduced flow conditions when portions of the stream are diverted to the turbines.

«Under low - oxygen environments, many biologically important metals and other nutrients are removed from seawater and deposited in the sediments on the seafloor, making them less available for life to flourish.»

Their survival is made possible through proteins known as hypoxia - inducible factors (HIFs), which turn on genes that help the cells survive in a low - oxygen environment.

«We culture our cancer cells in this very low - oxygen environment, and they start behaving like they are inside a low - oxygen tumour.»

Support for the idea that isolated low - oxygen environments may be preferred niches for early life comes from observations that anaerobic niches deep within Earth's crust tend to harbor ancient branches within the domains of life.

More specifically, how a genetic transcription factor called hypoxia - inducible factor 1 (HIF - 1) helps our bodies adapt to low - oxygen environments, and how modifying that factor could help treat anemia and cancers.

The waste in Caltech's photovoltaic toilet goes to a septic holding tank, where it breaks down in a low - oxygen environment.

This series of reactions can be anaerobic, so more suited to their typically low - oxygen environment, but also provides the supply of metabolic intermediates necessary for rapid growth and division.

«Initially, most researchers looked for microbes living in isolated low - oxygen environments, like the guts of fish or shrimp, but they pretty quickly realized that couldn't be a major factor.

How the spotted, gray felines survive in such low oxygen environments has puzzled scientists for years.

«For example, in people with latent TB infections, Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria are walled in by clumps of immune and other body cells in what is thought to be an extremely low oxygen environment.

Dr. Blüml said that the amount of oxygen delivered to the fetus's developing brain in utero is quite low, and our brains have evolved to optimize development in that low oxygen environment.

The coal would have been cooked in a low - oxygen environment, creating a fuel gas made of hydrogen and carbon monoxide.

«Our study pinpoints a novel way in which tumor cells not only survive but actually continue to divide in spite of a low oxygen environment.

Now, scientists at The Wistar Institute have identified a novel mechanism that selectively operates in hypoxic tumors to enable tumor cells to thrive and continue to proliferate despite a low oxygen environment.

The Denisovans had the same EPAS1 change that helps Tibetans survive in low - oxygen environments.

biochar Charcoal produced by heating plant material in a no - or low - oxygen environment.