Sentences with phrase «particular types of cells»

Certain small molecules in particular have affinity for particular types of cells.
But getting pluripotent stem cells to differentiate into a particular type of cell that can function inside the body is not simple.
This particular type of cell - based HTS assay is used by many of the fast - track biotechs and pharmaceutical companies, and they take good care of their people.
Stem cells are cells found primarily in embryos, and they have not yet taken on the characteristics of any particular type of cell, such as bone, muscle tissue or brain matter.
It loves a particular type of cell in your gut.
It replicates in a particular type of cell called a T - lymphocyte, which is responsible for regulating the immune system.
The blood work, as well as any analysis of other secretions, should show elevated levels of a particular type of cell called an eosinophil.

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Recent insights into learning - oriented brain cells called mirror neurons even hold out the possibility that someday we will have pills that will impart particular types of skills, such as computer programming or business decision making.
The location - sharing practice does not appear to be limited to any particular type of Android phone or tablet; Google was apparently collecting cell tower data from all modern Android devices before being contacted by Quartz.
Embryonic cells are pluripotent, having the full genetic code enabling them to become any type of cell; they differentiate into particular cells in their later development.
«When someone has a problem — whether they need to find a particular cell line or need to understand the formulation of a particular type of culture medium — they're coming to you and they're in a crisis.
«The problem with plasma cell - free liquid biopsy in particular is that the amount of wild - type [DNA] can be very, very high, and so keeping that really rare signal from being swamped out by the wild - type... is key,» says Dawne Shelton, R&D manager for in vitro diagnostic products at Bio-Rad in Hercules, California.
«Each area of the brain is different with distinct cell types and connectivity, so if we can confirm that one area of circuitry is more involved in a particular symptom than another, we may eventually be able to treat a depression patient more efficiently than treating everyone the same way.»
«We hope that these new insights will make it possible to modulate the differentiation of stem cells — causing them to generate cells of a particular type,» says Carell.
In the presence of Acinetobacter and Akkermansia, they became a particular type of T helper cell, which trigger inflammation and help the immune system kill off invaders or infected cells, the researchers report today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Among patients who have this type of lung cancer, nearly one in three will carry a particular genetic mutation on their cancer cells.
«A personalised immunotherapy was prepared for each patient by taking a sample of their blood and extracting a particular type of immune cell called dendritic cells.
The T - lymphocytes, or T - cells, are a particular type of white blood corpuscle that is important to the immune system.
The volunteers, ranging in age from 20 to 88, received injections under their retina of a particular type of eye cell, retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cells, which were derived from hESCs in the lab.
A team led by professor Massimiliano Mazzone has demonstrated that the metabolism of macrophages, a particular type of white blood cell, can be attuned to prevent the spread of cancer.
The company's goal is to create a comprehensive source of stem cells that could be of particular use for treating people of Middle Eastern descent, whose tissue types are often underrepresented in the public tissue banks such as those in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Living in overcrowded conditions appears to protect children and young adults against developing a particular type of Hodgkin lymphoma (HL), a cancer that originates from the lymphocytes (white blood cells).
New technologies are coming to the fore that allow interrogation of the types of cells interacting with tumors, in particular providing intelligence on the broad variety of complex associations between tumor cells and the immune system.
«Targeting something that is fundamental and not just a peculiarity of a particular cell type holds greater promise.»
Five years ago, he got the idea to test whether a particular type of one - celled slime mold, Physarum polycephalum, could navigate through a maze.
Adult stem cells: They have less flexibility and «stemness» to change into different cell types, but they can still produce new cells, specialized to become part of a particular organ or tissue, such as muscle cells or neural cells.
While studying why some mice resist HSK, a team led by immunologist Harvey Cantor of Harvard Medical School in Boston found that possession of a particular variant of one type of antibody renders T cells incapable of attacking tissue in the cornea, the transparent covering of the iris and pupil.
Too much of one particular type of fat, or lipid, in a membrane shifts and turns K - Ras, shoving its active portion away from the membrane and into the cell, where it can transmit cancer - causing signals.
Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers have discovered that a particular type of protein (hormone) found in fat cells helps regulate how glucose (blood sugar) is controlled and metabolized (used for energy) in the liver.
Dogs can do that because their noses contain 900 different types of olfactory receptors, chemical detectors in cells that respond to many different kinds of odor molecules in particular ways.
Cancer stem cells, a type of self - renewing cell found in tumors, are of particular interest because they are the main cell type responsible for tumor progression and for resistance to chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and therefore a major cause of tumor recurrence after treatment.
«Use of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology» — which involves taking skin cells from patients and reprogramming them into embryonic - like stem cells capable of turning into other specific cell types relevant for studying a particular disease — «makes it possible to model dementias that affect people later in life,» says senior study author Catherine Verfaillie of KU Leuven.
Understanding how a particular DNA sequence gives rise to a particular protein provides us with some insight into that protein, but a deeper investigation of how the protein is made, where it is located, and how much of it is present in different cell types is required to enable a true understanding of its function.
In lymph nodes, a particular type of stromal cells that forms a scaffold for lymphocytes to crawl around within the node normally secretes an enzyme called autotaxin, which is responsible for the production of the lipid signaling molecule, lysophosphatidic acid (LPA).
Agata Smogorzewska, head of the Laboratory of Genome Maintenance, wants to understand how cells repair interstrand cross-links, a particular type of DNA damage in which the two strands of the double helix that normally twine about each other become physically linked.
This research reveals a new type of cell fusion that is initiated to destroy a particular cell, and enlightens the evolution of sexual reproduction in flowering plants.
It's a mystery,» he said, suggesting that it could mean stem cells thought to be committed to a particular lineage may be capable of becoming other types of tissue entirely.
The screening revealed coibamide A to be capable of killing many types of cancer cells, but Ishmael decided to focus subsequent studies on two types in particular — brain tumors, or glioblastomas, and a breast cancer subtype known as triple negative breast cancer.
«This is the first report of a particular normal human precursor cell type that shows such telomere malfunction,» says Dr. Eaves.
The cell bodies make up what is known as grey matter, brain areas where particular types of processing happen.
In the present study, the researchers carried out a large - scale analysis of sympathetic nerve cells, from which they were able to demonstrate that there are many different types of sympathetic neurons and that the different types are associated with a particular functions.
He adds, «This study was actually a pilot project for a much larger effort within the Center for Molecular Therapeutics to map responses against drug combinations across hundreds of cancer cell lines, not just melanoma, and look for novel combinations that will benefit subsets of patients regardless of the particular type of tumor they have.
During a routine check of their fourth patient last spring, the French group noted an excess of a particular type of T cell.
This means keeping its activity under a particular threshold, confining the activity to specific cell types and properly timing the increase and decrease of the activity levels.
A particular type of macrophage known as microglia are found throughout the brain and spinal cord — in progressive forms of MS, they attack the CNS, causing chronic inflammation and damage to nerve cells.
They also found that the disruption of the connectivity of these cells during brain development causes alterations in brain oscillatory activity and disturbs the function of place cells, a type of pyramidal neuron that becomes active when an animal is located in a particular place in its environment.
A particular type of stem cell found in muscle can give rise to new muscle tissue, so a team led by geneticist Luis Garcia of Généthon, a nonprofit biotechnology firm in Évry, France, investigated whether these cells could be used to reverse the dystrophin problems.
Their study in aged mice indicates that high folic acid intake causes lowered immune function because natural killer (NK) cells, a particular type of immune cell, are less effective.
The research provides more evidence for how these lncRNAs, which were once thought to be a type of «junk DNA» of no particular value or function, may instead play a critical role in triggering cells to become malignant and spread.
«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.
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