Sentences with phrase «point about the cell»

I think his point about the cell phones or car is simply to gain some perspective on the situation.

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As they point out, there's plenty of room for optimism about the eventual therapeutic applications of stem cells, but clinics offering to cure Parkinson's or to fix broken spinal cords are not just misleading but seriously dangerous.

In Japan you can point certain Sony Ericsson or DoCoMo cell phones at a building, and they will display information about what's inside it, such as directions to a third - floor office or a menu for the rooftop restaurant.

DeGette's confusion about somatic cell nuclear transfer dovetails nicely with one of Levin's earlier points.

And we must not forget that a quantum - mechanical calculation even on one particular bacterial cell would be incorrect for every other cell, even of the same species — a point clearly made by Elsasser in his conclusions about the heterogeneity of the material with which the biologist has to deal.

Professor Paul Weiss (1969) has put this very dramatically by pointing out that the average cell in our bodies contains about 105 macromolecules.

This point, combined with the previous one, means that he can talk about the causal influence, for example, of molecules within the cell upon the cell's series of living occasions, which can for practical purposes be regarded as the «cell as a whole,» and he can speak about the returned causal influence of the living occasions upon the molecular constituents.

I would live to hear more about your opinions on disciplining older children at some point - I'm curious what you think of time - outs / grounding, removing privileges like car keys or cell - phone, etc..

You don't have to go into detail about sexual intercourse at this point, but you can point out that babies come from part of the woman's body and part of the man's body, and that they start out as very small cells that grow into a baby inside the mommy's body.

And as Justin again points out, «what most impresses me about this campaign is the fact that it is the ONLY WAY to contact people on their cell phones to solicit financial donations» because of the limitations of the medium — no unsolicited calls, high vendor fees for donations - via - text message, etc..

«The key point here is that we can say something about how the gene acts to influence this behavior — that is, is by functioning as a chemical messenger in cells that control this behavior in the brain.

Your cell phone will add information about where the phone is and in what direction it is pointed.

The good news about the complex interconnectivity is that the scientists also were able to find a potential future point of intervention: When they gave a drug that increased AMPA receptor expression on the cell surface, the spines assumed a more healthy, mature state.

«We never really think about it with a cell phone,» says Leetaru, pointing to the ability to trace a user's location by tracking cell towers, essentially «leaving digital bread crumbs wherever you go.»

And at that point, he started to think about, you know, the idea of being able to grow meat from stem cells or from cells; to be able to grow meat in a lab as opposed to, you know, raising animals in a farm somewhere; to be able to have a lab and grow meat anywhere, you know, regardless of the environmental conditions or other factors.

Though a range of developmental scenarios in multiple brain regions is surely at work in ASDs, the researchers said the ability to place these specific genetic mutations in one specific set of cells — among hundreds of cell types in the brain, and at a specific point in human development — is a critical step in beginning to understand how autism comes about.

«It pointed us to the idea that although T cells and natural killer cells are important, maybe we're forgetting about a part of the immune system that is also really important and could help us achieve our goals of ultimately curing the tumors.»

From the yeast cell's point of view, this is an advantage: This enables them to live about 40 percent longer than usual.

He points out that the solar cell is only about 25 percent of the technology required to make an energy collection and conversion system.

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.

The FDA, in its warning letter to Meditherm, ordered the company to stop making broad claims about its cameras, pointing to a Web page that lists «76 specific conditions for which you say your device can be used... for example, lower motor neuron disease, neoplasias (melanoma, squamous cell, basal) and nutritional disease (alcoholism, diabetes).»

Because they appeared so long ago in our evolutionary history, the way our germ cells emerged has been obscured, leaving many questions about this momentous biological turning point.

The research will use donated embryos left over from IVF treatments, and will follow them only through the point in their development when they have about 250 cells.

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.

In order to expand our understanding of the workings of human cells from a holistic point of view, in particular in the context of health and disease, detailed knowledge about the underlying molecular system is needed.»

For example, studies of cell signaling pathways in normal cells and cancer cells have contributed greatly to our knowledge about the disease, revealing molecular alterations that are shared among different types of cancer and pointing to possible strategies for treatment.

(For example, there are theories about creatine supplementation leading to increased cell volume, which would indicate that the supplementation is stimulating other anabolic processes, but this is conjecture at this point.)

If you're concerned about privacy, you might have noticed that your iPhone (or iPad) is always showing that little upwards pointing arrow, right next to Special deals on the latest cell phones and smartphones.

(As a friend sarcastically pointed out to me, The Departed might be, after all, «a dark comedy about cell phones.»)

Many remain skeptical about the PlayStation Vita, as they will point towards the mobile gaming explosion on cell phones and the immense popularity of the Nintendo 3DS.

Another Toyota researcher, Taiyo Kawai, general manager - fuel - cell system development, estimates the crossover point for battery - electric and fuel - cell vehicles is a driving range of about 90 miles (144 km) and expects the two powerplants to co-exist.

Perhaps to underscore his point, he said that a new project, a piece to be included in an upcoming show organized by the artist Tino Sehgal at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, will include organisms of a kind that few want to think about, much less admire as art: living cancer cells, donated by the Curie Institute.

Jame's point about where to best apply whatever inventory of cells we have is valid; it seems to me very likely (though I'm too lazy to try to work it out with numbers) that even after working out transfer inefficiencies we'd find the cells we have actually have available better applied in fixed installations.

If anything, the people watching and listening to a lady talk about last night's wild party on her cell phone can provide several minutes of entertainment to help the time pass The point is that riding the bus, train, or trolley allows the possibility for all types of experience and human interactions - this should be seen as a good thing.

It seems to me that Piccard's point about CO2 balance is really about the embodied energy that it took to create the two Solar Impulse aircraft (HB - SIA and HB - SIB), in the first place: their fuselages, massive wings the span of an Airbus 340, the 12,000 solar cells that line the upper surface of those wings and stabilizer, the motors, batteries, communications and navigation equipment that keeps the plane on track and lets the world watch the flight in real time; not to mention the support team in Switzerland, and in Morocco where it safely flew yesterday, June 21st, from Rabat to the desert town of Ouarzazate.