Sentences with phrase «properties of cells»

The Mount Sinai money is to be used to create a center to study the electrical properties of cells and tissues and to establish a Helmsley Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, according to the New York Times.

An unusual collaboration between cell and developmental biologists and physicists at UNC - Chapel Hill is providing insights into the relationship between the physical properties of cells and the signals that influence cell behavior.

«This is the first time anyone has generated potentially therapeutic lung stem cells from minimally invasive biopsy specimens,» said co-senior author of both papers Jason Lobo, MD, an assistant professor of medicine at UNC and medical director of lung transplant and interstitial lung disease.Co - senior author Ke Cheng, PhD, an associate professor in NCSU's Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences and the UNC / NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, said, «We think the properties of these cells make them potentially therapeutic for a wide range of lung fibrosis diseases.»

The groups plan to further characterize gene activity in tissues by analyzing several molecular phenotypes, or properties of cells - such as which genes are turned on and off, the various ways genes are regulated and the proteins that cells produce based on such regulation.

However, while V − S + cells generated normal EBs, the V+S + cells formed small irregular aggregates (Figure 8B), suggesting that the adhesive properties of the cells within these fractions were different.

Although cancer stem cells have been identified in many different types of cancer, it is becoming increasingly clear that the properties of these cells may vary greatly among the different tumor types.

The creation of iPSCs began by studying proteins not only uniquely expressed in embryonic stem cells, but proteins known to be functionally important in creating the unique properties of these cells.

Our group works on the development of theoretical and experimental tools for the quantification of active material properties of cells.

This has allowed investigation of the mechanical properties of cells, which, according to some research studies, could have applications in medicine, for example by enabling cancer cells to be distinguished from healthy ones.

April 2012 - New research: Illuminating embryonic stem cells Collaboration between two EU funded projects «Heroic» and «EuroSyStem», has provided new insights into embryonic stem cells The teams used next generation sequencing technology to examine two key properties of the cells that influence their identity and behaviour: gene expression and gene regulation.

Genome regulation is crucial to implement genomic information and to shape properties of cells and organisms.

It is thus important to learn more about the properties of these cells and how they can be manipulated to modulate immunity.

To gain a better understanding of these diseases it is important to study the mechanical properties of cells.

Doing that could also tell us more about the mechanical properties of cells and how they change as a result of disease.

Inhibition of DNMT3A resulted in erasing the suppressive properties of these cells.

The team has been able to prove that such epigenetic alterations are associated with the increased levels of an enzyme, namely DNA methyltransferase 3A (DNMT3A), which is responsible for the acquisition of the suppressive properties of these cells that develop in the tumoral microenvironment.

«Our research shows that you can create these complex tissues with a simple template that exploits the inherent properties of these cells to self - organize.

But a new study suggests that in the days and weeks that lead up to a brain forming in an embryo or fetus, altering the electrical properties of these cells can dramatically change how the ensuing brain develops.

To get around that problem, Demirci's group fiddled not with the magnetic properties of the cells themselves, but with the medium around them.

For example, researchers could use the sound waves to measure elastic properties of cells in a petri dish, seeing how they respond to forces.

«It will now be much easier to identify how the physiological properties of these cells contribute to the behaviour of bees,» says Pickard.

Xinde Zheng, a research associate in the Hunter lab, was already studying the properties of cells affected by Leigh syndrome, whose inherited neurodegeneration is caused by a mutation in mitochondrial DNA that reduces ATP production.

Those axons branch out from the ventral nerve cord, which runs the length of the bee's abdomen — further evidence, they say, that the magnetic properties of those cells influence the nervous system.

And in related experiments, he made tadpoles grow eyes on their stomachs by changing the electrical properties of cells to mimic those associated with eye formation.

Prof. Reiner says, «We discovered a significant difference in the physical properties of cells in the two organoids, but we observed difference in their biological properties as well.

At the time, researchers didn't know much about the properties of the cells found in umbilical cord blood.

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.

However, he cautioned, it is not yet clear what the properties of those cell lines are nor who owns intellectual property rights to them.

If nothing else, the Cellbox experiment should reveal the properties of the cell architecture that depend on Earth's gravitational force — and whether gravity might be a key prerequisite for the existence of multicellular organisms.

Researchers are trying to make biomimetic membranes that are stable and have certain desired properties of cell membranes,» said chemist Chun - Long Chen at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

The gradual slope of the curve in the constant compliance region is related to the elastic properties of the cell.

It is still relatively unclear what role the biophysical properties of cell membrane play in this process.

«The results show that the biophysical properties of the cell membrane provide important starting points for further improving targeted treatment of tumor cells,» says Shastri.

I enjoyed so much to start thinking in the capability of small things to make a notable difference in biological systems, such as how the properties of the cell membranes are influenced by its chemical composition, and how the food chain is mainly supported by the photosynthesis reaction of plants and algae, which ultimately lead us to survive.

By tuning the adhesive properties of the cell, this mechanism can immobilize tumor cells or facilitate their dissemination.

• Scientifically made with effective yet gentle essential oils, including rose oil, famous for its anti-aging properties of cell oxygenation and capillary reparation.

The discovery suggests that looking at three - dimensional properties of the cell could one day be used as a new method of diagnosing breast cancer.

Not exact matches

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Going in with Jurvetson was a lineup of household - name investors that includes Bill Gates, Richard Branson, and Jack Welch; their money will be used to build up Memphis Meats» already formidable trove of intellectual property and to fine - tune the process of combining cells to produce the tastiest steaks and patties, and drive down the cost.

And, perhaps most strikingly, a team at a gaggle of New York research institutions published a paper showing how they'd used hPSCs to cook up — in just days, rather than several months — cortical neurons (critical central nervous system cells) that had normal electrophysiological signaling properties.

Hypothesis Traces First Protocells Back to Emergence of Cell Membrane Bioenergetics Dec. 20, 2012 — A coherent pathway - which starts from no more than rocks, water and carbon dioxide and leads to the emergence of the strange bio-energetic properties of living cells - has been traced for the first time in a major hypothesis paper in Cell this week.

Scientific reductionism, however, wants to reduce biology to physics and chemistry, to explain the properties of «life», by thorough specification of the particulars (atoms and molecules) that are integrated into cells and organisms.

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Such a single - step conversion of an adult cell into an embryonic stem cell entirely avoids the question of whether an embryo has been created, since the cell produced by ANT - OAR never exhibits any of the properties of a single - cell embryo.

The cell produced by ANT - OAR would have all of the positive properties of a pluripotent stem cell» as well as all of the restrictions in developmental potency such cells normally exhibit.

December 20, 2012 — A coherent pathway — which starts from no more than rocks, water and carbon dioxide and leads to the emergence of the strange bio-energetic properties of living cells — has been traced for the...

Origin of Life: Hypothesis Traces First Protocells Back to Emergence of Cell Membrane Bioenergetics Dec. 20, 2012 — A coherent pathway — which starts from no more than rocks, water and carbon dioxide and leads to the emergence of the strange bio-energetic properties of living cells — has been traced for the first time in a major hypothesis paper in Cell this week.

Elsewhere, Philip Ball, an English science writer, reports on research into the mechanical properties of cancer cells.

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But if, when you give up your cell, or yield possession of this or that object or exchange it for another, you feel repugnance and are not like a statue, that shows that you view these things as if they were your private property.»