Sentences with phrase «questions in cell biology»

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Kauffman was trained as a physician, but gave up medical practice to study fundamental questions in biology: «I entered biology because the magnificent wonder of cell differentiation overwhelmed me» (HU94).

Waddington's paper in Towards a Theoretical Biology follows on from one by Brian Goodwin («A Statistical Mechanics of Temporal Organization in Cells») in which Goodwin looks at the question of how ordered systems like cells, and still more macro-organisms, supervene on the movements of their constituent molecules, and how one is to close the gap between molecular biology and cell physioCells») in which Goodwin looks at the question of how ordered systems like cells, and still more macro-organisms, supervene on the movements of their constituent molecules, and how one is to close the gap between molecular biology and cell physiocells, and still more macro-organisms, supervene on the movements of their constituent molecules, and how one is to close the gap between molecular biology and cell physiology.

All the interdisciplinary skills and knowledge he had gathered during his scientific training — which had covered biochemistry, biotechnology, biomaterials, and stem cell biology — put him «in a very advantageous position to address this question» of how to develop nanoparticles that could modulate stem cell differentiation on demand, he says.

One of the key questions in biology is to identify how tissues are repaired after trauma and understand how stem cells migrate, proliferate, and differentiate to repair tissue damage.

In a second study, they applied CellNet's teachings to a recurring question in stem cell biology: Is it feasible to directly convert one specialized cell type to another, bypassing the laborious process of first creating an iPS celIn a second study, they applied CellNet's teachings to a recurring question in stem cell biology: Is it feasible to directly convert one specialized cell type to another, bypassing the laborious process of first creating an iPS celin stem cell biology: Is it feasible to directly convert one specialized cell type to another, bypassing the laborious process of first creating an iPS cell?

This method is a new tool for cell biologists and neuroscientists to use to address questions ranging from fundamental mechanisms in cell biology, to the underlying causes of mental illness, to the discovery of novel therapeutics.

«The exciting part of this work is not just that we made hydrogels, but that we're now equipped with this powerful technique that lets us ask fundamental — and very challenging — questions about them,» says Takanari Inoue, Ph.D., an associate professor of cell biology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and senior author of the report on the research published online Nov. 6 in the journal Nature Materials.

Led by researchers at Duke University, the study offers clues to a longstanding question in developmental biology, namely how plants and animals make so many types of cells from the same set of instructions.

But while we have decades of data in mice about these nervous system support cells, how relevant those experiments are to human biology (and the success of potential therapies) has been an open question.

He is «an unusual character» who's distinctive for «bringing epidemiological thinking and methodology into dialogue with molecular and cell biology» to answer important questions about aging, says gerontologist Thomas Kirkwood of the University of Newcastle in Newcastle - upon - Tyne, U.K.

At Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin, they are needed to understand the deep, inner structure of matter to improve solar cells, for example, or to answer long - standing questions in archaeology, biology and many other fields of research.

This blog has strived to explore the different stem cell types in detail, including their biology, history, potential, clinical applications, and numerous remaining questions.

BLOOD VESSEL VS. HEART LINEAGES Researcher: Bertie Göttgens, Principle Investigator, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, U.K. Project: Göttgens and his collaborators are working to solve a long - standing question in developmental biology: To what extent do blood vessel and heart lineages overlap, and when do they diverge?

This major discovery resolves a heated debate in the field, as it finally answers a question that has been discussed in biology for over a century: Before dividing in two, DNA in a cell is comparable with spaghetti — a messy mixture of intermingled strands.

I completed my PhD as a cell biology major in an engineering lab, where I established a new assay to answer questions very different from what the main part of the lab was working on.

This column, Biology Bytes, has strived to explore the different stem cell types in detail, including their biology, history, potential, clinical applications, and numerous remaining questions.

With their deep expertise in the biology of senescent cells, the Campisi lab will be focused on fundamental research into questions like how senescent cells vary in their susceptibility and resistance to immune clearance (depending on factors like their tissues of residence or the pathway that led them into senescence); the targets and mechanisms used by NK cells to clear senescent cells; and why subsets of senescent cells might persist when their similarly - situated neighbors are cleared out (and what might allow us to overcome that resistance).

Chlamydomonas is used as a model system for research on many very fundamental questions in cell and molecular biology: how do cells move?

We discuss the recent advances to address the question and characterize the developmental constraint in evolution, by integrating approaches from cell, and evolutionary biology, bioinformatics, and theoretical biophysics, and provide the future perspective in the quantitative evo - devo studies.

-- A fundamental question in biology is how multicellular organisms regulate their cell growth.

The Van Oudenaarden group uses a combination of experimental, computational, and theoretical approaches to quantitatively understand decision ‐ making in single cells, with a focus on questions in developmental and stem cell biology.

Recognizing the remarkable opportunities to apply single cell technologies to major questions in biology and medicine, JAX recently launched a joint center for single cell genomics together with the University of Connecticut, including UConn Health.

The new mouse strains are ideally suited to settle fundamental questions regarding the biology of mast cells and their functions in the immune system.

Researchers have answered an important question in biology by discovering the exquisite mechanism by which channels in the cell membrane sense voltage changes that trigger them to snap open or slam...