Sentences with phrase «rendered nonfunctional»

The researchers were amazed by this latter outcome, as intentional movement requires information to travel from the brain down to the lower spinal cord, a path that had been rendered nonfunctional by his injury.

In the malady, a victim's immune system attacks hormone - producing organs such as the pancreas and the thyroid, parathyroid, and adrenal glands, often rendering them nonfunctional.

In addition to becoming immortal, cancer cells invade the surrounding tissue, rendering it nonfunctional.

Not exact matches

Psuedogenes are remnants of genes that once served a purpose in our genome that they no longer fulfil, because of mutations that have rendered the genes nonfunctional, i.e., they no longer lead to the production of proteins (long chains of amino acids) that once contributed to specific characteristics in ancient ancestors.

In further test tube experiments, the researchers treated the immortalized white blood cells with both chemical and genetic blockers, called small interfering RNA (siRNA), designed to render either p70S6K or GRB10 nonfunctional.

Chemical biologists led by Dana - Farber's Nathanael Gray, PhD, designed and custom - made a compound called THZ1 that forms a particularly strong bond with CDK7, rendering the protein essentially nonfunctional.

It's widely known that many East Asians have a mutation in a related gene that renders this pathway nonfunctional.

Not only that, soon after a software glitch rendered Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing sales reporting nonfunctional, no numbers were readily forthcoming at any speed or accuracy, neither then nor for the forseeable future.