Sentences with phrase «research on cell division»

She did a post-doc at the University of California, San Francisco where she began many years of research on cell division.

Not exact matches

One research group [led by a former student] made mice with adult brain cells and forced them with a viral gene to turn on cell - division machinery.

Biochemist Peter Davies suspects the vast majority of research is on the wrong track: The disease is caused by improper cell division, not plaques or tangles.

«We challenged a current dogma in the field that emphasized PLK1's role in mitosis (cell division) as a primary mechanism for cancer growth,» says Zheng Fu, Ph.D., lead investigator on the study, member of the Cancer Molecular Genetics research program at VCU Massey Cancer Center and assistant professor in the Department of Human and Molecular Genetics at the VCU School of Medicine.

In the final step in bacterial cell division, constriction of the so - called Z - ring, an annular structure that forms on the plasma membrane near the midpoint of the cell, gives rise to the two daughter cells: A research team led by Erwin Frey, who holds the Chair of Statistical and Biological Physics at LMU, has now used mathematical modelling to understand the mechanism that drives formation of the Z - ring, and in so doing have uncovered a novel class of pattern - forming mechanism in biological systems.

The research group working at IBMC focused on the exact moment of cell division, when cells assemble a new microtubule network, which is then arranged as a very well - known structure: the mitotic spindle.

Partly based on his MIT Ph.D. thesis research performed in yeast, Sheltzer suspects aneuploidy causes errors in DNA replication, as well as problems with chromosome segregation during cell division.

Dr. Tu's research focuses on the metabolic state of cells and responses to conditions that induce or halt cell division to promote survival and homeostasis.

«This research, and the results it has produced, illustrate the great value of this time series reflected in the cell samples,» said Lisa Ballance, director of the Science Center's Marine Mammal and Turtle Division, and coauthor on this paper.