Sentences with phrase «shaped cellular structure»

Since then, Dong has established his small lab as a key player among researchers interested in the assembly of the centriole, a barrel - shaped cellular structure central to the formation of cilia, antenna - like cell surface protrusions essential for cell motility and signal transduction.

Scientists at TU Darmstadt showed that the iron content controls the formation of a diamond - shaped cellular structure that dominates the density and strength of the domain wall pinning sites and thus the coercivity, in other words the resistance the magnet puts up against demagnetization.

Not exact matches

Just as quantum mechanics is needed to, and does perfectly, fill the gap between the atomic structure of crystals and their beautiful shape in space, so too it will be needed to link the biochemistry of genetic code and cellular processes to the growth and shape of living things — provided, that is, that such a link can be found at all.

That's because they underwent a process in which silica — likely emitted by a nearby volcano — saturated the tree and took on the shape of the wood's internal structure as it decayed, preserving its 3D cellular structure.

Scientists injected fluorescent molecules into about 150 mouse brain structures and used a high - resolution microscope to document the molecules as they moved through the brain's «cellular highways,» which need to be in tip - top shape for different parts of the brain to communicate and coordinate behaviors.

The shapes of some of the tiniest cellular structures are coming into sharper focus at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Research Campus, where scientists have developed a new...