Sentences with phrase «small group of cells»

In a new study published in the journal Development, the KU Leuven researchers show that individual or small groups of cells from uterus biopsies can be made to grow into three - dimensional structures that show many of the features of the womb lining, including the ability to produce mucus.

The two researchers have proven that scImpute works well in small groups of cells when dropout rates are low.

In experiments with lab mice, she discovered how small groups of cells dance about to form an embryo and how a layer of cells surrounding the embryo itself, previously thought of as nothing more than a protective cloak, orchestrates the formation of an embryo's body parts.

That's so that the tweaks that are made spread to the entire organism, rather than affecting only a small group of cells.

My point is that those opposed to terminating a small group of cells, or even a larger fetus that is not even yet self - aware will base their opposition on the supposed views of some mythological creature that, according to their Iron Age Palestinian mythology, caused a grown adult to be tortured and killed in a grotesque, barbaric fashion.

«It might sound counterintuitive, but we suggest that this small group of cells actually functions like a braking system for pain,» says Sun.

In case of mechanical dissociation animal's tissues are wiped through a gauze which leads to splitting into separate cells and small groups of cells.

If this view is correct, meaningful messages might be conveyed not just by hordes of neurons screaming in unison but by a small group of cells whispering, perhaps in a terse temporal code.

A simple repetition of a small group of cells is easily coordinated, and leads to simple ratios of cell types.

We do know that a small group of cells in the brain stem, called the subcoeruleus nucleus, controls REM sleep.

«We were able to demonstrate for the first time that these specific cells — a small group of cells in the hippocampus — had undergone this augmentation of synaptic strength,» Tonegawa says.

Cancer starts with one or a small group of cells that have «gone wrong.»

In explaining that «[m] any thoughtful and decent people are conflicted about, or strongly oppose, this research,» President Obama was acknowledging that, even in its earliest stages, the small group of cells that constitute an embryo are in some way different from a chemical reagent to be sold in a catalog or an industrially synthesized molecule to be integrated into a widget.