Sentences with phrase «started cell division»
This jump - started cell division is called immune cell activation and is an important component of both normal immune responses and autoimmune reactions.
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I hoped to finally start studying cell division.
It was during this time that I started to explore the literature on bacterial cell division.
«Why is the division of egg cells — which is so important at the start of animal life — why is that not very reliable?»
«Maybe at the one - cell or two - cell stage,» Eggan and his colleagues reasoned, «there's still some of that stuff in there...» And if they picked the right moment of cell division, when these powerful reprogramming factors were still floating around in the periphery of the cell, they might be able to use drugs to temporarily freeze the cell in the middle of division, stick in the needle of a micromanipulator to suck out the embryonic DNA, squirt in DNA from an adult animal, and then kick - start the process of reprogramming — hours, perhaps even days after an egg had been fertilized.
Gottschling noticed that after about 25 cell divisions — the equivalent of middle age in humans — DNA errors in daughter cells started appearing 100 times faster than normal.
We started this research about 3 years ago, but we were fortunate to be able to identify a triarylmethane compound that can rapidly inhibit cell division in plants,» he continues.
Even when the researchers helped extend the cells» life spans by knocking out a problematic gene, the yeast DNA still started breaking down after 25 cell divisions.
The final component in this long series of signal sequences is the Yorkie effector protein that is the decisive factor at the end of the Hippo signaling pathway and determines the start of reactivation, growth, and division in the stem cells.
«Now that we know exactly how changes in EMSY spur cancer cell growth, we can start to design therapies to specifically target that activity and hopefully stop it,» says senior author Douglas Levine, MD, director of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at NYU Langone and its Perlmutter Cancer Center.
Baumann suspects that it could happen over two rounds of replication or if two sex cells combine forces before the division process starts.
Since p53 wasn't there to prevent their division, the return of Plk4 was all that was necessary for the cells to start centriole formation again from scratch.
Soon after the egg and sperm join during fertilization, the resultant zygote (fertilized egg cell) starts undergoing cell division.
Like other cancers, breast cancer arises when the cells of the breast lose control over their division and start to invade neighboring tissues.