Another situation where cells may be huddling to communicate within a group, Gilmour and Durdu posit, is in organoids — self - assembled organ - like
structures grown in the lab, which start by forming a common lumen.
Not exact matches
She has spent decades studying the crystalline
structures of biological materials such as seashell minerals at the Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory
in Upton, N.Y.
Growing frustration with government shutdowns, a huge disruption to national
labs like Brookhaven, partly spurred her candidacy.
The
lab -
grown brain, about the size of a pencil eraser, has an identifiable
structure and contains 99 percent of the genes present
in the human fetal brain.
This image of the
lab -
grown brain is labeled to show identifiable
structures: the cerebral hemisphere, the optic stalk and the cephalic flexure, a bend
in the mid-brain region, all characteristic of the human fetal brain.
Last fall, using a rhinovirus C preparation
grown in the Palmenberg
lab — currently one of the few places
in the world capable of culturing the virus — and an imaging technology new to Purdue, Rossmann's graduate student, Yue Liu, first author of the study, was able to map the full atomic
structure of a rhinovirus C particle.
But although you might think of yeast as
growing in the featureless soup of a
lab culture, wild yeast typically live a more
structured life —
in colonies.
Boston architects Howeler + Yoon and Los Angeles digital designers Squared Design
Lab have designed a conceptual
structure for Boston, where an unfinished building would be covered
in modular pods
growing algae for biofuel.