Sentences with phrase «survive environmental stress»

Autophagy allows cells to survive environmental stress.

They are more likely to survive environmental stress than their younger cohorts, and they continue to reproduce at a steady rate.

«By switching certain genes on and off, prions could help bacteria survive environmental stresses rendering them less vulnerable to drugs, chemicals and other environmental assaults,» says investigator Ann Hochschild, professor of microbiology and immunobiology at HMS.

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI - CBG), the Biotechnology Center of the TU Dresden (BIOTEC), and the Washington University in St. Louis, USA have now identified for the first time a benign, albeit biologically relevant function of prion domains as protein specific stress sensors that allow cells to adapt to and survive environmental stresses.

Although prions are typically associated with negative effects, recent research from Whitehead Member Susan Lindquist's lab has shown that prions can introduce evolutionarily beneficial traits that help an organism survive environmental stresses.

Not exact matches

Many bacteria, however, can not form spores and instead survive a stress by entering a «dormant» or viable but nonculturable (VBNC) state in response to environmental stresses.

If their ancient predecessors somehow survived, but such animals as Triceratops and T. rex did not, maybe some form of environmental stress was acting disproportionately upon dinosaurs.

And when researchers look at different populations of individuals who have lived past 90 or 100, they are looking at people who managed to survive vastly different environmental stresses.

QUT researchers have been studying the native grass, Tripogon loliiformis, because of its amazing ability to survive extreme environmental stresses.

Despite the environmental stress that comes with being in a combat zone, I was able to start my day energized, focused, and feeling great, with a full reservoir of willpower to spend on the decisions and actions I needed to survive and accomplish my mission as a Navy SEAL leader during wartime.

These plant chemicals help to regulate our immune, physiological and neurological responses to stress, allowing us to survive not only rough environmental / weather challenges, but also to adapt and adjust our often neurotic mental habits and crazy social / political climates as well.