Sentences with phrase «system cells by»

Probiotics support those immune system cells by maintaining an internal environment that is friendly only to other beneficial microorganisms.

For example, he's designing nanoparticles that bait specific immune system cells by displaying certain features on their surface; inside, the nanoparticles contain an antigen of a particular microbe.

Not exact matches

«But at some point we'll be able fabricate a biodevice from a patient's own cells that will duplicate the most important functions of a kidney and that won't be rejected by the patient's immune system.»

If there was a God who intelligently designed the universe and life then why would we have anything bigger than our solar system inhabited by single cell organisms?

The theory of societies, like modern general systems theory, pictures a world made up of societies within societies (systems within systems) That is, societies do not just line up side by side like mosaics — they form «nested hierarchies» that go from subatomic particles through cells to animal bodies, or through stars to galaxies.

a man can not reasonably, and by himself he can not possibly, be regarded as merely a system of cells acting upon one another, for he is directly aware of «himself» as, at the given moment, a single unit of action, a single mind or will, exerting force upon his bodily parts and thence upon the world.

Mutations are indeed not, so far as we know, selected by any overall purpose favoring evolution; but this is compatible with there being short - run and very naive purposes, desires, or feelings in the atoms and molecules constituting the genes, as well as in every cell and every metazoan with a nervous system.

RS: According to the hypothesis of formative causation, outlined in my book A New Science of Life, systems such as molecules, crystals, cells, organs and organisms are organized by specific morphogenetic fields, which give them their characteristic form and organization.

Waddington's paper in Towards a Theoretical Biology follows on from one by Brian Goodwin («A Statistical Mechanics of Temporal Organization in Cells») in which Goodwin looks at the question of how ordered systems like cells, and still more macro-organisms, supervene on the movements of their constituent molecules, and how one is to close the gap between molecular biology and cell physioCells») in which Goodwin looks at the question of how ordered systems like cells, and still more macro-organisms, supervene on the movements of their constituent molecules, and how one is to close the gap between molecular biology and cell physiocells, and still more macro-organisms, supervene on the movements of their constituent molecules, and how one is to close the gap between molecular biology and cell physiology.

The objects of his study range from a class of molecules that have the basic self - duplicating property of living things, through cells which suggest purely physical systems, through animals which give increasing evidence of having minds, to human beings in whom streams of consciousness seem to involve continual choices of action, at the opposite pole from control by impersonal laws of nature.

This is the group of genes which act as the immune system markers on cells, protecting them from being attacked by the system's anti-bodies.

I watch newscasts about these things, newscasts that are constantly interrupted by ads for the latest and greatest everything... soup to nuts, automobiles to blue - ray players, cell phones to restaurants, GPS systems to medications.

It has been imprisoned in the cells of alien dogma; it has been bound hand and foot in the grave clothes of human tradition; it has been entombed as a sepulcher by systems of theology, and the stone of human power has been rolled up to close its door.»

By reducing calories on two days per week, you can kick - start weight loss, rejuvenate the body's systems, repair cells and restore vitality.

Autoimmunity is commonly caused by bacterial infections or overgrowth in the small intestine, in which partially digested food compounds are incorporated into bacterial cell walls and then the immune system, reacting to the bacteria, forms antibodies that also recognize food compounds, some of which might cross-react with human counterparts.

As a result, your immune system becomes weakened by the suffocation of your body's cells.

Method of matching load cell outputs in a multicell system by adjusting the excitation voltage to each individual load cell.

Inspired by America's love for all things voice - controlled from GPS systems to our cell phones, Soy Vay has created the ultimate cooking experience for home cooks so you don't need to touch your computer anymore with sticky, saucy fingers!

In addition, it also aids in increasing white blood cells by stimulating your immune system.

The Omega 3 fatty acids found in oily fish — such as salmon, trout, halibut, and tuna — help boost our immune systems, by increasing the activity of phagocytes, which are white blood cells that combat harmful bacteria.

The numbers of cells and proteins generated by the immune system of some SIDS babies have been reported to be higher than normal.

According to a team of researchers led by Dr. Michael Julius, a specific protein in breast milk, CD14, helps jump start an infant's immune system and develop essential B cells, which are instrumental in the development of antibodies.

In addition, Enfamil PREMIUM routine formulas have vitamins E and C, and selenium that all help support the immune system by protecting cells.

* CD4 cells are a component of the immune system attacked by HIV.

Off topic questions included his speech tomorrow to Britain's Labour Party, Chirlane McCray's attendance at an NYPD CompStat meeting, whether ISIS and the recent U.S. military strikes will cause a ramped - up security / counter-terrorism effort by the City, Governor Cuomo's efforts at supporting a Democratic state senate, Congressional approval of military strikes ordered by President Obama, the City school system's policy on student cell phones and continuing problems at Rikers Island.

For decades, critics of the sprawling state prison system have assailed New York's policy of punishing convicts by consigning them to «Special Housing Units,» parking - space - sized cells where prisoners can remain isolated up to 23 hours a day.

We found that when it comes to cutaneous immunity — specific to skin — the immune system was being obstructed by skin cells that were too prone to producing inflammation responses.

When viral and bacterial infections strike, our bodies respond by commanding B cells within our immune systems to crank out antibodies to battle the invaders.

In the present study, the researchers have discovered a reason for reduced fertility in people with autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 1 (APS1), which increases the risk of developing autoimmune disease (caused by the immune system attacking and damaging healthy cells) and which is often used as a model for autoimmune disease in general.

By exploiting new molecular and genetic insights, the research, done in collaboration with Pierre de Wit from Wageningen Agricultural University in the Netherlands, provides a better understanding of the defense system of crop plants against the damaging pathogens that grow in the spaces between plant cells.

And a new analysis of the STEP trial, published last November in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, provides a warning that the very vectors (adenoviruses, which are also employed in other vaccine development work) used to distribute the inactive HIV strains can actually make the immune system more vulnerable to infection by recruiting susceptible T cells to mucous membranes, where they are more likely to be infected during sexual activity.

Previously, Derek Danahy of the University of Iowa and colleagues showed that sepsis disrupts the immune system by reducing the amount and function of memory T cells that circulate throughout the body, recognizing and attacking specific bacteria, viruses, or cancer cells.

All living organisms maintain a reducing environment inside their cells, all cells contain complex systems of antioxidants to prevent chemical damage to the cells» components by oxidation.

Some scientists had claimed that the lymphatic system was derived from specialized stem cells called angioblasts, whereas others had argued that it originated by the differentiation of pre-existing embryonic veins.

«Chronic inflammation of the intestine is thought to be caused by abnormal interactions between gut microbes, intestinal epithelial cells and the immune system, but so far it has been impossible to determine how each of these factors contribute to the development of intestinal bowel disease,» said Hyun Jung Kim, Ph.D., former Wyss Technology Development Fellow and first author on the study, speaking about the limitations of conventional in vitro and animal models of bacterial overgrowth and inflammation of the intestines.

«We found that the syncytiotrophoblasts formed in our system recapitulated the barrier properties of the naturally occurring cells and they resisted infection by a model virus and three genetically different strains of Toxoplasma,» said co-investigator Jon P. Boyle, Ph.D., associate professor of biological sciences at Pitt.

The exterior of the nanoparticle is coated with nucleic acids that act as targeting agents, drawing the delivery system to the retina and facilitating uptake by RPE cells.

Not that that's necessarily the very first way Darwinian systems began, but at some point they had to transition into a system more related to modern biology where cells are all bounded by membranes.

The plasma membrane of hepatic parenchymal cells contains an adenyl cyclase system that is stimulated by glucagon.

The researchers are building on their current findings, which they say establishes a system for reconstituting cell fusion in mammalian cells, a feat not yet achieved by biomedical science.

Marta Monteiro and colleagues at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, studied mice protected from the animal equivalent of multiple sclerosis by natural killer T - cells (NKT), a class of white blood cell which helps to control the immune system.

But during pregnancy, the fetus is protected from the mother's immune system by the placenta, which has specialized cells — called trophoblasts — that can burrow into the mother's body without exciting an attack by the immune system.

Plath's team found that the changes that happen in cells during reprogramming occur in a sequential stage - by - stage manner, and that importantly, the stages were the same across all the different reprogramming systems and different cell types analyzed.

Chronic HIV infection results in exhaustion of the immune system, a phenomenon characterized by dysfunctional HIV - specific killer T cells.

You have strong words for the intelligent design folks, for example, describing one claim by their advocate Michael Behe (that an intelligent designer «made the first cell, already containing all of the irreducibly complex biochemical systems») as «utter nonsense.»

Pembrolizumab, which is marketed under the brand name Keytruda, works by turning off the immune system's brakes, allowing its T cells to recognize and attack cancer cells.

Here is how: Software gathers a Web page's content from the computer's operating system, converts the words and images into a digital version of Braille and then represents that via a touchable row of finger - sized rectangular cells lined up side by side like dominoes.

When researchers injected fresh breast cancer cells in the side opposite the original tumor site, the disease didn't recur in any of the mice, as the cancer was rejected by the immune system's memory.

Some of these genes are involved in making the proteins encoded by the viral DNA and may make it easier for Mimivirus to co-opt host cell replication systems.

The removal of these components might be expected to unleash an assault by the immune system on cancer cells left after surgery.