There is an engineering element to
thinking about cell circuits that is a natural place for biologists that are interested in more physical chemistry and physical approaches to find a home.
However, I was
thinking about cells in the biological sense, appropriating medical and scientific images with a color Xerox machine, and collaging these scavenged images together to form mixed media works.
Think about the cell phone on your desk beside the laptop, stereo, iPod, mp3 player, and the television next to the bed.
Not exact matches
Savannah
thinks that VAL is a better way to create live streams with a
cell phone — a theory that is
about to be assessed by a group that includes Kara Swisher, the no - nonsense editor of Recode.
I do that for my Google Fi account to decrease my
cell bill — I didn't
think about trying it for other services I use.
As a cancer researcher, do you
think the mechanisms of tumor growth are somehow changing to come into line with your perceptions, or is it possible that the process of our learning more
about DNA mutations and
cell architecture and nutrient exchange and epigenetic effects make it possible for us to inch ever closer to understanding that which is already going on under our noses?
Those considering joining the rest of civilization in owning a
cell phone, and those
thinking about replacing the blasted thing when their two - year agreement finally runs out must address the...
We might
think that a chimpanzee is exercising free will when it chooses to chomp on a banana, or a cat when it rips up your sofa, but what
about the roundworm called Caenorhabditis elegans — a simple creature made of only 959
cells?
I
think it also says somewhere in the Bible
about texting or talking on a
cell phone when driving.
Because if you
think about it without a soul all we are is just a bunch of
cells.
At the conference I met Dr. Kathryn Applegate, who has spent a lot of time
thinking about this issue and who looks way too young to have developed computer vision algorithms to measure the remodeling activity of the
cell's cytoskeleton.
If he talks
about the event character (1 / 10th of a second in length and all that) of the self, it is because he
thinks that is what analysis of self - consciousness itself discloses and not because he means to construct the self out of subhuman individuals or organisms (Shalom's «event -
cells»).
But I
think that to go on to create life without intervening (ie place the right chemicals within lipid bubbles to create
cells) may require a ton of random chance, and could take a lab the size of the ocean, and
about a half a billion years to work.
I don't know
about you, but I
think it's more humane to terminate a cluster of
cells that lacks the ability to feel pain than it is to insist that a child be born into a situation where it is unwanted, unloved, unprotected and may end up abused or dead.
This
cell phone pic made me
think about the talks I sent you the link to.
Finally, Mr. DeVet
thinks our article had too optimistic a conclusion, arguing that stem
cells «will cause people to be more prudent in the future
about mixing science with politics in general.»
Some have already been mentioned (the usual controversies
about gay rights, reproductive freedom, and — one that I
think should be a moral imperative — stem
cell research).
That sounds silly probably, but if you
think about it contraception is only wasting one more
cell.
And he has a funny little remark
about the
cells that I do not fully understand, though I've
thought about it carefully.
Consider also his claim that «the right way to
think»
about a visual experience is that «photons reflected off objects attack the photoreceptor
cells of the retina and this sets up a series of neuronal processes (the retina being part of the brain), which eventually result, if all goes well, in a visual experience that is a perception of the very object that originally reflected the photons» (MC 64).
We have to stop and
think about how are
cells recognize as food.
It's also laughable (and mind - boggling) that I actually
thought $ 22 was an acceptable amount of money to pay for 14 hours of internet access when I scoff at the
cell phone company for charging us
about the same amount for an entire month of browsing - on - the - fly.
I know it's popular to
think of movies where Floyd is sharing his
cell with a hardened criminal and having to worry
about being shanked, but it's much more likely that he spends a bunch of time away from general population, being kept safe and probably watching TV and reading his days away.
As I was
thinking about impaired driving, I immediately
thought about the ire I feel when it comes to
cell phones and driving.
As many as 1 in 300 African Americans have some form of SCD, and it's
thought that
about 1 in 10 African Americans have sickle
cell trait.
Over the summer, all I could
think about when I wasn't looking at my sweet baby boy's face was how fat I felt and that
thought was taking up more of my brain
cells than was healthy or necessary.
She was talking
about the
cells in my experiment that kept failing, but I
think it is just as apt for motherhood: It is not you.
I would live to hear more
about your opinions on disciplining older children at some point - I'm curious what you
think of time - outs / grounding, removing privileges like car keys or
cell - phone, etc..
Watch to find out what some doctors
think about newborn stem
cell preservation and why they recommend CBR.
After being a nurse in the PICU, I
thought about all of the genetic disorders my patients had encountered, (i.e. various cancers, cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy) and I wondered if there were anyway stem
cells could have cured or at least improved their conditions.
I
think his point
about the
cell phones or car is simply to gain some perspective on the situation.
Everyone who
thinks abortion is
about getting rid of a few
cells should look at these photos.
I reached Benjamin on his
cell phone, and he confirmed that he did indeed make that statement, but insisted he hadn't really meant to, telling me: «I was
thinking about God, and it just came out... I was speaking from the heart.»
Thought to have disappeared from the ancestors of modern pigs
about 20 million years ago, the gene helps
cells dissipate more heat and burn fat.
«The discovery of this special class of
cells that sit right at the nerve endings where HSV - 2 is released into skin is changing how we
think about HSV - 2 and possible vaccines,» said Corey.
«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.
(Before you ask: The 5 -
cell shape — also called a simplex — is too simple even to
think about breaking apart.
Above all, synthetic biology «requires a new way of
thinking about biology: the idea that
cells are machines and they can be rebuilt the way that electrical engineers now design circuits [and] instruments,» Glass says.
«Knowing how
cells respond to mechanical cues in the living embryo and how they physically sculpt tissues and organs in the 3D space will transform the way we
think about developmental processes,» said Otger Campàs, a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UCSB and senior author on the paper that reports this novel technique in Nature Methods.
But a new study suggests that mature
cells also play a key role in initiating cancer — a finding that could upend the way scientists
think about the origins of the disease.
When they
think about how
cells put together the molecules that make life work, biologists have tended to
think of assembly lines: Add A to B, tack on C, and so on.
Since many human diseases can be explained by perturbations of molecular interactions within
cells, interactomes will drastically change how we
think about human health, and how we set
about designing drugs and preventive measures to counter illness.
«Given everything we
thought we knew
about MYC and LIN41 at the time, we couldn't comprehend how these genes were so beneficial in somatic
cell reprogramming, but absolutely useless in tumor reprogramming.
«The title [Congress on Responsible Stem
Cell Research] was what put me off, and I
thought this isn't an open discussion at all; this is going to be all
about proponents for adult stem
cells, and the people working with embryonic stem
cells will be the bad guys,» she says.
«Another serious consideration to
think about is that over the years many people have begun to include these businesses in their overall impression of the stem
cell field,» Knoepfler says.
At its heart, scientific editing is still
about publishing a field's most interesting and influential papers, which means that reading, writing, and
thinking about science are still at the core of the job, says
Cell Stem
Cell editor Deborah Sweet, who is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
«Postdocs and students who are currently working in stem
cell labs are finding themselves very highly marketable, but they should also
think about how the field will transform in five or 10 years,
about the bigger picture, and how to ask questions and develop expertise that will be relevant over the long term,» says Watt.
Scientist Kenneth Ka - Ho Lee, who has been trying to reproduce STAP
cells and has been regularly blogging
about his progress, has given up, writing «I don't
think STAP
cells exist and it will be a waste of manpower and research funding to carry on with this experiment any further.»
«We never really
think about it with a
cell phone,» says Leetaru, pointing to the ability to trace a user's location by tracking
cell towers, essentially «leaving digital bread crumbs wherever you go.»
These
cells are
thought to contribute to constancy of the perceived size regardless of changes in distance by conveying certain information
about the object's size.