Sentences with phrase «time cells altered»

Chinese scientists have injected a person with CRISPR / Cas9 - edited cells, marking the first time cells altered with the technique have been used in humans.

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There is concern that THC may also alter brain cells during the time when a baby is experiencing significant brain growth.

As it can take weeks to grow human cells into intact differentiated and functional tissues within Organ Chips, such as those that mimic the lung and intestine, and researchers seek to understand how drugs, toxins or other perturbations alter tissue structure and function, the team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering led by Donald Ingber has been searching for ways to non-invasively monitor the health and maturity of cells cultured within these microfluidic devices over extended times.

The tanks of electroactive materials can be made as large as needed — increasing total amount of energy the system can store — or the central cell can be tweaked to release that energy faster or slower, altering the amount of power (energy released over time) that the system can generate.

In addition, they showed for the first time that these genes are often the same as those that are altered in breast tumours - when a tumour develops, the DNA within the cancer cells themselves mutates.

«By combining in vivo multiphoton microscopy and in vivo electrophysiology, our lab is better able to visualize how cells move and change over time in the living brain and explain how changes in these glial cells alter the visually evoked neural network activity,» says Kozai.

As cells or particles flow through the channel, one at a time, their mass slightly alters the cantilever's vibration frequency.

When McKnight was research director at Tularik, which is targeting cancer and other diseases with drugs that alter the cell's production of specific proteins, he spent 30 % to 40 % of his time scraping together dollars.

By swapping out just one microRNA building block for another, ADAR1 alters the carefully orchestrated system cells use to control which genes are turned on or off at which times.

They found that the histone code, which alters the transcriptional state of the gene, changes over time as stem cells differentiate into blood vessels in response to a stimulus.

Moreover, a cell culture constantly alters its own environment — changing the concentration of oxygen, carbon dioxide and nutrients significantly over time.

«The discovery that aldose reductase regulates mucus production and goblet cell metaplasia makes inhibition of this enzyme an attractive therapeutic option to reduce mucus - related airway obstructive diseases — and for the first time gives us a real chance to alter the course of the underlying disease in asthma and COPD.»

Besides restricting the amount of food a person can eat at one time, the procedure also seems to alter the properties of nerve cells.

It was the first time that a living cell had operated using an altered genetic alphabet.

While the study suggests that cellular timing is a stubborn process, the Thomson lab is exploring a variety of follow - up studies on potential factors that could help cells alter their pace, Barry says.

At other times, they alter communications between cells in such a way that healthy cells are prevented from becoming cancerous.

A non-comprehensive list of the powers Lucy acquires over the course of the film: perfect marksmanship, extreme agility, and instantaneous reflexes; the ability to control TVs and cell phones from thousands of miles away; immunity to pain and fear; telepathy, telekinesis, and clairvoyance; expertise in driving a car really fast into oncoming traffic; teleportation across time and space; and the capacity to alter her existing body parts or grow new ones.

The virus activates growth - promoting genes in the DNA (oncogenes), at the same time it inactivates suppressor genes that would normally limit cell proliferation and alters the genes that regulate normal, programmed cell death.