Sentences with phrase «tracked using cell»

First, the research demonstrates that RB status can be tracked using cell - free DNA samples, an approach referred to as «liquid biopsy,» in prostate cancer patient samples.

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In the end, the committee's advisory report recommended tracking all drones, using a mix of radio and cell tower signals to continuously monitor more sophisticated ones, while less sophisticated drone models could be tracked intermittently through software modifications.

Etacts is a free service that keeps track of the people you email and call using your cell phone.

Especially during active sleep, key neuronal (brain cell) connections are made — the brain literally lays down the tracks for everything it learns, and it also prunes away little - used connections.

The NYPD is one of many police departments across the country quietly using a highly secretive military grade technology that can track the whereabouts of suspects by using their cell phone signals.

In February of last year, the New York Civil Liberties Union revealed for the first time that the NYPD had since 2008 used covert cell phone tracking devices at least 1,000 times.

Developed by General Electric, the devices can be mounted inside prison cells, where they keep track of inmates» movements and vital signs using Doppler radar.

This allowed them to track changes in calcium ion concentrations in the cells around wounds in living tissue (as opposed to the cell cultures used in many previous wound response studies) and to do so with an unprecedented, millisecond precision.

The researchers set up a system to grow asymmetric nerve cells in an observation chamber and use live cell imaging to track how rabies virus particles are transported along the axons.

For example, he's used it along with a calcium - tracking dye in cardiac muscle cells from a rat, to image the sparks and waves of calcium ions that can trigger deadly arrhythmias during heart failure.

The lab tracked the differentiating process using fluorescent cell imaging, which tested for the necessary markers during each step.

«Controlling RNA in living cells: Modular, programmable proteins can be used to track or manipulate gene expression.»

Ours is the first study to rebuild the native tracks and gaps that exist in tissue to investigate how cells use these as superhighways to move quickly to spread throughout the body,» says Reinhart - King.

Using advanced laboratory techniques, the scientists tracked changes in peanut - specific T cells in five participants during the first 18 months of peanut immunotherapy.

Now, in a new study using laboratory - grown cells and mice, Johns Hopkins scientists report that a method they used to track metabolic pathways heavily favored by cancer cells provides scientific evidence for combining anti-cancer drugs, including one in a nanoparticle format developed at Johns Hopkins, that specifically target those pathways.

Using fluorescent labels, they were able to track the fates of marked and unmarked chromosomes under the microscope, from egg cells and sperm to the dividing cells of embryos after fertilization.

But, counter-intuitively, this mass cell death might be the very thing that makes the animals so long - lived: it could be a natural mechanism their bodies use to clear precancerous cells, stopping tumors in their tracks.

The phototactic Euglena cells were driven by variable illumination and tracked using microscopy.

Building on the newly - published pilot study, the team will conduct experiments using a windtunnel which measures the behaviour of mosquitoes towards odours and electrodes which track the response of individual odour - detecting cells from within the antenna of the mosquito in specially - designed secure laboratories at the School to measure the responses of malaria - infected Anopheles gambiae s.s. females to human odours.

Using a fluorescent tracker molecule, the team began by tracking the location of Xist in developing B cells in female mice.

The new research, which studied the immortalization process using genome - engineered cells in culture and also tracked skin cells as they progressed from a mole into a malignant melanoma, suggests that telomerase plays a more complex role in cancer.

The method, which detects DNA from skin cells, hair, and other cells released into the environment, has already been used to track surface organisms like invasive fish and snakes.

If they can be used in living tissue, they might eventually track cells in developing embryos, the immune system, or cancerous tumors.

Study participants will agree to allow researchers to track their mobile phone use over the next 20 to 30 years and to access their health records to look for correlations between cell phone use and health effects.

They might be put to use right away to track cultures of immune cells as they migrate in response to chemical stimuli.

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

In the past year, biologists have been using the natural form of GFP to track the production of individual proteins or the activity of particular genes in living cells.

To understand this spread, the Penn researchers developed a mouse model that uses multiple fluorescent proteins to tag and track different pancreatic cancer cells as they enter the bloodstream and spread to distant organs.

The study uses a new technique that can keep track of thousands of yeast cells at once.

The ability to track tumor cells in the bloodstream based on genetic content located within the cell itself, as opposed to using proteins located on the cell's surface (current technology)

Using a powerful imaging technique that allowed the scientists to track the presence and movement of parasites in living tissues, the researchers found that Toxoplasma infects the brain's endothelial cells, which line blood vessels, reproduces inside of them, and then moves on to invade the central nervous system.

De Luca and colleagues used the different insertions like little bar codes to track the boy's holoclones and other skin cells.

Using live imaging in zebrafish to track oligodendrocytes in real time, researchers reporting in the June 24 issue of the Cell Press journal Developmental Cell discovered that individual oligodendrocytes coat neurons with myelin for only five hours after they are born.

Cohen, whose background includes developing operating systems support for computer games, has developed a program called LEVER - short for Lineage Editing and Validation program - that can identify, tag and track live cells, capturing patterns of motion and cell division, using sequences of microscopic time - lapse images.

Simultaneous multiview light - sheet microscopy (see image, «PACKING IT IN,» in slideshow above) uses thicker sheets to track ensembles of cells.

After this initial color assignment, the color information was propagated in time using the tracking information, thus providing a color - coded single - cell resolution fate map.

The research team used blood samples taken daily throughout the patient's hospitalization and recovery to measure the rise and decline of virus replication inside white blood cells and serum and to track the timing, intensity and duration of expression of numerous immune system genes.

Gillis and colleagues used embryos of the little skate to track early gill development through cell tracing.

A research group lead by University of Tsukuba Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences International Tenure Track Assistant Professor Norio Takeshita (who holds a concurrent post as Group Leader of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Department of Applied Microbiology) has succeeded in using a super-resolution microscope to visualize the mechanism by which cell polarity is maintained.

Biologists at the University of Cambridge used fluorescent labelling to stain cell membranes in skate embryos, and tracked them through the dynamic development process.

After tracking the injected cells in the mice for more than 10 days using bioluminescence and fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)- positron emission tomography (PET) imaging, they found that the injection of the senescent cells into the knee region caused leg pain, impaired mobility and characteristics of osteoarthritis, including damage to surrounding cartilage, X-ray changes, increased pain and impaired function.

Using this method, they tracked the tendency of the X and the Y chromosome copies to move to the daughter germ line stem cell or to the gonialblast.

Key to the researchers» efforts to track oxytocin at work in individual brain cells was use of an antibody developed at NYU Langone that specifically binds to oxytocin - receptor proteins on each neuron, allowing the cells to be seen with a microscope.

To track sperm development, they used a fluorescent protein that marked cells undergoing — or that had undergone — meiosis.

Using their own recently - developed genetic labeling techniques for tracking these cells in early development in mice, Taniguchi and his team observed that, like most neurons, the cells remodeled their axonal organization through development.

«Such dynamic behaviours were difficult to find using normal techniques, and our findings were made possible by single - molecule tracking of new fluorescent ganglioside probes,» said Kenichi Suzuki of the Institute for Integrated Cell - Material Sciences (WPI - iCeMS) and the paper's co-author.

Over the past two years, investigators from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have reported results from a human trial in GBM using chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy, through which patients» own T cells were engineered to track down and kill cancer cells that express a tumor - specific protein known as EGFRvIII.

Using fluorescent dye, researchers figured out how to turn cells into lasers — with applications for cell tagging and tracking as well as medical diagnoses and therapies

Malinski's team has developed unique methods and systems of measurements using nanosensors, which are about 1,000 times smaller in diameter than a human hair, to track the impacts of Vitamin D3 on single endothelial cells, a vital regulatory component of the cardiovascular system.

The aperture restricts light exposure to a very small fraction of a sample, limiting damage to cells and fluorescent molecules, and the method can be used to image multiple colors at the same time, so scientists can simultaneously track several different proteins.