Sentences with phrase «up of human cells»

The bacterium may, for example, bind with human proteins on its surface, thus appearing to be made up of human cells.

To understand molecular forces behind different cell states in development, aging and disease, these scientists want to track the molecular make - up of human cells in time and space.

Not exact matches

Organovo, a start - up in Los Angeles, is working on a process in which a bioprinter will squirt multiple layers of human tissue cells onto special paper.

But since you and I both know God is the ultimate authority and thus sets the standard, and God clearly is against abortion, and the atheists are erroneously calling very early human life nothing but «a bunch of cells,» isn't it up to us to fight for those lives?

Prior to the development of a fully functioning nervous system, and the activation of said system, a human embryo is «alive» in the same sense a tumor is «alive»: the individual cells that make it up are alive, but there is no higher - level functionality.

Proponents of human cloning assert that this is the only method of producing pluripotent stem cells with the same genetic make - up as adult patients.

------------- And if 90 % of dust particles are made up of human skin cells, then I think there's a naked man living under my bed... And he's HAIRY!

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.»

Such whole - grain varieties contain high levels of phenols and tannins, two plant compounds with a knack for mopping up free radicals that can wreak havoc on cell membranes and other delicate machinery within the human body.

In a human brain, the cells would need to travel a matter of millimeters or centimeters, up to 20 times farther than the 500 microns tested here, he says.

Hammer and colleagues Dennis Discher and Frank Bates attempted to scale up this process to make vesicles more than 10 micrometers in diameter — the size of human cells.

The biobank of MedUni Vienna and Vienna General Hospital is a central service facility dedicated to the storage of human tissue, cell material and body fluids for more in - depth diagnosis, academic research projects and clinical tests, as well as working - up samples by way of a medical service.

Yet, whereas the cells of bacteria and other microbes are small and simple, all visible life, including us humans, is generally made up of large and complex cell types.

Traditional genetic approaches together with the new wealth of genomic information for both human and model organisms open up strategies by which drugs can be profiled for their ability to selectively kill cells in a molecular context that matches those found in tumors.

In this latest advance reported in PNAS, the Wyss team showed that the human gut - on - a-chip's unique ability to co-culture intestinal cells with living microbes from the normal gut microbiome for an extended period of time, up to two weeks, could allow breakthrough insights into how the microbial communities that flourish inside our GI tracts contribute to human health and disease.

Jacob's team has transplanted the back - up or «alternative» respiratory machinery from the mitochondria of lower organisms to human cells, showing that it can protect against pathological stresses, and even lethal poisons like cyanide, that target the mitochondria.

The human gut consists of up to 100 trillion microbial cells that influence metabolism, nutrition and immune function.

The process, reported in Human Reproduction, utilizes DNA fingerprinting (an assessment of active genes in a given cell) to boost the success rate of IVF and lower the chances of risky multiple births by identifying which of several five - day - old embryos are most likely to result in pregnancy The new method, which will replace unproved alternatives such as choosing embryos based on their shape, is likely to up the success of women becoming pregnant and lower their chances of having multiple births.

NIH is also in active discussions with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a philanthropic organization set up by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan as well as international organizations, about a project to assemble the atlas of human cells, something Collins likened to a «Google map of the human body.»

Their major hurdle: to come up with a replacement for hemoglobin (an iron - enriched protein in red blood cells that transports oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body) that can be directly introduced into the human circulatory system.

Follow - up tests in human cell cultures confirmed that MIR168a interferes with production of a cholesterol - clearing protein.

Of course, there are 10 times as many microbial cells as human cells in and on any of us, and none of that DNA seems to get mixed up with GoldbluOf course, there are 10 times as many microbial cells as human cells in and on any of us, and none of that DNA seems to get mixed up with Goldbluof us, and none of that DNA seems to get mixed up with Goldbluof that DNA seems to get mixed up with Goldblum.

In studies with human fibroblasts that make up connective tissue, Boger's team tested whether NOD1 activity could affect CMV replication in cultures of cells grown in the lab.

Now comes a first rate example of how CRISPR is changing the pace of biomedical research by linking up with another cutting edge technology — human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs).

Desgrosellier said the team will follow up with mouse models containing tumor fragments from patients to better reflect the diversity of cell types present in human disease.

The report, from a committee made up of 11 members of Parliament, also recommends legalizing research involving embryos of chimeras and hybrids, which includes cells created by fusing human and animal nuclei.

To see whether cancer stem cell renewal involves a chain of events similar to that used by embryonic stem cells, and whether the process was affected by oxygen levels, Semenza and graduate student Chuanzhao Zhang focused their studies on two human breast cancer cell lines that responded to low oxygen by ramping up production of the protein ALKBH5, which removes methyl groups from mRNAs.

Before Katlyn showed up at NIH, the doctors there were already well prepared: They had inserted healthy human ADA genes into a modified mouse retrovirus — a type of virus that can enter human cells and transfer new genetic material right into the DNA strands in their nuclei.

In a boost for a controversial theory of aging, mice engineered to make a human protein that sponges up cell - damaging molecules live 19 % longer than other mice.

When Liesman infected human airway cells in the lab with this re-engineered virus, she saw infected cells ball up and puff out of the airway epithelium.

In human hair shafts, several outer layers of flattened cuticle cells surround a layer of cortical cells (making up the cortex), which surrounds the central core of cells, called the medulla.

While conservatives in Congress took turns echoing George W. Bush's opposition to destroying human embryos for research, Lensch's colleague Paul Lerou stepped into a small room behind a heavy black curtain to check up on a line of nonpresidential embryonic stem cells.

Stem cells injected into lamb fetuses have created livers that are up to 10 percent human, says Esmail Zanjani of the University of Nevada at Reno.

The homunculus is made up of brain cells that represent our fingers, arms, and so on, loosely tracing a distorted human figurine along the cerebral cortex.

The scientist tested their set - up using frozen human skin cells, segments of pig heart tissue, and sections of pig arteries in volumes almost 20 times larger than previously attempted samples.

To identify the rest of the NER proteins, Wood and his colleagues broke up human cells to extract their proteins.

«Several years ago, our team developed an experimental approach that allows us to determine how the 2 - meter - long human genome folds up to fit inside the nucleus of a human cell.

In mice engineered so their macrophage cells would mimic those of people, expressing the human SIRPα protein, nanoparticles tagged with the CD47 peptide passports stuck around in the circulation rather than being gobbled up.

The researchers, led by University of California, San Diego neuroscientist Mark Tuszynski, took skin cells from the patients, grew them up in a culture dish and genetically engineered them to make human nerve growth factor (NGF).

«We think that for the first time, we have a mouse model of anorexia that closely resembles the conditions leading up to the disease in humans,» said study leader Lori Zeltser, PhD, associate professor of pathology & cell biology and a researcher in the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center.

That single cell contains all the genetic information needed to develop into a human, and passes identical copies of that information to each new cell as it divides into the many diverse types of cells that make up a complex organism like a human being.

Naïve stem cells are blank slates that form the basis for not only all the cells of the human body, but cells that make up the placenta to support an embryo as well.

Animal Aid has set up a tissue bank for human eye cells for cataract research at the University of East Anglia.

Tadashi Matsuda of Hokkaido University and his colleagues in Japan investigated human prostate cancer cells to determine if there is an unknown up - regulation mechanism in the EGFR pathway.

Making up 70 billion of the nearly 86 billion neurons in the human brain, these relatively simple cells are tightly packed into the cerebellum, a broccoli - shaped structure tucked under the back of our brain.

If you believe, for example, that granulosa cells and other very early features of ovarian ecology set up the polarities that ultimately determine the quality of a human egg, as Albertini does, then certain techniques widely used in IVF may be subtly perturbing the very mechanisms that eggs use to establish a plan to build an embryo and maximize the chances that it will develop properly.

Researchers have previously demonstrated that yeast, fruit fly cells and some types of human cells grown in lab dishes divvy up proteins unequally.

Humans can do this because our fovea, a small pit at the back of our eye packed with color - sensing cells called cones, is the only place where light hits the cones directly, which amps up clarity.

As the industry gears up to meet growing demand — 6.4 gigawatts of new photovoltaic installations were built worldwide in 2009 according to the European Photovoltaic Industry Association, the bulk of it silicon solar cells — what are the human health and environmental concerns related to solar power?

At a basic level, the transferable data of a human would be represented by the DNA pairs that make up genomes (which contain the entirety of an organism's hereditary information) in each cell.