Sentences with phrase «use of scaffolds»

The use of scaffolds for teaching higher level cognitive strategies.

LightSail provides students with the ability to ask the questions they may be embarrassed to ask during class as well as the use of scaffolds built in for the various levels of students in the class.

On one hand, we make use of scaffolds that are available in nature and rationally modify them in order to improve their properties in terms of stability, affinity and specificity.

The use of scaffolding and colours helps students to visualise what the product and sum will be.

How can the use of scaffolding support student achievement?

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If I am correct did not science take a stem cell and use a scaffolding of sorts to be implanted upon the backside of a mouse / rat?

Tufcoat provides transportation and weather protection and environmental containment through the use of shrink wrapping, primarily for the scaffolding, industrial and marine industries, and offers both installation and training for companies» own staff to perform the operations themselves.

The judges commented, «The judging panel was impressed by this new innovative» Walkabout» system, which makes use of an existing material to eliminate the need for scaffolding; describing it as an amazingly good innovation.»

Holt again reached out to the new administration following the inauguration, stressing in his statement the importance of using the scaffolding of science to strengthen decision and policy making.

The team is now attempting the same procedure using human kidneys, and also pig kidneys, which could be used to make scaffolds if there were a scarcity of human donors.

«If you have a ready supply of these cells, you can treat almost any condition, and can theoretically regenerate entire organs using a scaffold,» Dr. Zubair says.

Bacteria that live in places with low or no oxygen instead use complex scaffolds of enzymes known as cellulosomes.

Bacteria that live in places with low or no oxygen — in a cow's stomach, say — instead use complex scaffolds of enzymes known as cellulosomes.

They stripped the vein of all the donor's cells using strong detergents, leaving just the underlying protein scaffold.

Now, scientists at Princeton have used «designer chromatin'templates — highly customized replicas of cellular DNA and histone proteins, the scaffolding proteins around which DNA is wrapped — to reveal new details about Suv39h1's mechanism.

In future, it may be possible to use nanofibers to improve the attachment of bone implants, or the fibers may be used directly to scaffold bone regeneration.

Professor Smith said: «Although researchers have used gels before to try and improve the formulation of naproxen, this is the first time that a self - assembling system has been used for the job, with the advantages of directed interactions between the nanoscale delivery scaffold and the drug.

The principle component of the new panel, hydrogel — a polymer network filled with water — is safe to use in and on the human body, having already found use in applications ranging from drug delivery to creating scaffolds for tissue engineering and wound healing.

In his doctoral research, Jani Holopainen of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Helsinki has developed processes for fibrous and thin - film biomaterials that can be used as scaffolding for bone regeneration and in other bone impants.

Engineers at Rutgers - New Brunswick and the New Jersey Institute of Technology worked with a hydrogel that has been used for decades in devices that generate motion and biomedical applications such as scaffolds for cells to grow on.

The EPSRC - funded study, published in Biomacromolecules and undertaken by University of Bristol researchers, explored the feasibility of using natural fibres such as silk and cellulose as stem cell scaffolds — the matrix to which stem cells can cling to as they grow.

«If p - wave superconductivity is indeed being created in graphene, graphene could be used as a scaffold for the creation and exploration of a whole new spectrum of superconducting devices for fundamental and applied research areas,» Robinson said.

Lipson and Shiu used lots of scaffolding to hold it up.

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.

The microbes secrete it and use it to build scaffolding around cells that supports the growth of biofilms.

Claudio Vita and his colleagues at the protein engineering department of CEA, the French nuclear research agency in Gif - sur - Yvette, are using the toxins found in scorpion venom as a chemical scaffold to build novel proteins for use as drugs (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol 92, p 6404).

By varying the compositions of lipids, cues, and diffusible factors in the scaffolds, we engineered a very versatile and flexible platform that can be used to amplify specific T cell populations from blood samples, and that could be deployed in existing therapies such as CAR - T cell therapies,» said Mooney, Ph.D., a Core Faculty member at the Wyss Institute and leader of its Immunomaterials Platform.

In a series of side - by - side comparisons, Mooney's team demonstrated that APC - mimetic scaffolds performed better than methods involving commercially available expansion beads (Dynabeads), which are currently used in clinical adoptive cell transfer approaches.

In the right SEM image, T cells (in blue) bind to a section of a completed antigen - presenting cell - mimetic scaffold (in brown), where they are instructed to multiply and are kept alive for future use in T cell therapies.

«We hope our research will lead to more effective antibiotics, and also that it will inspire other researchers to use carbon nanodots as scaffolding for a variety of applications,» said Dr. Ngu - Schwemlein.

We designed and assembled multidimensional RNA structures and used them as scaffolds for the spatial organization of bacterial metabolism.

Scientists at the universities of Kent and Bristol have built a miniature scaffold inside bacteria that can be used to bolster cellular productivity, with implications for the next generation of biofuel production.

Engineered RNA modules were assembled into discrete, one - dimensional, and two - dimensional scaffolds with distinct protein - docking sites and used to control the spatial organization of a hydrogen - producing pathway.

«Bacteria development marks new era in cellular design: Scientists have built a miniature scaffold inside bacteria that can be used to bolster cellular productivity, with implications for the next generation of biofuel production.»

With as many as a thousand tubes fitting into each cell, the tubular scaffold can be used to increase the bacteria's efficiency to make commodities and provide the foundation for a new era of cellular protein engineering.

Separately, she is using yeasts as scaffold organisms because of their ability to grow many different materials.

«Nano - sized mesoporous silica particles have already been established as useful for manipulating individual cells from the inside, but this is the first time that larger particles, in the micron - sized range, are used to create a 3D in vivo scaffold that can recruit and attract tens of millions of immune cells,» said co-lead author Jaeyun Kim, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University and a former Wyss Institute Postdoctoral Fellow.

«Although right now we are focusing on developing a cancer vaccine, in the future we could be able to manipulate which type of dendritic cells or other types of immune cells are recruited to the 3D scaffold by using different kinds of cytokines released from the MSRs,» said co-lead author Aileen Li, a graduate student pursuing her Ph.D. in bioengineering at Harvard SEAS.

Based on this work, a team of scientists from the University of Granada (Spain), the University of Uppsala (Sweden), the «Instituto de Quimica Fisica Rocasolano» (Madrid, Spain), the Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) and with data collected at the ESRF, the European Synchrotron, located in Grenoble (France), explored and tested these notions using resurrected Precambrian β - lactamases as scaffolds for the engineering of completely new active sites.

«We have found that a minimalist design to introduce a de novo activity (catalysis of the Kemp elimination, a common benchmark in de novo enzyme design) fails when performed on modern β - lactamases but is highly successful when using the scaffolds of hyperstable / promiscuous Precambrian β - lactamases.»

These include nanoelectronic scaffolds that could become the foundation for engineered tissues that are used to detect and report on a variety of health problems and or atomic - scale memory and logic devices that be used in smartphones.

While the 3D injectable scaffold is being tested in mice as a potential cancer vaccine, any combination of different antigens and drugs could be loaded into the scaffold, meaning it could also be used to treat infectious diseases that may be resistant to conventional treatments.

Even UCLA's School of Dentistry counts as a serious player, with a collaboration between Benjamin Wu, DDS - PhD, and mathematician Stan Osher to determine, using partial differential equations, the optimal shape for a scaffold on which to grow tissue for transplants.

The therapeutic strategies are based on stiff porous scaffolds made of biocompatible materials to be used as molds.

Unfortunately, many sterilisation techniques adversely affect the physical or chemical properties of the materials used in the scaffolds, and this can alter their overall performance.

To create the shelter's scaffold, pieces are then fused together with both traditional welding and radio - frequency welding, which uses electromagnetic forces instead of external heat.

Neurobiologist Bernd Knoll at the University of Tubingen in Germany and his collaborators used electron microscopy to picture this neuron's cobweb - like cytoskeleton (its interior scaffolding).

Tissue engineers are enthusiastic about a technique called decellularization that involves using detergent to remove all of the cells from an organ, leaving a scaffold consisting of the fibrous material between cells.

His team have begun recolonising the primate scaffolds with human cells that line blood vessels, the first step towards human - scale biolimb development, and have started experiments using human myoblasts in rats instead of the mice ones.

And if a scaffold is to be used to regenerate small bones, such as many of those found in the face, for example, doctors worry that it would take too much time and money to make them from CaP.