Sentences with phrase «used as scaffolding»

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.

«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.

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

For example, current bioceramics, such as hydroxyapatite, that have been used as scaffolds for bone repair tend to be weak and brittle, which can lead to pieces breaking off.

These nanomaterials are used both as scaffolds, a supportive framework for nerve cells, and as means of interfaces releasing those signals that empower nerve cells to communicate with each other.

Hydrogel can be used as a scaffold for engineering artificial brain tissue and promotes the development of neurons...

The proteins encoded by the most probabilistic sequences at these nodes11 were prepared and used as scaffolds for engineering.

An imaginative activity in French: pupils read the recipe for a good teacher (subject knowledge, sense of humour, etc) and then use this as scaffolding to create their own recipes for other things like a good party.

Play trapdoor for speaking or use as a scaffold to write a review of a film you have watched in class.

This can be used as a scaffold to work from or can be used as is.

Not exact matches

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.»

Dolgin, for example, said he recently sold a 46,000 - square - foot parcel at McKibbon and Bogart streets for $ 4.37 million, and the site will be used as storage for scaffolds.

The researchers first used real bone as a scaffold — «we know actual bones are ideal because they work in real life,» Vunjak - Novakovic says.

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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.

«At best, bone - reforming scaffolds that regenerate at the same rate as bones could be used as implants.

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.

For instance, Loki has genes that are nearly identical to those used by eukaryotes to build the cellular scaffold known as the cytoskeleton.

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.

«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.

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.

Researchers at McGill University have developed a new, low - cost method to build DNA nanotubes block by block — a breakthrough that could help pave the way for scaffolds made from DNA strands to be used in applications such as optical and electronic devices or smart drug - delivery systems.

«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.

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.

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 waste obtained from the beer brewing process contains the main chemical components found in bones (phosphorus, calcium, magnesium and silica), that after undergoing modification processes, this waste can be used as support or scaffold to promote bone regeneration for medical applications such as coating prosthesis or bone grafts.

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

The surfaces could also be used to test drugs in the lab, Wong says, or perhaps as biomimetic surfaces for implantable tissue scaffolds or neural implants.

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.

Now, a University of Pittsburgh researcher has used the components of the cellular «scaffolding» of a zebrafish to regenerate heart tissues in mammals, specifically mice, as well as exhibiting promising results in human heart cells in vitro.

He wants to exploit DNA's unique chemical properties to process information like a computer (using novel scientific disciplines known as molecular programming and DNA computing) and even appropriate the DNA molecule as a scaffold on which to build useful structures.

The «parts list» in these processes is similar: Microtubules, semi-rigid tubes of protein, can serve within the cell as scaffolding, roadways, and a building material for machinery; some proteins serve as fasteners, binding and releasing other materials; and motor proteins use chemical energy to push and pull materials along microtubules, or move the microtubules themselves.

The basic idea of DNA origami is to use a length of single - stranded DNA as a scaffold for the desired shape.

Perhaps the ultimate solution to keeping transplanted stem cells alive will be to use helpers that give off a cocktail of growth factors, he suggests, as well as pre-conditioning for low oxygen conditions and scaffolds.

«We're using precisely shaped DNA constructs made as a scaffold and single - stranded DNA tethers as a programmable glue that matches up particles according to the pairing mechanism of the genetic code — A binds with T, G binds with C,» said Wenyan Liu of the CFN, the lead author on the paper.

By tuning the material's X-ray absorption, researchers can now use X-ray-computed tomography as a diagnostic tool to image the inside of parts without cutting them open or to investigate 3D - printed objects embedded inside the body, such as stents, joint replacements or bone scaffolds.

The first eight projects target clinical areas such as bone defects, salivary glands, and skin wounds using a variety of regenerative methods, such as stem cells, biomaterial scaffolding, and harnessing regenerative signal secretion.

Called Cu - SSZ - 13, the zeolite uses copper as its added metal and has smaller spaces in its alumino - silicate scaffolding compared to other zeolites.

At various points in this process, cells use RNA as a sort of scaffold to help replicate DNA.

The extracellular matrix is a meshwork that serves as the structural foundation for cells, like the scaffolding used in construction.

Here, we use resurrected Precambrian proteins as scaffolds for protein engineering and demonstrate that a new active site can be generated through a single hydrophobic - to - ionizable amino acid replacement that generates a partially buried group with perturbed physico - chemical properties.

Tang, Jonathan C.Y., et al. «A nanobody - based system using fluorescent proteins as scaffolds for cell - specific gene manipulation.»

The idea of using GFP as a scaffold suddenly seemed very realistic.

, so their use of furniture dollies and construction scaffolding as set props was just as crazy as it was clever.

It works hard to show all these many struggles in a coherent fashion, using Darwin's relationship with Annie as a kind of scaffolding.