Questions of Faith is a commentary structured around the Christian Apostle's Creed
as its scaffold.
He saw these whiskies, with their exquisite balance of complexity, subtlety and refinement, not
as a scaffold for the heroic malt to ascend but as true heroes in their own right.
Routines are invaluable partly because they provide the «scaffolding» for your child to learn basic skills, just
as scaffolding provides structure for a building to take shape.
The researchers first used real bone
as a scaffold — «we know actual bones are ideal because they work in real life,» Vunjak - Novakovic says.
Warnke and colleagues then filled the mesh with bone mineral blocks of bovine origin, that would act
as a scaffold for the growing bone.
These signals can then act
as a scaffold that, after interaction with a second copy of the data signal in a second fibre, removes the noise and generates a pristine version.
Although still far from complete, these maps are poised to serve
as scaffolds for newly sophisticated models of how cells operate.
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.
«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.
The mycelia also appeared to act
as scaffolding, attracting fibroblasts and anchoring them, ready for the next stage of wound - healing when collagen scar tissue forms.
The group believes that in normal individuals, the prion protein works
as a scaffold for multiple molecular interactions.
When prion protein molecules are sequestered by their misfolded counterparts, they can no longer work
as a scaffold for all these molecular interactions, which impairs the mechanisms evoked by the brain chemicals important for mood.
As laboratory - grown human tissues are becoming more robust and viable, researchers hope that one day such biomimetic hands will serve
as scaffolds over which the organic tissue of a real hand can be grown.
In a study last year, Lancaster, now at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, and Knoblich got more consistent results by adding polymer filaments
as scaffolding to guide the organization of the minibrain models.
Then, one of four other metals (nickel, cobalt, copper, or iron) acts
as a scaffold, known as a nucleation site, on which the nanofiber continues to grow.
«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.
The team's recent creations have included BiowireTM — an innovative method of growing heart cells around a silk suture — as well
as a scaffold for heart cells that snaps together like sheets of Velcro ™.
Separately, she is using yeasts
as scaffold organisms because of their ability to grow many different materials.
These tiny polymer microparticles could one day serve
as scaffolding for tissues to rebuild themselves.
Histones are proteins that serve
as a scaffold for coiling up the DNA into the tight space of the nucleus.
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.
Many of these women choose to undergo major surgery, to insert the more rigid polypropylene mesh which acts
as a scaffold to support the prolapsed pelvic organs.
The EB family of proteins helps regulate this process and can act
as a scaffold for other proteins involved in pushing the microtubule chain forward.
That's the general hypothesis at the moment — that non-coding RNAs serve
as scaffolds, tethering various complexes together, especially those that control genome organization and expression during development.»
Each neuron contains hundreds of long, cylindrical protein structures, called microtubules, that serve
as scaffolding.
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.
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.
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.
The majority of proteins found were identified as adaptor proteins, which serve
as scaffolds within the Adherens Junction.
Actin and agonist MHC - peptide complex - dependent T cell receptor microclusters
as scaffolds for signaling.
«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.
The folded DNA then acts
as a scaffold onto which researchers can attach and organize all kinds of nanometer - scale components, from fluorescent molecules to electrically conductive carbon nanotubes to drugs.
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.
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Developing macroporous bicontinuous materials
as scaffolds for tissue engineering.
A novel role for TPX2
as a scaffold and co-activator protein of the Chromosomal Passenger Complex.
The lever can be easily modified with desired binding sites at its top end and along its flanks and hence can serve
as a scaffold for the positioning of ligand molecules with nanometer accuracy.
Developing natural hard tissue
as scaffolds for tissue repairs.
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.
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.
Specifically, she is examining hydrogels
as a scaffold for tissue engineering and is working to develop an artificial cornea.
Other proteins may also be utliized
as scaffolds, including the set of red fluorescent proteins.
Given the multiple PDZ domain structure and the ability to interact with a wide range of different proteins, an obvious primary function would appear to be
as a scaffolding and targetting protein, taking receptors and other proteins to their final destinations within synapses and anchoring them there.
Tang, Jonathan C.Y., et al. «A nanobody - based system using fluorescent proteins
as scaffolds for cell - specific gene manipulation.»
Her lab is examining hydrogels
as a scaffold for tissue engineering.
The idea of using GFP
as a scaffold suddenly seemed very realistic.