Sentences with phrase «wall of their cells with»

Those two agencies led the 23 - day manhunt by more than 1,100 officers for Richard Matt and David Sweat, who escaped June 6 from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora after cutting their way through the metal wall of their cells with hacksaw blades smuggled to them.

When Hubbes exposed vaccinated trees to the virulent strain of the fungus, he found that the trees were ready to mount a defence, trapping the fungus in infected cells by hardening the walls of these cells with lignin — an organic polymer in plant cell walls that imparts rigidity.

Not exact matches

The hope one might have once placed in comparative advantage global capitalism and the internet / cell - phone wiring of all, began to look increasingly hollow, as Walmarts filled with cheap Chinese goods, real jobs went missing, real skills became rare, and the internet became known not so much for an Army of Davids shoring up our common commitment to liberty, but for mobbish comment swarms, porn, The Social Network, diversion all - the - more addictive for being personally tailored (see: the fictional fat - slobs of Wall - E, or the perpetually downward phone - gaze of our «dumb» millennials), and unprecedented possibilities for spying, defamation, and demagogic manipulation for those with access to big data.

We anticipate some sort of growth toward increased complexity: increasingly larger organic macromolecules, then the convergence of many macromolecules to constitute a simple living system, either as a cell with its protective wall and vital nucleus or as some functional analogue, then the convergence of many cells to form larger organisms.

Autoimmunity is commonly caused by bacterial infections or overgrowth in the small intestine, in which partially digested food compounds are incorporated into bacterial cell walls and then the immune system, reacting to the bacteria, forms antibodies that also recognize food compounds, some of which might cross-react with human counterparts.

In the protected environment of a greenhouse, cold frame, or indoors under lights, seedlings tend to grow rapidly and produce large cells with thin walls.

Cooking tomatoes break down the cell walls, which helps to release the lycopene and is better absorbed by the body with a little bit of fat like olive oil.

You may sometimes need to experiment with texture, because the very process of freezing causes any water in the food to expand, breaking down cell walls.

Denied the status of political prisoners, inmates in Northern Ireland's Maze prison decided to wear only prison blankets and spread their cell walls with excrements.

Nearly one year ago, with the help of a prison tailor shop instructor and a correction officer, Richard Matt and David Sweat cut into their cell walls and into a steam pipe and crawled through it to emerge through a manhole on a street in the village of Dannemora.

«We compared F. hygrometrica data with those from land plants and seaweeds,» explains Itouga, «and found that the presence of polygalacturonic acid in the cell wall is one of the characteristics that separated this type of moss from other plants.»

Analysis showed that within the moss protonema cells, more that 85 % of the lead had accumulated in the cell walls, with smaller amounts being found in organelle membranes and inside the chloroplasts where photosynthesis occurs.

«We showed that the coupling of cell wall growth to mechanical strain is quantitatively consistent with how bacteria recovered their shape after being deformed in experiments.»

They warmed a copper - and - sapphire - walled cell filled with a drop of liquid sulfur hexafluoride and one bubble of sulfur hexafluoride.

To understand the genetic shifts underlying the repeated origins of mycorrhizal lifestyles, the researchers focused on enzymes that degrade plant cell walls from 16 gene families associated with plant cell wall degradation.

When the protein is unfolded, tiny bubbles filled with neurotransmitters can stick to it, fuse to the inside wall of a nerve cell and then break free into a synapse.

«Our research has identified a gene affecting another type of ischemic stroke, due to small vessel disease, and also suggests some genes may be associated with both ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke and may act through a novel pathway affecting pericytes, a type of cell in the wall of small arteries and capillaries.

People infected with HIV have few signs of microbial translocation during the first six months of infection as it takes time for the virus to kill off epithelial cells and weaken the gut wall so that bacteria can leak through — so treating them early could be more effective.

Badding and his group devised a new way of creating that semiconducting sandwich by starting with a flexible, hollow fiber - optic thread; inner and outer walls of the thread correspond to the positive and negative layers of the common solar cell.

disruption of the cell wall barrier by reactions of chlorine with target sites on the cell surface

Freezing meat damages the cell walls so the mobility of any water molecules and the way in which they interact with the proteins in the sample changes after freezing.

Increasing cell wall - associated GAG in A. nidulans enhanced resistance to NETs and increased the virulence of this species to the same level as A. fumigatus in immune - compromised mice with intact NET formation.

The new research shows that when the atheronals interact with various blood cells, they produce some of the effects known to lead to heart disease, such as causing a malfunction in the cells that line arterial walls.

Copper kills by undergoing a chemical reaction with oxygen that destroys the cell walls of most bacteria, triggering cell death.

To simulate an infection, mice were injected with lipopolysaccharides (a component of the bacterial cell wall), which results in an immune response and generalized disease symptoms.

This it accomplishes with its mosaic of specialized cells that form millions of tiny, exceptionally thin - walled air sacs where gas exchange takes place.

Meanwhile, other groups developed new ways of killing bacteria with vancomycin: One alteration found a novel way to halt cell wall construction, whereas another caused the outer wall membrane to leak, leading to cell death.

The researchers worked with Mycoplasma mycoides (a microbe that infects goats) because it has one of the smallest genetic blueprints of any known self - replicating organism and lacks cell walls, making it easier to insert new DNA.

The background image shows a picture of the nematode C. elegans with clumps of the Huntington's aggregates (bright green because they're tagged with green fluorescent protein) in the body wall muscle cells.

Scientists are exploring ways to develop transparent or semi-transparent solar cells as a substitute for glass walls in modern buildings with the aim of harnessing solar energy.

«We studied a range of authentic microfossils using the same transmission electron microscopy technique and in all cases these reveal coherent, rounded envelopes of carbon having dimensions consistent with their origin from cell walls and sheaths.

«In order to be structurally sound, plants have to lay down their secondary cell walls very quickly once the plant has stopped growing, like a layer of concrete with rebar,» says UBC botanist Lacey Samuels, one of the senior authors on the paper.

Hughes» graduate student Eli Cohen pursued the question of rod length control in Salmonella enterica using genetic tools with slow progress until, in one of his courses, he heard about the concept of the outer membrane tethering protein Lpp, that physically links the outer membrane to the cell wall.

With the help of sensors, specialized cells in the intestinal wall determine which hormones, if any, should be released into the bloodstream.

The screen identified teixobactin which seems to act on the «gram - positive» group of bacteria by targeting a lipid on their cell walls, along with other molecules.

The team seeded the walls of the honeycomb with heart cells from 2 - day - old rats and incubated the patch in an oxygen - and nutrient - rich solution for a week.

«Nanoparticles are very small and they are interacting with the bacteria and rupturing the cell wall,» says chemist George John of The City College of New York and lead author of the study, published recently in the journal Nature Materials.

The researchers then introduced the carbon nanotubes, which embedded in the cell's fatty walls when treated with DNA to take on a negative charge or chitosan (a derivative of the material comprising insect exoskeletons) for a positive charge.

The sponge's cells, its calcium carbonate or glasslike silica spicules, and the mass of collagen that forms its visible body all create a network of tunnels and chambers, with little flailing hairs called cilia on the walls that wave the water through and filter out plankton and waste.

In line with other known cases of Bt - resistance, resistance in Busseola fusca was expected to involve modification of the cells in the gut wall, which prevents the toxin from binding.

Now, Thomas Hales of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, has shown that a hexagonal honeycomb has walls with the shortest total length, per unit area, of any design that divides a plane into equal - sized cells.

Thalidomide appears to pair up with a growth factor called PDGF - B to produce more of the smooth muscle cells that repair vessel - wall defects.

Now, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have made a better thermoplastic by replacing styrene with lignin, a brittle, rigid polymer that, with cellulose, forms the woody cell walls of plants.

The work was performed in collaboration with Arjan Narbad's lab at the Institute of Food Research in Norwich, UK, who tested how engineering mutations in the endolysins affected their ability to tear down the bacterial cell wall.

When cancer cells interact with the walls of the blood vessels, EPHA2 is activated and the tumour cells remain inside the blood vessels.

How the vital processes of cell cycle control (with the final event of cytokinesis) and signalling for cell wall biosynthesis are exactly coordinated remains to be determined.

Scoring - 0 - no definite pathology, 1 - mild peribronchiole and perivascular cellular infiltration, 2 - moderate peribronchiole and perivascular cellular infiltration, 3 - severe peribronchiolar and perivascular cellular infiltration with thickening of alveolar walls, alveolar infiltration and bronchiole epithelial cell necrosis and debris in the lumen.

Thus, these animals exhibit premature cardiac arrhythmias and stiffening of the arterial wall, and cardiac failure appears to be the main cause of death; yet these tissues are not burdened with an abnormally - high burden of p16Ink4a - senescent cells, and accordingly, ablation p16Ink4a - positive senescent cells in these animals had little tissue - specific or survivorship phenotypic impact.

Scoring 0 - no definite pathology, 1 - mild peribronchiole and perivascular cellular infiltration, 2 - moderate peribronchiole and perivascular cellular infiltration, 3 - severe peribronchiole and perivascular cellular infiltration with thickening of alveolar walls, alveolar infiltration and bronchiole epithelial cell necrosis and debris in the lumen.

Congrats to Divya and Jason as our paper with collaborators Hugo Melida and Vincent Bulone: Deciphering the uniqueness of Mucoromycotina cell walls by combining biochemical and phylogenomic approaches is now available at Environmental Microbiology.