«Unless they see the instructional potential, teachers feel the same
way about cells as they did about television way back when — that it's just a distraction,» says Hall Davidson, a director of the Discovery Educator Network, an online learning community dedicated to digital media.
I don't quite feel the same was Ms. Stoddard feels about computers but I do feel
that way about cell phones.
I feel
that way about my cell phone, so generally use it only for emergencies.
Not exact matches
Savannah thinks that VAL is a better
way to create live streams with a
cell phone — a theory that is
about to be assessed by a group that includes Kara Swisher, the no - nonsense editor of Recode.
By discovering more
about their survival tricks, the researchers hope to learn more
ways to protect human
cells from damage.
That phenomenon isn't a mutiny of the grey
cells, it's a simple truth
about the
way the human brain functions.
While the cartoons are dead on
about dynamics, almost always lead me to laugh out loud, and sometimes have a profound influence... your «prayer from the
cell» always connects with me in a deeply spiritual
way.
At the conference I met Dr. Kathryn Applegate, who has spent a lot of time thinking
about this issue and who looks
way too young to have developed computer vision algorithms to measure the remodeling activity of the
cell's cytoskeleton.
On any given day I reckoned that
about a third of the men were regular meditators, a third were trying to find their
way into the practice, and a third were merely using the opportunity to get out of their
cells or amass «good time.»
Consider also his claim that «the right
way to think»
about a visual experience is that «photons reflected off objects attack the photoreceptor
cells of the retina and this sets up a series of neuronal processes (the retina being part of the brain), which eventually result, if all goes well, in a visual experience that is a perception of the very object that originally reflected the photons» (MC 64).
I've known that in a general sort of
way for a long time, but the concept really hit me earlier in the semester when I started taking biology and learning more
about cells and nutrition.
Creating a
cell phone contract between you and your tween is an excellent
way to teach your child
about the responsibilities that come with having a
cell phone, as well as the consequences for not seeing those responsibilities through.
And as Justin again points out, «what most impresses me
about this campaign is the fact that it is the ONLY
WAY to contact people on their
cell phones to solicit financial donations» because of the limitations of the medium — no unsolicited calls, high vendor fees for donations - via - text message, etc..
Fabrication and falsification raise further concerns
about claims for a new and easy
way to create stem
cells.
Ian Wilmut talks
about serendipity, shared credit and the messy — and very human — story behind the breakthrough that paved the
way for stem
cell therapies
Two sperm
cells from the same father apparently fused with the egg, which then split in the same
way that typical identical twins come
about.
«We can ask these questions
about cyborg
cells in
ways we never could before.»
Above all, synthetic biology «requires a new
way of thinking
about biology: the idea that
cells are machines and they can be rebuilt the
way that electrical engineers now design circuits [and] instruments,» Glass says.
«Knowing how
cells respond to mechanical cues in the living embryo and how they physically sculpt tissues and organs in the 3D space will transform the
way we think
about developmental processes,» said Otger Campàs, a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UCSB and senior author on the paper that reports this novel technique in Nature Methods.
But a new study suggests that mature
cells also play a key role in initiating cancer — a finding that could upend the
way scientists think
about the origins of the disease.
But for all the excitement
about umbilical cord
cells, in many
ways, this research is still in its infancy.
The brain harbors
about 86 billion neurons, or nerve
cells, that have to be born at the right time, migrate to the right place, and wire up in the right
way if we are to survive and thrive.
In his thirties, he learned
about a new
way to stain tissue developed by the Italian Camillo Golgi: a new silver - based stain that turned some nerve
cells completely black while leaving most others entirely untouched, rendering the delicate branches of the nerve processes clearly visible (as seen in the image on the left).
«There is a real risk that as clinics proliferate, if we don't address it in a more proactive
way, as we see negative outcomes for patients grow and people get mixed bags of information
about stem
cells, then this could really negatively impact the public perception of this research.»
About ten years ago, research results showed that things are not quite as simple as that: «Under most conditions, H2O2 is not an undesired side product but rather an essential chemical messenger that plays an important role in regulating the
way in which body
cells respond to signals from outside such as hormones and growth factors,» says Dr. Tobias Dick of the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ).
When this operation is completed,
about 30 million
cells — one million of them stem
cells — will have found their
way into Pavelko's heart tissue.
The MIT team estimated that if there were a
way to detect when patients» white
cell counts went below the threshold level, so they could be treated with prophylactic antibiotics and drugs that promote white blood
cell growth,
about half of the 110,000 infections that occur in chemotherapy patients in the United States every year could be prevented.
In addition to answering basic questions
about how Zika invades
cells, Linhardt's group also wants to come up with a
way to block the interactions between the virus and placental sugars, protecting the fetus from harm.
One researcher has found a
way to cultivate retinal stem
cells and developed an implantation technique that aims to reverse the disease's progression, by injecting
about 50,000 healthy
cells behind the retinas of mice with damaged retinas.
Little has been known
about the
ways in which many diabetes genes work, but a study published in the journal
Cell sheds light on a genetic risk component of type 1 diabetes and a new approach for keeping beta
cells strong.
Boasting a wide array of behaviors, including electronic, magnetic and superconducting, these multifunctional materials are poised to expand the
way we think
about the functions of traditional silicon - based electronic devices such as
cell phones or computers.
Using this method, a firearms expert would be able to testify
about how closely the two cartridges match based on the number of matching
cells, and also the probability of a random match, similar to the
way forensic experts testify
about DNA.
This is a different
way of thinking
about solar
cells, which are normally described in terms of how much energy they can produce in lab conditions, rather than in use in a specific environment.
The results challenge accepted ideas
about how stem
cells age and may eventually lead to new
ways to prevent graying and treat the more serious conditions caused by genotoxic stress, such as cancer.
Learning
about cells» social interactions may give researchers new
ways to peer pressure
cells into good behavior.
To understand neuropathic pain, it helps to think
about the
way that electronic devices like pagers and
cell phones work.
«Although NIH played an essential role in the discussions with the Lacks family
about the use of HeLa
cells, we all need to think
about how we approach issues that arise as science moves forward, balancing privacy concerns with advances in research, and the
ways policy can be updated to reflect these complexities,» added Dr. Fagen.
Our investigations also open a new route for understanding how different physiological states of the body influence stem
cells in the brain during health and disease, and opens new
ways for thinking
about therapy,» says Fiona Doetsch.
«We can now ask questions in a more systematic
way about which serotonergic
cells and molecules are important in, for example, pain, sleep apnea or anxiety.»
Now researchers have made a serendipitous discovery
about the
way this hormone is transported in plants
cells — revealing a much more sophisticated pumping system than was previously appreciated.
And the
way this researcher, Kei Hirose, who wrote
about this — he's at the Tokyo Institute of Technology — found out
about this mineral as he tried to replicate the conditions that's far deep below the Earth; and [he] used a diamond anvil
cell and learned more
about this super dense, heretofore unexpected material around the inner core.
«By taking a careful, modern look at an old problem, we got surprising results that change the
way we think not just
about heat shock, but
about how
cells sense and respond to their environment at the molecular level,» Drummond said.
So it could be RNA or DNA like we have in modern biology or it could be some related kind of material; and we are also thinking
about some kind of
cell envelope or
cell membrane — not that that's necessarily the very first
way Darwinian systems began, but at some point they had to transition into a system more related to modern biology where
cells are all bounded by membranes — so we're thinking
about how to assemble these two components and get them to interact with each other.
A study led by Dr. Nicholas Harmer, Senior Lecturer in Structural Biochemistry at the University of Exeter, published today in the journal Chemistry and Biology, provides new information
about the
way bacterial
cells build up a defensive sugar coating and how that process can be interrupted.
The result suggests that, although Hwang deceived the world
about achieving the first human cloning, his group was first to succeed in performing human parthenogenesis, which may offer a
way of creating
cells that are genetically matched to a woman for transplantation back into her body to treat degenerative diseases.
Think
about all the different
ways you can study a particular disease, such as Crohn's: Should we look at immune system
cells in the gut?
One
way of thinking
about what differentiates a breast
cell from a heart
cell is that each
cell type expresses different subsets of genes.
The mice with transplanted human
cells also learned to find their
way through a maze in
about half the time and were better able to recognize familiar objects in new locations.
«What's particularly noteworthy
about this work is we were able to present an integrative link from genetics,
cell - and animal - based experiments, all the
way up to clinical outcomes in large human population,» Liu said.
And really this is a wonderful chemistry story in many
ways as it describes how if you create conditions that you know could have existed, that were plausible to exist, then you watch what comes out of it; and then you ask the next question, «Well then how could, for instance, you know, how could these lipid molecules we were just talking
about break apart to form new
cells?»