Sentences with phrase «what kind of tissue»

Each cell's particular combination of active and silent genes helps determine what kind of tissue it will give rise to — liver, heart, brain, and so on.

The researchers tinkered with the voltage in cell membranes of developing African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis) and found that electric charge plays a role in how big the brain grows and what kind of tissue developing cells grow into.

But to coax them down a specific path in the lab requires recreating the precise sequence and timing of environmental cues in the womb — the signals from proteins and hormones that tell cells what kind of tissue to become.

Unless you have a team of people observing your every move, it's almost impossible to know how much of what kind of tissues you're using up — and therefore exactly how much of each macronutrient you are supposed to ingest:

Not exact matches

They take other kinds of pills, but actually a kid is laying on more tissue and muscle during his teens than a baby, and what's more it will be with him longer.»

So there might be a relationship between what kind of dominant breast tissue that a woman has and how much her breasts «sag» after she has been pregnant.

The all - powerful potential of stem cells to become any kind of cell is what makes them so promising for restoring diseased or damaged tissues throughout the body — and also what makes them so difficult for scientists to control.

But now that we know what kinds of changes occur as these cells age, we can ask which of these changes reverse themselves when an old cell goes back to becoming a young cell» — as appeared to be the case when tissues of older mice were exposed to blood from younger mice.

That suggested critical importance of the tissue environment, what Zhang calls the «seed and soil» model: Tumors that grow in one kind of tissue won't grow in another easily.

While it has always been important for tissue donors to have some control over what procedures are done with their samples — some donors might be comfortable with certain kinds of research, and others might not — informed consent will be more important than ever once a simple cheek swab provides the raw material for someone to be a mother or father.

Clarke notes that this kind of work — reprogramming normal cells to replace damaged tissues or organs in regenerative medicine, or even growing cells from an individual's cancer to determine what the best treatment is — speaks to the doctrine rather than challenges it.

And so again, kind of using what the embryo normally does to develop but transferring that into an adult fibroblast and making that tissue - and it's very, very fascinating research.

«We kept them healthy, and without giving them many instructions on what kind of cells they should become they produced many of the cells present in the human brain and achieved the formation of complex tissue,» says Arlotta, describing the brain organoids she used in research published in Nature in May 2017.

I don't know of having highly developed, or even overdeveloped, stomach muscles would necessarily cause a problem, but there is something there that we should discuss, which is if people have had abdominal trauma, meaning maybe a hernia surgery, or a C - section, or an ovarectomy, or any kind of abdominal trauma that may cause scarring or damage, or even if a woman has really bad uterine fibroids, for example, which can cause pelvic obstruction, anything in the abdominal pelvic area that creates scar tissue, whether it be surgical, or impact trauma, or what have you, has the potential, because the abdomen and pelvis rest up against your intestines, has the potential to impede the movement of stuff through the intestines.

Different estrogen receptors read different kinds of phytoestrogens differently, such that phytoestrogens usually perform estrogen - lowering effects in skin tissue despite what they do in other locations.

Finally, dissection of brain tissue would be done for the very important purpose of trying to see if some abnormality exists which makes the Japanese prone to do the same kind of research on whales, when they simply could have used advanced, non-invasive technologies to track and study whales — assuming that what they really were interested in was research and not filling plates at sushi bars in the first place.

Also, if I did just get the decorative tissue paper, how could I put an image like the birds on it and what kind of letter stickers do you think?