Sentences with phrase «whether cells live»

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Although it's unclear whether the phone will live up to Jobs's lofty promise, a quick look at the specs on Apple's website makes me look askance at my brand new BlackBerry Pearl (and every other cell phone, for that matter).

Life - at - conception and clump - of - cells alike are left behind; the woman «gets to», because she has to, decide «for herself» whether or not the embryo she has conceived is a living person, based on a data set officially deemed indeterminate.

Their first visit was to CytoCybernetics, where CEO Glenna Bett explained how her company has developed a system that uses computers and live human cells to screen drugs in their early stages of development, to determine whether they may cause any potentially deadly side effects.

That allowed them to treat the sections as independent modules, removing each one in turn, deleting chunks of DNA, then reassembling the full genome and reinserting it into M. capricolum to see whether it produced a living cell.

The cell cultures still did not prove whether optogenetics would apply to brain cells inside living, freely moving mammals, however.

The research team behind the new study previously discovered that genes mutated in some of the tumors play a central role in determining whether neural crest cells live or die.

Living cells, whether they are healthy or cancerous, produce small molecules called metabolites.

As microglia are very long - lived, the scientists were keen to find out whether environmental factors change these immune cells over time and what effect this can have on brain health.

«We added the triarylmethane compounds to the cultivated cells and investigated whether cell division had occurred or not by realtime live cell imaging.»

Moreover, Albertini's group is exploring whether these plumbing lines, which corkscrew into the outer rind of the egg, play a role in establishing one of the most important geographic landmarks in the life of an egg cell — an event, Albertini likes to say when lecturing medical students, that marks «one of the most important days in your life.»

They would know, for instance, whether all life requires a long molecule like DNA, and whether it needs cells and a liquid medium.

Over the years, scientists have seen more instances of such curious behavior during DNA repair — one of life's most fundamental processes — but whether it also happened in human cells was debated.

Scientists will have to wait a while to find out whether cells that live longer in a test tube will translate into longer lived animals: Cows can live about 20 years.

Gage and Mertens next plan to follow the affected cells for longer periods of time to see whether the hyperexcitability they measured is only an initial manic stage of the neurons» lives or is long - lasting.

To test whether the cells would maintain their multipotency in living animals, the researchers transplanted them into mice whose white blood cells had been depleted, and showed that the new cells could expand and differentiate into various types of white blood cells.

So clinical trials are certainly something that are still far away at the current stage, but it is certainly worthwhile to follow our experimental approach both in vitro and in vivo, in order to test whether at some stage we can really move forward and test, whether by reprogramming endogenous cells, we can reconstitute neural circuits that are damaged or deceased; and, thereby also improve the lives of many people that suffer neurological diseases.

So while it's true that organisms living deep in the Earth are not exposed to the high - energy radiation found when you travel between planets or more hypothetically between stars, the systems that cells have evolved to repair damage done by reactive oxygen species will be useful whether they arise from rocks or from cosmic rays.

-- and whether other organisms that live inside or on people that could transmit cancer cells.

Cell adhesion pathways help determine whether cells stick together or can fly free of the tissue in which they live.

Combining genetics, live - imaging, laser ablation and computer simulations, we aim to analyze whether distinct or similar mechanisms can account for the common role of tumor suppressors and proto - oncogenes in cell - cell contact regulation.

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«Whether you're a single - celled animal living in a slime pond, or you're a Neanderthal, you might not have enough food to grow and to reproduce,» Rogers says.

Whether or not these studies are valid, on top of the lessening quality of life that I perceive to be caused by my personal cell phone use, questions about my health and my impact on the environment are enough motivation for me to put this particular technology away for a while.

Whether to document Fontaine's frustrated but affecting communication with the prisoners in adjacent cells or to establish his awareness of life outside the prison walls, sounds and unseen spaces assume a vivid reality every bit as palpable as what we see on the screen.

Year 4 Science Assessments Objectives covered: Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways Explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans Identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey Compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases Observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C) Identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases Identify common appliances that run on electricity Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers Identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit Recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors

So those who suffer from sickle cell become living barometers of «woe is me» racial injustice, whether they want to be or not.

Whether the causes include negligence, aggressive driving or distractions such as the use of cell phones or other passengers, the results can be catastrophic and life altering.

Driving while distracted — whether it involves cell phones and other electronic devices, interacting with people, or performing life's daily tasks while behind the wheel — can result in accidents when these distracted drivers:

Address books, whether they are paper or stored on a cell phone, may contain clues about their term life insurance policy, such as the phone number to a life insurance company or agent.

It's presently unclear whether the two batteries are meant to be used simultaneously, though that's presumed to be the case as such a balanced approach to power management would maximize the expected life of both cells.

So whether the problem is cell phones, the internet or video games, technology is something that should make our lives simpler.