Sentences with phrase «which cell properties»

The team is now working with doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital, who hope to use the new, noninvasive technique to study cells involved in cancer, asthma, and other conditions in which cell properties change as a disease progresses.

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Hypothesis Traces First Protocells Back to Emergence of Cell Membrane Bioenergetics Dec. 20, 2012 — A coherent pathway - which starts from no more than rocks, water and carbon dioxide and leads to the emergence of the strange bio-energetic properties of living cells - has been traced for the first time in a major hypothesis paper in Cell this week.

December 20, 2012 — A coherent pathway — which starts from no more than rocks, water and carbon dioxide and leads to the emergence of the strange bio-energetic properties of living cells — has been traced for the...

Origin of Life: Hypothesis Traces First Protocells Back to Emergence of Cell Membrane Bioenergetics Dec. 20, 2012 — A coherent pathway — which starts from no more than rocks, water and carbon dioxide and leads to the emergence of the strange bio-energetic properties of living cells — has been traced for the first time in a major hypothesis paper in Cell this week.

ORIGIN OF LIFE: Hypothesis Traces First Protocells Back to Emergence of Cell Membrane Bioenergetics Dec. 20, 2012 — A coherent pathway — which starts from no more than rocks, water and carbon dioxide and leads to the emergence of the strange bio-energetic properties of living cells — has been traced for the first time in a major hypothesis paper in Cell this week.

As one moves up levels of organization — electrons, atoms, molecules, cells, and so on — the properties of each larger whole are given, not merely by the units of which it is composed, but by the new relations among these units.

It may be thought of as a supermolecule composed principally of C, H, O, N, P and S. Multicellular organisms, including man, are in turn not mere aggregations of cells, but so tightly organized that they may be considered super-super-molecules, ultimately with properties which are wholly those of the component atoms in the very complex combination.

The objects of his study range from a class of molecules that have the basic self - duplicating property of living things, through cells which suggest purely physical systems, through animals which give increasing evidence of having minds, to human beings in whom streams of consciousness seem to involve continual choices of action, at the opposite pole from control by impersonal laws of nature.

Dec. 20, 2012 — A coherent pathway — which starts from no more than rocks, water and carbon dioxide and leads to the emergence of the strange bio-energetic properties of living cells — has been traced for the first time in a major hypothesis paper in Cell this week.

Lewontin, Rose and Kamin discuss the different levels at which atoms assemble to make molecules, molecules assemble to make cells and so on: «as one moves up a level the properties of each larger whole are given not merely by the units of which it is composed but of the organizing relations between them... these organizing relationships mean that the properties of matter relevant at one level are just inapplicable at other levels» (NG 278).

Before we established in - house human taste cell (HTC) technologies, it was not possible to use human tongue - derived cells as a model, due to the lack of homogenous, proliferating cell lines with defined properties, which is a prerequisite to establish comprehensive research and screening programs.

While study results indicated that combining capsaicin with the chemicals «might promote cancer cell survival,» the report clearly stated that the control group of mice treated only with capsaicin ``... did not induce any skin tumors...» In addition, the study repeatedly cited other research studies in which the anti-cancer properties of capsaicin were solidly demonstrated.

Reishi and Chaga are medicinal mushrooms that contain immune - modulating properties, which means that they may help to promote the production of immune cells to prevent disease.

Some schools allow cell phones and other gadgets on the property, which can be a great comfort to many parents.

Physicist Marshall Stoneham and his colleagues at University College London report they have constructed a specific mechanism based on the properties of so - called G - protein coupled receptors, which project from olfactory cells inside the nose.

«With this discovery in our hands, we'd now like to try to find out which additional immune - cell properties cancer cells have and study how they affect the metastatic process,» says Dr Fuxe.

Then immunotherapy firm Juno Therapeutics shook hands with gene - editing start - up Editas to create anticancer immune cell therapies; Vertex Pharmaceuticals and Crispr Therapeutics, another start - up, inked an agreement that could be valued at $ 2.6 billion; while Regeneron Pharmaceuticals formed a patent licence agreement with ERS Genomics, which holds the rights to the foundational Crispr intellectual property from Emmanuelle Charpentier, one of the Crispr pioneers.

Within that sting lies a peptide called chlorotoxin, which has an unusual property — it sticks strongly to tumour cells while ignoring surrounding healthy tissue, by binding to a cancer - specific protein called matrix metalloproteinase - 2.

The properties of water are altered by near - infrared light, which could drive the energy - producing mitochondria in our cells to work harder and heal us faster

What's more, the researchers discovered two years ago that the suppression of Esrp activity helps to enable a process called the epithelial - mesenchymal transition (EMT), in which epithelial cells acquire properties allowing them to detach and develop into new tissue.

Those axons branch out from the ventral nerve cord, which runs the length of the bee's abdomen — further evidence, they say, that the magnetic properties of those cells influence the nervous system.

To mediate that reaction, because it's occurring in water, which doesn't have the same properties as air, they have a chloride cell in the gill that gives off ammonia.

Moreover, perceptual experiments can be designed to ask which subdivisions of the system are responsible for particular visual abilities, such as figure / ground discrimination or perception of depth from perspective or relative movement — functions that might be difficult to deduce from single - cell response properties.

In order to identify the cancer stem cells from other cells in the tumor, the research team studied epigenetic mechanisms that distinguish between the least - sorted cells, with endless division properties and a potential to create growth, and the more sorted cells which lack this ability.

«The organic solar cells can be used in many contexts, not least those in which their special properties are useful: they can be semitransparent, soft, flexible, can be obtained in different colours, and they are cheap to manufacture,» says Olle Inganäs, professor of biomolecular and organic electronics at Linköping University.

The new model, which is a scaled - down version of an earlier numerical model by Shaqfeh and colleagues that provided the first large - scale, quantitative explanation of the formation of the layer, can predict how blood cells with varying shapes, sizes, and properties — including the crescent - shaped cells that are the hallmark of sickle cell anemia — will influence blood flow.

In other situations in which governments have handed out property rights to private entities — such as licenses for the new, so - called third - generation cell phones — administrators have not encountered such severe political opposition to auctions because industry is not already exploiting the public assets.

Lastly, the team identified a gene, calretinin, in the hippocampal cells which was not expressed in the neocortical cells — suggesting the possibility that these cells exhibit different functional properties as well.

Because of this, the self - assembling ink provides an opportunity to control the chemical and physical properties during and after printing, which can be tuned to stimulate cell behaviour.»

Researchers had managed to «reprogramme» these cells, which had been stripped of their pro-tumour properties.

Besides its topological properties, its «sister materials,» which have similar properties and were also studied by the research team, are known to be light - sensitive and have useful properties for solar cells and for optoelectronics, which control light for use in electronic devices.

«It's counter-intuitive, but applying humidity and light makes the perovskite solar cells more luminescent, a property which is extremely important if you want efficient solar cells,» said Stranks, who is now based at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory.

They excel in a property called the photoluminescence quantum efficiency, which is key to maximizing the efficiency of solar cells.

The mechanisms underlying this ability and the extent to which the cells» size, growth rate and other physiological properties relate to survival in mycobacterial populations were not well understood.

The researchers also found that in nerve cells that detect short sounds, that ability is amplified by electrical properties of the nerve cell membrane's ion channels, which allow the entry and exit of charged chemicals.

The team has been able to prove that such epigenetic alterations are associated with the increased levels of an enzyme, namely DNA methyltransferase 3A (DNMT3A), which is responsible for the acquisition of the suppressive properties of these cells that develop in the tumoral microenvironment.

The properties of supercooled water are important for understanding basic processes during cryoprotection, which is the preservation of tissue or cells by liquid nitrogen so they can be thawed without damaged, said Wang, an associate professor in the department of chemistry and biochemistry in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.

The debate might eventually be a moot point, as researchers continue to make convincing headway with induced pluripotent cells, which seem to have all the properties of embryonic stem cells but which are created from adult cells.

The in vitro studies conducted show how some of the products developed have anti-inflammatory properties in intestine cells, which could alleviate allergic reactions caused by food, and increase the bioavailability of iron.

Lloyd A. Greene and Arthur S. Tischler of the Harvard Medical School demonstrated in 1977 that cells of the line designated PC12 (which are derived from a rat tumor) respond to NGF by acquiring properties characteristic of sympathetic neurons.

The properties of supercooled water are important for understanding basic processes during cryoprotection, which is the preservation of tissue or cells by liquid nitrogen so they can be thawed without damage, said Wang, an associate professor in the department of chemistry and biochemistry in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.

BERKELEY, CA, and CORALVILLE, IA — February 23, 2016 — Caribou Biosciences, Inc., a developer of CRISPR technologies for precision cell engineering, and Integrated DNA Technologies, Inc. (IDT), a producer of custom synthetic oligonucleotide - based technologies for genomics applications, have entered into a non-exclusive license agreement under which Caribou has granted IDT worldwide rights to commercialize CRISPR - Cas9 reagents under Caribou's intellectual property.

Research Focus: My research in the laboratory of Mitchell Kronenberg has concentrated on examining the development and function of Vα14i NKT cells, which are T lymphocytes with a number of unique properties.

These cells have two main properties, unlimited self - renewal that can produce laboratory any desired number of undifferentiated cells and pluripotency, which provides access from the undifferentiated cells in all cell types of the human organism.

Their work showed a specific protein to be responsible, which the researchers were able to localize at cell level and by doing so, describe its properties.

This has allowed investigation of the mechanical properties of cells, which, according to some research studies, could have applications in medicine, for example by enabling cancer cells to be distinguished from healthy ones.

Recent studies have described a subpopulation of cancer cells within tumors termed «cancer stem cells» (CSCs), which have stem - like properties such as self - renewal and the ability to differentiate into multiple cancer cell types [1 — 7].

I enjoyed so much to start thinking in the capability of small things to make a notable difference in biological systems, such as how the properties of the cell membranes are influenced by its chemical composition, and how the food chain is mainly supported by the photosynthesis reaction of plants and algae, which ultimately lead us to survive.

His group focuses on exploring the mechanisms by which growth factor signals in the stem cell environment modulate the pluripotent stem cell's functional properties.

Adult stem cells derived from adipose tissue (fat) are abundant with anti-inflammatory properties and components which stimulate new blood vessel growth.