Sentences with phrase «who led the cell»

Together, the findings indicate that the virus by itself can wreak havoc, says Michael Diamond, a viral immunologist at Washington University in St. Louis in Missouri who led the Cell study.

Not exact matches

«We suspected that the young are most vulnerable because of their immature immune systems, but we didn't have a lot of hard evidence to show that before,» said study lead author Bo Hang, a Berkeley Lab staff scientist who previously found that thirdhand smoke could lead to genetic mutations in human cells.

«The thing would look like the chip from your cell phone with this very thin gauzy light sail,» said Pete Worden, the former director of NASA's Ames Research Center, who is leading the project.

As irresponsible as that was — leading to the death of a covert asset who had infiltrated a dangerous terror cell — it taught Failing POTUS one thing: he has the authority to declassify anything any time.

In 2014, a team of researchers at UCLA led by genetics researcher, Steve Cole, discovered that the cells of people who experience chronic loneliness appear to be stuck in a state of fear.

«We found that babies who are fed only breast milk have microbial communities that seem more ready for the introduction of solid foods,» the study's lead author Dr. Andrea Azcarate - Peril, assistant professor in the department of cell biology and physiology, said in a press release.

It's necessary, they argue, to protect the babies who would otherwise be born with mutated mitochondria - the power - producing bits of cells - which can lead to serious diseases that currently affect around one in every 6,500 children.

So it seems strange that the last five years involved the very opposite: a justice secretary who slashed prison funding and stuffed even more inmates in there, leading to soaring rates of suicide and assault and prisoners spending up to 23 - hours a day locked in their cells.

Prosecutors also extended a case that led to the guilty plea of Assemblyman Tony Seminerio, a Queens Democrat who died in his prison cell earlier this year while serving a six - year sentence.

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.

«Once this novel tumor - homing agent binds to the EphA2 receptor, the oncogene functions as a cancer - specific molecular Trojan horse for paclitaxel, carrying the drug inside the cancel cell, killing the cell, and thwarting metastasis,» said Maurizio Pellecchia, a professor of biomedical sciences at UCR's School of Medicine who led the research.

If scientists «start too early to specialize in biomaterials, there is a risk that they... would know all the possible applications but they will maybe not have the basis to be able to develop new ideas or new systems,» says Christine Dupont - Gillain, who leads the Nanostructured Surfaces for Cell Engineering group at the Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences of the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium.

«Wnt10b is a switch that determines whether a pre-fat cell turns into a fat cell,» says Ormond MacDougald, a physiologist at the University of Michigan Medical School, who led the study.

The data simply looked spectacular,» says Thijs Ettema at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, who lead the scientific team that carried out the study.

The negative attention combined with the political uncertainty around stem - cell funding killed the deal, says Greg Bonfiglio, who was with Anthem Venture Partners of Santa Monica, California, at the time, and would have been the lead investor on that round.

«Before this study, it was not known if it is possible to produce sufficient numbers of these cells and successfully use them to remuscularize damaged hearts in a large animal whose heart size and physiology is similar to that of the human heart,» said Dr. Charles Murry, UW professor of pathology and bioengineering, who led the research team that conducted the experiment.

«The siRNA delivery targeted carriers constructed today hone in on specific cells and require chemical conjugation of the targeting agent,» says Prof. Dan Peer of the Laboratory of Precision Nanomedicine at TAU's School of Molecular Cell Biology and Biotechnology, who led the research.

The paper's lead author — Marcus Yip, who completed his PhD at MIT last fall — and his colleagues Rui Jin and Nathan Ickes, both in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, will also exhibit a prototype charger that plugs into an ordinary cell phone and can recharge the signal - processing chip in roughly two minutes.

Comparing the blood of patients who relapsed to patients who didn't led her to exhausted T cells.

«Especially in early stages, normal cells can kill cancer cells,» says biologist Yasuyuki Fujita, who led the British team.

«Due to the inhibitory function of Treg cells, people have been trying to use these cells for therapy in human autoimmune diseases or transplantation,» explains professor Yun Cai Liu, Ph.D., who led the current study.

Ong, who leads the Materials Virtual Lab and is a faculty member in the Sustainable Power and Energy Center at UC San Diego, uses a combination of high - throughput calculations and machine learning to discover next - generation materials for energy applications, including batteries, fuel cells and LEDs.

Professor Ali Tavassoli, who led the study with colleague Dr. Ishna Mistry, explains: «In an effort to better understand the role of HIF - 1 in cancer, and to demonstrate the potential for inhibiting this protein in cancer therapy, we engineered a human cell line with an additional genetic circuit that produces the HIF - 1 inhibiting molecule when placed in a hypoxic environment.

In people who age prematurely, changes in the way that DNA is tightly packed in cells leads to mayhem that promotes the aging process, researchers have discovered.

Actively regenerating tissues expressing a gene have mRNAs with shorter tails, while mature cells expressing that same gene have mRNAs with longer tails,» says Vairavan Lakshmanan, who is one of the lead authors of the paper that details these findings.

«Instead of cleaning up when neurons die, the microglia assume they're under attack when they see too much cell death and kill nerve cells as collateral damage,» says Tanzi, who led the research team.

«If you see consistent phenotypes in different models, the things that are happening are probably important,» says Guo - li Ming of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, who led the earlier studies of Zika in human neural progenitor cells.

Geoffrey Raisman, who is developing treatments based on OECs at the Institute of Neurology in London, says the work could lead to a better source of the cells.

For his part, Collins, who has led NIH since 2009 and been kept on by the Trump administration, pointed to an array of promising NIH activities, including the development of new technologies to provide insights into human brain circuitry and function through the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neuroethologies (BRAIN initiative) and the use of the gene - editing tool CRISPR - Cas9 to correct mutations and clear the way to develop and test a «curative therapy» for the first molecular disease: sickle cell disease.

Domínguez - Bendala, who led the team along with colleague Ricardo Pastori, found that BMP - 7 caused pancreatic cells to secrete unexpectedly high amounts of insulin after they used it as a control in another, unrelated, experiment.

Cook, who also serves as director of operations and research at MU Health Care's Mizzou BioJointSM Center and director of the Thompson Laboratory for Regenerative Orthopaedics, led a pre-clinical study earlier in 2017 that showed BMC provides cells to infiltrate the donor bone and release proteins important to bone healing.

«Our study shows that protein production in neurons is one of the major utilizers of energy and that neurons of Leigh syndrome degenerate because they can't sustain a high enough level of energy,» says Tony Hunter, the Renato Dulbecco Chair and American Cancer Society Professor in Salk's Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory, who led the research.

«The fact that glutamine addiction has mainly been investigated in cell culture systems may have overestimated the lethality of glutamine deprivation,» said Martin Eilers, University of Würzburg, who led the study together with Kempa.

«Just one transplant of the human EPO - producing cells treated kidney anaemia in mice, keeping their haemoglobin levels in the normal range for the remaining 7 - month lifespan of the animals,» says Kenji Osafune, of Kyoto University in Japan, who led the team.

The results indicate that beta cell function does not decline with age, and instead suggest that islet function is threatened by an age - dependent impairment of vessels that support them with oxygen and nutrients,» says Per - Olof Berggren at the Rolf Luft Research Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology at Karolinska Institutet, who led the study together with Alejandro Caicedo at University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Hong Gil Nam at DGIST in Republic of Korea.

«This provides strong evidence that Müller glia are important therapeutic targets for treating degenerative eye diseases,» said Sehwon Koh, Ph.D., who is the lead author of this paper and a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Cagla Eroglu, Ph.D., an associate professor of cell biology and neurobiology at the Duke University Medical Center.

Summers and the research team, led by Dr. Mike Jensen at the Ben Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research at Seattle Children's Research Institute, are opening PLAT - 04 after discovering that of the patients who relapsed in the PLAT - 02 trial, approximately 40 percent of them relapsed with a leukemia that evolved to circumvent the CAR T cells that were reprogrammed to detect and destroy cancer.

Known as the phosphatidylserine receptor, or PSR - 1, the molecule can locate and clear out apoptotic cells that are pre-programmed to die as well as necrotic cells that have been injured and are causing inflammation, said CU - Boulder Professor Ding Xue, who led one study and co-authored the other.

«Implantation to mother's uterus is arguably one of the hardest things we ever have to do in life,» said Ruohola - Baker, University of Washington professor of biochemistry and associate director of the UW Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, who led the research team.

Biophysicists led by Professor Erwin Frey, who holds the Chair of Biological and Statistical Physics at LMU, have now shown theoretically how this can be accomplished even when only a subset of cells actually emits the requisite signals.

Importantly, the micro environment created by the features of a breast implant is critical for breast tissue cells to adhere to that surface and grow on,» said Dr Ardeshir Bayat, from the University's Institute of Inflammation and Repair, who led the study.

«By learning more about how these cells work, we are one step closer to understanding the disease states in which these cells should be studied,» said Cagla Eroglu, an assistant professor of cell biology and neurobiology at the Duke University Medical Center, who led the research.

The two papers «offer a glimpse at the possible physiological roles» for adiponectin, perhaps leading to treatments for both obesity and diabetes, says cell biologist Philipp Scherer, who led the Albert Einstein team.

«TGF - beta functions as an important time signal that controls when a stem cell should stop producing one type of nerve cell and instead start producing another, while also gradually limiting the stem cell's future development capacity,» says Johan Ericson, Professor of Developmental Biology, who led the study.

«The vapor cell in an atomic clock needs to be heated,» says John Kitching of NIST, who leads the project.

Pigs and humans have similar colonic stem cell populations and microbiomes, according to Jairam K.P. Vanamala, who led a research effort to better understand those similarities.

He has been making that point since 2004, when in testimony to the U.S. Senate, he warned embryonic stem cell opponent Sam Brownback of Kansas, «Those in a position of advice or authority who participate in the banning or enforced delays of biomedical research that could lead to the saving of lives and the amelioration of suffering are directly and morally responsible for the lives made worse or lost due to the ban, or even of a moratorium that would deny such treatments in that short window of time when it could help or save them.»

«This graphene system is able to detect the level of activity of an interfaced cell,» says Vikas Berry, associate professor and head of chemical engineering at UIC, who led the research along with Ankit Mehta, assistant professor of clinical neurosurgery in the UIC College of Medicine.

«We showed that we can deliver anti-cancer drugs exactly in the area where they are needed and they can kill cancer cells,» said Andrey Zakharchenko, a graduate student in the Nanostructured Materials Lab in the UGA College of Family and Consumer Sciences who led the study.

British newspapers reported this weekend that Ian Wilmut, the University of Edinburgh biologist who led the team that in 1997 cloned Dolly the sheep, is getting out of the cloning business in light of the new findings, which seem to offer researchers a likely new source of stem cell lines for basic research that could one day lead to new treatments and perhaps cures for spinal injuries, diabetes and debilitating disorders such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease.