Sentences with phrase «whose cells process»

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In this process, the nucleus of a donor adult cell is transferred to an egg whose nucleus, and thus its genetic material, has been removed.

If left unchecked, however, the inflammatory process churns out toxic substances that can kill surrounding cells, whose death triggers more inflammation and creates a vicious cycle.

Cyclin D is synthesized during the first stage of cell replication and is believed to help drive the complex, multi-stage process, including interaction with the retinoblastoma (Rb) protein, whose function is to prevent excessive cell growth by inhibiting cell cycle progression until a cell is ready to divide.

«We found that approximately 40 % of the brain cells that process visual signals appear to receive information from mRGCs,» says Brown, whose team reports its work today in PLoS Biology.

But throughout this process the full force of the laser blasts even cells whose light is not in focus for the detector.

Starting in the late 1980s, their labs revealed steps in how the endoplasmic reticulum, the cell's factory for processing secreted and membrane proteins, deals with proteins whose linear sequence of amino acids hasn't folded into a proper 3D shape.

Better understanding of the beta - cell proliferation process eventually may lead toward therapies for diabetes patients, whose supplies of these cells often shrink over time, says Rohit Kulkarni, M.D., Ph.D., a Joslin Senior Investigator and senior author on a paper about the work published in the journal Cell Metabolcell proliferation process eventually may lead toward therapies for diabetes patients, whose supplies of these cells often shrink over time, says Rohit Kulkarni, M.D., Ph.D., a Joslin Senior Investigator and senior author on a paper about the work published in the journal Cell MetabolCell Metabolism.

One of the ten emerging technologies selected was the Human Cell Atlas, which aims to integrate research exploring all the «omes»: the genome (the full set of genes), the transcriptome (the RNA made from all genes), the proteome (the proteins), the metabolome (small molecules, such as sugars, fatty acids and amino acids, involved or generated by cellular processes), and the fluxome (metabolic reactions whose rates can vary under different conditions).

The cells that are most vulnerable to this process are muscle - related sensory neurons whose degeneration leads to the first symptoms of the disease.

Lue, whose essay described the regulation of alternative splicing and how defects in this process can cause disease, and Mueller, whose essay described examples of alternatively spliced proteins coded by the same gene with different functions that act in different cells, will each receive a $ 400 prize, and their science teachers, Dr. Martina Davies and Mrs. Jessica Graham respectively, will each receive a $ 400 grant for genetics materials.

As if that were not challenge enough for a brain that is already struggling to metabolize fuel efficiently, AGEs themselves have been shown to be neurotoxic, likely by inducing apoptosis (cell death) and lipid peroxidation — a process that is especially damaging to cells whose membranes are particularly rich in PUFAs.10, 33

Because of this, an MRI may not be able to diagnose CA in dogs who are young, whose disease process is not longstanding, or whose clinical signs (and therefore the amount of Purkinje cell degeneration) are mild.