Sentences with phrase «whose simple cells»
On one side are the prokaryotes — bacteria and archaea — whose simple cells are not much more than tiny bags of chemicals.
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The consensus on the evolution of primitive life is that simple life forms (prokaryotes, organisms whose cells lack a distinct nucleus) inhabited the Earth about 3 - 4 billion years ago, eukaryotic cells (those with a nucleus which contains the genetic material) emerging 2 - 3 billion years ago.
As an example of a disease whose genetic basis not only is felt to be much simpler than that of malignancies, but also is affected by host genomic and environmental complexities, consider sickle cell disease.
By developing a simple chemically defined culture system permitting efficient differentiation of numerous human iPS cell lines toward cells of a mature hepatic state, we now demonstrate the possibility of modeling groups of diseases of non-neuronal origin whose phenotypes are a consequence of complex protein dysregulation within adult cells.