Through systematic annotation of the resulting movies, we developed a phenotypic profiling system, which shows high correlation
with cellular processes and biochemical pathways, thus enabling us to predict new functions for previously uncharacterized genes.
Not exact matches
It boosts circulation which helps the
process of metabolism on a
cellular level and supplies muscles, organs and bones
with what they need to work efficiently.
In the above article the words:
cellular, hormones, brain and nervous system appear by the second paragraph
with absolutely no references to explain how these biological terms or
processes relate to birth or birth trauma.
This correlated
with a global reduction in arginine methylation, which controls multiple
cellular processes, including DNA replication and DNA repair.
Carcinogens may cause cancer by altering
cellular metabolism or damaging DNA directly in cells, which interferes
with normal biological
processes.
Close collaboration between the Pasteur Institute and Inria, taking the form of the InBio join research group, whose aim is to develop a methodological framework for achieving a quantitative understanding of the functioning of
cellular processes, is the perfect illustration of the value of interdisciplinary research combining experimental approaches
with methodological developments.
Researchers from the Pasteur Institute and Inria,
with researchers from the CNRS and Paris Diderot University, and from the Institute of Science and Technology (IST) in Austria, have published two articles in Nature Communications about computer control of
cellular processes.
It is still a long road to approved therapies but a growing body of basic research is fueling a search for drugs that interact
with cellular cleanup
processes to provide one - size - fits - all approaches for treating a megaclass of brain disorders.
The AXIN2 protein interacts
with proteins in the Wnt signalling pathway, which is involved in controlling many
cellular processes, including development.
«May we not feel,» he wrote, «that in the virus, in their merging
with the
cellular genome and reemerging from them, we observe the units and
process which, in the course of evolution, have created the successful genetic patterns that underlie all living cells?»
Thawing caused ice crystals to form and prevented meiosis, the
cellular process during which an egg's chromosomes split up from 46 to 23, to be united later
with 23 chromosomes from a sperm cell.
The team also showed that the
cellular process macropinocytosis, which participates in cell scavenging nutrients and vesicles, contributes to exosomes uptake in cancer cells
with mutant KRAS.
With illnesses that involve more vital organs and more basic
cellular processes, the chances of healing are less.
In a
process called
cellular reprogramming, researchers at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have taken mature blood cells from patients
with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and reprogrammed them back into iPSCs to study the genetic origins of this rare blood cancer.
Izpisua Belmonte added that more extensive studies will be needed to fully understand the role of heterochromatin disorganization in aging, including how it interacts
with other
cellular processes implicated in aging, such as shortening of the end of chromosomes, known as telomeres.
Last, the investigation of informational
processing and
cellular machineries have revealed that genomes of Asgard archaea, which affiliate
with eukaryotes in the tree of life (see the figure), encode proteins that they only share
with eukaryotes.
«
With very specific spatial information, we could be better informed about how
cellular processes or therapies involving oxidation are going to operate.»
When researchers suppressed the ARF gene in mole - rat cells during the reprogramming
process to iPSCs, the cells stopped proliferation
with sign of
cellular senescence, while the opposite happens
with mouse cells.
If researchers can unlock the secrets of this
cellular process, therapies that replace diseased cells
with healthy ones may one day be possible — brain - cell transplants to combat Alzheimer's, for instance, or even the creation of whole organs from scratch.
«While more work is required to elucidate the
cellular and molecular mechanisms through which B cells exert their beneficial function in wound healing, we are in the
process of obtaining the required regulatory approvals to conduct a first clinical study in patients
with diabetic foot ulcers.
«The flexibility of this system means it can be adapted to explore other
cellular processes while minimally interfering
with other physiological or biological functions.»
In prior, unrelated experiments, the same species of worm had become hypersensitive to smell when its nerve cells experienced problems
with dopamine signaling, a
cellular process that helps control how readily cells can communicate
with one another.
The budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, is a prime organism for studying fundamental
cellular processes,
with the functions of many proteins important in the cell cycle and signaling networks found in human biology having first been discovered in yeast.
Such experiments suggest that deletion of
cellular activity, even for a brief time, «is causally involved
with a pathological
process like narcolepsy,» Boyden said.
The detailed study of such fundamental
cellular processes is crucial for the understanding of diseases that go hand in hand
with these events — in the case of autophagy, Alzheimer's disease or cancer.
But
with age, the balance tips, as mitochondria and other
cellular processes produce excess free radicals and the body's antioxidant defenses can't keep up, Rossman said.
«We also managed to confirm observations from previous microscopy studies that suggested that
cellular regeneration shares similarities
with the
process of cell division.
Manipulating biological
processes with minimal interference, from the
cellular level to the behavior of whole organisms, is a burgeoning scientific effort to better understand how living things work and to develop more effective treatments for a range of medical disorders.
«The idea is to initiate specific biochemical
processes in cells by flipping a magnetic switch,» says Jon Dobson, a biomedical engineer who has been manipulating
cellular function
with magnetic particles for more than 10 years at Keele University in Staffordshire, England.
«We believe it is the first example illustrating the
process of a developing human heart chamber in vitro,» said Kevin Healy, a UC Berkeley professor of bioengineering, who is co-senior author of the study
with Dr. Bruce Conklin, a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and a professor of medical genetics and
cellular and molecular pharmacology at UC San Francisco.
Powerful new microscopy techniques enable researchers to observe the whole
process in living cells,
with bright fluorescent tags highlighting the chromosomes and other
cellular components.
Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine,
with colleagues in Pennsylvania and China, report that not only are there distinct differences in key
cellular processes and molecular signatures between rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and osteoarthritis (OA) but, more surprisingly, there are joint - specific differences in RA.
The microbe seems to be able to replace phosphorus
with arsenic in some of its basic
cellular processes — suggesting the possibility of a biochemistry very different from the one we know, which could be used by organisms in past or present extreme environments on Earth, or even on other planets.
It supports proposals that use different technologies to build up knowledge of functional mechanisms and intracellular dynamics
with atomic structure information and integrate these into an understanding of
cellular processes in the native environment and in real time.
In the past 27 years, we have found that this cycling sugar modification of proteins — called O - linked N - acetylglucosamine, or O - GlcNAc — is nearly as common as protein phosphorylation and often competes
with it at the same or proximal sites on proteins to regulate nearly every
cellular process in response to nutrients and stress.
Because these
processes are ultimately mechanical in nature, our focus is developing and applying new laser - based optical instrumentation
with high - resolution microscopy imaging to understand
cellular mechanics.
I think about how certain fundamental
cellular processes or organs interact
with one another, and how they all fit together, so it helps me frame some of my scientific questions.
Antibiotics stop or interfere
with a number of everyday
cellular processes that bacteria rely on for growth and survival, such as:
«We believe it is the first example illustrating the
process of a developing human heart chamber in vitro,» said Kevin Healy, PhD, a UC Berkeley professor of bioengineering, who is co-senior author of the study
with Bruce Conklin, MD, a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and a professor of medical genetics and
cellular and molecular pharmacology at UC San Francisco.
Scientists look at the structure, function, and evolution of genes (genomics), analyze the interactions
with proteins these genes produce (proteomics), and systematically track the chemical traces of
cellular processes (metabolomics).
We hypothesize that upon retinal neuronal damage MG or RPE cells undergo defined and controlled changes in
cellular and molecular phenotype towards a cell
with progenitor properties — this
process that we are studying we call regenerative reprogramming.
LAMP2A: The A variant of lysosome - associated membrane protein 2 is a receptor involved in the
cellular maintenance
processes of autophagy, but levels decrease
with age, and in at least some species this appears to be one of the factors involved in the age - related decline of autophagy.
Along
with the
cellular genes emphasized from the microarray analysis, two genes that are suspected to be involved in the scleractinian coral calcification
process were tested for expression (Figs. 5A and 5B).
With scientists just starting to unveil the molecular frameworks for
cellular processes, «we have no clear pictures of what the stem cells are doing throughout the day,» he says.
However, these two life - sustaining
processes, which often unfold simultaneously on the strands of DNA, pose a spatial quandary: The
cellular machinery that replicates DNA and the one that transcribes genes can collide head - on, destabilizing the genome
with disastrous consequences.
Autophagy is a
cellular process that plays an important role during the development and maintenance of tumors, providing them
with the metabolic plasticity to meet their energetic needs, and requirements for
cellular building blocks.
Living cells use phosphate to transport
cellular energy
with adenosine triphosphate (ATP), necessary for every
cellular process that uses energy.
Genes, Genetics & Genomics (G3) symposium Our colleagues from the First Faculty of Medicine of the Charles University in Prague together
with the Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion are organizing one - day symposium dedicated to recent discoveries on physiological as well as pathological
cellular and molecular
processes.
Dr. Loftus» research is aimed at understanding how the human genome regulates gene expression,
with a focus on how this controls the
cellular processes governing mammalian development.
Additionally, by engineering FP fusions associated
with cellular organelles, scientists have been able to study many
cellular processes, including mitosis, mitochondrial fission / fusion, nuclear import, and neuronal trafficking.