workings 2 3

Tag: "workings" at biology news

Liver regeneration may be simpler than previously thought

...l Chemistry, provides new information on the inner workings of cells from regenerating livers that could significantly affect the way physicians make livers regrow in patients with liver diseases such as cirrhosis, hepatitis, or cancer. "The human liver is one of the few organs in the body that can regenera...

A new study of living cells could revolutionize the way we test drugs

...ored in a similar way to a cardiograph showing the workings of a human heart. With funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Professor Andre Geim at the University of Manchester and his team have set out to make the first measurement of a cellular ‘heartbeat? "Once we ...

A 'traffic light' for neurons means 'go' for improving brain research

...e could ultimately help researchers figure out the workings of healthy and unhealthy brain circuits, explains graduate student Feng Zhang, a lead author of the paper along with Stanford postdoctoral scholar Li-Ping Wang. If use of the technique can show that altered activity in a particular kind of neuron und...

How to steer a moving cell

... locomotion. In order to understand the inner workings of the cell’s "steering wheel," the researchers developed a method to cross section the front and back of the chemotactic cell in order to analyze the components of its protein network. The cell fractionation equipment developed in Klemke’s lab is t...

Helping chlorine-eating bacteria clean up toxic waste

... processes, to create computer models of the inner workings of the bacterium. The project is funded by a three-year, $381,000 grant from the Department of Defense, which has some 6,000 toxic-dump sites of its own to clean up. Richardson explained that in the field "the bacteria sometimes start and then sto...

Math that powers spam filters used to understand how brain learns to move our muscles

...t outcome is uncertain. The idea as applied to the workings of a brain is that each brain uses what it already knows to “predict” or “believe” that something new will happen, then uses that information to help make it so. “We used the idea that prior experience and belief affect the probability of future o...

1 2 3