Jonothan Solomon , a cell and molecular biologist at Elixer and one of its first employees, says the company is interested in treating metabolic diseases like diabetes.
Last year Dr Benenson's team developed one of the most complex cell-based molecular circuits created so far, though it is still much simpler than systems built in test tubes.
D. in molecular and cell biology from Rockefeller University.
In 1995, the late Richard C Strohman, then emeritus professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley, wrote of the impossibility of Darwinian biology in explaining human aging and disease.
There, the scientists themselves report that the anti-microbial agent has been known and used for years a cationic polymer, like quaternary polyetheleneimine, which kills bacteria by tinkering with the molecular integrity of cell membranes.
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The best-studied method is for a cell to increase the number of molecular pumps in its outer membrane.
It does hit a specific molecular target in the cell called VEGF.
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The gene produces a molecular sensor on the T cell that is designed to latch on to a telltale protein on the surface of that specific type of cancer.
Once embryos are created by in-vitro fertilisation and still growing in the laboratory, it is possible to pluck a cell or two from them and use molecular probes to pinpoint defective genes.
Several companies are already seeking to take advantage of the new field, called synthetic biology, which combines chemistry, computer science, molecular biology, genetics and cell biology to breed industrial life forms that can secrete fuels, vaccines or other commercial products.
This detects the activity of genes by measuring the presence of the molecular messengers they send into the cell to do their bidding.
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"The poor secretary was being quizzed about the scientific details of those 64 stem cell lines, " says Douglas Melton , chair of molecular biology at Harvard, who also testified yesterday.
This is an artificial molecule that binds to and disables the molecular messengers a gene sends out into the cell it inhabits, to tell that cell how to make the protein that the gene encodes.
Dr Ghadiri found that, if rings of eight amino acids (the molecular building blocks of proteins) are placed near cell membranes, they self-assemble into tubes within those membranes.
The principal aim of the grant is to evaluate the molecular mechanisms and underlying pathways of tissue engineering and cell therapy for regenerating airways and lung tissue, and to carry out translational studies for the prevention and effective treatment of a wide range of diseases.
Using cell cultures, the researchers are also discovering how TZDs work on a molecular basis.
We are beginning to peer into the molecular domain, acquiring in-depth details of the functions of the cell and formulating theories that describe the intricate pathways of the biological universe.
They do so by starting chain-reactions that result in the addition and subtraction of molecular sub-units known as phosphate groups from particular proteins in the nerve cell being stimulated.
This is because of molecular switches that turn parts of the genome on and off depending on what the cell in question is up to.
The molecular biologist, who is founder and president of NovaRx, mixes four different irradiated lung cancer cell lines with some DNA he has constructed, then gives the mixture several electric charges so they bind together.
To remedy this problem, Kylie Catchpole of the Australian National University in Canberra and Albert Polman of the Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics in Amsterdam have been trying to redirect the light that falls onto the surface of a cell in such a way that all colours are efficiently absorbed.
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