现在,有了这项技术,科学家们可以立刻观察大脑不同区域的单个细胞的活动情况。
With this technique scientists now have a way to watch single cell activity in many different regions of the brain at once.
在这个想象期间,大脑之门把那一百个神经细胞的电活动传送给一个处理信号的程序,这个软件将探测信号的规律。
During this imaginative period the BrainGate fed the electrical activity of its century of nerve cells to a piece of signal-processing software that looked for patterns.
所有细胞的活动就被记录并发送到电脑上。电脑再翻译这些命令,使病人能驱动并控制外部装置。
The activity of the cells was recorded and sent to a computer which translated the commands and enabled the patient to move and control the external device.
紫外线辐射似乎会改变触发免疫反应的细胞的活动和分布,从而降低免疫系统的有效性。
UV radiation appears to diminish the effectiveness of the immune system by changing the activity and distribution of the cells responsible for triggering immune responses.
这些电极的另一端与神经细胞相连,以使“大脑之门”可以同时感知100个神经细胞的活动。
The other end of each electrode is attached to a nerve cell, so that the BrainGate can sense the activity of 100 nerve cells simultaneously.
功能性磁共振造影研究显示,一个人在经历消极事件时,其脑部情绪处理区域的细胞活动会增强。
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) studies have shown increased cellular activity in emotion-processing regions at the time that a negative event is experienced.
这个活动被传播到整个腹侧纹状体:细胞在不同时间里和这个节奏同步着,以一个相当不和谐的方式。
This activity was dispersed throughout the ventral striatum: Cells synchronized with the rhythm at different times, in a fairly uncoordinated fashion.
食品及药物管理局最近证明这种药,可以通过减少细胞在骨头变脆弱的活动来起作用。
The FDA recently approved this drug, which works by reducing activity in cells responsible for bone breakdown.
他说,通过呼吸,你可以用心理变化改变细胞的基本活动。
He says that by using your breath, you can alter the basic activity of your cells with your mind.
因此,捆绕在一起的细胞,在恰当的位置把这个(活动)形态锁定以待未来唤起。
Thus, cells that fire together wire together, locking the pattern in place for future recall.
这可能是咖啡因干扰了从血液中运送葡萄糖到肌肉和其它细胞的活动,在身体里葡萄糖被用作燃料。
It could be that caffeine interferes with the process that moves glucose from the blood and into muscle and other cells in the body where it is used for fuel.
即使在你休息的时候,身体也需要能量来维持他“潜在”的活动:如呼吸、血液循环、调节激素水平、细胞的生长与修复。
Even when you're at rest, your body needs energy for all its "hidden" functions, such as breathing, circulating blood, adjusting hormone levels, and growing and repairing cells.
突触连接神经细胞,其活动对于学习和记忆是很重要的,但它们也是,他说,大脑最脆弱的部分。
Synapses are the junctions between nerve cells, and their action is central to learning and memory. But they are also, he says, the most fragile parts of the brain.
正是钾离子(还有钠离子)的活动引起了在神经细胞中传导的电脉冲,包括在慢波睡眠中的脉冲。
It is the movement of potassium (and also sodium) ions that causes the electrical impulses that nerve cells carry-including the impulses found in slow-wave sleep.
但研究人员同时发现氨基酸阻止了葡萄糖的活动,使细胞保持活力,让小白鼠保持清醒。
But the researchers also found that amino acids stop the glucose action, keeping the cells active and the mice alert.
科学家们在小白鼠大脑中标记出促食素细胞,使它们发光。然后在喂食小白鼠不同食物后,追踪这些细胞的活动。
Scientists marked orexin cells in mice brains so they would fluoresce. Then they tracked the cells' activity after feeding the mice different kinds of food.
叶子气孔细胞的这种活动方式有助于古植物学家识别它。
The pattern made by the cells of a leaf’s stomatal openings can help paleobotanists to identify it.
在这个解剖台上,研究人员还会附上基因的活动信息——一个细胞将基因翻译成RNA(脱氧核糖核酸已经经常会伴随有的蛋白质分子的过程)。
On this anatomical scaffold researchers will overlay information about gene activity-the genes a cell translates into RNA transcripts and then often protein molecules.
为了分析细胞的活动,研究员们一次只取下一层纸,分别分析。
To analyse how these cells behaved, the researchers simply peeled off the layers one at a time and analysed them individually.
不同于普通细胞的是,这种复制活动永无休止。
科学家发现,手里拿着一个电话你的耳朵至少50分钟,增加大脑细胞的活动。
The scientists found that holding a cell phone to your ear for at least fifty minutes increases brain cell activity.
但是耶鲁大学的科学家在7月15日发行的Neuron期刊声称电场也会影响脑部细胞的活动。
However, Yale scientists report in the July 15 issue of the journal Neuron that electrical fields can also influence the activity of brain cells.
“技术进步让我们能运用光束,对单个的细胞或者一类细胞的活动进行操控。”索尔克生物研究所(Salk InstituteforBiologicalStudies)的泰伦斯•谢诺沃·斯基(TerrenceSejnowski)写道。
"The advances allow us to manipulate the activities of individual cells and cell types using beams of light," writes Terrence Sejnowski of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
这种蛋白通常是在神经细胞对神经传递素起反应时产生,因此它也被认为是神经细胞行为活动的生物标志。
This protein is often produced when nerve cells are reacting to neurotransmitters and is thus regarded as a general marker for nerve-cell activity.
不久前,神经科学家使用一个单一的电极植入皮质以记录单个神经元细胞的活动,相信是与单一的思维和形象相关。
Recently neuro scientists have implanted single electrodes in the cortex to record the activity of single neurons believed to be associated with a single thought or image.
科学家认为生物钟是受基因活动影响,但是藻类和红细胞没有基因也同样按照生物钟运行。
Scientists had thought that the circadian clock was driven by gene activity, but both the algae and the red blood cells kept time without it.
大多数科学家认为大脑内的电场是神经细胞活动所产生的简单的副产品。
Most scientists have viewed electrical fields within the brain as the simple byproducts of neuronal activity.
大多数科学家认为大脑内的电场是神经细胞活动所产生的简单的副产品。
Most scientists have viewed electrical fields within the brain as the simple byproducts of neuronal activity.
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