Sentence examples for directing cells from inspiring English sources

Dr. Rubin, director of the Center for Biotechnology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is reporting that in mice, a simple treatment that does not involve drugs appears to be directing cells to turn into bone instead of fat.

Directing cells towards a chondrogenic phenotype and promoting new matrix formation are significant challenges that must be overcome for the successful application of hydrogels in cartilage tissue therapies.

However, activation of the same pathway inhibits cardiac differentiation at later timepoints, likely by directing cells towards alternative mesodermal fates [13].

Integrin signaling converges on cell cycle regulation, directing cells to live or die, to proliferate or to exit the cell cycle and differentiate [53].

One class of new targets involves kinases responsible for directing cells into mitosis.

However, inactive mutated EZH2 or its low expression in myeloid malignancy contributes to tumorigenesis by suppressing differentiation, thus directing cells toward a leukemic stem cell state [ 5, 9, 10].

Topology and surface chemistry might share a common pathway for directing cell behavior.

Functionalization of polymeric biomaterials permits the conjugation of cell signaling molecules capable of directing cell function.

These data indicate that cell shape and rigidity are not orthogonal parameters directing cell fate.

In tumor cells, FAK regulates cell motility by directing cell migration.

These functions are important for directing cell type-specific transcriptional programs [ 10].