Sentences with phrase «arm than a bone»

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To explore European ancestry further, Willerslev's team extracted DNA from the ulna, or lower arm bone, of a skeleton of a young man discovered in 1954 at Kostenki 14, one of more than 20 archaeological sites at Kostenki - Borshchevo.

Bone loss was higher in men compared to women in the placebo arm, and the protection against bone loss was higher in men than in women in the treatment Bone loss was higher in men compared to women in the placebo arm, and the protection against bone loss was higher in men than in women in the treatment bone loss was higher in men than in women in the treatment arm.

The fossil fish Tiktaalik, discovered in 2006, dates back to the same period, and its skeleton bears many more similarities to tetrapods than to the placoderms described in Long's article — including homologous arm bones and shoulder, neck and ear features.

Women from the earliest farming sites, dating to between about 7,300 and 7,000 years ago, had leg bones about as strong as those of modern rowers but arm bones between 11 and 16 percent stronger for their size than rowers.

Even though the scientists had nothing more than two fossilized arm bones to go on, the fossils contain enough evidence to make the postmortem analysis possible.

Beginning in the 21st week of pregnancy, ultrasound scans revealed that for fetuses of obese women, the femur (thigh bone) and humerus (upper arm bone) were longer than those of the fetuses of non-obese women.

In the new study, the researchers found that a fractured arm bone in newborn mice rapidly realigned through substantial movement of bone fragments rather than through bone remodeling — a slower process involving the simultaneous formation of new bone on one side and erosion of existing bone on the opposite side.

Speaking of health, sadly absent in this Far Cry is the gruesome self - healing animation of past games, which I miss: watching yourself dig a bullet out of your flesh with a knife or resetting a broken bone with a crunch is more fun than simply winding some gauze around your arm.