Sentences with phrase «as human muscles»

But as he reported in the journal Science, Baughman's artificial muscles are powered by chemical energy, just as human muscles are.

Not exact matches

On a normal diet, the human body breaks down carbohydrates into glucose, which are used for energy or stored as glycogen in liver and muscle tissue.

Funny I never thought of Jesus as having a hercules style body... Just average build... He did work as a capenter and the carpenters I know have good muscle tone... by are not body builder status, Hercules built to excess... They are just like a average farmer, strong and even in muscle tone... Jesus's whole life was about being humble and coming from the low end of the society... he was born with the animals in a very humble place... I do not see him as a super strong human... but then being the son of God, he would have had super powers if he wanted them... he just did not need them...

The human side to the game doesn't shrink as its financial muscles are flexed.

On birth This article appears in the Sage Encyclopedia of Anthropology, Sage Publications, 2005 Until recently in human history, birth has been exclusively the work of the work of women as they labor and bear down with their uterine muscles to push their babies from the private inner world of their wombs into the larger world of society and culture.

Also referred to as the womb, the uterus is hollow with a thick, muscular wall, and is considered the strongest muscle in the human body.

The numbers represent a lower limit, as Neandertals and other extinct hominins likely had more muscle mass than modern humans.

The cognitive differences between humans and our closest living cousins, the chimpanzees, are staggeringly obvious and a new study suggests that human muscle may be just as unique.

As a result, the ubiquitous barges plying the river no longer need human muscle to beat the flow and can carry more than three times as much weight — from 3,000 tons per ship to 10,000 tons of coal, cars and other goodAs a result, the ubiquitous barges plying the river no longer need human muscle to beat the flow and can carry more than three times as much weight — from 3,000 tons per ship to 10,000 tons of coal, cars and other goodas much weight — from 3,000 tons per ship to 10,000 tons of coal, cars and other goods.

The space - based results were a product of CRaTER's ability to accurately gauge the radiation dose of cosmic rays after passing through a material known as «tissue - equivalent plastic,» which simulates human muscle tissue.

ASMI researchers are involved in different fields such as biomechanics (motion analysis, which includes cadaver research, namely, the use of human limbs to analyze anatomy, motion, and the strength of muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bones) and clinical research (tracking patients to see how successful they are returning to sport after treatment with surgery or physical therapy).

There are moments of pure nature - channel gore, such as when McAuliffe delineates the life cycle of a guinea worm, a parasite that migrates from a human's intestinal muscle through the tissues of the body all the way to the lower limbs or sole of the foot where it — no, that's enough.

Compared with chimps, humans have evolved weak jaw muscles and jaw bones — possibly because social organisation reduced the need to bite as a form of attack

He adds that human heart muscle works in much the same way as flight muscle, and this work could eventually give insight into why hearts fail.

In February, Todd Kuiken and colleagues at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago announced promising results from the first human trials of prosthetic limbs based on an approach known as targeted muscle re-innervation.

«My work has focused on developing technology that translates electrical signals in human muscle into signals that control powered prosthetic limbs — such as decoding muscle signals to tell a prosthetic leg that it needs to walk forward or step up onto a staircase,» says Dr. Helen Huang, senior author of a paper on the work and an associate professor in the joint biomedical engineering program at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Those findings — published this week in Current Biology — suggest that the gene, known as FOXP2 is involved in learning the muscle movements necessary for speech, explains co-author Simon Fisher, a professor of molecular neuroscience at Oxford's Wellcome Trust Center for Human Genetics.

Like all mammals, including humans, mice lose up to a third of their muscle mass and power as they get older.

Just as the technique restored kidney, muscle, and insulin - producing function in the mouse models, he sees a future for rejuvenating neuronal populations, maybe even one day in human patients.

This wearable equipment, called the Unplugged Powered Suit (UPS), supports human movement without requiring any electronic devices and tanks because it employs a newly developed pneumatic muscle named Pneumatic Gel Muscle (PGM) as an actmuscle named Pneumatic Gel Muscle (PGM) as an actMuscle (PGM) as an actuator.

For many mammals, including humans, the speed of muscle repair slows as they grow older, and it was once thought that complete repair could not be achieved after a certain age.

The paper published online this month in Genetics examines a «foraging gene» humans share in common with the flies, which plays multiple roles and is found in similar places, such as the nervous system, in the muscle and in fat.

In addition to determining that humans use chemosignals to attract one another, the findings could one day be used to create new therapies to correct hormone imbalances — most notably alternatives to cortisol replacement, which is used in treat maladies such as Addison's disease (in which the adrenal glands fail to pump out enough cortisol, causing muscle weakness, weight loss and low blood pressure).

Using the natural human development process as a guide, the researchers developed ways to mature muscle cells in the laboratory to create muscle fibers that restore dystrophin, the protein that is missing in the muscles of boys with Duchenne.

«This is the first study to demonstrate that functional muscle cells can be created in a laboratory and restore dystrophin in animal models of Duchenne using the human development process as a guide.»

As in rodents, the researchers found one L - type («long - lasting») channel (CaV1.2) and two T - type («transient») channels (CaV3.2, and 3.3) in the human smooth muscle cells.

The scientists, who are faculty in the university's School of Medicine, are studying how oxidative stress in cells impacts sarcopenia — a loss of muscle mass and strength that occurs in all humans as they age.

As stem cells continue their gradual transition from the lab to the clinic, a research group at the University of Wisconsin — Madison has discovered a new way to make large concentrations of skeletal muscle cells and muscle progenitors from human stem cells.

The function of myostatin appears to have been conserved across species, as inactivating mutations in the myostatin gene have been demonstrated to cause increased muscling in cattle [8]--[11], sheep [12], dogs [13] and humans [14].

The finding that myostatin is not the sole regulator of muscle mass in mice raises the question as to whether targeting myostatin alone will be the most effective strategy for manipulating this signaling pathway in humans.

Although the current study demonstrates that loss of IL - 15Rα promotes this phenotype, future studies are needed to determine the roles of specific IL - 15Rα isoforms in muscle, as well as the associations of additional IL15RA polymorphisms in muscle phenotypes in humans.

By carefully guiding the cells» choices at each fork in the road, Loh and Chen were able to generate bone cell precursors that formed human bone when transplanted into laboratory mice and beating heart muscle cells, as well as 10 other mesodermal - derived cell lineages.

Until now, scientists examining the causes and effects of insulin resistance have struggled with a general lack of human cell lines from tissues such as muscle, fat and liver that respond significantly to insulin, Kahn says.

IHC - P mouse tumor tissue (from lung) with human cell line injected, some muscle tissue attached as well sees high background for human cellswith priamry Ab as well as isotype ctrl, but also for muscle (does not contain any EGF) Ab: 1 ug /...

Humans obviously regenerate some cell types very well, such as skin, muscle and liver cells, but almost not at all in cells of the nervous system or with any complex tissue systems.

Recent Scientific projects as principal investigator: • 2003/2005 (EU V Frame Program): «International Bank of DNA, cell lines and nerve - muscle - cardiac tissues» - «European Network of Human Biological Material for Rare Diseases - Eurobiobank».

These mice developed hallmark signs of PD in their brains and behavior: loss of dopaminergic neurons in the SNc, impaired generation of new neurons in one of the few regions capable of producing them in adult organisms, and impaired muscle coordination similar to human victims of Parkinson's (as evidenced by difficulty in rearing up on their hind legs)(Figure 2).

In healthy humans, skeletal muscle accounts for 70 — 80 % of the insulin - stimulated glucose uptake in vivo (23), and most of the glucose is stored as glycogen (24).

In a study using human muscle tissue, scientists in Children's Stem Cell Research Center - led by Johnny Huard, PhD, and Bruno Péault, PhD - isolated and characterized stem cells taken from blood vessels (known as myoendothelial cells) that are easily isolated using cell - sorting techniques, proliferate rapidly and can be differentiated in the laboratory into muscle, bone and cartilage cells.

Plenary Lecture: Muscle Sympathetic Reflexes in Humans Lawrence I. Sinoway, Director of the Penn State Hershey Heart and Vascular Institute, leads the discussion on the exercise pressor reflex and how it is altered in cardiovascular disease, such as heart failure..

He notes that after research in the 1990s on human growth hormone, the drug began proliferating as an anti-aging formula — one that could purportedly turn back the clock and help build muscle, increase stamina and reduce wrinkles.

DMAbs are injected into the muscle and the human body is used as its own bioreactor to produce protective antibodies.

«The range of applications of these low cost and light weight artificial muscles is really wide and involves different fields such as robotics, prosthetics, orthotics, and human assistive devices,» says Caterina Lamuta, an author of the study.

This is not to say that bodybuilders don't care about developing greater strength, but their top priority is muscle growth and becoming as lean as possible with the help of high intensity cardio and by optimizing nutrition and supplementation, so it's safe to say that the typical bodybuilder is devoted to transforming his body into the ideal, maximally developed representation of human muscularity.

-- The human body actually has three different types of various fascia, but the ones that could affect bodybuilders and those looking to build muscle are known as «deep fascia».

Human studies indicate that people with higher serum D3 levels have a decreased risk for falls and muscle weakness as well as less insulin resistance and diabetes.

Dr. Siff said that it was «loadless training», invented by the Russian scientists to boost the strength of human muscles and the connective tissues as well.

Protein is a widely discussed nutrient vital to human health and the normal functioning of the body and as we know, crucial to muscle building and effective weight loss.

More muscle means you need more calories to sustain that muscle mass, and you are not as agile and fast as a human with less muscle mass is.

«Research shows that this gives similar results in terms of muscle strength and endurance as multiple sets,» says Robert M. Otto, PhD, the guidelines» associate editor and director of Adelphi University's Human Performance Laboratory in Garden City, New York.