Sentences with phrase «bigger than grains of salt»

Using a technology called VAST, which can automatically label individual neurons, glia, and blood vessels different colors, as well as smaller structures such as dendrites and mitochondria, the researchers analyzed the contents of three cylindrical chunks of brain tissue, each no bigger than grains of salt.

No bigger than grains of salt, they accumulate on the seabed and wash up as sand, often turning beaches gleaming white.

Surgeons and spies alike may soon find out, thanks to a new camera lens that works the same way eagle — and human — eyes do, despite being no bigger than a grain of salt.

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In many cases the bone is thinner than a straight pin, yet Rothschild can feel a bony spur no bigger than half a salt grain: the telltale sign of osteoarthritis.