Hoping to clarify how BMPs guide neural crest cells to form the face, the team
coated tiny beads with a protein called noggin, a BMP - blocker, then implanted those beads into the faces of chicken embryos.
Not exact matches
He is now fashioning the lab's multidots —
tiny crystalline
beads encapsulated in a special
coating — into an actual product to detect multiple biomarkers on tumor cells.
So far, Gracias and his colleagues have managed to decorate Escherichia coli with incredibly
tiny beads, rods and crescents made from nickel and tin
coated in gold.
The
coating consists of thousands of
tiny glass
beads, only about one - hundredth the width of a human hair.
In the second method, called «biolistics», the foreign DNA is
coated on
tiny beads of metal that are fired into the plant cells.
To create a cultured pearl, a
tiny bead is implanted into an oyster and gradually over time the oyster
coats the
bead in many layers of natural minerals and proteins known as nacre.
(The trick is achieved thanks to
tiny transparent
beads coating the surfaces.)