Sentences with phrase «create electrical signals»

Special heart cells create electrical signals that cause the heart's upper and lower chambers to beat in the proper sequence to pump blood through the body.
That's a first step in creating electrical signals that could be sent to the fingers, which could virtually recreate sensations such as heat, pressure, and texture, the team reports online today in Nanotechnology.
Estrogen molecules caught by the longer aptamer are likely held above the bilayer, and so do not create the electrical signal.

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These materials are also used in everyday devices, such as loudspeakers, which rely on piezoelectrics to convert electrical signals to mechanical vibrations which create sound waves to produce the desired acoustic signal.
Levels of NAD dropped, and the neural stem cells stopped dividing; they stopped renewing themselves; and they stopped being able to create important cells that insulate axons, the «wires» that carry electrical signals throughout the brain.
To transmit electrical signals along a neuron, a strong difference in charge between the interior and exterior of the cell is needed, which is created by pumping positive ions into the cell.
It offers new ways to miniaturize mechanical oscillators, improve communication systems that depend on the modulation of light, dramatically amplify extremely weak mechanical and electrical signals and create exquisitely sensitive sensors for the tiny motions of nanoparticles.
The holes create electrical noise in the chip which makes it difficult to pick out the avalanche signals.
The first step is to create an «adapter cord» that can translate the body's nerve impulses into electrical signals that can be processed by the prosthetics.
The system takes electrical signals from the participant's brain, which then travel down to electrodes placed around his knees to create movement.
In recent years, scientists have worked to create devices called brain - machine interfaces (BMIs) that can pick up these interrupted electrical signals and control the movements of a computer cursor or a real or virtual prosthetic.
A team of Columbia Engineering researchers, led by Mechanical Engineering Professor James Hone and Electrical Engineering Professor Kenneth Shepard, has taken advantage of graphene's special properties — its mechanical strength and electrical conduction — and created a nano - mechanical system that can create FM signals, in effect the world's smallest FM radio trElectrical Engineering Professor Kenneth Shepard, has taken advantage of graphene's special properties — its mechanical strength and electrical conduction — and created a nano - mechanical system that can create FM signals, in effect the world's smallest FM radio trelectrical conduction — and created a nano - mechanical system that can create FM signals, in effect the world's smallest FM radio transmitter.
The pulses diffuse into the brain until the micropipette nears a neuron, which creates a block in electrical signal that tells the human or robot operator when to stop moving the micropipette.
Researchers have also created a whole kit of proteins that might be used someday to build nanowires that carry electrical signals, cages that contain and safely deliver drugs, or latticework that acts a mat on which to grow new cells to heal wounds.
Duke University researchers have created human heart muscle in the laboratory, and successfully grown it large enough to provide a patch that contracts and transmits electrical signals.
Building on past work, scientists create wheelchairs controlled directly by electrical signals inside monkeys» brains.
It's no wonder that your brain is one of the hungriest organs in your body — more than 80 billion neurons are sending and receiving electrical signals 24 hours a day, creating complex thoughts and emotions.
Complicated chemical reactions and electrical signaling happen (or are supposed to) that create the necessary conditions for quality rest.
There's also no call speaker — instead Xiaomi has included a technology that employs the acoustics of the phone's ceramic design, which wraps around the back and sides of the device, and uses electrical signals to create the sound in the ear when on a call.
«You could, for instance, create eating utensils which use electrical signals to artificially increase the sweetness or saltiness of foods, without you having to add these ingredients to a meal.»
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