Sentences with phrase «detecting chemical changes»

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And that's completely changed — I think now there's this huge sense that we are really going to make this work, and we're going to figure out how to actually study the atmospheres of these planets that we're detecting and look for the chemical signatures of biological activity.

Presumably, these changes to the code generated a superior version of the receptor that helped the pandas detect chemicals in bamboo.

Jennifer Barone wrote about how plants detect and respond to changes in the world around them and even communicate with their neighbors through chemical signals.

This technique can detect subtle color changes as well as other physical and chemical properties of the algae, making it possible to determine the pond's density and overall health.

The new set - up differs from other types of thin - metal sensors currently in use, the authors note, because it detects molecules directly instead of measuring indirect changes caused by the presence of a chemical.

By detecting changes in an optical property known as refractive index, the device can sense concentration, pH and other chemical parameters.

A chemical interaction with target molecules subtly alters the magnetic signal from the xenon; by detecting this change researchers can identify the molecules in a complex mixture.

Ciliopathies are caused by defects in cilia, finger - like projections from cells that act as microscopic «antenna» to detect and respond to chemical changes or fluid flow outside the cell.

The disk formation and the associated chemical change have successfully been detected by observations of the two chemical species, cyclic - C5H2 and SO.

The result brings the tiny flakes, called nanocrystals, a crucial step closer to fulfilling their promise of tailoring a laser's color just by changing the size of the crystal, which could lead to more powerful tools for detecting chemicals or sending information via flickers of light.

Alterations in the genetic coding for a nerve cell receptor, which detects a chemical signal that is key to behavioral change, could point the way to designing therapies most effective for patients suffering from schizophrenia, drug addiction and other mental illnesses.

The team is hoping to explore this by looking at other dementia studies in which blood samples have been taken over decades and seeing whether the chemical changes can be detected that early.

It was here that its inventors, Professor Andrew Mills and Dr Michael McFarlane, developed the device and the chemical reaction that causes it to change color as it detects ultraviolet light.

Dogs, boasting about 300 million scent receptors per nose, can detect tiny chemical changes in the human body that signal cancer or diabetes faster than laboratory results, NaturalNews.com and TrueActivist.com reported recently.

Researchers believe that dogs accomplish this through a keen sense of smell which can detect subtle changes in the body's chemical makeup.

An understanding of the variability of the ozone hole allows us to better quantify the impact of changing emissions of ozone depleting chemicals, to predict the future of the ozone hole, and to detect its recovery.

Data will be analyzed to determine, where possible, baseline conditions to which changes in atmospheric deposition as well as chemical and biological changes can be detected and explained.

As for the «ears» — over on Deep Sea News, Dr. Craig McClain explains that those are really rhinophores, organs that help the sea slug sense chemicals dissolved in the water and also detect changes in currents.