Sentences with phrase «electrical pulses at»

However, most commercial electroporation - based transfection methods require the use of specialized pulse generators to produce short electrical pulses at high voltage.

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At the other end a receiver reverses the process and turns each light pulse into an electrical signal and reconstructs the information.

The Northwestern team, led by physiologist James Surmeier, reports in the online edition of Nature that the dopamine neurons, which are targeted by Parkinson's, are constantly at work — like a pacemaker — sending the striatum nonstop, electrical pulses.

Biophysicist Benoit Roux of the University of Chicago recently used the world's fastest supercomputer — Jaguar, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee — to see how each of the protein's 350,000 atoms would react to such electrical pulses.

Based on years of scientific research into the root causes of the condition, the device uses precisely timed sounds and weak electrical pulses that activate touch - sensitive nerves, both aimed at steering damaged nerve cells back to normal activity.

Furthermore, Hoope has an anesthetic system by which an electrical pulse generates numbness, preventing pain at the time of the puncture.

For the past several years, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign have been developing a class of walking «bio-bots» powered by muscle cells and controlled with electrical and optical pulses.

Neuroscientists at the Ruhr - Universität Bochum have developed a glove that uses weak electrical pulses to stimulate the nerve fibers that connect the hands with the brain.

A team at the University of Leeds used a standard TENS machine like those designed to relieve labour pains to apply electrical pulses to the tragus, the small raised flap at the front of the ear immediately in front of the ear canal.

Last year bioengineers at Stanford University exploited this feature with an arcade - style game called PAC - mecium that uses electrical pulses to steer live paramecia through a maze and collect dots.

They worked with an undergraduate student at the University and a watch repairman to convert a spring - wound pocket watch into a portable pulse counter and built tiny electrical sensors that could be glued reliably to the chest — the first gel electrodes.