Only a few photos and small
fragments of bones bear witness today to the original find situation.
Creating a skull or entire skeleton from a 3 inch
fragment of bone does not make a «record».
Once she got
the fragments of bone back to the lab, she donned a full body suit, face mask, hair net, and a double layer of gloves.
But now that increasingly powerful genomic technology can definitively identify a species from
a fragment of bone or uncover Neanderthal genes embedded in the DNA of modern humans, there is less room for debate.
Charles Cohen, the chairman of the company, explains that the compound is being tested against traditional grafts, in which surgeons bridge non-union fractures with
fragments of bone taken from the patient's hip.
Pääbo created it by sequencing DNA from
fragments of bone (most of it from the Vindija cave in Croatia) to get 3 billion Neanderthal base pairs essentially uncontaminated by human DNA or by microbes.
It might be
a fragment of bone, a shard of clay or an ancient coin.
The most common causes of elbow pain in young dogs are elbow dysplasia, where
fragments of bone (medial coronoid process) are present in the elbow joint and un-united anconeal process where a portion of one of the bones that forms the elbow fails to fuse.
Fragmented coronoid process (FCP)-- the most common component of elbow dysplasia which involves a loose
fragment of bone located on the tip of the ulna within the elbow joint;
Still in critical condition, I was told Grace would be lucky to live and that they would have to take out most of the bones in her legs and replace them with metal because there were so many
fragments of bone «floating» around.
These will offer stability and help to squeeze or compress
the fragments of bone together.
Fragments of bone were removed and a stent was placed.
Surgery often plays a role in the first stage of treatment in which surgeons remove
fragments of bone, fractured vertebrae or any foreign objects that may have intruded the body during the accident.
This head - on accident left the man with a complex right femur fracture involving multiple
fragments of the bone shaft, a right ring finger fracture, a laceration across his lower right leg requiring 10 sutures, and a laceration on the left side of his forehead requiring seven (7) sutures.
Not exact matches
They uncovered more remains, including several pieces
of jaw
bone and a
fragment of an arm.
Your proof
of evolution exists in a few
bone fragments in boxes in a lab — you own «Real» Scientists admit that.
The number
of bones of the Ape - girl skeleton are unique because Lucy had only a few head
fragments.
Recent archeological work has encouraged the time - honored belief that the
bone fragments still preserved beneath the altar
of this Constantinian church once resided in the worn - out body
of the Apostle to the Gentiles.
However,
bone fragments in sausage, metal parts from broken - off blades or plastic pieces
of packaging and transport cases are a worse - case scenario for any food producer.
X-ray technology is used if other types
of contaminants, such as stones, plastic or
bone fragments are detected.
Quite simply, the dual energy system uses two different types
of energy to create two images
of the product — ultimately ensuring the detection
of low - density contaminants such as
bone fragments is twice as likely.
After all, your customers will often have different requirements for the finished product, not to mention for things like the size and density
of bone fragments.
These images are then compared, which helps to eliminate the background effect caused by the product itself and improves the detection
of lower density foreign bodies such as fan
bones in chicken,
bone fragments in meat, or glass and stones in added value meat products.
In eight years, from 17 ancient wrecks, McKee has brought up 40 tons: a 17 - foot, 2 1/2 - ton anchor; 18 cannons; over 400 cannonballs; flintlocks, pistols and swords; gold doubloons; silver pieces -
of - eight; wine - jug, rum - bottle and china - plate
fragments; tackle blocks; pewter plates and cups; belt and shoe buckles and worn boot heels; cutlery, inkwells, figurines and religious medals; copper and silver ingots; a ton
of lead; gold rings, earrings and brooches; human teeth, beef
bones and elephant tusks.
Meet «white slime,» a slurry
of chicken part leftovers (
bone marrow,
bone fragments, cartilege, and even meat) thought to be the cause
of the outbreak and imported from Brazil, no less.
The site provides new information about the region's sauropods, which were previously known only from
fragments of a tail
bone, a leg
bone, and a few bits
of teeth — scraps so small that researchers couldn't assign the fossils to a particular species or even estimate its size.
Researchers in Russia have unearthed the exquisitely - preserved bodies
of two cave lion cubs, an extinct species previously known only from
bones, carcass
fragments, and prehistoric art, The Siberian Times reports.
Bone fragments from a 210 - million year - old, land - dwelling reptile from New Mexico suggest that the earliest turtles didn't have much
of a shell at all.
From a u-CT scan and an X-ray, researchers identified a fibrous dysplastic neoplasm — today, the most common form
of benign
bone tumor in humans — located on a Neandertal left rib
fragment that measured 30 mm (4 1/2 inches) long.
Most
bone fragments would be expected to contain less than 5 percent
of the individual's endogenous DNA, but this fortuitous finger had a surprising 70 percent, the researchers noted in the study.
«The problem is that damage from bullets and
bone fragments deep inside a junctional wound is not always visible from outside the body, and a regular clotting agent may not be able to reach the origin
of the bleeding,» said Sydney Rooney, leader
of the biomedical engineering student team that sought to solve this problem.
The only trace that we have found, however, is a single finger
bone and two teeth, but those
fragments have been enough to cradle wisps
of Denisovan DNA across thousands
of years inside a Siberian cave.
The
bone fragment, which comes from the famous archaeological cave site
of Krapina, contains by far the earliest
bone tumor ever identified in the archaeological record.
A patina
of calcite coated the
fragment, and the researchers used radioactive uranium in the mineral to date the
bone to about 55,000 years old.
Frequently, all he could do was jam pins through remnants
of skin to temporarily hold
bone fragments together, prepare his patient for evacuation and hope for the best.
Using a biomolecular technique developed at York's BioArCh laboratory, the research team studied
bone / antler objects and
fragments of manufacturing waste from the archaeological remains
of Ribe's old marketplace.
Later excavations unearthed more
of the animal's remarkably complete remains, a total
of 83
bone fragments.
Measurements
of natural uranium and its decay products in mastodon
bone fragments enabled scientists to estimate their age.
She and colleagues investigated samples such as a scrap
of skin from the hand or paw
of a «Yeti» — part
of a monastic relic — and a
fragment of femur
bone from a decayed «Yeti» found in a cave on the Tibetan Plateau.
A new high - coverage DNA sequencing method reconstructs the full genome
of Denisovans — relatives to both Neandertals and humans — from genetic
fragments in a single finger
bone
Meanwhile humans around the globe have
bones just as small or smaller than these
fragments from Palau, says William L. Jungers
of Stony Brook University, who has been studying the postcranial skeleton
of LB1.
At this location, for instance, Horner and two colleagues have collected lizard skull
fragments; shards
of turtle shell; fish teeth, scales, and vertebrae; even a handful
of dinosaur toe
bones.
Considering the proportions
of the
bone fragments, the camel was a giant, probably about 2.7 meters tall at the shoulder — almost 30 % larger than its modern relatives are.
The 30 or so bits
of bone, none more than 7 centimeters long, have suffered much since they were entombed: Ice sheets have scoured Ellesmere Island several times in the past few million years, and today's freeze - thaw cycles continue to splinter fossils into ever - smaller
fragments, Rybczynski says.
But most
of the
bones are marine: scraps
of whale
bone, jaw and skull
fragments of harp seals, a bit
of inner ear
of a hooded seal.
Dr Nick Longrich, from the Milner Centre for Evolution based in the University
of Bath's Department
of Biology & Biochemistry, studied one
of these rare fossils, a
fragment of a jaw
bone kept in the Peabody Museum at Yale University.
«Bacteria really love to hide and grow in the nooks and crannies
of porous
bone and
bone fragments — it's one
of the most perfect surfaces for bacterial growth,» says Dr. Hickok.
The uninterrupted freeze
of the permafrost preserved DNA in the horse
bone, but since DNA decays into smaller and less intelligible
fragments over time, the specimen seemed too ancient to analyze.
But after 8 hours
of fossil hunting, the team spots only a few stray
bone fragments.
But there are no other artefacts and very few signs
of domestic activity in the chamber beyond the presence
of a charred
bone fragment possibly from a bear or large herbivore.