Sentences with phrase «from cell power»

Researchers led by Prof. Torsten Ochsenreiter of the Institute of Cell Biology at the University of Bern have studied the mitochondria, the «power plants» of single - cell trypanosomes, and have now discovered that these behave differently from cell power plants in humans during cell division.

Not exact matches

Woven from conductive thread built on microscopic carbon nanotube sheets, this fiber could one day help power human - sized electronic wearables and high - performance solar cells.

So to keep its scooters running as long as advertised, Gogoro plans to pull power cells from circulation once the battery reaches 80 percent of capacity and replace it with a fresh, new unit.

Maybe algae will scale up from a few thousand gallons a month to billions of gallons a day, or solar energy can be converted to hydrogen, which will then power the planet's 600 million vehicles via fuel cells; but the market has no way to price the possibility than essential resources will enter permanent depletion declines and that no cheap, scalable substitute exists.

Whenever it's powered on, your cell phone or smart device is sending out signals to figure out where it is, and as that is determined, the information can be shared with a variety of opt - in, or pay, services ranging from maps and the weather to entertainment guides and retail apps.

The center in Maiden, N.C., produces 167 million kilowatt hours, the power equivalent of 17,600 homes for one year, from a 100 - acre solar farm and fuel cell installations provided by Silicon Valley startup Bloom Energy.

Mitchell has also equipped her house with power packs that can charge off her car engine, three cell phones from three different telecommunications carriers to make sure she can always be in touch with clients, and she has begun to offload things like her accounting and CRM functions to software as a service providers XERO and NetSuite respectively.

Each component, comprised of 16,000 lithium - ion battery cells, is meant to suck up power from the grid by day and then feed it back in as demand surges, according to the New York Times.

Plug Power, Inc., a manufacturer of fuel cells, rose from number seven in October to lead the November list.

Chicago, GenomeWeb — A new study by researchers from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has demonstrated the predictive power of an AR - V7 protein expression test using Epic Sciences» non-EPCAM-based circulating tumor cell detection platform, which could help guide treatment decisions for men with metastatic castration - resistant prostate cancer.

Plug Power, Inc., a manufacturer of fuel cells, sold off from a split - adjusted $ 1,565 in 2000 to an all - time low at 12 - cents in 2013.

Solzhenitsyn even blesses his prison cell for having purged him of the confusion of his age, for once on the other side of history — free from the petty progressive notions of one's time — one enters history in a new way, as a witness to the inner force that intuitively resists oppression born of the human will to power.

Wholesum Harvest was an early mover on solar power and obtains roughly a third of the electricity it uses from its own photovoltaic cells.

Matt and Sweat used power tools to saw through a steel cell wall and several steel steam pipes, bashed a hole through a 2 - foot - thick brick wall, squirmed through pipes and emerged from a manhole outside the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora.

The governor supports bringing in fracked gas from Pennsylvania to power this microgrid, when it's entirely possible that they could do a mix of clean renewables — most notably, geothermal solar and maybe a fuel cell.

Our powers of color vision derive from cells in our eyes called cones, three types in all, each triggered by different wavelengths of light.

Mitochondria, specialized organelles found in nearly every cell of the body, use cellular respiration to generate one of the most important sources of chemical energy — adenosine triphosphate (ATP), a versatile nucleotide that powers everything from cell division to cell signaling to transportation of large molecules across the cell membrane.

A new water splitter powered by a single AAA battery could reduce the carbon pollution created from making hydrogen fuel cells, scientists report August 22 in Nature Communications.

Speeches came from a variety of speakers, including a science broadcaster and writer, a Pakistani - born Canadian Muslim who works in STEM, a Pakistani - born professor who studies cell biology and anatomy; and, an emergency room physician who helped start the process to phase out coal - fueled power plants by 2030 in Alberta.

Artificial wetlands on lower decks would purify wastewater, and the whole city would be studded from top to bottom with solar cells and wind and tidal - power turbines.

The zinc batteries could be used to power everything from wearable sensors to solar cells and other kinds of electronics.

Mitochondria are the cell's power plants, converting the energy from nutrients into ATP.

The ability to send large amounts of energy across greater physical distance to in - motion platforms from low cost charging plates could one day allow the technology to expand beyond small consumer electronics like cell phones and begin powering bigger things like automobiles.

The electrical current can also be channeled to form hydrogen gas through the addition of electric power from a small photovoltaic cell that absorbs the excess light.

The exciting implication is that next - generation wastewater treatment plants could use new technologies, including microbe - powered fuel cells, to capture enough methane, hydrogen, and other fuels from wastewater to generate all the energy they need, and then some.

Previously, researchers have produced hydrogen gas in microbial - powered, batterylike fuel cells, but only when they supplemented the energy produced by the bacteria with electrical energy from external sources — such as that obtained from renewable sources or burning fossil fuels, says Bruce Logan, an environmental engineer at Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

If the lead - based particles work inside solar cells as well as they do in the lab, they could boost the solar conversion efficiency from a best of about 32 % today to perhaps as much as 66 %, enough to slash the cost of solar power.

When photons (light particles) from the sun smash into the outer layer of the rooftop cell, they initiate the photovoltaic effect — a cascade of reactions across the charged layers, ultimately generating usable power.

Printed plastic solar cells should be able to harvest enough energy from indoor light to power your phone within the next few months

A team of scientists from the National Institutes of Health has discovered biological mechanisms that appear to prevent damage to the heart muscle's «power grid,» the network of mitochondrial circuits that provide energy to cells.

For example, it could be used to create supersensitive solar cells or even to power a Mars rover that would gather energy from a microwave beam sent by a satellite orbiting the Red Planet.

He thought creating a light - sensitive brain was probably impossible, but then an idea floated up: What about tapping the power of light - sensitive microbes, single - celled creatures that drift in water, turning toward or away from the sun to regulate energy intake?

The source of the nerve cells that power the animals» forelimbs shifted, from the brain to the spinal cord.

«Stretchable biofuel cells extract energy from sweat to power wearable devices.»

We know that mitochondria do more than simply power our cells, but in a recent New Scientist piece, Robin Lovell - Badge from the MRC National Institute for Medical Research in London explained why none of these «extra» functions are relevant to mitochondrial replacement.

They developed an experimental power supply, called the UrJar, consisting of reusable lithium ion cells salvaged from three - year - old laptop battery packs.

It's possible to produce hydrogen to power fuel cells by extracting the gas from seawater, but the electricity required to do it makes the process costly.

Using power harvested from ambient light with a tiny solar cell — roughly the size of a grain of rice — the device was able to communicate with a base station that was 50 feet away.

When it is sunny outside, the process reverses, and electricity from rooftop photovoltaic cells, which can generate up to 2.6 kilowatts of power at high noon, flows outward.

In the end, the driving personalities of the two test vehicles, with a few exceptions, were close enough to those of ordinary gasoline - powered cars that if buyers ultimately reject fuel - cell machines, it won't be because the cars seem unfamiliar from behind the wheel.

In 1993, its solar cells powered Honda to a win at the 1993 World Solar Challenge, an annual solar - powered automobile race that runs 3000 kilometers north to south through Australia's outback, from Darwin to Adelaide.

Thermal fluids are used to alleviate wear on components and tools and for machining operations like stamping and drilling, medical therapy and diagnosis, biopharmaceuticals, air conditioning, fuel cells, power transmission systems, solar cells, micro - and nanoelectronic mechanical systems and cooling systems for everything from engines to nuclear reactors.

In the Energy Technology journal, researchers from KIT now present sunglasses with colored, semitransparent solar cells applied onto lenses that supply a microprocessor and two displays with electric power.

The Kyoto - based company Kyosemi has developed a power - harvesting solar cell that imitates the way that trees collect sunlight from various angles with their leaves.

State of the Tech In 2009 a team of researchers from China and Japan created a titanium dioxide cast of the wing scales that improved the power output of solar cells by 10 percent.

The result — the second such finding in the past year — suggests that similar cells from human testicles might have similar powers, paving the way to creating replacement tissue for men who have suffered damage from heart attacks or other injuries and avoiding some of the controversy surrounding embryonic stem cells (ESC).

To find the missing ingredient, Alan Cooper, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Adelaide in Australia, radiocarbon dated nearly 100 fossils from Patagonia and sequenced their mitochondrial DNA, genes found in the power plants of cells and passed down only from the mother.

Compounds dubbed «redox mediators» then act like wires, transporting electric charge from these enzymes to electrodes that lead from the fuel cell to whatever device it is powering.

Insufficient fuel is the main obstacle to long - duration flight, so Bushman and his colleagues developed a model plane that gets its power from wing - mounted photovoltaic cells wired to the craft's propeller.

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Martinsried and their colleagues have now succeeded in demonstrating that GDNF and its receptor Ret also promote the survival of mitochondria, the power plants of the cell.