Takebe's team removed part of the perichondrium
from human ears and injected it into mice.
Stem cells
from human ears have successfully been grown into chunks of cartilage that could replace the synthetic materials currently used in surgery.
Not exact matches
Many users complain that devices amplify well enough but don't adequately help the
ear distinguish, say, a
human voice
from the clamor of a restaurant.
We must adopt the critical approach and seek reality, here as well, by asking ourselves what
human relation to real events this could have been which led gradually, along many by - paths and by way of many metamorphoses,
from mouth to
ear,
from one memory to another, and
from dream to dream, until it grew into the written account we have read.
The proposition certainly applies to
human kind -
from the first dependency of our being conceived, to the last grace ministered to us at the hand of another in Christ's name, the last prayer whispered in our
ear by loved ones as we die.
TWO types of
human ear cell have been grown in the lab
from fetal stem cells.
In
humans, eyes and
ears and skin pick up cues
from the environment, like the glow of a campfire or the patter of falling raindrops.
The insect, a yellow - orange - faced katydid (Copiphora gorgonensis)
from Gorgona Island in Colombia, has
ear structures that are similar to the
human eardrum and cochlea.
Here's an advance that may have cops smiling
from ear to
ear: Researchers have now teased out five genes that help control the width of the
human face.
What's more, they claim, the
ear tubes present strong evidence that it's an evolutionary cousin to the ancestral line of apes
from which
humans and living apes derive.
The tubes that form the middle -
ear canal in
humans probably evolved
from a pair of gill - like holes that allowed primeval sea creatures to breathe
from the back of their heads, the researchers find.
It is surprising to find that a single gene (ESRP), through its ancestral biological role (cell adherence and motility) has been used throughout the animal scale for very different purposes:
from the immune system of an echinoderm to the lips, lungs or inner
ears of
humans,» states professor Jordi Garcia - Fernàndez, of the University of Barcelona's Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics and the IBUB.
The current research team, which includes Dr. Minoda and Dr. Hiroki Takeda of Kumamoto University, and several researchers
from Keio University, have successfully grafted
human iPS - derived cells into the inner
ear of embryonic mice, a feat with a high level of technical difficulty.
Viewers can see the microwave residue
from the big bang «painted» across the sphere of the sky, and — after the data are translated for
human ears — hear a version of what the early universe may have sounded like.
«This is essentially a recipe for how to make
human inner
ears from stem cells,» said Dr. Koehler, lead author of the study and whose research lab works on modeling
human development.
First, the research team succeeded in efficiently inducing inner
ear cells expressing inner
ear specific proteins, such as CONNEXIN 26, CONNEXIN 30, and PENDRIN,
from human iPS cells.
Another idea is to «shape» any background noise by taking it
from the middle frequency bands, to which the
ear is most sensitive, and redistributing it in higher or lower bands where
human hearing is less acute.
Furthermore, this study revealed that cells derived
from humans can be grafted into the heterozygous inner
ear of mouse embryos.
In
humans, deafness is most often caused by damage to inner
ear hair cells — so named because they sport hairlike cilia that bend when they encounter vibrations
from sound waves — or by damage to the neurons that transmit that information to the brain.
The inversion layer hypothesis also provides answers to how it is possible that sound events occur almost simultaneously with visual observations:
from an altitude of 75 meters the sound reaches the
human ear in just 0.2 seconds.
Archaeologists studying totoaba bones
from Rancho Punta Estrella — a site in Baja California occupied by
humans 10,000 years ago and then again 5000 years ago — used a special bone
from the fish's inner
ear, called an otolith, to help them reconstruct the totoaba's early environment.
It's relatively common for a given gene to dictate a variety of functions
from species to species, like the gene that codes for jaw bones in reptiles and also
ear bones in
humans.
Or your child is sick with recurrent asthma and
ear infections and you want a dietary cure — you may be warned away
from a highly effective therapy because members of the Nutrition Committee of the American Heart Association fail to understand basic scientific research about
human protein needs and plant foods.
Pretty quickly, the film turns into a horror show, with the airborne, microscopic spores
from a plant on the planet serving as the way those killer aliens end up in their
human hosts (Scott offers a microscope - level shot of the infection entering a crewmember's body through his
ear canal, which is simultaneously frightening and deviously amusing).
Claudel's novelist's eye and
ear is evident in his elegant evaluation of
human gesture and behavior, while devastating supporting work
from Elsa Zylberstein and Frederic Pierrot ensure this is no one - woman show.
Year 4 Science Assessments Objectives covered: Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways Explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in
humans Identify the different types of teeth in
humans and their simple functions Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey Compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases Observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C) Identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating Recognise that vibrations
from sounds travel through a medium to the
ear Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance
from the sound source increases Identify common appliances that run on electricity Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers Identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit Recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors
The only obtrusion we experienced
from the hybrid models was a whine
from the electric powertrain likely only to be heard by canines and
human passengers whose
ears can still sense higher frequencies.
Moreover, the CLS sees safety measures borrowed
from the S - Class, specifically, a PRE-SAFE sound feature preparing the
human ears for any anticipated accident noise when a high risk of collision is detected.
He took me out of school with the intention of educating me himself, and instead of letting me finger - paint he read me the letters Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo right before he cut off his
ear, and also passages
from the book
Human, All Too
Human so that together we could «rescue Nietzsche
from the Nazis.»
The Sow's
Ear Café by Holly Quan transports the tough and damaged Lucie
from her shallow life in Vancouver to Sweetgrass's potential for deeper
human connections.
A real feral street dog would not be purebred, they would be skinny, mangy, starving, with fly - bitten
ears, flea infestations, scars
from rough living, dusty and dirt covered, and a shy and skittish temperament that would never willingly approach a
human.
While
humans can reach for a Q - tip to keep our
ears clean and free
from infection, dogs require a different approach.
A dog's
ear has a different structure
from a
human's.
From watching their
humans feast on toxic, off - limits treats to wearing bunny
ears, here are a few reasons dogs aren't too crazy about this springtime holiday.
There is documented proof that loss of melanin in the hearing apparatus of the
ear (Cochlea) increases the rate of hearing loss
from both loud noise exposure and aging loss in
humans.
Now her idea of entertainment is following her
humans from room to room and waiting for
ear rubs, scratches, and neck massages.
Joe tells his moving story
from puppyhood, when his
ears were chopped and his body beaten, to old age when he has the fortune of a caring
human.
Additionally, canines have a vertical
ear canal, which differs
from a horizontal canal of
humans, which makes it easy for objects to be lodged inside.
Despite his sometimes rambunctious behavior,
from the first night here he has displayed a willingness to please and that wide - eyed adoration of the
human who scratches his
ears that all fans of this breed know and love.
With the shake of the head or scratch behind the
ear,
humans aren't the only ones to suffer
from allergies.
In addition, they have a vocabulary of sounds ranging
from caterwauls to mewing sounds,
from hisses to the «silent meow» which is probably a sound pitched too high for
human ears to hear.
Did you know that the technique is named after Antonio Maria Valhalla,] a seventeenth - century physician and anatomist
from Bologna whose principal scientific interest was the
human ear.
If you kill a
human in the game you get the option to claim a trophy
from them which could be a foot, a hand, an
ear... or a penis.
From early works about the interior of the
human body — for instance the enormously enlarged inner
ear of her «Orientierungsapparat» («Orientation Device»)-- to later works expressive of how the outside of the body connects to its interior — such as the recently completed «Space in between two people having sex» — there is a constant thread which is all about the thinking body.
It's rigged up in a do - it - yourself manner so sound waves oscillate
from the highest to lowest frequencies perceptible to the
human ear through a circle of the upturned speakers, each piled up with crystals that reverberate at various frequencies.
The snail, a symbol of nature created
from recycled, artificial material, with a minimal carbon footprint, were chosen to convey three metaphors: the first relates to the critter carrying its home on its back, the second connects to hearing, since the spiral looks similar to the
human ear, and the last refers to technology, with the symbol» @» (called a «snail» in Italian) ubiquitous in email communication.
Engineer and inventor James Dyson has unveiled a design for a hairdryer that is inaudible to the
human ears and controls its own temperate to protect hair
from heat damage.
To what do you attribute this never - ending phenomena, quite aside
from the hopelessness of the emotion - based
human nature factor that resides within most of us that whispers in our
ears that we will be the ones that make it when all around us are failing?