Sentences with phrase «from tiny»

Red tide toxins that end up in the food web can be transferred to other forms of life, from tiny zooplankton to birds, fish, aquatic mammals and humans.

By 2009, Kowalski had found what he thought was the sexual form of C. fraxinea: Hymenoscyphus albidus, which produces spores from tiny toadstool - like growths on ash leaf litter (Forest Pathology, DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0239.2008.00589.x).

The Ostrer study used DNA from the nucleus of the cell in its analyses, and the Behar study used both nuclear and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA); the latter comes from tiny bodies in the living cell that provide it with energy.

Human operators outside the danger zone guide them, watching video from tiny cameras to look for victims.

All the structures contain a similar set of ceramics — ranging from tiny cups to fine bowls and coarse storage jars — which may reveal areas for cooking, eating, or storing food.

It involves building up materials from tiny, wirelessly programmable blocks dubbed catoms, which can be instructed to bind together in any three - dimensional arrangement.

Steve: Because it is from the tiny island of Flores.

Once over a storm, the planes deploy instruments called dropsondes, which are biodegradable slender tubes that float into the storm while hanging from a tiny parachute.

Stanley Ambrose of the University of Illinois believes that the Toba eruption, which spewed up to 3,000 cubic kilometers of material, caused so much death that only about 10,000 adult humans survived, and that all modern humans descend from that tiny population.

The striking breast feathers get their iridescent properties from tiny boomerang - shaped structures called barbules.

«RNA sequencing can capture a wide spectrum of microRNAs and other potentially interesting RNA molecules from a tiny sample,» Tuschl says.

TAKING a tip from tiny animals that can live for more than a century, Japanese researchers have invented a new technique for storing human organs for transplant.

The technique, called ultra-rapid deep sequencing, combines deep sequencing — an emerging technology that reconstructs an entire DNA sequence from a tiny snippet of DNA — with advanced computational techniques and algorithms developed in the laboratories of Chiu and his research collaborators.

In the study, prey DNA was extracted from the tiny dragonfly droppings and the researchers managed to identify dozens of prey species from the samples.

And that provides the whales with about 100 times more energy from the tiny creatures than they spend capturing them.

«It may be from this tiny location, and it could be wiped out before we know anything about them,» Faulkes says.

The second key development concerns the amplification of the signal arising from the tiny the energy packets.

Feathers, like most opaque objects, typically get their color from pigments in surface coatings (much as melanin colors skin) or from tiny surface structures that reflect light, such as those found on iridescent butterflies and beetles.

The researchers note that 500,000 years ago, 98 % of rock used to manufacture tools found at the site was from a tiny localized area of the Olorgesailie Basin.

Although scientists have analysed gases from tiny bubbles trapped in ice cores drilled in polar ice caps, there are doubts about how closely the composition of the bubbles matches that of the atmosphere at the time they were trapped (see New Scientist, Science, 22 August).

But the physicists at Sandia have in mind a grander plan than combustion, one that will release kilowatts of power from this tiny capsule: thermonuclear fusion.

The 180 - mile - wide Encke gap results from the tiny moon Pan ploughing a path through the rings, leaving behind scalloped edges and spiral patterns of density waves.

Our capacity for complex speech might come from tiny fiddles to existing monkey genes, which gave us flatter faces and more refined larynxes

If the power of the single atom engine was scaled up from the tiny mass of an atom, its output would be equivalent to that of a car engine.

Upon her touch, tadpoles exploded from the tiny gelatinous water balloons and squirmed across her skin.

Founded in 1981 in Boston, Massachusetts, Genzyme evolved from a tiny start - up with just a handful of employees to one of the world's leading biotech companies.

A combtooth blenny peeks out from its tiny hiding place, having moved into the empty shell of a barnacle that once grew and attached to an underwater beam of a Gabonese oil platform.

Treating the potentially blinding haze of a scar on the cornea might be as straightforward as growing stem cells from a tiny biopsy of the patient's undamaged eye and then placing them on the injury site, according to mouse model experiments conducted by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Dr. Basu had previously developed a technique to obtain ocular stem cells from tiny biopsies at the surface of the eye and a region between the cornea and sclera known as the limbus.

The acidity, she says, comes from tiny drops trapped in the salt deposits, which were left behind when the lakes evaporated.

From this tiny change, one can create an image showing where the atoms are, «says Diebold.»

«Ancient giant sperm from tiny shrimps discovered at Riversleigh World Heritage Fossil Site.»

«In the next 10 years,» she says, «a lot of the key findings of migration are going to come from these tiny little animals.»

It stems from tiny hair cells in the inner ear that are surrounded by a layer of gel.

The biggest stumbling block to preserving larger samples comes from tiny ice crystals that tend to form right around the transition point to or from a vitrified state.

We use them to read information from tiny pits or marks on CDs, DVDs and Blu - ray discs.

The surface, a sweeping parabola of Euclidean purity, seems perfectly matched to its function: to peer from a tiny speck in the universe called Earth into an unimaginably distant past when vast galaxies were still forming.

When artists in the early Italian Renaissance began applying egg tempera to large wooden panels instead of manuscript pages, they had to build up their images from tiny brush strokes.

This ranged from tiny cameras to adhesives based on gecko feet to mind - computer interfaces to, yes, gait analysis.

They isolated and cloned the gene which produces lysostaphin from a tiny loop of DNA which was derived from a strain of staphylococcal bacteria called Staphylococcus simulans.

In matters of the fundamental molecular biology of aging, we mammals are not so different from tiny C. elegans worms.

It is known that the egg gets its food from little arm - like feeding tubes (called filopodia) that jut out from tiny cells surrounding the egg and must poke through a thick wall coating the egg in order to feed it.

There are about 1,100 species of camel spiders, which range in size from tiny, a few millimeters long, to about 15 centimeters (six inches) in length.

The process would be much more efficient — and less ethically contentious - if large numbers of dopamine neurons could be grown in the laboratory from a tiny amount of fetal brain tissue.

In De luce, Grosseteste proposed that the concentric universe began with a flash of light, which pushed everything outwards from a tiny point into a big sphere.

Researchers in Dublin and York used the latest scientific techniques to extract ancient DNA and protein from tiny samples of parchment from documents from the late 17th and late 18th centuries.

The breathable air we enjoy today originated from tiny organisms, although the details remain lost in geologic time

Those planets range from the tiny to true behemoths, but most exciting is that more Earth - sized and other smallish worlds are emerging, providing new hope for life in the cosmos.

The shot represents a milepost in an effort to get past the break - even point - ignition - in coaxing fusion energy from a tiny frozen fuel pellet

They range from tiny threadsnakes that can curl up on a dime to 10 feet monitor lizards and 30 foot pythons.