Sentences with phrase «from tiny fragments»

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - When cut, a planarian flatworm can use a population of stem cells called neoblasts to regenerate new heads, new tails or even entire new organisms from a tiny fragment of its body.

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My point is that we know so very little about our universe that I can say «at the moment nothing we know of is eternal» while at the same time understanding that the universe could be like that electron and wink in and out of existence in some constant renewal, from singularity to singularity and back again, but because we only see a tiny fragment of the process we can only make sloppy assumptions as to the mechanics involved.

We fragments of the cosmos can never survey the cosmos from a cosmic perspective, and our tiny attention span, with even two minutes ago already vague as to fine details, can never know as the cosmic self knows.

Using a new testing technique to capture tiny DNA fragments from several hundred Southern patients, Kerry Clark hopes he can identify the Borrelia strains infecting both patients and ticks.

Particulates come from tail pipes and smokestacks, but also consist of tiny fragments shed from tires, roads and brake pads.

As a first step, they've quarantined the lagoon, owned by a power plant and used as for boating, to prevent tiny fragments of C. taxifolia from being spread by boat anchors.

Then they powdered single teeth from 36 skeletons ranging in age from 3300 years to 1500 years old and extracted tiny fragments of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), a marker commonly used for genetic typing of human populations.

Yet the discovery shows that with ever - cheaper genetic sequencing and faster computers, it is possible to recover a full nuclear DNA sequence from an ancient human, even when the genome is broken into tiny fragments.

Researchers in Cambridge have now shown that this ability depends on a tiny fragment of the animal's haemoglobin the protein that carries oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body.

Using tiny amounts of material the researchers recovered and analyzed fragments of mitochondrial DNA — genetic material from the mitochondria, the «energy factories» of the cell — and identified them as belonging to twelve different mammalian families that include extinct species such as the woolly mammoth, the woolly rhinoceros, the cave bear and the cave hyena.

From sediment samples collected at seven archaeological sites, the researchers «fished out» tiny DNA fragments that had once belonged to a variety of mammals, including our extinct human relatives.

To create a picture of the entire genomic landscape of the tumor from circulating tumor DNA, scientists «read» each tiny fragment and then piece them together as a puzzle.

The fossil, a shell fragment from a large individual of the genus Doedicurus, yielded enough genetic material to completely reconstruct DNA from the creature's mitochondria, the tiny energy factories found in each living cell.

As they analyzed a pair of 66 - to 100 - million - year - old plesiosaur skeletons found near Hokkaido, Japan, the researchers realized the fossilized bones of the toothy, quad - flippered marine reptiles * were surrounded by fossilized shell fragments from provannids, a type of tiny snail.

But being able to recover tiny fragments of DNA doesn't change the fact that any sample will contain genetic sequences from more than just the organism of interest.

As a complement to laboratory techniques such as gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry, infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, visible and electron microscopy carried out at the Centre of Research and Restoration of French Museums, Paris, the scientists used the ultra bright X-rays on the ESRF's ID21 beamline to analyse tiny fragments taken from different sculptures.

The modern human ancestor who contributed genes to this particular Neanderthal individual — called the «Altai Neanderthal,» and known from a tiny toe bone fragment — must have migrated out of Africa long before the migration that led Africans into Europe and Asia 60,000 years ago, the scientists say.

More than once I was reminded of Toby Amies's terrific documentary The Man Whose Mind Exploded, an affectionately fractured account of amnesiac Brighton legend Drako Zarhazar who decorated his tiny apartment with fragments of his multiple lives: photographs, ornaments and enigmatic messages plastered on walls, splayed across floors, hanging from ceilings.

36 Fragments of Midnight is a tiny game for a small price (I paid # 2.49 from the PSN Store) but even that feels expensive for what this game is.

This exhibition focuses on a handful of forms and objects that appear and reappear in her work: a torn fragment of a 1958 work titled White Spica, her camera tripod, a hybrid item created from an antique candlestick telephone, flowers, a generic tissue box, or a tiny ceramic cup.

Between 1973 and 1974, Gordon Matta - Clark bought fifteen tiny, oddly shaped fragments of land from the City of New York at auction, a meditation on property rights he called «Fake Estates.»

Like the collage artist who takes objects from the world, combines them with paint, and sets them inside a frame in order to show the viewer that «the tiniest authentic fragment of daily life says more than a painting,» Genzken uses the gallery space itself as a kind of frame, setting objects within and then adding her own version of a paint stroke.

Framed in white, his dark surfaces become «horror vacui» — empty spaces that our minds try to fill, using the tiny fragments of information that were saved from the fire to reanimate our memories.

Glancing down, I saw thousands of tiny green leaf fragments on the forest floor and realized the rain was droppings and table scraps from countless caterpillars munching the newly emerged canopy far above.

Todd LaJeunesse collected a tiny fragment from a cluster of Sarcophyton soft corals in the western Indian Ocean, off the coast of Zanzibar.