Sentences with phrase «human skin scales»

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The advent of large - scale genome sequencing has helped scientists identify DNA bacteriophages in the human gut, skin and blood as well as in the environment, but few researchers have looked for RNA bacteriophages in those samples.

Previous studies have revealed that human hair, reptile scales and bird feathers evolved from a single ancestor — a reptile that lived 300 million years ago — but this new study from the Fraser Lab at Sheffield has found that the skin teeth found on sharks also developed from the same genes.

A few interesting articles in early life human microbiome, plus: A comparison between Staphylococcus epidermidis commensal and pathogenic lineages from the skin of healthy individuals living in North American and India; A new tool to reconstruct microbial genome - scale metabolic models (GSMMs) from their genome sequence; The seasonal changes in Amazon rainforest soil microbiome are associated with changes in the canopy; A specific class of chemicals secreted by birds modulates their feather microbiome; chronic stress alters gut microbiota and triggers a specific immune response in a mouse model of colitis; and evidence that the short chain fatty acids profile in the gut reflects the impact of dietary fibre on the microbiome using the PolyFermS continuous intestinal fermentation model.

Yes, before you ask, I am mature enough to handle the human body in all its forms, but I would have preferred the hotties in the flick to bare some more skin to at least balance the scales.

Rarely, do they come with an in - scale replica of a human being that's had all of its skin flayed off.

They're always humans with scales, humans with blue skin, humans with pointy ears, humans with fur, etc..

He's now best known, perhaps, for large - scale sculptures of trees in bronze and wood which reveal the similarities between them and the human body — skin becomes bark, limbs branches, the torso the trunk.

Scaled to the human body, it's got some give to its skin and insides but is otherwise stolid and heavy.

Distilling the human head down to a few essential outlines, German - born, Brooklyn - based artist Volker Hüller builds up the base and outline of his large - scale monochrome canvases with disparate materials such as grass, fake crocodile skin, thread, stone, linen, cardboard, collaged canvas and cotton.