Sentences with phrase «in a cell the size of»

An honorably discharged veteran, Krone served 10 years «in a cell the size of most of y ’ all's bathroom,» he said in Philadelphia, for a murder in Phoenix he did not commit.

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Founded in April 2011 in Portland by Greg Passmore and Russell Okamoto, Celly builds mobile social networks of all sizes, both public and private, that can be accessed by any cell phone with SMS and via a web browser, e-mail and the company's iPhone and Android apps.

A few days later, he told her about a lab in Columbus, Ohio, that was making fuel cells the size of pencil erasers.

About the size of a pack of index cards, Aura fits easily in a shirt pocket or purse and connects via Bluetooth to a cell phone or laptop for hands - free calling.

In his book The Science of Hitting, Ted explains that he carved the strike zone into 77 cells, each the size of a baseball.

Blood cell size iron - oxygen spheres found in the vessels were identified as an oxidized form of formerly pyritic framboids.

The congregation's power and effectiveness are not to be found in the size of its membership alone, but in the number and efficiency of the living cells within it.

Blakemore argues that a single gene mutation could in fact have been the cause of this increase - for in fact only one extra cell - division step would cause a doubling of brain size.

With Döhler's fruit pieces and cells, you benefit from an optimised shelf life and very low levels of variance in shape and size thanks to the latest technologies.

This rapid - freezing system uses both alternating and direct current, high «electric potential,» at the same time to rapidly cool the product without oxidization, reducing the size of ice crystals that form in food cells.

Life - size, full - color figures of often gruesome criminals are displayed in the cells which once housed them, right alongside histories of polar exploration and dry - as - dust railroad and postal exhibits.

And in the development of the Pocket Radar ««an easy and accurate speed measurement device the size of a cell phone «'' they might be right.

CITY Lips has a proprietary collagen peptide formula (using Celadrol ™ and Oligopeptide Technology *) that actually causes the cells in your lips to produce more collagen which in turn physically increasing the size of the lips.

Milk ducts found between fat cells and the glandular tissue also grow in number and size creating a complex web of pathways throughout your breast leading to your nipples.

Even in the Be Small, I can fit four size four diapers, a soft package of wipes, my wallet, my cell phone, a lipstick and make - up compact, keys, a package of toddler snacks, her SIGG sippy cup, a change of pants and shirt for baby, my pouch sling, and the coordinating changing pad.

In the fourth week of your pregnancy, the ball of cells that is developing into your baby is the size of a poppy seed.

The implant, made of genetically engineered cells, has been designed to detect developing breast, prostate and colon cancers when they are only a few millimetres in size.

His most recent is a cylindrical «submarine,» about the size of a red blood cell and made of gold, nickel, platinum, and a polymer, that can collect oil droplets in water.

Hammer and colleagues Dennis Discher and Frank Bates attempted to scale up this process to make vesicles more than 10 micrometers in diameter — the size of human cells.

Several physical measurements, including electron microscopy, assured us that our product was a closed loop coiled tightly around the virus - DNA template and that it was identical in size and other details with the replicative form of DNA that appears in the infected cells.

The researchers found between four and 28 viable cells per passport photo — size unit of area — similar to those in clean rooms at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and the Kennedy Space Center in Florida where spacecraft are assembled.

They coated the resulting, tyre - shaped particles in a layer of protein, and dissolved away the polymer core, leaving behind soft biodegradable shells the size and shape of real red blood cells.

The absorbance and scattering of light is determined by the size, shape and material of the nanomaterial and, more importantly, it is also affected by any medium in close proximity to the nanomushroom, such as cells that have been placed on the slide.

It is roughly one - thousandth the size of any other voltmeter; thousands can fit in a single cell and still take up only one - millionth of the cell's volume.

Seven freezers, each roughly the size of a high school basketball court, are stacked high with row upon row of small cardboard boxes containing tubes of yellow or pinkish blood serum, a liquid rich in antibodies and proteins, but devoid of cells.

«Before this study, it was not known if it is possible to produce sufficient numbers of these cells and successfully use them to remuscularize damaged hearts in a large animal whose heart size and physiology is similar to that of the human heart,» said Dr. Charles Murry, UW professor of pathology and bioengineering, who led the research team that conducted the experiment.

That means New Mexico State University microbiologist Geoffrey Battle Smith has spent most summers commuting to work in a bumpy, 500 - feet - a-minute elevator down a 2,150 - foot mine shaft in the desert outside Carlsbad, N.M. Inside a tunnel, formally known as a drift, Smith incubates bacteria and mammalian cells in a steel vault the size of a garden shed.

To generate an accurate picture of the temperature profile within the Earth's centre, scientists can look at the melting point of iron at different pressures in the laboratory, using a diamond anvil cell to compress speck - sized samples to pressures of several million atmospheres, and powerful laser beams to heat them to 4000 or even 5000 degrees Celsius.

They noticed, however, that other brain cells, which had shrunken in size as a result of their lost neighbors, seemed to normalize.

Now, researchers have discovered that the drug changes the firing patterns of cells in a pea - size structure hidden away in the center of the brain.

It tricks the cells into ending their lives in a controlled way, thereby reducing the size of the tumor.

Recent studies suggest that the total loss in brain volume due to atrophy — a wasting away of tissue caused by cell degeneration — between our teen years and old age is 15 percent or more, which means that by the time we're in our seventies, our brains have shrunk to the size they were when we were between 2 and 3 years old.

This phenomenon is more frequent in obese patients, in whom the size and number of PPAT adipocyte cells are higher.

The study published in Cancer Cell shows that exosomes from tumor cells of breast cancer (and other tumor types such as ovarian and endometrial) are different in size and composition than those of healthy cells.

Tomasetti searched the literature to find the numbers he needed, such as the size of the stem cell «compartment» in each tissue.

It is certainly a simpler and more plausible idea than the truth that Cajal saw in his microscope: that the brain is stuffed with billions of tiny cells of many different sizes and shapes.

In humans, basal progenitors can undergo multiple rounds of cell division, thereby substantially increasing neuron number and ultimately the size of the neocortex.

Comparing brain size and number of nerve cells in the cerebral cortex among several animal species revealed some surprises.

Further investigation revealed that loss of surrounding cells causes multiple changes in cell communication, which impairs bone cells» ability to multiply and increase in size.

The researchers succeeded in changing the DNA of the E coli bacteria in such a way that the substance CB [8](a small molecule of two nanometres in size with a namederived from the resemblance of this molecule with a pumpkin of the family of Cucurbitaceae) attaches to a protein on the cell membrane.

The cells in such a brain tumor can display very different characteristics, such as varying cell size or number of cell nuclei.

In theory, if a single mutation popped up that caused immature neurons to undergo just one extra cycle of cell division, that could double the final size of the cortex.

The size of these molecules requires cells to form endosomes in order to be able to trap the compound.

In lab tests, the CpG - antigen package, at 300 nanometers in size, was absorbed 90 percent of the time by immune cells, the UI - led team reportIn lab tests, the CpG - antigen package, at 300 nanometers in size, was absorbed 90 percent of the time by immune cells, the UI - led team reportin size, was absorbed 90 percent of the time by immune cells, the UI - led team reports.

But as doctoral student Joey Wilson and Patwari will report in an upcoming issue of Transactions on Mobile Computing, they were eventually able to create a prototype wireless network of pole - mounted, cell phone — sized transceivers that they tested outdoors and indoors.

The study shows lithium chloride, a drug often used to treat bipolar disorder, can increase the size of primary cilia in several cell types.

Kress, now a postdoctoral researcher at Yale, thinks the cell uses filopodia to increase the size of the area it can explore in a given time.

This group's experiment verified that cells in the visual cortical area V4 do not react to the retinal image size but to the size of the object.

The small numbers and large sizes of brain cells in sea slugs make the animals ideal for brain research.

These cells are thought to contribute to constancy of the perceived size regardless of changes in distance by conveying certain information about the object's size.