Sentences with phrase «in microscopic hairs»

The gecko's feet are covered in microscopic hairs, called setae, which branch into thousands of smaller hairs with paddle - shaped ends.

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Those microscopic offspring — called veligers and as small as one - tenth of a millimeter in diameter — are covered with little hairs that help them catch currents and waves and «swim» to new locations during the first few weeks of their lives.

The wires inside such devices are now so thin that electrons sometimes have trouble passing through them: A microscopic bump can seem like Mount Everest in a copper strand one - thousandth the thickness of a human hair.

These microscopic, eight - legged mites live in the follicles of our eyelashes, eyebrows, and nose hairs, where they feed on dead skin cells and oil.

When scrutinizing electron microscopic images of the tip of the proboscis, the researchers discovered a sensillum, a sensory hair previously unknown in Manduca sexta.

We live in a sonic world, immersed in vibrations that stimulate microscopic hair cells deep inside our ears.

That's exactly what a group of chemical engineers and biochemists attempted in a new study, embedding single - walled carbon nanotubes — microscopic tubes thinner than a human hair that can also absorb sunlight and convert it to electron flow — in living chloroplasts.

Among the instructors is Manu Prakash, PhD, assistant professor of bioengineering at Stanford and a pioneer in the field of «frugal science,» who has brought his powerful $ 1 paper microscopes to Madagascar and taught students how to explore the microscopic world in which they live, including the lice in their hair, the pathogens in their water and the disease - causing parasites in their environment.

In AGA, hair follicles get smaller over time, and consequently make smaller and smaller, eventually microscopic, hairs.

These include the microscopic hairs called cilia, which are found in the nasal passages.

Adult Fleas - lay microscopic eggs in your dog's hair coat.

These microscopic monsters can live in your dog's hair follicles and oil glands.

The microscopic parasites either burrow under your pet's skin or inhabit hair follicles or oil glands in the skin.

Ciliary dyskinesis - This is a syndrome which has been reported in the Chinese Shar - Pei in which the cilia (microscopic hair - like projections on the epithelial cells which line the upper airways) are malformed or nonexistent.

Mange is a generic term that describes a hair loss and skin condition caused by microscopic parasites, called mites that live on or in the skin.

Most dogs have a natural microscopic mite population in small numbers, deep within the hair follicles already in residence.

Your vet may perform diagnostic tests in order to find the cause of your dog's symptoms, including a skin biopsy, test for ringworm, microscopic examination of the hair and skin for presence of parasites or infection, and blood tests to assess your dog's overall health

These microscopic monsters can live in your cat's hair follicles and oil glands, and on the surface of his skin.

Later, bioscientific works such as Gary Schneider's Genetic Self - Portraits (1997 — 1998) or Marc Quinn's A Genomic Portrait: Sir John Sulston (2001)-- in which a sample of the sitter's DNA in agar jelly is mounted in stainless steel — took the bearers of identity to be images of chromosomes, enlargements of microscopic hair samples, retinal images, and even mounted DNA itself.

They've introduced new four new microfiber towels designed to stem the flood of paper towels into the waste stream; each microfiber is finer than a human hair and is sliced 16 times, resulting in millions of microscopic hooks in each cloth to capture dirt, dust and even six times their weight in water.

He was convicted after a microscopic particle of firearms discharge residue was found in his coat pocket more than a year after Dando's death, which contained similar components to a particle found in the victim's hair.