Sentences with phrase «in microscopic samples»

New diagnostic techniques revealed traces of blood (inset, in blue) in microscopic samples from ancient African artifacts such as this one.

All I've seen is some pretty obviously tongue - in - cheek banter about his tough start in a microscopic sample size, and then maybe some postulating that the 2018 Pirates might actually be no worse off without him.

In an extraordinary discovery, they found a wealth of associative objects and symbols in this microscopic sample, from crucifixes to Celtic jewellery.

Not exact matches

Scherer would later find dozens of crushed diatom shells in his samples — possible remnants of microscopic aquatic organisms from when the site of Lake Whillans was a shallow seafloor.

In a project called SWAB (Surface, Water, and Air Biocharacterization), NASA microbiologists keep tabs on the station's microscopic residents by sampling the water crew members drink, the air they breathe, and the surfaces they touch.

For instance, the fecal occult blood test is an at - home kit that looks for evidence of microscopic traces of blood in stool samples, a potential sign of cancer.

In search of microscopic life, molecular ecologist Kay Bidle of Rutgers University looked for microbial DNA in the soil and ice core samples Marchant gathered for him during one of his expeditionIn search of microscopic life, molecular ecologist Kay Bidle of Rutgers University looked for microbial DNA in the soil and ice core samples Marchant gathered for him during one of his expeditionin the soil and ice core samples Marchant gathered for him during one of his expeditions.

By combining two chemical techniques — narrow capillary electrophoresis and mass spectrometry — Moini figured out how to measure that ratio in just 20 minutes using microscopic samples of silk.

However, their microscopic identification in river samples requires a lot of time and skills.

Intestinal biopsy samples showed mild levels of microscopic inflammation in some of the children with autism, as well as in some of the non-autistic children.

Finally, microscopic studies at ALS beamline 12.3.2 identified the other minerals in the Roman samples.

University of Oregon anthropologist Douglas Kennett and colleagues announced in January that they had found microscopic diamonds (an impact marker) in sediment samples from across the continent.

Current specialized tests that depend on microscopic or fluorescent analysis of stool samples or polymerase chain reactions (PCR) that amplify pathogen DNA are considered impractical for deployment in developing countries because of the need for expensive equipment and / or the electricity to operate it.

Jun - Yuan Chen of the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology and his colleagues collected and studied samples of Vernanimalcula guizhouena, a microscopic animal that probably moved along the seafloor sucking in bacteria for food.

Pohlker, Andreae, and their colleagues ran the numbers and found that the amount of potassium particles released from microscopic fungi in the lab was indeed enough to account for the concentration of potassium they observed in their samples.

Metabarcoding resulted in higher sensitivity and resolution, and identified twice as many plant families than microscopic analysis of the same pollen samples.

The archaeologists analysed 16 samples of microscopic plant remains from ten different time periods found during excavations during 2014 led by the University of São Paulo in South West Amazonia.

Microfluidic devices are tiny chips that can sort out disease biomarkers, cells and other small structures in samples like blood by using microscopic channels incorporated into the devices.

This is where scientists come in with nondestructive analytical techniques such as X-ray fluorescence intensity mapping and spectral reflectance imaging, as well as elemental and molecular analysis of microscopic samples.

Lars Berglund, a professor at Wallenberg Wood Science Center at KTH, says that while optically transparent wood has been developed for microscopic samples in the study of wood anatomy, the KTH project introduces a way to use the material on a large scale.

«There is the possibility that one could use the hollow spheres as a means of chemical delivery agents, or microscopic containers of some kind, but some more work would need to be done here just to check what happens inside the spheres, in terms of sample heating,» said David McGloin, a physicist at the University of Dundee in the U.K. not connected with the Australian team.

Previous studies of this type relied on microscopic examination of tissue samples from sacrificed animals, but this new approach allows researchers to watch the life or death of cells in real time.

The cylindrical chamber has grips that serve like a vice to exert pressure on meteorite samples, and X-ray imaging can study how this compression, in combination with heat and pressure, affects their microscopic structure.

In these labs are scientists who will take care of storing samples in freezers and who will use them for any sort of analyses — like microscopic imaging or DNA extractioIn these labs are scientists who will take care of storing samples in freezers and who will use them for any sort of analyses — like microscopic imaging or DNA extractioin freezers and who will use them for any sort of analyses — like microscopic imaging or DNA extraction.

To simulate the extreme subterranean environment, Fiquet and colleagues put samples of typical mantle materials — magnesium oxides, iron, and silicon — into diamond anvil cells, small chambers in which microscopic samples get crushed between two diamonds.

Louis's Robert Ricklefs first studied this relationship in the early 1990s, using data from microscopic examination of avian blood samples for the presence of parasites, primarily those that cause malaria.

Water may be more common than expected at extreme depths approaching 640 kilometres and possibly beyond — within Earth's lower mantle, says a study that explored microscopic pockets of a trapped form of crystallised water molecules in a sampling of diamonds from around the world.

When investigating the presence of yeast in a stool sample, disparity may exist for example between the culturing of yeast and any actual microscopic examination.

Cytology, the microscopic examination of small samples of cells, rarely helps in the diagnosis of these tumors.

You should bring a fresh stool sample (deposited in the last 12 hours) with you to the appointment so that the vet can check for microscopic parasite eggs.

After physical examination of the cats, urine samples including ≥ 5 - 6 leucocytes in microscopic evaluation were cultured using bacteriological techniques.

In some cases, taking a tissue sample (biopsy) from the neoplasm for microscopic examination may also be necessary.

A full in - clinic laboratory (updated in 2016) gives our skilled veterinary technicians the ability to run blood work, fecals, urinalysis, and microscopic examinations of any sample so that we can have results quickly, and the ability to help your pet efficiently.

One means of determining the type of cells involved in a mass is to do a fine needle aspirate (a needle is attached to syringe and inserted into the mass to collect a tiny tissue or fluid sample) and cytology (microscopic evaluation of the cells).

Diagnosis is made with a stool sample in which the veterinarian finds the protozoan during microscopic examination.

Microscopic examination of six slides from every Knott concentration test was carried out and Dirofilaria (Nochtiella) repens microfilariae were found in the blood of all cats (Fig 2), their count ranging from 5 to 17 per sample.

Since over the counter de-worming medications aren't equally effective, the vet will prescribe a de-wormer specific to the type of parasite detected in microscopic analysis of the stool sample.

In addition, the veterinarian will need to get urine and stool samples for microscopic examination.

Other studies that can be useful in evaluating a cat with suspected CKD include imaging studies such as abdominal ultrasound, radiographs (X-rays), and, in some cases, microscopic evaluation of biopsy samples.

A stool sample is also required to discover eggs, which tend to be microscopic in size.

Adult dogs are typically wormed when specific parasites are found on microscopic exam of stool samples, except in cases of bloody diarrhea where whipworms are suspected, since these parasites are difficult to diagnose on many stool samples.

Sometimes the only evidence that your dog has a parasite infestation is the presence of microscopic worm eggs in the stool that can only be detected by having your vet test a stool sample.

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.

Microscopic samples of blood, spittle, urine, feces and seminal fluid (hence such willfully provocative titles as Blood on Shit, Piss on Us and Spunk Blood Piss Shit Spit) have been photographically enlarged and arranged in tastefully modernist grids.

The researchers sampled water in pores, or microscopic voids in peat, at numerous sites across the Glacial Lake Agassiz peatlands in northwestern Minnesota to see how water moves solutes through the peat.