Sentences with phrase «in response to light»

It was waking up in response to a light signal inside its brain.

The two types of ions vary in their response to light, so lasers can be tuned to manipulate one without disturbing the other.

Her eyes also change colour in response to lighting.

The final step was observing whether the cell actually fired quickly in response to light.

Individual corals vary in their responses to light and heat stress.

The situation further deteriorates for trapped metal nanoparticles when the incident light overlaps with a plasmonic resonance, whereby electrons move in response to light collectively, causing enhancements to local fields by several orders of magnitude.

AN ARTIFICIAL iris that automatically opens and closes in response to light, just like the ones in your eyes, could improve cameras and, eventually, help repair damaged human eyes.

«Sure enough, even after blocking the action of acetylcholine pharmacologically, the isolated iris sphincter muscle still contracted in response to light, adding confidence to the notion that the muscle is itself light - sensitive because it contains melanopsin,» Yau says of the present work.

The scientists are pursuing additional studies to map the entire chain of neurons that activate scratching in response to light touch — something that has been overlooked in the field of chronic itch until now, the team says.

Within a week, of removing those inhibitory interneurons from the spinal cord, the mice showed excessive scratching in response to light touch without any effect on their response to chemically - induced itch or pain.

Sildenafil, the active ingredient in Viagra, is known to inhibit the degradation of cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP), a messenger molecule that advances the body clock in response to light.

The advance uses photoswitchable fluorescent proteins that change their color in response to light.

Finally, Deisseroth needed a way to tag the specific neurons he wanted to study so that only those cells would become activated in response to the light.

They bred mice to express light - sensitive proteins in their acid - sensing TRCs, which make the cells fire in response to light from a laser.

You would act in response to the light you have, though it were only the flickering of a distant lamp.

Clouds form in a multitude of different shapes and sizes, their infinite combinations and position across the sky offering a visual drama in response to the light conditions.

This faintly colored image was «painted» by bacteria (Escherichia coli) that produce colored pigments in response to light.

Another key measure appears to be pupillary reactivity, the ability of the eye's pupils to change diameter in response to light.

The researchers found that Rh7 could functionally substitute for Rh1 in flies missing Rh1, as measured by electroretinogram, which is an extracellular recording of a neural signal in the fly eye in response to light.

The researchers found that certain neurons would fire only in response to light shone in a specific area — suggesting that these neurons were responsible for keeping track of set coordinates in the field of vision.

Others have printed photoactivated structures from polymers that shrink and stretch in response to light.

He discovered that there is a signal sent from the chloroplast in response to light, which then activates gene expression in the nucleus to make the plant resistant to heat stress.

Specifically, qrf RNA is produced in response to light, and can then interfere with the production of the frq protein.

Photoswitches — chemicals that change shape when hit with light - are then attached to the ion channels to make them open in response to light, activating the retinal cells and restoring light sensitivity.

Remarkably, they found that people have brain activity and a visual experience in response to a light that is invisible to the parts of the eye normally used for seeing.

For many years, these same proteins were thought to keep the daily clock running on time, since the clock can be reset in response to light.

In one instance, he made the memory especially easy to read by engineering the cells to mutate an antibiotic resistance gene in response to light.

The drops work by opening the pupil and preventing the iris from constricting in response to light and are often used for routine examination and photography of the back of the eye.

Deep within the brains of frogs, in a part of their anatomy where the sun never shines, appears to be a protein that catalyzes biochemical reactions in response to light.

Behaviorally, the mutants had an intrinsic circadian period about 1 hour longer than normal and exhibited high - amplitude phase shifts in response to light pulses administered at circadian time 17.

Boyden can get the neurons to produce a voltage spike in response to light or to go completely quiet.

However, these molecules, found in the bacteria Haloarcula marismortui and Haloarcula vallismortis, did not induce a strong enough photocurrent — an electric current in response to light — to be useful in controlling neuron activity.

SHI allows researchers to view minute differences between otherwise identical nanoparticles and see how they react in response to light and environmental changes.

In the normal, non-dystrophic rat retina, the ONL was present and there was clear activation of c - Fos in the INL in response to light, with a complete absence of staining in the dark (Fig. 9A).

As an example, in Crane's studies of fungal light sensors, he has developed modified versions of the light - sensing proteins that have different chemical kinetics in response to light and dark cycles.

Circadian rhythms refer to the shifts in the body's biological processes that happen over 24 hours — largely in response to light and darkness.

Circadian rhythms refer to the shifts in the body's biological processes that happen over 24 hours, partly in response to light and darkness.

Suddenly painting could arise directly in response to light, one likes to think, with no intermediary but color itself.

As we have done in the past, the artworks on our booth (Stand B46) were chosen in response to the light - filled, bespoke structure that houses Frieze New York.

Description: Color is the sound an object makes in response to light.

I was going to write something about the misguided effort by California voters to attempt to recall Judge Aaron Persky in response to his light sentence on convicted sexual assaulter Brock Turner, arguing that anyone supporting such efforts can not complain when state judges are removed or non-retained in response to, for example, pro-LGBTQ rulings (e.g., three members of the Supreme Court of Iowa in 2010).

Sneezing in response to bright light exposure (such as stepping out into the sunshine after sitting in a dark theater) is called photic sneeze reflex; not only is the trait inherited genetically, but your genes even determine how many times you'll sneeze in response to the light.

They squint to keep out light because the pupil moves in response to light, and any movement within the eye causes more pain.

Instead, the new system uses molecular switches that change shape in response to light; when integrated into the PCM, the phase - change temperature of the hybrid material can be adjusted with light, allowing the thermal energy of the phase change to be maintained even well below the melting point of the original material.

The irises (the colored parts of the eyes that open and close in response to light) often become mottled around age 15, but this change does not affect cats» vision.

This sleep pattern disrupts your body's circadian rhythms, the biological changes in your body that occur in response to light and darkness over a 24 - hour cycle.

Instead, Yau's lab found that even when isolated, the sphincter muscle contracts in response to light, employing a light - sensitive pigment called melanopsin.