Sentences with phrase «into animal forms»

Flanagan fuses the everyday, the imaginary and fantastical to mould clay into animal forms, hares, elephants, dogs and horses - the horse is an archetype of classical sculpture.

ALA is the plant form of Omega - 3s, which is useless until it is converted into the animal forms — EPA and DHA.

«My goal is for each object to transcend its origins by being integrated into an animal form that seems alive.»

Not exact matches

The drugs, which could be administered in both feed and water, helped shield the livestock from disease, which also allowed farmers to pack more animals into barns and transformed old - fashioned agriculture into its modern industrialized form.

Animal cells are cultured from stem cells and incubated in a «bioreactor» into tissue that can be «harvested» and formed into familiar foods like meatballs, patties, and fish sticks.

So it is deliciously ironic that on this very public and glorious day of Jesus» ministry, a day when he will be welcomed into Jerusalem with joyous hosannas, they find themselves engaged in a most unromantic form of ministry, mucking around a stable, looking suspiciously like horse thieves, and trying to wrestle an untamed and no doubt balky animal toward the olive groves.

This organic whole that began from an initial high bang and eventuated into the present universe is distinguished by a form of unity and diversity radical beyond all imagining: infinite differences, and diversity that is marked not by isolation but by shared atoms over millennia as well as minute - by - minute exchanges of oxygen and carbon dioxide between plants and animal.

This little novel tells of curious happenings in a small contemporary English village: ordinary animals and people, it seems, are suddenly turning into extraordinary creatures, into the invisible, supernatural ideas or forms of which our natural examples are but faint images.

As soon as the nervous system forming in the embryo begins to function as a whole — and not before — the cell colony begins to turn into a genuinely individual animal.

Rebirth may be into the order of human beings once again; or according to the classical form of the doctrine, transmigration into the animal realm; or into a higher order of heavens; and at the highest, the delivered self can escape from the round of rebirth to rest within the reality of eternity.

Lauric acid is a medium chain fatty acid, which has the additional beneficial function of being formed into monolaurin in the human or animal body.

Large cookie cutters are great for cutting bread into fun forms, such as leaves, animals, fish and hearts.

Stuff the bag back into the holder and it forms an animal shape — super easy to throw into your stroller or diaper bag.

«When a new substance forms during a chemical reaction, many students think that the atoms and molecules have actually changed into something new, whereas they simply rearranged, that the mass increase of plants is due to minerals in the soil, or that cell division alone accounts for animal growth,» said Cari Herrmann Abell, a senior research associate at Project 2061.

After an animal dies, energy reserves — in the form of glycogen — are broken down into lactic acid, causing the carcass's pH to fall from 7.0 to 5.5.

Once inside a host animal the two viruses swapped genetic material, resulting in a new form of SIV that eventually crossed into humans.

The researchers implanted the tissue into living mice, and found that the tissue formed connections with the animals» nerves and muscle fibers.

So the researchers decided to bypass the gene therapy approach and engineer two stable, longer - lasting forms of GDF15 that they injected directly into the animals.

They then tried to reprogram skin cells from the animals, turning them into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS), which are capable of forming other types of cell.

Earlier animal studies have shown that A-beta can move into the brain if it's injected into the bloodstream, but scientists didn't know whether A-beta from the blood can be plentiful enough to form plaques in the brain.

Animal mimicry takes many forms — including chemical and acoustic varieties — and offers unique insights into evolution

She asserts that the totality of evidence — including carvings showing celebrants with eyes upturned and bodies shape - shifting into half - animal forms — indicates a spiritual intent.

On islands, scientists sometimes see a «sped - up» version of evolution — when animals are closed off from the rest of the world, in places where there are few or no predators or competitors, they are able to branch out into special adaptations, eventually forming new species.

Amber begins as a tree sap that can flow around small plant and animal forms and permanently preserve them, as it fossilizes into a semi-precious stone.

While previous investigations into the protein's effects have used either mice in which gene expression was knocked out or transgenic animals that expressed human gene variants throughout their lifetimes, the MGH - MIND - led study used a different approach to investigate the effects of introducing the variant forms of the protein into brains in which plaque formation had already begun.

Totipotent cells are the most versatile of all stem cells; a single one can develop into an embryo with a placenta, and hence give rise to a fully formed animal — in other words, a clone.

Even in its current form, the team has shown that the AngioChip can be implanted into a living animal, its artificial blood vessels connected to a real circulatory system.

These genes could have been the key for turning wild animals into more docile domesticated forms.»

In addition, the treatment process appeared to convert a less harmful form of estrogen into one with greater potential for disrupting the function of animals» endocrine systems, which produce hormones that regulate growth, reproduction and other biological functions.

Furthermore, when injected into live animals, these aberrant cells form tumors.

When injected into mice as a complex, the AMA1 - RON2 vaccine prompted robust antibody production and protected the animals from a lethal form of mouse malaria.

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He quickly classified it along with other Amazonian myths: the activities of the boto dolphin, blamed for all unwanted pregnancies because it assumes the form of a handsome man, penetrates village parties, and lures young women into the floral night; or the transformation of the curupira, a protean creature that appears as an animal or a hairy, ugly man and plagues hunters.

Four weeks after transplanting these cells into the kidney cavities of mice with a form of kidney anaemia, the treated animals had blood EPO levels 20 times higher than those in controls (Science Translational Medicine, doi.org/cdmx).

Injected into rodents, the cells don't form tumors; rather, they migrate through the animals» brains, where they differentiate into various types of neural cells including the cells that create the myelin that protects nerve fibers.

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In previous experiments, Isacson and his colleagues had found that undifferentiated embryonic stem cells, when injected into animals, seemed eager to become neurons; the problem was they frequently grew out of control and formed tumorous growths.

Both kill upwards of a third of people infected and, like many viruses, emerged from animals — bats and camels in the case of MERS — after mutating into a form capable of infecting human cells.

He attributes the initial rise of AIDS and the recent outbreaks of SARS to viral strains that mixed and morphed into deadlier forms when their original wild - animal hosts came into closer contact with human butchers and hunters.

Plants (and other things that photosynthesize) are the world's primary producers and have been converting the sun's energy into usable chemical form, including food for animals, for billions of years.

«When this child's mutation was introduced into an animal model, we saw all these dendritic spines form on the neurons,» said, Zylka, who is also a member of the Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities.

They were then integrated into the DNA of the harmless form of the capripox virus by injecting them together into animals cell cultures.

By understanding how animals form crystals into the working structures known as shells, teeth, and bones, scientists will have a bigger toolbox for interpreting the crystals formed in nature.

Our work demonstrates the power of ancient genomes to reconstruct the complex genetic changes that transformed wild animals into their domesticated forms, and the population context in which this process took place.

«In the animals, we saw that STB's delivered with standard clinical catheters into centrally located vessels, formed very effective casts, without leaking or fragmenting, excluding any risk of pulmonary embolisms down the line» confirmed Reginald Avery, first author of the study.

An alternative approach pioneered by Deepak Srivastava, MD, director of cardiovascular and stem cell research at Gladstone, used genes to convert scar - forming cells in the heart of animals into new muscle that improved the function of the heart.

The genetic changes that transformed wild animals into domesticated forms have long been a mystery.

Nitrogen - fixing bacteria are the chief means by which nitrogen gas in the air is changed into a form that plants and animals can use.

Hence, we can divide foods into two groups: acid - forming foods (animal products, cereals, sugars) and alkaline - producing foods (vegetables, fruits).

The foods we eat are divided into two groups: alkaline - forming foods (fruits, vegetables), and acid - producing foods (cereals, sugars, animal products).