Sentences with phrase «into long filaments»

A definitive diagnosis of Alzheimer's includes dementia and two distortions in the brain: amyloid plaques, sticky accumulations of misfolded pieces of protein known as amyloid beta peptides; and neurofibrillary tangles, formed when proteins called tau clump into long filaments that twist around each other like ribbons.

SHAPE SHIFTER Candida tropicalis usually grows as a harmless roundish budding yeast (green), but in the presence of two bacteria it stretches into long filaments (brown) that may provoke inflammation in intestines.

But in the presence of bacteria, the fungus stretches out into long filaments.

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wresting from it, by force of attraction, a long, cigar - shaped filament which in the course of time broke up into a string of separate globes.

It flattered those who could understand the long passages in Latin, or who noticed the glittery filaments of intertextuality woven into its design, or who understood the late - medieval tension between realist and nominalist metaphysics; but it also entertained those who were simply interested in a colorful murder mystery with an unusual setting and who did not mind skipping the Latin bits altogether.

I am about to shred the cabbage and basil (and adding cilantro) into delicate whispers of filaments, something I have long dreamed of and never been able to achieve, not owning a mandarin.

Smaller, dwarf galaxies travel toward the intersections along long dark matter filaments, like cars on roads leading into a city.

Often they are drawn out into long bands or delicate wispy filaments, as if painted with a fine brush.

If so, instead of clumping, the researchers report in tomorrow's issue of Science, this warm dark matter would have stretched into filaments thousands of light - years long and weighing as much as millions of suns.

The UGA researchers discovered that long filaments — that look like beads on a string — form by budding from the flagellum of African trypanosomes and then release pieces of the parasite into the host.

Actin is a protein that has been long known to work by linking itself into chains to form filaments.

Image: On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun's atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space at 4:36 p.m. EDT.

The researchers found something they had not anticipated that had not previously been seen in the laboratory: When the two plasmas merged they broke into clumps of long thin filaments due to a process called the «Weibel instability.»

Baker's yeast grows as a single - cell organism that grows and buds off into separate cells, whereas the fungus grows as a long filament containing many nuclei.

To reduce the risk of pilling, look for continuous filament nylon (CFN), which begins as a long strand before being spun into yarn.