Sentences with phrase «like natural»

Superoxide dismutase acts like a natural antioxidant, repairing cells and reducing the damage caused by superoxide.

These implantable neuroprosthetics will look and function like natural limbs, enabling injured soldiers and the more than 2 million other amputees in the United States lead higher quality, more independent lives.

If the full array of hormones are produced, it's hoped that ViaCyte's product will perform like a natural pancreas, Laikind said.

pigment A material, like the natural colorings in paints and dyes, that alter the light reflected off of an object or transmitted through it.

In other words, virus particles can transduce host cells (just like natural viruses), but (unlike natural viruses) the transduced host cell is not able to produce new virus particles.

In vitiligo and albinism treatments, according to Gianneschi, the synthetic nanoparticles might work like natural melanin.

They are like natural proteins, including those that embed themselves in cell membranes, and can be designed to have very specific forms and functions.

pigment A material, like the natural colorings in skin, that alter the light reflected off of an object or transmitted through it.

«But there's a real need for more TPO agonists that don't look like natural TPO,» said Lerner.

And this distribution only differs a little from the Zipfian ideal, just like natural language does.»

Harvard computer scientist Radhika Nagpal and her colleagues in the TERMES Project are making artificial termites that can, like their natural counterparts, build structures much bigger than themselves.

A cure for hearing loss could be closer, now that a team of scientists has produced key ear cells in mice — and for the first time verified that the cells work just like natural ones.

«We wanted to acknowledge the Ktunaxa culture, and given the profile of Yawunik, it looked like a natural choice of name,» Aria said.

Artificially triggered lightning tends to come down in a straight line, so scientists would like to create and acoustically image a zigzagging lightning channel more like a natural bolt.

Just like a natural gas peaker, you know, natural gas isn't as easy as the liquid stuff to store, but we can store it pretty darn well, either in liquid or gaseous form.

A full day's walk from anything resembling a road will be required to reach what looks like a natural opening in the rock.

Visual signs, I have argued, have culturally evolved to look like natural objects, and have the kinds of contour combinations found in a three - dimensional world of opaque objects.

Given the current obesity and diabetes epidemic there is a pressing need to make our towns and cities places where getting around on foot or by bike feels like the natural choice.»

Although the use of rigid metal and plastic parts tends to result in stiff, mechanical motion, a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) is experimenting with the use of a single piece of flexible silicon and urethane polymer to create robotic fish that smoothly wriggle through the water much like their natural counterparts.

The conversion rate was lower, but the induced neurons seemed just as much like their natural counterparts as those produced from embryonic mouse fibroblasts.

The European scientists theorized that during winter, when vitamin D levels in the body are low, sunlamp treatments, like natural exposure to sunlight, would increase the athletes» vitamin D3 levels and benefit muscle function.

Winter snows in the Chuska Mountains would have produced a significant amount of spring snowmelt that was combined with surface water features like natural «wash systems,» said Benson.

This seemed like a natural progression.»

That's a concern because flowers emit certain kinds of these compounds that, like a natural perfume, entice bees and other pollinators to visit the flowers.

This setting is like a natural experiment,» explains Axel Meyer.

There are other legitimate forms of knowledge derived from fields such as history, law, philosophy, sociology, and religion, which don't possess those characteristics and can't become like natural science.

In addition, a supercritical turbine could fit into a directly heated cycle, where a fuel like natural gas burns in the presence of pure oxygen inside the turbine, creating only water and carbon dioxide as waste.

Renewable Risk Our current, fragile grid evolved to work with steady energy sources like natural gas and coal.

That all sounds like the natural order of things, but if you look closely enough at nature, you will find that it isn't.

The end products are a liquid digestate, which can be used for fertilizer or industrial uses, and bio-methane, which can be used like natural gas.

It reacts to changing terrain and different walking speeds much like a natural human foot, facilitating a normal gait and allowing its users to push off the ground with seven times as much power as is possible with the best of its predecessors, all while expending less energy.

Neutrinos seem like natural candidates for dark matter: they have mass, yet they flit through normal matter as if it weren't there.

Although carbon capture and storage has attracted a growing number of advocates, including environmental groups like the Natural Resources Defense Council, it has also attracted its fair share of detractors, such as Greenpeace, and skeptics including the U.S. Geological Survey's Yousif Kharaka (pdf), who has shown that leaking CO2 can make surrounding water acidic, mix with brine and leach metals, and pose potential health risks to people and wildlife.

«It seems like a natural question to me to ask «Who has been the best over all time?»»

ANTS don't look like natural swimmers.

So in the new study, Ko and colleagues started with a thin, flexible material with ridges and grooves much like natural fingerprints.

Even if humans are contributing to global warming, isn't this just like the natural variations that have happened many times in the past?

These peculiar galaxies are like a natural experiment played out on a cosmic scale and by cataloguing them, astronomers can better understand the physical processes that warp spiral and elliptical galaxies into new shapes.

It may be that the Glen Canyon and Hoover Dams have altered the river's ecosystem beyond the point where regulating the flow of water through the dams is going to achieve anything like the natural flow of water that existed before them.

«Our point was just that it looked like a natural earthquake, and there was no reason to call it induced,» says Randy Keller, who was director of the survey until he retired at the end of 2014.

And just like natural water filters, it adds calcium, magnesium, and other beneficial minerals.

It didn't turn brittle, like rubber, or become cracked and discolored, like natural ivory.

The others smell like their natural ingredients which is certainly not a bad thing.

Cuomo wants the federal government to treat the situation like a natural disaster and provide funds for upgrades and transportation alternatives.

get involved with and / or donate funds to national environmental advocacy organizations like the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Environmental Defense Fund, and 350.org; and local groups like Environmental Advocates of New York and the NY League of Conservation Voters.

Members believe the Cuomo administration is taking a step back by pursuing a project powered by fossil fuels like natural gas, particularly when Cuomo has outlawed fracking within the state.

He looks like a natural.

Green Party candidate Matt Funiciello said the U.S. needs to take immediate action to get off of dirty fossil fuel energy sources like natural gas and coal and switch to 100 percent renewable energy sources like solar and wind.

Saratoga Springs seems like a natural place to put a destination resort and casino.

«Like a natural disaster, we didn't create it but our public offices require we address it,» the letter states.