Sentences with phrase «like scalpels»

The team used genetics like a scalpel blade to remove individual proteins from the synapse to identify their different roles within the synapse, and how they maintain synaptic transmission.

Using an enzyme like a scalpel could keep harmful proteins from clumping and forming the plaques that lead to Alzheimer's (Credit: garloon / Depositphotos)

«This provides a new target in our search for a drug — instead of sledgehammer, it's more like a scalpel.»

Yet, like a scalpel cutting vegetables, the 4C is sorely out of its element once you've left the racetrack.

It's just a tool, and you can use it like a scalpel, a hammer, or grenade.

If the text is deemed to be «unambiguous,» then textualism seems to cleanly slice through obfuscation like a scalpel, cutting away all messy questions about how to define and apply broad statutory purpose, legislative history, or judicially crafted substantive canons by instructing the judge to follow the «plain» text.

Not exact matches

The editorial process allows for a refinement of narrative that is like a surgeon's scalpel, paring away extraneous information and laying bare the characters in the starkest of terms.

Overall, the plan would reduce spending $ 4.5 trillion over the coming years, taking a scalpel to programs like Medicaid and food stamps.

10:10 - Even during the good days, like today, Mr Brown acts towards incoming questions like he's playing catch with a handful of scalpels.

«This is like designing a scalpel to precisely seek out and destroy a cancer — but with a pill and without surgery,» said TSRI Professor Matthew Disney, senior author of both studies.

James Slater, a young resident at a Los Angeles hospital during the 1960s, was horrified that radiation acted like a machete rather than as a scalpel.

And of course the fish, of every hue and size and shape, with bodies designed to quickly maneuver through reef structures, fend off predators with scalpel - like spines, scrape algae and avoid stinging tentacles, all coexist in these incredible habitats.

The light can reach deep into a mouse's brain tissue to target specific areas for exact periods of time, with «scalpel - like precision,» Bruchas said.

In stage plays like «Fan» and «The Importance of Being Earnest,» Wilde used wickedly sharp dialogue and glittering farce as scalpels, laying open the hypocrisies of an Edwardian upper - class audience that only felt the sting on the hansom - cab ride home.

They wield their scalpel here with practiced skill, though like some of the other sharp blades on display, it takes its time to emerge.

Photographed by celebrated cinematographer Edward Lachman, who would go on to serve as DP on the likes of «Erin Brockovich» and «The Virgin Suicides,» «Scalpel» is an exemplary slice of Southern - fried gothic, finally rescued from VHS obscurity in this revelatory new Blu - ray edition from Arrow Video.

Among the many atrocities meriting the «unrated» Hellbound: Hellraiser II's rating: a brain surgery is shown in loving detail; a few skulls are punctured by hungry fingers; whole skins are exchanged, split, and chuffed off like surgical scrubs; throats are slashed; drills are misused; and scalpel - tipped tentacles wreak politically incorrect havoc on an invalid ward.

Austria's king of pain, Michael Haneke, has remade his own 1997 home - invasion thriller with Hollywood actors, preserving every chilly composition and scalpel - like edit as if to say, «I got it right the first time.»

Like Django Unchained, the writer - director reflects modern times on the Old West, but with more scalpel - sliced dialogue, profane poetry, and gore.

Their interactions are like something out of a Cronenberg film: they're whispers in operating theatres, and the scalpel cuts are surgical.

The Dolby 1.0 mono sound does what it must, granting room to the James Bernard score and allowing for subtleties in the foley work, like the skreeee of Frankenstein's scalpel circumscribing a skull.

And with the GT350CR's nearly perfect steering geometry, it can be placed on the road with almost scalpel - like proficiency — almost being that the steering is dead on - center.

Peugeot's 208 GTi by Peugeot Sport has also been a firm evo favourite for the last couple of years, offering a far more dynamic driving experience than most rivals, dominated by its rev - happy 1.6 - litre turbocharged four - cylinder engine and scalpel - like front end.

Pedal modulation remains scalpel - like and the ability to have four wheels working to aggressively arrest progress delivers faster corner entry speeds and adds to the playfulness of the car's character.

It doesn't have the scalpel precision or rock hard suspension like the 370Z, but with 75 more hp, you can make that up, lap after lap.

Although our seat - of - the - pants analysis told us the M6 is the scalpel of these two 2 - ton Teutons, our track numbers say it's nowhere near a dominant performance, much like the «Does it really matter?»

Today, just after the Z4 mania has calmed a slight bit, BMW released an attack on the competition using a bludgeon that can be used for outright brutality or scalpel - like precision.

Sound proofing: almost flawless, substantially helped by the C - Class Coupé's sleek lines and scalpel - like aerodynamic coefficient, a dynamic duo keeping wind noise at bay, although some idle diesel clattering does squeeze inside the cabin every now and then.

Those are the things BMW customers really want and you know it's true because that's the reason why BMW's aren't the pure scalpel - like machines they used to be.

Credit even more computational hours for removing unnecessary materials with scalpel - like precision, as well as an increased use of high - strength steel and aluminum.

It feels like Steam took a machete to a problem that called for a scalpel — and maybe some warning.»

He stabs opponents a lot with his scalpel, chews up people with his steel mouth, and spins like a ballerina to swap places with opponents.

Scrupulously, like a surgeon wielding a scalpel, Julien dissects the film's sequences, scenes, and shots to synthesize them as a contemporary art installation of great complexity.

Seen over at This Is Colossal and using discarded atlases, encyclopedias to scientific reference books, Wildenboer slices their pages with a scalpel, delicately creating a network of vein - like structures or negative spaces where various nature - inspired forms are silhouetted.

This is exactly what I expect if the BEST scalpel is acting like a low - cut filter.

That would be like if I invented a new type of space scalpel, but instead of asking a neurosurgeon astronaut if he'd be interested, I wasted my time talking to fucking Keith.

Well, unlike traditional dynamic drivers, which create sound by pushing air like a piston for a more - hatchet - than - scalpel approach, planar drivers use a micro-thin membrane excited by a magnet to create subtle vibrations that more accurately reproduce the music you love.