Sentences with phrase «like tiny cells»

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A CCD works like this: Light hits a tiny grid of photosensitive silicon cells, each which build a charge proportional to the intensity of the light hitting it.

So in a country in which third trimester abortions are legal on - demand, our abortion discussion centers on questions like «So why are you against the removal of a tiny clump of rapist - produced cells?»

The DNA molecule is like a tiny microprocessor that controls everything a living cell does.

Oh, and that «s why we fight against stem cell research, because every stem cell is like a tiny Carl Sagan baby.

For instance, motion pictures of living brain cells taken through a microscope reveal tiny microglial cells that look like spiders and climb the trunks and branches of neurons cleaning up debris and performing who knows what other functions.

How come a cell can behave like a tiny computer or build a complex shell?

A byproduct of the discovery of RNAi was the finding that although cells in the human body only contain one strand of RNA, they do have micro-RNA — tiny sections of RNA that can act a little like double - stranded RNA and also silence the activity of certain genes.

This is how progesterone boosts CK5 + cells — like tiny gatekeepers, progesterone receptors and their cofactors sit in front of the gene CK5, opening the doors of DNA to be read at this point.

Rather than contributing to our understanding of life, Wolfram says Wade's discovery could help devise ways to build a molecular - scale computer, starting from tiny components like the cells in Life.

That allows the printer to build in tiny cell wall — like structures on each scale that prevent fractures and other common problems.

It is known that the egg gets its food from little arm - like feeding tubes (called filopodia) that jut out from tiny cells surrounding the egg and must poke through a thick wall coating the egg in order to feed it.

Based on the pioneering work of Dr. Claire Lugassy and Dr. Raymond Barnhill at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, a new study provides additional support for a process by which melanoma cells, a deadly form of skin cancer, can spread throughout the body by creeping like tiny spiders along the outside of blood vessels without ever entering the blood stream, and that this process is exacerbated by exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light.

These multi-junction solar cells have set world records in efficiency, approaching 50 percent, but they require expensive manufacturing techniques, limiting them to niche applications like satellites or requiring mirrors to concentrate sunlight on tiny cells (ClimateWire, Oct. 20, 2014).

Histone is a protein that acts like a spool for DNA, helping to package the six - foot long DNA strand into the tiny nucleus of every cell.

Rather than stick the isolated cells on a flat culture dish, they mixed the cells with liquid, then let the mixture hang in tiny droplets from a plastic lid, like condensation on the roof of a container.

Under a microscope, a cell's cytoplasm can resemble a tiny underwater version of New York's Times Square: Thousands of proteins swarm through a cytoplasm's watery environment, coming together and breaking apart like a cytoskeletal flash mob.

«There are only 1000 tiny cells in 1 cubic centimetre of sediment, so finding just one is literally like hunting for a needle in a haystack.»

You might think that they would look like miniature versions of machines we know, so if you were building a tiny machine that was going to move around in the bloodstream and look for cancerous cells, it might look like a little submarine.

Or, they speculate, it may act more like a professional packer, helping to enclose Sema3D in tiny molecular bubbles called vesicles before it is secreted by the cell.

So far he has worked mainly with fish muscle cells and has had some limited success in producing a tiny mass of tissue that looks, smells and cooks like a fish fillet.

Low voltage T - type channels generate tiny pulses of current at regular intervals by selectively passing positively charged cations across the cell's membrane through a gate - like channel.

The researchers incubate cells with tiny snippets of single - stranded DNA engineered to slip into the cells» outer membranes, covering each cell like the hairs on a tennis ball.

We already knew that E. coli can grip to human cells using hair - like appendages that have tiny protein hooks on their tips, but until now no one had worked out the structure of this protein, called FimH, or how it interacts with human cells.

Something like a Google Earth for the inside of the human head, the atlas will make it possible for neuroscientists (or anyone else) to inspect large features of neuronal architecture, or tiny details down to the level of the cell.

They then combined these cells in a special dish shaped like a tiny dog bone.

One group of cells had a planar interface between perovskite and ETL, whereas in the other one a mesoporous interface was built up, intermingling perovskite and metal oxide to form a sponge like structure that contains a huge number of extremely tiny pores.

The adapter works like a tiny trailer hitch, enabling the drug to tow the cell's protein - degradation machinery directly to the protein of interest.

Microfluidic devices are tiny chips that can sort out disease biomarkers, cells and other small structures in samples like blood by using microscopic channels incorporated into the devices.

Like a type of door, sodium channels allow sodium ions to flow into nerve cells through tiny pores.

Scientists at the University of Luxembourg have succeeded in turning human stem cells derived from skin samples into tiny, 3 - D, brain - like cultures that behave very similarly to cells in the human midbrain.

Ubiquitin is a tiny protein that attaches itself to other proteins in the cell, like the misfolding misfits noted above, and targets them to be degraded.

For example, he explains, smooth muscle cells grow thicker in large blood vessels like arteries, but similar type of contractile cells begin to die off in tiny blood vessels in the eye.

Cells are like tiny factories, where different functions are carried out by highly specialized structures called organelles.

Shaped like a tiny doughnut with a depression instead of a hole in the center, each cell rushes through the widest blood vessels and squeezes through the slimmest vessels, known as capillaries.

WISH Gehring would like to isolate endosperm without dissecting tiny seeds by hand; she hopes that the triploid nature of endosperm tissue (with two maternal and one paternal genomes) will help her to isolate it from other, diploid cells by flow cytometry.

This had been impossible in the past because, unlike mammalian egg cells which are tiny and transclucent, a bird's egg cell is filled with opaque yolk and it is huge — this means that finding the nucleus is like looking for a white marble in a pool of milk.

This primary response involves the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS), which are molecules that can act like tiny bombs when released by the plant cell at the offending pathogen.

As a first line of defense against bacterial pathogens, plant cells recognize and respond to tiny bacterial molecules, such as pieces of flagellin that slough off the whip - like flagella that help the bacteria move.

Sodium channels in the cells that line the tiny capillaries in our lungs play an important role in keeping those capillaries from leaking and potentially worsening conditions like pneumonia, scientists report.

Tiny hair - like structures on cells lining your airways, called cilia, push the mucus back up to your throat.

In this study, scientists in Dr. Harvey Lodish's lab at Whitehead and their colleagues at Millennium found that FATP4 is present at high levels in the cells that line the villi, the tiny finger - like projections in the small intestines.

Simply put, inside our cells, we have tiny organisms called mitochondria which work like tiny power plants to produce energy.

«The Caco - 2 is a single layer of cells grown in a laboratory environment that develops the characteristics and functions of the micro-villi, the tiny hair - like projections that aid efficient absorption found mainly in the small intestine,» Dr Opara said.

The mitochondria act like a tiny «power plant» for your cells telling your cells how to feel and giving them the energy they need.

In your intestinal tract, there reside very small micro-villi (thee are very tiny finger like projections which come off the lining of the intestinal tract with hair like cell membrane extensions — called the «brush border»), which serve as the major point of absorption of nutrients.

As a result those smart and intelligent invisible tiny soldiers (the white blood cells) will never attack your own body (or will stop doing that) but will protect and fight for you like Kamikazes.

The lactase enzyme necessary to digest milk lactose is secreted by the tip of the villi, which are tiny, hair - like cells that line your small intestine.

Now please don't get confused with the amino acid L - glutamine because glutamate is converted to glutamine by cells lining the intestinal tract, which, in turn, is used by the villi (tiny hair like projectiles in intestinal lining) to maintain their health and integrity.

Each compact contains a flat, cushiony sponge containing tiny, precisely engineered cells of a BB - cream - like fluid.

Unlike the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm series which is more and more a mess of technical, balance and gameplay issues these days, Brave Soldiers delivers what is a nice, franchise - based fighting game, at first, i was expecting a simple fighting game with some button mashing, however, the game proved me wrong and i fell in love, the combo system, while easy, is a lot more deep than the one in the Naruto games, with all of the characters having two special attacks, two «burst attacks», a knock - away and a launcher respectively, a throw and an ultimate attack (called a «Big Bang Attack»), every character also has an universal dodge - action that sends them behind their enemies while spending one cosmo bar, making bar management that much precious and shielding you from a half - a-hour combo, unlike in the NUNS series, the fighting and the characters are nicely balanced, with every character being fun to play and viable at the same time, the game runs smoothly without frame - rate issues and the cell - shaded graphics, character models, arenas and effects alike are nice to the eye, battles are divided into rounds, with all the tiny nice stuff like character introductions and outros being intact (fun fact: the characters will even comment on their score after the battle), the game also features an awakening system, called the «Seventh Sense» awakening, unlike the NUNS awakening system which became severely unbalanced in the later game, every character simply gains a damage / defense boost, with the conditions being the same for all characters, eliminating situations when one character can use awakening at almost any point in the battle, or one awakening being drastically stronger than the other, the game has a story mode with three story arcs used to unlock characters, a collection mode, tournament modes, a survival mode, a series of special versus modes and online battle modes.