Sentences with phrase «microscopic sizes»

In movies, exploring the body up close often involves shrinking to microscopic sizes and taking harrowing rides through the blood.

Medicine: The Art of Bacterial Warfare (p 56) The second leading cause of death worldwide is from the microscopic sized pathogens that lead to infectious diseases.

The sealed vessel «The Proteus» is reduced down to microscopic size and it's crew through a secret organizational branch known as the «CMDF» (Combined Miniature Defense Force or Combined Miniature Deterrent Forces) and are injected into the artery of a defecting Russian scientist who has suffered a brain injury and is in a coma from an assassination attempt on his life... The CMDF's Mission... to navigate inside the body of the scientist to get to the brain (within exactly 60 minutes) where Dr. Duval and the team of the «Proteus» will attempt to dissolve to coagulum with a laser beam and get back to the center of the patient's body before everything starts growing back to its original size.

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«Ant - Man» (2015) Paul Rudd plays a thief just out of prison who stumbles on a suit that shrinks him to microscopic size — all the better to prevent Corey Stoll's evil executive from using the same technology for warfare.

Method or Madness (4 minutes) is a very weird segment where Marlon Wayans shrinks down to microscopic size.

She's the only person I would allow to be shrunk to microscopic size and explore me in a tiny submersible machine.

Despite their microscopic size, an infection of hookworms can cause serious and even fatal anemia as the worms drink blood from the small intestine.

Because of the microscopic size of most intestinal parasites, the only reliable method of detection in dogs is by routine fecal screening.

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With barely 2mm - small hole at its top, the work is at once a pot, but can also be grasped in the sense of an objet from the microscopic size of that hole.

Not exact matches

Woven from conductive thread built on microscopic carbon nanotube sheets, this fiber could one day help power human - sized electronic wearables and high - performance solar cells.

I do think that being an atheist in light of the complexity of creation (both on an infinite universe - sized level and on a microscopic atomic level) requires some amount of faith in something — even if it is faith in the ability of random pieces of matter to assemble themselves into something complicated.

Furthermore, the patients may find that it's better for (half monkeys like you) to have a mega microscopic brain rather than to have a regular size one but only serves as an extra burden for a half human like them that has the intellectual capacity as to monkeys.

From its outset, quantum mechanics has been a source of intrigue; the picture it presents of the microscopic world being so different to that of everyday experience gained from normal - sized entities, between the atomic scale and the vast spaces of the cosmos.

All I've seen is some pretty obviously tongue - in - cheek banter about his tough start in a microscopic sample size, and then maybe some postulating that the 2018 Pirates might actually be no worse off without him.

It takes a huge amount of data to describe a star, the precursor of a black hole — from macroscopic properties such as its size and temperature down to the microscopic properties of its constituent particles.

The shrimp represent centimeter - sized swimmers, including krill and shrimplike copepods, found throughout the world's oceans that may together be capable of mixing ocean layers — and delivering nutrient - rich deep waters to phytoplankton, or microscopic marine plants, near the surface, the researchers suggest.

They are the microscopic, disordered regions where atom - sized building blocks bind the crystals (i.e. grains) together in materials.

The 500 - pound, 5 - foot - tall robot was much larger than the 12 - pound, 32 - inch - tall monkey whose neural signals were directing it, and this underscored a simple yet remarkable point: Implant technology could enable brainpower to control a huge object (like a robot crane) or a tiny one (like a microscopic surgical tool) just as easily as a life - size mechanical arm.

Black holes vary enormously in size, from Goliaths with the mass of a million stars to the literally microscopic.

Using the new methods of micromachining, which borrow technology for making computer chips to carve out and build up microscopic structures on silicon wafers, Peter Gammel and his colleagues at Bell Labs / Lucent Technologies reduced three of the critical devices of a cell phone to Lilliputian size that will allow all the components of a phone to be constructed on a single chip.

The location, size, form and structure of each removed polyp was documented and sent for microscopic examination.

The researchers took molecules of different sizes and colours and used microscopic imaging to see which size of molecule could get into the gap between an immune cell and another cell.

The grooves are just the right size and shape to condense water molecules directly from moist air and to catch microscopic fog droplets.

And in a region of space the size of a cathedral, you would find one microscopic speck of solid interstellar dust.

Once inside the lungs, the microscopic fungal spore transforms into a spherule (pictured), a podlike structure 10 to 20 times the size of the original spore (30 or 40 microns, or about half the width of a human hair).

Most of the time, atmospheric chemists can see the carbon clumping taking place; when the microscopic bits reach a certain size, they are able to attract and hold water.

A postage - stamp - sized «camera on a chip» and microscopic microphones may form the basis of a videophone that could be worn on wrist.

Due to their tiny size, irregular shape and limited viewing angle, commonly used microscopic imaging techniques can not always capture the whole object's shape often leaving out valuable information that can be important in numerous areas of science, engineering and medicine.

The researchers measured the shapes and sizes of the microscopic grooves that give the polyethylene its roughness and analyzed how these variables affect ski speed at different snow temperatures.

The software is designed to run on the MinION, an instrument the size of a credit card that pulls in strands of DNA through its microscopic pores and reads out sequences of nucleotides, or the DNA letters A, T, C, G.

During this microscopic odyssey, the sperm undergoes tumultuous transformations, using some as - yet - unknown materials in the cytoplasm to build a «beacon» to find the female pronucleus, its head of DNA swelling some five times its original size and then later condensing into chromosomes at the end of the journey.

By shining a laser light on a microscopic - sized plastic bead attached to a pair of microtubules linked by kinesin - 5 molecules, the team tracked their activity and discovered that this force is a function of the microtubule overlap — the longer the overlap, the greater the force.

Roughly the size of a postage stamp, the plate is lined with microscopic grooves crossing a flexible strip of silicone that runs across the middle.

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Light rays bend around a microscopic sphere just as they would around a gargantuan black hole thanks to a new chip - sized device.

«If we go back 10 years and ask what is the most important parameter [to developing a therapeutic particle], people would immediately think of the particle's size and then its surface chemistry,» says University of California, Santa Barbara, chemical engineering professor Samir Mitragotri, who develops microscopic particles of different shapes and tests their ability to deliver drugs, but was not associated with DeSimone's study.

Phycologists consider seaweed to refer any of a large number of marine benthic algae that are multicellular, macrothallic (large - bodied), and thus differentiated from most algae that tend to be microscopic in size.

Furthermore, both the size of the mitochondrion and its genome are an advantage in microscopic analyses.

I study the early stages of planet formation, where microscopic dust particles coagulate to form planetesimal - size bodies.

i) Representative phase contrast microscopic images at 40x magnification showing comparative size of spheres formed in siTRF2 silenced cells as compared to Scrambled.

Blooms of phytoplankton, or microscopic plants, had decreased by 12 per cent in the past 30 years, and the size of the cells had also shrunk.

Already, researchers at Vanderbilt University and the University of California, San Francisco, are collaborating on the construction of an implantable bio-artificial kidney that would contain microscopic filters and living kidney cells in a coffee - cup - size device that would work like a living dialysis machine inside the body — and provide most of the benefits of a kidney transplant.

Phase contrast microscopic images of spheres at Day 4 and Day 7 post silencing shows larger size and higher number of spheres in scrambled than in siTRF2 silenced HCT116 (Fig 3i).

coccoliths: Microscopic structures of varying shape and size that are made of calcite, are secreted by calcareous nannoplankton, and are found in marine deposits from the Triassic period to the Recent.

In a fascinating set of projects we will look at the smallest scales and back in time, probing the mineralogy and composition of micron - sized grains in ancient meteorites using the most sophisticated microscopic techniques, to explore the history of volatiles and organics in planetary building blocks at the time when the Solar System was young.

Experiments confirm that entangled states exist at microscopic scales — at the size of atoms.

Julie Crockett and Daniel Maynes at Brigham Young University developed extreme waterproofing by etching microscopic ridges or posts onto CD - sized wafers.

It is really a type of algae and can range in size from microscopic to 100 feet in length.