Sentences with phrase «mitochondria.these microscopic cell»

How else can microscopic cells evolve and differentiate into a fully formed human?

Its hundreds of thousands of microscopic cells are spectacularly preserved in phosphate minerals.

«After surgery, you always have microscopic cells that spread,» he says, «and they hide throughout the brain, beyond the areas we can visualize by any kind of imaging technology.

«Sometimes surgeons want to take out the tumor — and more — to avoid regrowth, in case there are some microscopic cells left behind, but they don't know how much they can safely cut off around it,» Yeom says.

The stylized painting, derived from Asian principles, uses gold leaf, aluminum, acrylic dye and other materials to uncover the beauty of microscopic cells in the brain.

Even after removal of the tumor there are microscopic cells that exist far beyond that area that was removed, and that's why these tumors come back.

Two billion years ago, around the time atmospheric oxygen levels were rising, one cell engulfed another, and instead of becoming lunch, the ingestee became an Earth - changer and, eventually, a vital part of you: mitochondria.These microscopic cell inhabitants / engines allowed their host cell to suddenly begin to burn oxygen when digesting their food, an energy source that vastly expanded the amount of energy they could harvest from a given morsel of food.

Zinkicide is a nanoparticle smaller than a single microscopic cell, and researchers are cautiously optimistic it will be able to move systemically from cell to cell to kill the bacteria that cause HLB.

TAU researchers devise a novel probe to identify and measure microscopic cell activity Chemiluminescence, or chemical light, is the principle behind the glow sticks (also known as light stic... Read more

When scientists first isolated and cultured embryonic stem cells in 1998, they opened discovery into the pathways by which a few microscopic cells grow into the complex human body with all of its highly specialized parts.

Her web - like structures are reminiscent of both microscopic cell formations and macroscopic visions of outer space.

Microscopic cell structures, otherworldly beings, and mystical totem-esque forms fill Tudor's art.

Sperm — the microscopic cells that join up with an egg to cause pregnancy — are made in your testicles.

Mold produces microscopic cells called «spores» which are very tiny and spread easily through the air.

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.

As you discover and practice new emotional intelligence skills, the billions of microscopic neurons lining the road between the rational and emotional centers of your brain branch off small «arms» (much like a tree) to reach out to the other cells.

Now comes word of another moonshot project from the company's Google X division: an ingestible disease - detecting pill containing thousands of microscopic magnetic particles that course through a person's bloodstream in search of malignant cells, according to the Associated Press.

A veteran of digital imaging technology, in 1999 he founded Quantitative Imaging Corp. (QImaging), a manufacturer of digital cameras for scientific and industrial uses — the kind, for example, that can detect microscopic, early - stage cancer cells.

A microscopic bundle of cells should NEVER have more rights than a thinking, feeling person who is already established in this world.

You have no concept of what you are talking about when you are calling a child» a microscopic bunch of cells».

As the very title of the essay makes clear, his problematic is how to justify the existence of compound individual entities (e.g., organisms) when the ultimate entities are microscopic (cells) or submicroscopic (atoms).

No, you say that microscopic human life is worthless in sperm and sacred when combined with a different type of cell a couple inches away.

No complete light has yet been thrown on the secret processes taking place in the microscopic recesses of the cell.

What about religious objections to research on microscopic stem cells that can cure all sorts of ailments?

Imagine ourselves back some four billion years ago on this planet facing two scenarios: on one side, a vast turbulence, terrific volcanoes belching forth from the inexhaustible fires of the earth's core; on the other side the beginnings of living cells, microscopic, invisible along the water's edge of some shallow sea, quiet, vital.

So at day 14, the number of nerve and brain cells in the human embryo is zero, and it has less complexity than the simplest microscopic worm and less feeling or intelligence than a parasite in dirty drinking water.

Seriously, when you start getting down to a microscopic level and looking at atoms and molecules and the structures of cells, the world changes.

Month One: Microscopic Tube Mom's fertilized egg divides into two, then four, eight, sixteen cells and so on, multiplying at an ever increasing rate into billions and billions.

But, we know that it is very likely there is microscopic cancer cells left in the body.

Consistent with this idea, microscopic examination of fetal small intestine before birth reveals immature epithelium and sparse lymphoid cells.

Now nestled in the nutrient - rich lining of your uterus is a microscopic ball of hundreds of rapidly multiplying cells that will develop into your baby.

Dendritic cells (green) are migrating actively within lymphatic capillaries (red; microscopic image).

These are microscopic gates that allow neighboring cells to exchange ions, molecules and electrical impulses quickly and directly.

For decades, researchers thought iron - rich cells in birds» beaks acted as microscopic compasses (SN: 5/19/12, p. 8).

They found that even the briefest of pulses in the nanosecond to femtosecond range produced a microscopic explosion called a cavitation bubble powerful enough to damage nearby cells.

The team created microscopic wounds in the pupae's epithelial layer using a laser that can be focused down to a point small enough to punch microscopic holes in individual cells (less than a millionth of a meter).

The microscopic, single - celled, eukaryotic fungus is found everywhere, and we know it well.

Scientists are forced either to experiment on whole animals, which is expensive, raises ethical issues and may not predict effects in humans, or to perform tests on microscopic human cells found in tissue cultures, which have been altered to live forever and bear little relation to actual living, breathing people.

By recreating the physical forces that developing cells experience, stem cells have been coaxed into forming microscopic beating hearts

Fungi Barely Make It Microscopic black fungal cells, found in the cracks of Antarctica's rocks, might also survive on Mars — but just barely.

This microscopic image of fibroblast cells shows the induction of cell fusion by a newly described gene and its protein, called myomerger.

«Researchers often seek out the types of cancerous cells that are homogenous in nature and are easier to observe with traditional microscopic devices,» said Luis Polo - Parada, an Associate Professor of Medical Pharmacology and Physiology and an investigator at Mizzou's Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center.

That's not enough to send the beams around sharp corners, but they could be guided around objects, such as cells, in microscopic applications.

«At the very microscopic level,» he says, «we have developed techniques like two - photon microscopy, which allows extremely detailed examinations of structures and processes within cells.»

Organisms that surprisingly survived the harsh 7,000 - kilometer journey across the Pacific Ocean on 634 items of tsunami debris ranged from 52 - centimeter - long fish (a Western Pacific yellowtail amberjack) to microscopic single - celled protists.

But it's only because it's on the microscopic level that this structure can overcome the problem of maintenance: the molecules that control the wheel and axle reach it by diffusing through the cell's cytoplasm.

But scientists say they may one day be able to insert microscopic carbon nanotubes into injured joints — such as knees — encouraging new, stronger cartilage cells to grow in place damaged or thinning ones.

This microscopic image of fixed cells shows how a dendritic cell presents the messenger substance interleukin 6 (IL - 6) to a T cell.

A few microscopic techniques can focus light deep into the intact brains of dead animals to study its structure without damaging the axons, but much of this light is scattered away by the fatty lipid membranes that surround individual cells, making the technique less than perfect.

Nerve cells threatened by stroke or degenerative diseases may have a surprising new ally — microscopic spheres of carbon called buckyballs.