Sentences with phrase «of flexible tissues»

He likens these networks of flexible tissues and structures to the Eiffel Tower — if said tower could grow, stretch and rip itself apart over time.

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In the course of it, you lose hundreds of millions of muscle cells that won't be replaced, and instead less flexible scar tissue forms on the heart, which can lead to patients needing a heart transplant.

Normally, the sensitive cord tissue is protected by the flexible stack of 33 bones that make up the spinal column.

The process involves putting a flexible tube in a patient's nose or mouth, and using a heatable electrode array to help decrease the amount of excess muscle tissue restricting air flow.

Printpack is a major converter of flexible and specialty rigid packaging for the world's biggest brand owners in the food and beverage industry as well as the household, lawn and garden, personal care, pet foods, tobacco, towel and tissue, and medical device markets.

In the flexibles segment there were impressive examples of paper - like films, including Schur's Paper Touch and ultra-thin solutions from Sun Chemical that suggested the feel of tissue paper - with deceptive strength.

So your body in its innate wisdom has covered that up with the fibrous connective tissue but that fibrous connective tissue is flexible and moldable and it makes all of these things that we've talked about possible.

The cords, two flexible bands of muscle lined with delicate tissue called mucosae, resonate in response to energy from the airflow.

As flexible and stretchable as living tissue, it nonetheless includes electronic elements that stimulate the spinal cord at the point of injury.

Perhaps in the future it may be possible for doctors to apply flexible bandages to severely burnt skin to reprogram the cells to heal that injury with functional tissue instead of forming a scar.

(2) Biological tissues are composed of cells and molecules such as, in the case of skin, rigid collagen, and flexible elastin.

«The ability to suture a thread - based diagnostic device intimately in a tissue or organ environment in three dimensions adds a unique feature that is not available with other flexible diagnostic platforms,» said Sameer Sonkusale, Ph.D., corresponding author on the paper and director of the interdisciplinary Nano Lab in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Tufts University's School of Engineering.

The researchers used a variety of conductive threads that were dipped in physical and chemical sensing compounds and connected to wireless electronic circuitry to create a flexible platform that they sutured into tissue in rats as well as in vitro.

This is a schematic of a bio-bot: Engineered skeletal muscle tissue is coupled to a 3 - D printed flexible skeleton.

Using a two - ply of flexible, thin plastic, scientists have created novel electronic sensors that send signals to the brain tissue of mice that closely mimic the nerve messages of touch sensors in human skin.

Because the battery is soft and flexible, it could be put into a person's soft tissue, where it should be capable of providing a power source for a pacemaker or other medical device.

A new study shows that restoring the lipids that help keep lung tissue flexible and inflated can help slow disease progression in laboratory models of pulmonary fibrosis.

The 10 - millimeter long robot is made up of four layers: tissue composed of live heart cells, two distinct types of specialized biomaterials for structural support, and flexible electrodes.

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have for the first time shown that it is possible to derive from a human embryo so - called «naïve» pluripotent stem cells — one of the most flexible types of stem cell, which can develop into all human tissue other than the placenta.

Most of us don't think too much about cartilage (soft, flexible connective tissue found in the body) unless it's damaged in which case it's importance becomes immediately apparent.

In addition, the fat you consume keeps your cell membranes flexible and helps maintain the structural integrity of your cells and tissues.

Scar tissue is not as flexible as our normal tissue so intercourse can be somewhat painful the first couple of times after childbirth.

The portable Compact RumbleRoller features a smaller size with firm but flexible bumps on its face specially designed to conform better to the curvature of some body parts, especially the neck, for kneading and stretching soft tissue.

There is usually flexible tissue called cartilage between them, as well as a type of fluid.

Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis and is caused by degeneration of cartilage - the smooth, flexible tissue that provides protection to the ends of bones.

Together with layers of flexible fibrous tissue and cartilage, they are called the joint capsule.

The periodontal ligament is made out of tough connective tissue, and runs between the bone of the jaw and the cementum of the roots, and holds the two together in a strong, flexible, elastic bond.

Physiomesh Flexible Composite Mesh is a type of synthetic hernia mesh designed to support the surrounding tissue after a hernia repair surgery first cleared by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in April of 2010 and withdrawn from the market in May of 2016 after medical professionals expressed concern over results from a clinical trial.