Sentences with phrase «of hair structure»

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And sure, Gen Y has less regard for seniority and reporting structures than your older workers do, but that's just part of being young — remember your hair - metal days?

The reorganization of salon hair care brand Eufora into four collections prompts a package redesign that builds on an existing structure while adding a simple, elegant «waterfall» feature.

CIB2, which is short for calcium and integrin - binding protein 2, is essential for the structure of stereocilia, the structures at the top of the sensory hair cells in the inner ear.

Specialized sensory neurons in the inner ear, called hair cells, are responsible for the detection of sounds, and this information is transmitted to the auditory cortex via several intermediate structures.

They were the first to demonstrate that a microwave beam could actually lift a real structure — a tiny sail, about 1.4 inches in diameter, composed of lightweight carbon fibers 10 times thinner than a human hair.

«That means things that are smaller than the diameter of a human hair, like cells, parts of cells or the fine structure of fibers.»

So far, gene therapy attempts have only resulted in partial improvements of hearing in mouse models of specific human deafness forms that did not include severe anomalies in hair cell structure.

With a single local injection of the USH1G gene just after birth, the scientists observed a restoration of the structure and mechanosensory function of the inner ear hair bundles — profoundly damaged before birth -, resulting in a long - term partial recovery of hearing, and complete recovery of vestibular function in these mice.

Hallmarks of their domestication include features such as hair color, texture and patterns, as well as facial structure and how docile a cat is.

The chemical helps alter the protein structure of hair strands so that they remain smooth and straight for months.

Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey and the University of Cincinnati also have master's - level programs in cosmetic science, with courses covering a range of areas including colloid and surface science, biochemistry, applied organic chemistry, and the structure of skin, hair, and nails.

If the size of these crystalline structures is 1,000 times smaller than a single human hair diameter, then they are called nano - structures such as nano - rods, nano - wires, nano - ribbons, nano - belts etc..

It shows a cluster of spore - filled sporangia (the balled structures, which sit on the underside of ferns» fronds) interspersed with specialized protective hairs called paraphyses.

But it seemed unlikely, because the body coverings were thought to grow differently: Feathers and hair develop from specialized plates of thickened ectoderm — an embryonic cell layer — called anatomical placodes, structures not seen in reptiles.

Each of these structures, called placodes and displayed in dark blue, will give rise to a hair, a scale or a feather.

Muscle, skin, hair, cartilage, antibodies, enzymes, and hormones are just a few of the structures made of proteins.

Protein molecules compose many of the major elements of our body, and dark proteins — those with completely unknown structure — are abundant in skin and hair, and glands that make saliva, semen, and milk.

In caterpillars such as Drepana arcuata, seen in this video, a hair - like structure at the end of the abdomen has evolved into an «anal oar» that the insect scrapes along the surface of a leaf to warn off an intruder.

So scientists decided to look at the microscopic structure of hair.

And all of this thanks to tiny structures that are up to 1,000 times smaller than a human hair.»

Instead of looking for fossilised hair in therapsids Benoit and his colleagues used scanning technology to search for the neural structures which innervated hairs in therapsids.

While the research team hasn't yet shown whether the structures, which produce strands of hair on our bodies, are fully functional and usable for transplants onto a scalp, experts say the discovery is a significant step toward finding new treatments for hair loss.

A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describes the previously undiscovered technology employed by the bat Glossophaga soricina: a tongue tip that uses blood flow to erect scores of little hair - like structures exactly at the right time to slurp up extra nectar from within a flower.

Some proteins give an organism's body its structure, whether in the cell's internal skeleton or in a strand of hair.

Mammalian hairs and avian feathers develop from a similar primordial structure called a «placode»: a local thickening of the epidermis with columnar cells that reduce their rate of proliferation and express very specific genes.

The fibres included in these images were identified on the basis of their structure, typical to goat hair.

These 0.5 - 2 mm - long hair - like structures at the tip of each leaf function like a Swiss Army knife in their ability to collect water from a variety of size scales.

Long - term absence of WNT10A leads to miniaturization of hair follicle structures and enlargement of the associated sebaceous glands, a phenomenon that is also observed in male pattern baldness.

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).

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.

Even worse, he says, when their surroundings change, stress granules switch from being hydrogels to a different type of structure, called liquid droplets, the same way hair gel might dissolve in water if you heat it up.

Recent advances in optical physics have made it possible to use fluorescent microscopy to study complex structures smaller than 200 nanometres (nm)-- around 500 times smaller than the width of a human hair.

The team also found that the flightless cormorants have an abnormally high number of genetic mutations affecting cilia — small, hair - like structures that protrude from cells and regulate everything from normal development to reproduction.

The images confirmed that, as in other spiders, the bottom of the foot is decked out with long hairs (setae), the undersides of which are densely covered by even finer hairs (setules) with triangular tips, they report 19 April in Smart Materials and Structures.

A new discovery about the structure of human hair is likely to change the way scientists and researchers, as well as the cosmetics industry, view and explore it in the future.

These structures of carbon may be tiny — a nanotube's diameter is about 10,000 times smaller than a human hair — but their impact on science and technology has been enormous.

«It also highlights the importance of using a submicron X-ray beam to unravel the structures of poorly ordered, multiphase systems such as hair.»

During the American Crystallographic Association (ACA) 2015 Meeting, which will be held in Philadelphia from July 25 - 29, Vesna Stanic, a scientist working at the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Source, will present an abstract, «Local and average structure of human hair,» describing their discovery and methods.

If you've heard of «keratin,» you may already know that human hair consists primarily of keratin molecules arranged in a hierarchical sort of structure, in which the fundamental building block is known as an «intermediate filament.»

But what could you use if you wanted to create something really small — a structure less than the width of a human hair?

Using a submicron X-ray beam and transmission electron microscopy, they were able to spatially resolve the local structure of the three main regions of human hair: medulla, cortex and cuticle.

Shortly afterwards, a team led by paleontologist Derek Briggs of Yale University showed for the first time that cellular structures called melanosomes, which contain the melanin pigments that give color to skin and hair in humans and plumage in birds, can be preserved in fossil feathers.

Although much older mammalian fossils include remnants of hair, Luo notes, those structures are mere impressions and don't preserve the detail seen in the newly described fossil.

The Stanford algorithm designs silicon structures so slender that more than 20 of them could sit side - by - side inside the diameter of a human hair.

This structure would be sewn into place as a clitoris and be surrounded by a labia minora, made of foreskin, and a labia majora, made from Emma's hair - bearing scrotal skin.

Inside the tumour, doctors found clumps of hair, and a 3 - centimetre - wide brain - like structure covered by a thin plate of skull bone.

To create a believable tree, you need both true - to - life textures — Prusinkiewicz and his colleagues have recently created a tool for simulating the tiny hairs on the surface of a leaf — and you need a realistic branch structure.

Using the new software, the researchers designed arrays of hair - like structures with a resolution of 50 microns — about the width of a human hair.

Certain amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, essential molecules used by life to build structures like hair and skin and to regulate chemical reactions.

Now researchers in MIT's Media Lab have found a way to bypass a major design step in 3 - D printing, to quickly and efficiently model and print thousands of hair - like structures.