Sentences with phrase «of radiation resistance»

Researchers sent the hardy Earth bacteria up to the International Space Station for a real test of radiation resistance in the space experiment ADAPT, which was mounted on the EXPOSE - E platform of the space station's Columbus module.

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This means that computers could have the benefits of data delivered by light — high speeds, no heat caused by electronic resistance, and no interference from electromagnetic radiation — but would also be able to slow that data down enough so that computers chips could do something useful with it.

We could get radiation - resistance genes, for example, from the Bdelloid rotifer, a class of small invertebrates that live in freshwater pools and survive megadoses of ionizing radiation.

Mesenchymal glioma stem cells show significantly higher radiation resistance and high expression of DNA - repair genes;

«In this study we've used a bacterium with unrivalled resistance to radiation as a model for the type of bacteria we might find signs of on Mars.

Now researchers from The University of Manchester and University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust — both part of the Manchester Cancer Research Centre — have investigated the role of a molecule known as FAK in controlling the resistance of DCIS to radiation and in predicting disease recurrence.

Although CSs comprise only 2 % -5 % of all uterine malignancies and 1 % -2 % of all ovarian tumors, they are responsible for a disproportionate number of deaths due to their high biologic aggressiveness and resistance to standard treatments, such as radiation and chemotherapy.

This complexity contributes to its aggressive nature and resistance to conventional therapies such as chemotherapy and radiation therapy,» says Fisher, Thelma Newmeyer Corman Endowed Chair in Cancer Research and co-leader of the Cancer Molecular Genetics research program at Massey Cancer Center, professor and chair of the Department of Human and Molecular Genetics at the VCU School of Medicine, and director of the VIMM.

Thus apart from direct cytotoxic effect, the exposure of cancer cells to therapeutic doses of radiation also enhances the survival and proliferation of a fraction of cells which ultimately leads to radiation resistance and therapeutic inefficacy.

At the same time, the researchers made sure that the apparent radiation resistance in their experiment did not come from any kind of shielding.

GSC resistance to radiation due to upregulation of pro-survival signaling and enhanced DNA damage repair capacity.

One of the more surprising studies I've seen on a fruit for acne revealed that eating mangos can increase your skin's resistance to UV radiation.

They are found in both our internal and external environments and include excessive levels of the hormone insulin (insulin resistance), emotional stress, environmental toxins (heavy metals), free - radical damage, viral, bacterial, fungal other pathogenic infections, obesity, overconsumption of hydrogenated oils, periodontal disease, radiation exposure, smoking, spirochetes such as the Borrelia that causes Lyme disease, and certain pharmacological drugs.

i) The mass of the atmosphere — providing resistance to the flow of radiation through the atmosphere ii) The level of solar input which determines the height by which molecules can rise from the surface.

A liquid - expansion or platinum - resistance thermometer placed in the atmosphere at elevation 2m (for example) above ocean or land surface measures: — molecular kinetic energy (molecular translational energy, heat) plus — LWR energy plus — molecular vibrational energy of the GHGs (primarily H2O in the gaseous form) because LWR energy and molecular vibrational energy of the GHGs are transmuted to molecular kinetic energy (molecular translational energy, heat) upon impacting upon the molecules of the solid and I understand that there is no transverse electromagnetic radiation inside a solid.

SW - LW radiation is electromagnetic energy that can be become heat energy only when converted to kinetic energy under conditions of resistance; mass colliding with mass.

The thermal resistance / conductivity of this layer is not used for the DLR, solar heating, convection and radiation out.

By retaining this top half of the thermal resistance one would have access to the actual surface temperature which would be more correct for calculating the upward surface radiation.

I have carried out complex analyses in heat transfer equipment designs in the past involving series of thermal resistances and associated temperature drops — starting with changes of phase, boiling heat transfer to liquid metals, conduction through silicon carbide walls, convection and radiation from non-luminous gases and radiation from refractory walls all on a single spreadsheet.

... consisted of two platinum strips covered with lampblack... Electromagnetic radiation falling on the exposed strip would heat it and change its resistance.