Sentences with phrase «produce heart and lung»

So far, scientists have used the printers to produce heart and lung tissue as well as cartilage and bone.

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This oil contains higher amounts of sulfur and in combustion produces hydrocarbons linked to lung, heart and respiratory conditions, Kaplan said.

Produced by the UK Small Area Health Statistics Unit (SAHSU), part of the MRC - PHE Centre for Environment & Health based at Imperial College London, the open - access atlas allows researchers, policy makers and members of the public to study the geographical pattern of 14 diseases and conditions such as lung cancer, breast cancer, heart disease, leukemia and low birth weight.

In less than five minutes, Ingber, the institute's 56 - year - old director, has pointed out a mattress that could prevent life - threatening sleep apnea in newborns; simulated lungs, intestines, and hearts made of silicone rubber using microchip manufacturing technology; and a machine that forces mutations in bacteria, directing their evolution so they can produce low - cost biofuels and drugs.

The study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, showed that the production of tar sands and other heavy oil — thick, highly viscous crude oil that is difficult to produce — are a major source of aerosols, a component of fine particle air pollution, which can affect regional weather patterns and increase the risk of lung and heart disease.

Over the past decade, scientists have linked soot and other tiny particles produced by combustion to heart attacks, asthma, and lung cancer, spurring a clampdown on fine particle pollution by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The body adapts to intense training by adding new capillaries, developing stronger heart and lung tissue, adding more energy producing mitochondria and increasing the bodies» tolerance to high levels of lactic acid accumulation (5).

If your diet doesn't provide enough energy to your body to sustain its vital functions, it will use its own protein to produce glucose and energy for your brain, lungs and heart.

Epinephrine increases our heart rate to enable our blood to deliver nutrients faster to our cells, stimulates our lungs to breathe faster, and triggers our cells to produce more glucose to keep up with the sudden increase in energy demand should there not be enough carbohydrate storage.

• Radiography — a diagnostic test using x-rays to produce an image of the lungs and heart.

They mate and produce additional larvae inside the heart and can expand to the blood vessels leading from the heart to the lungs.

Human exposure to fine particulate matter increases the risk of acute lower respiratory infection, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart disease, stroke and lung cancer, while exposure to carbon dioxide — a colorless, odorless, non-toxic gas — produces none of these effects and is in fact essential for life on earth.

For example, antimony, which is sometimes used to produce the color white, can harm the lungs, heart, stomach and other organs.

Between these layers, the cells produce fluid, which allows easy movement of the heart and lungs within the chest cavity.