Sentences with phrase «single human hair»

Materials scientist and research collaborator Craig Criddle describes what we are seeing in the image above (100 of the microbes pictured would fit in the width of a single human hair):

In these stage - set like interiors, populated with furry pompoms, mounds of clay planted with sticks, scraps of woodshavings, twigs, twisted bits of glowing neon, and odds and ends as seemingly inconsequential as a cherry pit and a single human hair, Warren manages to build up a strange and tense portentousness.

Their method, published ahead of print in the Oct. 17, 2008 online edition of Nature Biotechnology, not only provides a practical and simple alternative for the generation of patient - and disease - specific stem cells, which had been hampered by the low efficiency of the reprogramming process, but also spares patients invasive procedures to collect suitable starting material, since the process only requires a single human hair.

The rockets are just 300 microns in length and 100 microns in diameter, the thickness of a single human hair, and create their own thrust, allowing them to «swim» through any bio fluid containing the fuel.

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..

The ESA's new system is designed to counter the force of sunlight on a spacecraft — about the same as the force of gravity on a single human hair.

Not exact matches

The material measures just one atomic layer, which is about one - thousand times thinner than a single strand of human hair.

A record - setting electric motor, which debuted last year, pushes superlatives to the limit: It consists of a single molecule, measuring just 1 nanometer across, 1/60, 000 the width of a human hair.

«With an outer diameter of only 130 microns, the probe is as thin as a single strand of human hair,» says Dr Jiawen Li, a researcher with the Adelaide Medical School, ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale Biophotonics (CNBP) and the Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS) at the University of Adelaide.

Further study showed that the region of human DNA that contained the single nucleotide change associated with blondness specifically affected the expression of KITLG only in hair follicles.

Ithaca, NY — Flying around on a miniature leash made from a single strand of her human handler's hair, a female Aedes aegypti mosquito gravitates toward the love song of a prospective mate.

Malinski's team has developed unique methods and systems of measurements using nanosensors, which are about 1,000 times smaller in diameter than a human hair, to track the impacts of Vitamin D3 on single endothelial cells, a vital regulatory component of the cardiovascular system.

That's exactly what a group of chemical engineers and biochemists attempted in a new study, embedding single - walled carbon nanotubes — microscopic tubes thinner than a human hair that can also absorb sunlight and convert it to electron flow — in living chloroplasts.

His Field Emission Electric Propulsion (FEEP) system produces the smallest thrust of any space engine ever: It is designed to counter the force of sunlight on a spacecraft — about the same as that of a single falling human hair.

Previous studies have revealed that human hair, reptile scales and bird feathers evolved from a single ancestor — a reptile that lived 300 million years ago — but this new study from the Fraser Lab at Sheffield has found that the skin teeth found on sharks also developed from the same genes.

Study of the materials has been hindered by their extremely small size: A single metal thread is sometimes only as thick as a human hair, and the thickness of its gold coating is a hundredth of that.

A single HCMV particle measures about 150 — 300 nanometers; a human hair is roughly 100,000 nanometers thick.

Their small size — they are 1,000 times smaller than the tip of a single strand of human hair — and «sticky» surfaces enable them to accumulate and be retained within the plaques to facilitate healing and remodeling to block plaque rupture and thrombosis.

In fact, they repeatedly generated iPS cells from the tiny number of keratinocytes attached to a single hair plucked from a human scalp.

These nanoparticles are 1000 times smaller than the tip of a single human - hair strand.

The measurement approach consists of a microchip with a single hole or pore in it that is a few nanometers wide — about 5,000 times smaller than a human hair.

Please note that each of the items shown here has a range of different sizes (for example, human hairs range from roughly 50 — 200 microns), and I've picked a single representative value in each case.

They are a single coated breed, meaning they have no undercoat, resembling actual human hair.

Unlike humans, which have a single hair in each follicle, dogs have several hairs growing from each follicle: usually a guard hair (thicker, longer, stiffer hairs that grow through, protect and conceal the undercoat) and several secondary hairs, or undercoat.

The LEES ultracapacitor has the capacity to overcome this energy limitation by using vertically aligned, single - wall carbon nanotubes — one thirty - thousandth the diameter of a human hair and 100,000 times as long as they are wide.

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