Sentences with phrase «single tiny cell»

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They have grown them inside a tiny single - celled aquatic creature, whose biological make - up is similar to that of the malaria parasite.

Ultimately, Gracias dreams of coaxing bacteria to ferry spongy nanoparticles soaked in drugs and outfitting bacteria with tiny sensors that measure local temperature and pH or tiny tools that perform surgery on a single cell.

The cells are tiny — a few could fit on the head of a pin — so a single biodrone could carry several, enabling it to measure multiple atmospheric markers simultaneously.

Because T. vaginalis is a tiny single - celled protozoan that must hijack human cells to survive, it was expected to have a rather paltry genome.

In sickle cell anemia, a single genetic mutation leads to abnormal, crescent - shaped red blood cells that clot in tiny blood vessels throughout the body, causing severe pain and eventual organ damage.

In addition to the microbes tangled together in the granules, they've found that the watery oases also house other bacteria, algae, fungi, single - celled animals called protozoans, and even tiny invertebrate animals including insect larvae, worms and various tardigrades.

ETH researchers have developed a method using a nanosyringe whose tiny needle is able to penetrate single living cells and extract their content.

After removing the solids from incoming wastewater, treatment plants use microbes — tiny single - celled organisms — to decompose organic matter that comes in the sewage.

Medically known as coccidioidomycosis, or cocci for short, the lung infection is caused by a fungus in the mushroom family that begins life as a tiny, single - celled spore.

The researchers incubate cells with tiny snippets of single - stranded DNA engineered to slip into the cells» outer membranes, covering each cell like the hairs on a tennis ball.

The system's controller monitors the level of sunlight using a pyranometer — a single solar cell producing a tiny current which is proportional to the amount of sunlight striking it.

The new study combined two methods: So - called «patch recording» of tiny voltages in single frog brain cells and how the voltages change in response to sounds of different lengths, and the administration of drugs that block neurotransmitters — a way to learn how brain cells respond to sound with and without the normal neurotransmitters.

While scientists have known for years that African trypanosomes cause sleeping sickness, they've been left scratching their heads as to how these tiny single - celled organisms communicate.

«The virus is absorbed and integrated into the chromosomes of the single layer of surface cells that cover the tiny embryo,» explains Fuchs.

On the plane, I read a couple of applications centered on nanoscience, where tiny tubes are etched into silicon wafers to get substances into the brain or outside of the brain, or even to have better access to single cells and to get substances in and out of cells.

Most cells in the body — including those in the brain — have a single tiny antenna.

Using tiny, alpaca - derived, single - domain antibody fragments, Whitehead Institute scientists have developed a method to perturb cellular processes in mammalian cells, allowing them to tease apart the roles that individual proteins play in these pathways.

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

The Hopkins scientists report that the loss of a single gene in kidney cancer cells causes them to stop making mitochondria, the tiny powerhouses of the cell that consume oxygen to generate energy.

These bugs are tiny, single - celled bacteria you can't see.

Microalgae are tiny, single - celled organisms.

«The Caco - 2 is a single layer of cells grown in a laboratory environment that develops the characteristics and functions of the micro-villi, the tiny hair - like projections that aid efficient absorption found mainly in the small intestine,» Dr Opara said.

(NaturalHealth365) For a tiny, single - celled organism, Candida albicans can cause some big problems.

The gut wall (that is, the lining of the intestines) is made up of a single layer of tiny cells which allow nutrients and water in while keeping bacteria, large proteins, and other toxins out.

The discovery of microbes — those single - celled organisms that exist by the millions in a drop of water, blood, or tiny patch of any living tissue — was a game - changer, scientifically speaking.

Overview Coccidiosis is a disease caused by the tiny, single - cell pests, coccidia.

The guard in charge opened the heavy door to the model cell and we took turns going inside — it was so tiny we couldn't all fit at once, and had a single blurry, needle - thin window you couldn't see out of.