Sentences with phrase «small fragments»

An alternative, safer approach is a vaccine made of small fragments of proteins produced by a disease - causing virus or bacterium.

Layer the pumpkin wedges (you can cut into smaller fragments to fit the bowl) and the remaining rocket and parsley on top of each other in the bowl.

We live in a day and age where things happen so quickly, where information comes to us in small fragments — so it's almost the best way to keep people's attention.

Also on view are vast canvases that have been stitched together from smaller fragments.

This vintage aqua bottle is going to be used to house a sea glass collection — only the very smallest fragments.

Nonetheless, they share many of the same challenges, as stored DNA breaks down into progressively smaller fragments over time.

To achieve effective climate protection, it will be necessary to stop chopping the forests into ever smaller fragments.

Small fragments developed into large corals and were planted on the artificial reefs.

Top panel shows a wide - angle view of the main nucleus and smaller fragments embedded in a long dust trail.

Only a few photos and small fragments of bones bear witness today to the original find situation.

This vintage aqua bottle is going to be used to house a sea glass collection — only the very smallest fragments.

Brewers rice consists in small fragments left over after milling whole rice.

The newest generation of vaccines includes recombinant vaccines that use only small fragments of the disease agent, which are inserted into a harmless carrier virus.

Platelets are essential for stopping bleeding and are produced by small fragments breaking off their «parent» cells, called megakaryocytes.

Indeed, many small fragments lack any warbler pairs at all, even though in the warbler's case, they are no worse than continuous forest in terms of food, predation, or parasitism.

We have gone from sequencing small fragments of DNA to full mitochondrial genomes (17,000 base pairs of genetic code), and then in the last three years the field exploded into the realm of complete nuclear genomes.

The DNA migrates in response to the field, with smaller fragments moving most quickly.

Forest ecologist Juan Armesto of the Universidad Católica de Chile, who collaborates with Weathers, says that the country's modern coastal rain forest represents small fragments of what must have once been a contiguous forest, connected to the Amazon Basin, that changed gradually over the past 5 million to 25 million years due to the colossal upheaval that created the Andes Mountains.

It consists of derelict satellites, rocket bodies and parts, and small fragments produced by collisions between debris.

The researchers have figured out how to cultivate new coral much faster than it would naturally grow in the wild, by planting small fragments in specialized tanks and underwater nurseries.

At Nortura the individual fillets emerge from the cut - up to the inspection stage well separated from each other, but the G2 has been shown to be capable of picking up small fragments even in packs of overlapping fillets.

«For the first time we measured small fragments from damaged proteins that leak from the joint into blood.

The simulations showed that small fragments merge into many transient aggregates in the hours and days after the collision.

However, a few other specimens from the collection were made up of smaller fragments glued together to make large eggs — perhaps because Chinese farmers were paid according to the size of the eggs they found.

It is well - known that, with time, plastic breaks down into small fragments at sea, which can only be detected properly by analysis of net tows.

Andrés Cózar, researcher from the University of Cadiz, explains: «Ocean currents carry plastic objects which split into smaller and smaller fragments due to solar radiation.

The Defra report suggests that oxo - degradable fragments left outside in the United Kingdom would become small fragments over two to five years.

The bulk of the body exploded high in the atmosphere, but many smaller fragments survived and rained down onto the snow - covered ground.

This «through and through» path indicates that the bullet was probably not of the variety designed to expand or break into smaller fragments once inside the body, which would have caused a much severer injury.

Ancient DNA tends to be in smaller fragments because DNA decays over time, so Wall and Kim suspect that the larger fragments represent contamination.

When Wall and Kim took a close look at the actual fragments of DNA sequenced, they found that the sequences of the larger fragments were very much like a modern human's, whereas smaller fragments were quite different.

Using a technique they helped develop, the researchers isolated small fragments of bacterial DNA from the soils and screened those pieces for genes that confer antibiotic resistance.

As the neutron star shrinks, it spins even faster, eventually causing small fragments to detach and fly off.

Recent studies revealed that loss of Dicer function to process Alu RNAs to small fragmented RNAs (Alu - siRNAs) underlie the AMD pathology.

Stony meteorites are the most common type, but they are difficult to recognize because they are often small fragments and look like ordinary stones.

The higher level of focus on genetic material from the few small fragments from the Central Asian cave shows the people Paabo calls Denisovans — clearly different genetically from Neanderthals but closely related to them and also to our own species — probably to have formed a larger population than the Neanderthals themselves, as they show a higher degree of variation in their genetic makeup.

«Some of these [beauty supplements] contain small fragments of collagen, which are easily absorbed especially when dissolved in a liquid, so this adds more collagen to the skin.»

PROTEIN AND PEPTIDE - SPECIFIC ENZYMES Proteases are enzymes that hydrolyze proteins into smaller fragments known as polypeptides.

However, glucose also can be broken down into still smaller fragments that yield energy when they are further disassembled into such basic components as carbon dioxide or water.

A large enough clot forms a classic saddle thrombus, although smaller fragments have been known make it farther downstream to the intestines, kidney, or brain.

A ceramic and mixed media artist, Kreutter creates small fragmented installations using found, discarded objects and porcelain.

In 2010, I painted small fragments on large canvases rather than covering the entire swath of fabric.

Waves crashing on rocks break down plastic into different sizes from larger fragments into smaller fragments all the way into micro-sized pieces that can not even be seen by the naked eye.

We got the same results looking at a very small fragment as we did a much larger fragment from the same meteorite.

«We send DNA to be sequenced by the Joint Genome Institute, which is part of the U.S. Department of Energy, and they sequence it in lots of very small fragments.

Geneticists learned how to sequence small fragments of DNA and compare the versions of those fragments from different individuals.