Sentences with phrase «smaller than a cell»

«We called it a nanocell because it looks like a nucleus and surrounding lipid structure, but it's significantly smaller than a cell,» Sengupta says.

A nanometer is many times smaller than a red blood cell, a bacterium, a virus and even smaller than a cell membrane.

Halfway through the channel, the cells pass through a constriction about 30 to 80 percent smaller than the cells» diameter.

Given the unknowns in just what the positive and negative feedbacks are on cloud formation and dissipation and how they're affected by things much smaller than a cell, like jet exhausts, cooling towers, small mountain ranges, etc., it's hard to see how they can be that accurate.

On the other hand, climate science is in its infancy, individual models routinely fail most tests, the climate models are riddled with untested assumptions and guesses, they approximate the atmosphere with cells a hundred kilometres square and hundreds of meters high, and they do not even attempt to model individual cloud formations or any feature smaller than the cell size.

It sports the same Exynos 8895 / Snapdragon 835 processor (market dependent), though it comes with 6 GB of RAM as standard and has 3,300 mAh Li - Ion battery, which is 200mAh smaller than the cell that ships on board the Galaxy S8 +.

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Wireless powered implants, each smaller than a grain of rice, could serve as «neural dust» that can one day scan and stimulate brain cells.

That's so that the tweaks that are made spread to the entire organism, rather than affecting only a small group of cells.

The Small Business Administration has invested more than $ 1.5 million in fuel - cell technology innovation.

BioNTech, which has around 700 employees at sites in Germany — more than any other unlisted biotech firm in Europe — is also working on other cancer - fighting technologies, including antibodies, cell therapies and small molecules.

Rather than obtaining meat from animals raised on environmentally destructive factory farms and slaughtered in filthy slaughterhouses, clean meat is produced by taking a small sample of animal cells and replicating them in a culture outside of the animal.

Now imagine being born there, as something smaller than a grub, inside a cell at the honeycomb - like centre of the colony.

Recombinant DNA research has been done primarily on bacteria, one - celled organisms smaller than animal or plant cells and simpler in structure, yet capable of very complex chemical activity.

Until the day when the One Cell had broken into small divisions, where each thinks he is the righteous more than any other, so here it is it went multiplying to unend to becoming to suit each culture and race???

Rather than obtaining meat from animals raised on environmentally destructive factory farms and slaughtered in filthy slaughterhouses, clean meat is produced by taking a small sample of animal cells and replicating them in a culture outside of the animal.

This early, your baby is still just a mass of cells called embryoy An amniotic sac is just starting around this mass of cellsl It is not bigger than a small pinhead which will rapidly see growth in the next 38 - 42 weeks where it becomes a full babyb

Table 2: Index numbers show that fourteen committees more than doubled their press mentions between 2008 and 2012 (orange cells), a further four saw smaller increases (white cells) and seven received less coverage (blue cells)

The padding itself is comprised of a multi-layer small cell foam, which means that it is higher density than you would normally find on a massage chair.

Residual tumors, spawned from the remaining cancer cells, were 3.5 times smaller in the treated mice than in untreated mice.

The team created microscopic wounds in the pupae's epithelial layer using a laser that can be focused down to a point small enough to punch microscopic holes in individual cells (less than a millionth of a meter).

«That means things that are smaller than the diameter of a human hair, like cells, parts of cells or the fine structure of fibers.»

SAN FRANCISCO — Cell biologists are learning more about how the Zika virus disrupts brain cells to cause the birth defect microcephaly, in which a baby's brain and head are smaller than usual.

(The bacteria are much smaller than human cells, so their total weight is often estimated to be around two to five pounds.)

The trophoblasts along with blood vessel cells were added to small dextran beads that were then spun around in a container filled with cell culture fluid, creating shear stress and rotational forces to better mimic the environment at the maternal - fetal interface than static cell - culture systems.

Synthetic biology enables researchers to tackle a huge and diverse range of applied problems: building a cell with the smallest possible genome; synthesizing proteins with extra amino acids — more than the 20 found in nature; using bacteria to produce medicines previously too complex to synthesize; even decomposing living organisms into standard, off - the - shelf «biobricks» that can be assembled on demand.

«Because they're so small, cell phones are more likely than computers or televisions to be tossed into the garbage,» says Bette Fishbein, a senior fellow at INFORM, a New York environmental organization.

And a small batch of anthrax will have undergone many fewer cell divisions than a big batch.

The team injected two milliliters of the stem - cell derived blood cells back into the patient — an amount far smaller than would be needed in a typical transfusion.

When injected with cancer cells, animals housed there developed tumors 80 % smaller than those in control mice, or no tumors at all.

Engineering nimble robots that are smaller than blood cells is extremely challenging.

More than 80 % of all skin cancers are BCC, arising from the basal cells (i.e., small, round cells found in the lower layer of the epidermis).

A small proportion of the neurons in the lateral habenula fire several times in quick bursts, rather than firing once at regular intervals; the team found that «depressed» rodents had a lot more of these quick burst cells.

By adjusting the width of the honeycomb cells to make them much smaller in diameter than the wavelength of visible light, the researchers kept the coating from reflecting light.

But rather than natural diamond, Silvera and Dias used two small pieces of carefully polished synthetic diamond which were then treated to make them even tougher and then mounted opposite each other in a device known as a diamond anvil cell.

But two types of nanomaterial — loosely defined as stuff smaller than 100 nanometers — are worth worrying about, the panel found, because some evidence suggests that loose nanoparticles and nanotubes can readily penetrate cells and are toxic.

Just like real blood cells the pretenders can squeeze through spaces much smaller than their own diameter and absorb and release substances to order, including oxygen.

«They can squeeze through capillaries smaller than their own diameter, just like real blood cells.»

In one small breakthrough, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have created new fluoropolymers that conduct protons three times better than current fuel cell coatings.

At worst we would end up with a few little pebble tumors, small balls of abnormal cells that had exhausted their ability to grow, no more life - threatening than a mole or a small cyst.

«This small change in injection protocol has resulted in something better than all prior embryo work and cell culture work,» Church says.

Looking more closely, Gage's team found that rather than binding to DNA, as most small RNAs discovered so far do, this one bound to the NRSF protein and blunted its activity, they report in the 19 March issue of Cell.

The stem cell method is also capable of growing many more cells from a smaller starting batch than the biopsy method.

«Small molecules are much easier to make than larger compounds, they are easier to get into cells and their potential for getting into the brain is higher,» he said.

According to Semenza, «Chemotherapy may kill more than 99 percent of the cancer cells in a tumor but fail to kill a small population of cancer stem cells that are responsible for subsequent cancer relapse and metastasis.»

These 25 - nanometer - wide tubes — thousands of times smaller than a red blood cell — are found in every cell in plants and animals.

Moreover, mice engineered to generate smaller than normal quantities of SIRT1 carried relatively little fat in their blood, indicating that their cells hung onto it.

Despite its many parts, the entire organism is a single cell of only about 10 microns in diameter, which is smaller than most cells in the human body.

In addition, the method requires fewer cells than ChIP - seq, allowing investigation of processes that are limited in duration or occur in small cell populations.

«This should reduce overall costs for the energy industry because, rather than creating large, expensive solar cells, you can use much smaller cells that produce just as much electricity by absorbing intensified solar energy from concentrating lenses.

The device is based on the principles of resistive memory, which can be used to create memory cells that are smaller, operate at a higher speed and offer more storage capacity than flash memory cells, the current industry standard.