Sentences with phrase «technical tour de force»

The result is at once a technical tour de force and an unsettling puzzle.

The 8 July cover story features a nickel - sized artificial string - ray whose swimming is guided by light and powered by heart muscle cells: a «living» robot hailed as a technical tour de force.

A technical tour de force, which involved creating primordial germ cells from mouse skin cells, is prompting scientists to consider attempting this experiment with human cells

Patients see the end result — success in mice — and often ignore the years of painstaking work that led to such a technical tour de force.

They must not fixate on simply achieving a technical tour de force of cell culture in bioreactors.

«This work led by Professor O'Donnell is a technical tour de force, providing a wonderful resource for other biomedical researchers,» said Mike Murphy, Ph.D., programme leader, Mitochondrial Biology Unit at Cambridge University, U.K. «A particularly important aspect is the focus on platelets, which are readily available from patients» blood in diagnosis, prognosis or as a biomarker in assessing therapies.

«This [blood test] is a technical tour de force,» says Eric Karran, director of research at the Alzheimer's Research UK charity.

The work is «a technical tour de force» and a «monumental effort,» says yeast biologist Jef Boeke of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.

In a technical tour de force, physicists have spotted long - sought low - energy neutrinos zipping from the sun.

It is not just a technical tour de force but a humanitarian one.

Even though it is a technical tour de force, the paper leaves several open questions: «The study doesn't tell us whether there are other cells that are important for this kind of memory, or anything about other types of memory,» he says.

«This is really a technical tour de force,» says geneticist Norman Sharpless of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, who was not involved in the study.

Of course there are still glitches and places where characters merge alarmingly with scenery, but compared with the Xbox One version of PUBG it's a technical tour de force.

Overlooked: A technical tour de force with a powerful emotional core, The Handmaiden finds South Korean provocateur Park Chan - wook ascending to the rank of master filmmaker, elevating gleeful genre trash to high art through the precision of his craftsmanship.

Whiplash (Damien Chazelle, 2014) Questioning the win at all costs mentality that justifies psychotic bullying in everything from sports, to business and the arts, Whiplash is a technical tour de force.

In 1992 it was a technical tour de force that became the fastest spreading shareware game of its time.

Disney's take on Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen is, first and foremost, a technical tour de force with stunning environments and beautifully animated falling snow throughout.

The technical tour de force doesn't end there, of course.

While the $ 72,100 First Edition model includes a 10 - inch multimedia touchscreen, an 825 - watt Meridian surround sound system, and a new gesture control function to open and close the roof blind, the XF Sportbrake is less of a technical tour de force than it is an exploration of packaging capability.

The 1957 Corvette SS that made its competition debut in Sebring was Duntov's technical tour de force.

This technical tour de force has the same total output from its 545 - bhp 3.8 - liter turbo V - 6, but detail improvements are meant to give the GT - R better manners on both race tracks and everyday roads.

Simply put, it's technical tour de force, a palatial paradise that still manages to hold up to the brand's «ultimate driving machine» tagline.

Described as a «technical tour de force» by Official PlayStation Magazine most reviewers found the single player campaign to be rather short and lacking in depth, but the multiplayer lifted scores.

It takes no time at all to grasp just how much of a technical tour de force GT Sport is.

Since then the GTA series has come on leaps and bounds, culminating in the technical tour de force that was GTA 4.

It's a technical tour de force of glueing and tying, and a really beautiful installation.

All were both technical tours de force and repositories of entire realms of spiritual belief.

Honored here in exhibition form, the pictures are both a time capsule and a technical tour de force.

Based on his amazing sojourn embedded with the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, the painting offers not just the technical tour de force that fulfills the mission of the Academy, but a psychological and historical work of unquestionable force that makes it stand out in this crowd.