Sentences with phrase «tightly packed structure»

Several years ago, Wang and his colleagues came up with an approach for using lasers and a rapid cooling process to fuse metal alloy particles together in a dense, tightly packed structure.

A new digital reconstruction of the chromosomes of the ancestor of all placental mammals reveals that these tightly packed structures of DNA and proteins have become scrambled over time — a finding that may help pinpoint possible problem sites in our genomes that underlie cancer and other disease.

The genome is organized into 52 chromosomes (tightly packed structures of DNA stored in a cell's nucleus), 10 of which determine the animal's sex.

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The human molecules are tightly packed together, and the more this is the case the more impossible it becomes for them, owing to their nature and structure, not to merge both physically and in spirit.

Image showing tightly packed tree crowns in a natural tropical forest, for investigating the forest's structure.

The results showed that there are different possible configurations: Sometimes the particles are tightly packed in a simple hexagonal structure, which is well known from crystals.

To create a new carbon structure with this ability, an international team tried mimicking opal, which consists of tightly packed silica spheres.

Making up 70 billion of the nearly 86 billion neurons in the human brain, these relatively simple cells are tightly packed into the cerebellum, a broccoli - shaped structure tucked under the back of our brain.

These randomly arranged atoms pack together more tightly than a conventional crystalline structure to give Liquidmetal's alloy its unique properties.

They use experimental approaches to induce the protein to condense into a tightly packed crystal lattice, then shoot x-rays at the crystal, and finally calculate the protein's structure from the resulting diffraction patterns.

Instead, human DNA is tightly wrapped into 23 structures called chromosomes to pack it more tightly and fit it inside a cell.]

In a structure as tightly packed and interwoven as the brain, robust single - cell labeling is necessary to distinguish individual cells.

This visualization shows tightly - packed DNA in a mouse cell's nucleus at different stages of development, seen here in a semi-triangular form as a mature nerve cell; in a roundish shape as a multipotent stem cell; in a more oval form as a neuronal progenitor; and as a more fragmented structure that shows how removing a specialized binding protein (HP1β knockout) affects the structure of the DNA - packing material, called heterochromatin, in a mature neuron.

This computer rendering shows the skeletonized structure of heterochromatin (red represents a thin region while white represents a thick region), a tightly packed form of DNA, surrounding another form of DNA - carrying material known as euchromatin (dark blue represents a thin region and yellow represent the thickest) in a mouse's mature nerve cell.

The many vital structures are very small and tightly pack into the small critical area.

The mural, which uses imagery from drawings of churches and other buildings in New York City, depicts tightly packed building - like structures across the wall as if they had been plucked from a dense urban neighborhood.

Ice bridges are static structures composed of tightly packed sea ice that can form during the course of its flow through a narrow strait.