Sentences with phrase «tiny channels»

The droplets travel through tiny channels filled with water or oil — whichever fluid the droplets don't dissolve in — and switch paths automatically based on subtle differences in their mass or diameter.

The newly described nemertides attack tiny channels in cell walls that control the amount of sodium flowing in and out of the cell.

The approach consists of a device filled with tiny channels and cavities that DNA molecules can move in and out of, resulting in some of the familiar Tetris shapes, like the «L,» the square, and the zigzag (illustrated above: a DNA molecule, in red, occupies four cavities in a zigzag).

Each chip, which is approximately the size of an AA battery, features tiny channels lined with tens of thousands of living human cells, recreating the smallest functional unit of an organ.

Second, it leaves tiny channels for oxygen to enter so that cells in the middle won't suffocate.

It's printed in a layered lattice, which leaves tiny channels throughout the organ that act like blood vessels and allow nutrients to be dispersed through the tissue.

The VentAire system uses tiny channels to vent air bubbles and requires replacement discs every so often to accomplish this.

Featuring Comply Adhesive from 3M the films are fast and easy to position and, once pressure is applied, any trapped air can escape via tiny channels for bubble free results.

According to research conducted by The University of Texas at Austin, evidence points to the downwards percolation of molten metal toward the center of the planet through tiny channels between grains of rock.

Finding out involves passing a sample of blood through a microfluidic device, in whose tiny channels cancer cells can be captured and identified.

To test his idea, Krupenkin placed patches of electrodes coated very thinly with the dielectric tantalum oxide along tiny channels a few millimetres wide.

In the present experiment, the interest is in seeing how normal and supercurrents flow through tiny channels from one superconducting STO panel to another through a narrow passage.

The result could be useful for understanding the movement of water when squeezed inside tiny channels, for instance, in carbon nanotubes or cell membranes.

The study looked at mouse neurons in wells connected by tiny channels that allow growth of axons — the long fibers that neurons use to communicate.

Tiny channels in the gel run from one charged end to the other, and the sliced DNA strands are pulled through them towards the positively charged side.

The study team used two advanced technologies to produce and sustain the intestinal lining: Cedars - Sinai provided the induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPSCs, while Emulate supplied its Intestine - Chip, which is made out of a flexible polymer that features tiny channels that can be lined with thousands of living human cells.

The latest version of the device, which can measure 50 to 100 cells per hour, consists of a series of SMR sensors that weigh cells as they flow through tiny channels.

A scanning electron microscope reveals that the lips are furrowed with tiny channels and divots, soft and ribbed like gills on the underside of a mushroom.

This tiny channel island is a 17 - mile - long private island with just over 800 residents.

A membrane — designed to support the cultivation and differentiation of human nasal epithelial stem cells — was inserted into a small chamber on the device and fresh or contaminated air was fed through a tiny channel.

Microfluidics involves the manipulation of fluids (sometimes in picoliters, or trillionths of a liter) through tiny channels.

«What David's group can do is grow populations of cells in a very miniaturized state in ways that they can reach out and talk to each other through tiny channels, but yet they stay distinct,» den Boon says.

For this latest research, they wanted to design an experiment that would mimic the tiny channels in which bacteria thrive in nature.

It contains a piece of glass the size of a microscope slide etched with 50 tiny channels and covered with another glass plate.

«Blood penetrates the tiny channels in the coral skeleton which then dissolves, allowing new bone to form in its place, often in as little as three weeks.»

But this physician - scientist's insights on health and sickness come from studying some of the smallest structures in the brain: tiny channels, no more than 10 nanometers across, in the walls of neurons.

«Squeezing light into a tiny channel brings optical computing a step closer.»

Long stripes of magnetic domains appear in the magnetic material on one side of a tiny channel.

To build the material, the researchers fabricated a silicon dioxide mold with «nano - wires,» or tiny channels, about 7 nanometers wide connected by «micro-bridges» and filled with silane gas.

Microengineered Organ - Chip is made out of a flexible polymer that features tiny channels that can be lined with thousands of living human cells.

Based on micro-level control of fluids through tiny channels, the Tactile Layer technology makes the display not only rise but also exhibit different levels of size, height, and firmness, while also morphing into various shapes as well.

The endoscope has a tiny channel through which a biopsy instrument can be passed.

Tiny channels (bile canaliculi) transport this product to the gall bladder where the acids are stored and periodically sent into the intestine to aid digestion and food nutrient absorption.

Maras salt mines are fed by a single hot salty subterranean spring, which is fed into an advanced system of tiny channels that feed several hundred ancient terraced shallow ponds.

Cables were tied together and neatly routed through the tiniest channels of the case as if they were custom cut and bent to fit there.