Sentences with phrase «tiny fragments of»

Framed in white, his dark surfaces become «horror vacui» — empty spaces that our minds try to fill, using the tiny fragments of information that were saved from the fire to reanimate our memories.

He uses a technique of hand - cutting and interlocks tiny fragments of hand - coloured paper to create a surface that resembles the clarity and intensity of an illuminated manuscript.

Tiny fragments of a recognizable world emerge and recede, like fluid waves of representation and destruction, wrestling with meaning and the lack thereof at every possible turn.

The show is titled «PCR,» an abbreviation for «polymerase chain reaction,» in molecular biology the technique that finds and multiplies tiny fragments of DNA and is used by crime labs everywhere.

More provocative is the work which gives the show its title., and is comprised of 10 kilos of small cellophane drug baggies, each filled with tiny fragments of paint and found images.

Cig Harvey's photographs produce an overwhelming feeling of wonder, admiration, or even fear of the unknown by looking at life on the threshold between magic and disaster, for they are tiny fragments of everyday life captured in a moment of awe.

- The Daily Telegraph (UK) «This concentration on isolating tiny fragments of experience and apprehension makes for an intense and immersive read, one in which brutal events are cast in a diffuse light that gives them an almost mythic quality.

Recently, the team reported on the ubiquity of microplastics — tiny fragments of plastic and fibres — in the deep sea.

But being able to recover tiny fragments of DNA doesn't change the fact that any sample will contain genetic sequences from more than just the organism of interest.

The sheer number of H. naledi bones and teeth found is remarkable, as often fossils are just tiny fragments of the skeleton.

Haas and Creamer have found traces of maize in 17 out of 27 pollen samples but only a few tiny fragments of actual corn.

Their work suggests that the process relies on tiny fragments of RNA in sperm that can pass «echoes» of environmental experience down to future generations.

The grains here are tiny fragments of a baby sea urchin shell.

The researchers also found differences in microRNA expression in bipolar cells — tiny fragments of RNA that play key roles in the «reading» of genes.

Telomeres are tiny fragments of DNA at the end of each chromosome.

Then they powdered single teeth from 36 skeletons ranging in age from 3300 years to 1500 years old and extracted tiny fragments of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), a marker commonly used for genetic typing of human populations.

As a first step, they've quarantined the lagoon, owned by a power plant and used as for boating, to prevent tiny fragments of C. taxifolia from being spread by boat anchors.

The answer could lie in tiny fragments of RNA that are passed on in sperm cells.

The team's work suggests that the process relies on tiny fragments of RNA in sperm.

The case hinged on tiny fragments of blood, hair and fibres found on Dobson's clothes.

For instance, the surfaces of tiny fragments of plastic may carry disease - causing organisms and act as a vector that transmits diseases in the environment.

Ten of the 15 coprolites that Chin and her team examined contained tiny fragments of shell that were scattered throughout the dung.

Their fossilized droppings, or coprolites, contained tiny fragments of mollusk and other crustacean shells along with an abundance of rotten wood, researchers report September 21 in Scientific Reports.

For example, tiny fragments of plastic can be accumulated in yeasts and filamentous fungi.

My point is that we know so very little about our universe that I can say «at the moment nothing we know of is eternal» while at the same time understanding that the universe could be like that electron and wink in and out of existence in some constant renewal, from singularity to singularity and back again, but because we only see a tiny fragment of the process we can only make sloppy assumptions as to the mechanics involved.

But the time has long passed since any one person could absorb more than the tiniest fragment of the total body of available, reliable information.

Yet each of our lives is comprised of only a tiny fragment of the entire patterning which, woven together in ever newer syntheses, issues forth as our universe.

If it be but the tiniest fragment of pure good, which is brought to light, the Shechinah is helped thereby.

The whole article should read, «Tiny fragment of papyrus taken out of context means nothing and is proof of nothing.».

Breast cancers that metastasize to the brain are usually deadly, but a team based at the University of Mississippi Medical Center has discovered a possible fix: a tiny fragment of genetic material known as microRNA.

Researchers in Cambridge have now shown that this ability depends on a tiny fragment of the animal's haemoglobin the protein that carries oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - When cut, a planarian flatworm can use a population of stem cells called neoblasts to regenerate new heads, new tails or even entire new organisms from a tiny fragment of its body.

The boisterousness of the film's finale, with its sieges and rescues, its lightning bolts and flash floods, relieves what would otherwise be an almost unbearably sad evocation of what is least preservable about youthful experience: not so much the loss of that «innocence» that is such a hackneyed motif of modern American culture (and for which summer camps have always been a favored location) but the awakening of the first radiance of mature intelligence in a world liable to be indifferent or hostile to it, an intelligence that can conceive everything and realize only the tiniest fragment of it.

The soundstage stays mainly up front, with only the tiniest fragments of the overall mix making it into the rear speakers — and I'm sure that in the vast majority of home - listening environments, it sounds just fine that way.

The overwhelming gorgeous immensity of it all, and the awe - inducing beauty of the tiniest fragment of the earth.

I was skeptical during the development of Fire Emblem Fates when the multiple versions were revealed as I was concerned that each version would be a tiny fragment of a larger whole.

Here the visitor can see respectively hear a tiny fragment of this endlessness in each space, as if through a window frame in the wall.

Considering how much money you will likely invest in your wedding day, this insurance is a tiny fragment of the total.

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The work is part of an effort to bring dying reefs back to life by growing tiny coral fragments in labs or nurseries — between four and 25 times as fast as they'd grow in the wild — and planting those fragments on reefs.

We fragments of the cosmos can never survey the cosmos from a cosmic perspective, and our tiny attention span, with even two minutes ago already vague as to fine details, can never know as the cosmic self knows.

An allergic reaction can be produced by a tiny amount of a food ingredient that a person is sensitive to (for example a teaspoon of milk powder, a fragment of peanut or just one or two sesame seeds).

The team employed a technique called Southern blotting to examine fragments of the BRCA1 gene that are much larger than the tiny snippets scanned by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in commercial tests.

Particulates come from tail pipes and smokestacks, but also consist of tiny fragments shed from tires, roads and brake pads.

TINY iron fragments can shape - shift to get out of a jam.

Cornatzer was shocked that the deer's entire carcass was riddled with dozens of tiny lead - shot fragments.

The treatment uses tiny droplets of fat, called nanoliposomes, which are coated in protein fragments that are able to stop amyloid protein accumulating into plaques, even at low concentrations.

On one hand, the tiny plastic fragments often accumulate contaminants that, if swallowed, can be passed to organisms during digestion; without forgetting the gastrointestinal obstructions, which are another of the most common problems with this type of waste.

Benjamini identified the tiny round shells of foraminifera and fragments of red coralline algae; these marine organisms suggested that the ocean, rather than a river or a flash flood, had been involved.

Tiny metal fragments are ingested by scavengers during the consumption of carcasses as the study demonstrates.

The new remains — six teeth, a fragment of jawbone and a tiny piece of skull — don't settle the issue, but Yousuke Kaifu at Tokyo's National Museum of Nature and Science and his colleagues think they back the shrunken H. erectus theory.