Sentences with phrase «tiny hair cells»

It stems from tiny hair cells in the inner ear that are surrounded by a layer of gel.

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The researchers incubate cells with tiny snippets of single - stranded DNA engineered to slip into the cells» outer membranes, covering each cell like the hairs on a tennis ball.

We already knew that E. coli can grip to human cells using hair - like appendages that have tiny protein hooks on their tips, but until now no one had worked out the structure of this protein, called FimH, or how it interacts with human cells.

In contrast, perovskite solar cells depend on a layer of tiny crystals — each about 1,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair — made of low - cost, light - sensitive materials.

Dubbed «face mites,» D. folliculorum are actually tiny arachnids that inhabit hairs throughout the human body and consume skin cells and oils.

They found high concentrations of sensors known as Merkel cells at the base of tiny hairs that cover the wings, they report online today in Cell Reports.

One of the sponge's cell types is the distinctively shaped choanocyte, a cell equipped with a tiny long filament, called a flagellum, surrounded by a collar studded with even tinier hairs called microvilli.

In fact, they repeatedly generated iPS cells from the tiny number of keratinocytes attached to a single hair plucked from a human scalp.

Tiny hair - like structures on cells lining your airways, called cilia, push the mucus back up to your throat.

«The Caco - 2 is a single layer of cells grown in a laboratory environment that develops the characteristics and functions of the micro-villi, the tiny hair - like projections that aid efficient absorption found mainly in the small intestine,» Dr Opara said.

In your intestinal tract, there reside very small micro-villi (thee are very tiny finger like projections which come off the lining of the intestinal tract with hair like cell membrane extensions — called the «brush border»), which serve as the major point of absorption of nutrients.

The lactase enzyme necessary to digest milk lactose is secreted by the tip of the villi, which are tiny, hair - like cells that line your small intestine.

Now please don't get confused with the amino acid L - glutamine because glutamate is converted to glutamine by cells lining the intestinal tract, which, in turn, is used by the villi (tiny hair like projectiles in intestinal lining) to maintain their health and integrity.