Sentences with phrase «tiny hair tips»

Gecko feet are covered by billions of tiny hair tips, or spatulae, that hug surfaces.

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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.

The substance mimics the design of gecko feet, which are covered in millions of tiny hairs that each end in a profusion of spatula - shaped tips.

The hairs are tipped by tiny sacs filled with a substance that sticks to any insect that alights on the leaf.

Occasionally, the native red squirrels occur in colour variations from light grey to black — but can always be unmistakably recognized as red squirrels by the tiny hair tufts at the tips of their ears.

The tiny particles are 1,000 times smaller than the tip of a human hair, and are designed to latch on to atherosclerotic plaques — hard deposits made from accumulated fat, cholesterol and calcium that build up on the walls of arteries and are prone to rupture, producing dangerous clots.

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.