Sentences with phrase «tiny structures called»

Cells contain thousands of tiny structures called mitochondria, which generate energy and harbor their own DNA distinct from the cell's nucleus.

Cancer cells settle to the bottom of the well, where they selectively bind to the antibodies based on their surface markers (unlike other devices, the chip can also trap tiny structures called exosomes produced by cancers cells).

Matthew Shawkey at the University of Akron in Ohio and colleagues trained a scanning electron microscope on the fossil's feathers and found tiny structures called melanosomes, which contained dark pigment.

Stuart Hameroff, an anesthesiologist who has spent many years studying brain functions, has collaborated with renowned Oxford University polymath Roger Penrose on a model that explains consciousness as the result of quantum processes occurring in tiny structures called microtubules in brain cells.

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While the vast majority of our genes are housed in the nucleus, the cytoplasm contains tiny energy - producing structures called mitochondria, which have their own set of 13 genes.

These tiny bits are the same size and shape as the pigment - bearing structures (called melanosomes) found in the skin and scales of modern - day lizards and in the feathers of birds.

Comblike structures called gill - rakers trap the plankton and funnel them into tiny gullets.

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.

CUP photographs an object with a specialty camera lens, which takes the photons from the object on a journey through a tube - like structure to a marvelous tiny apparatus called a digital micromirror device (DMD), smaller than a dime though hosting about 1 million micromirrors, each one just seven by seven microns squared.

Biologist Jonathan Van Blerkom of the University of Colorado published a paper in 1996 suggesting that some cases of male infertility derive from defects in a tiny structure in the sperm cell called the centrosome.

They found that a recombinant version of the SM50 protein, rSpSM50, is a highly aggregation - prone protein that forms tiny jelly - like structures called hydrogels in solution.

The striking breast feathers get their iridescent properties from tiny boomerang - shaped structures called barbules.

Tiny defects in the crystalline structure of perovskites, called traps, can cause electrons to get «stuck» before their energy can be harnessed.

Tiny structures in our cells, called centrioles, control both cell division and motility.

They were partly inspired by studies on the confinement of electrons in tiny structures within semiconductors called quantum wells, quantum wires and quantum dots («How to build better lasers», New Scientist, 11 January).

Monkeys typically find other monkeys impossible to ignore, and this experiment was no exception: the monkeys often failed at the reward task because they looked at the faces, especially if the faces depicted emotion.When humans are torn between paying attention to two different things, it triggers a «conflict» circuit in a brain region called the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) which is part of a larger brain structure controlling rational thought and emotions.Using a tiny sensor implanted in the dACCs of the monkeys, Platt's group was able to measure the electrical activity of single neurons.

The idea of being bitten by a nearly toothless modern frog or salamander sounds laughable, but their ancient ancestors had a full array of teeth, large fangs and thousands of tiny hook - like structures called denticles on the roofs of their mouths that would snare prey, according to new research by paleontologists at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM).

Cells are like tiny factories, where different functions are carried out by highly specialized structures called organelles.

Scientists had already identified the existence of tiny bubble - like structures called vesicles that release neurotransmitters to allow signals to pass between neurons at synapses.

To make skyrmion bubbles, researchers crafted a setup made out of tiny, precise, layered structures made using a process called lithography at the Center for Nanoscale Materials, a DOE Office of Science user facility at Argonne.

Understanding the chemical reactions that can create tiny molecular cages that hold other «guest» molecules — structures called clathrates — is key to creating a new generation of electronic devices and possible energy materials.

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

Breasts have no muscle so they rely on the skin and tiny internal structures called Cooper's ligaments to provide support.

Carnitine acts as a kind of shuttle bus, loading up fatty acids and transporting them into tiny structures within the cell called the mitochondria, where they can be burned for energy.

When celiac disease manifests, the body produces antibodies (literally meaning «against the body») resulting in an autoimmune process that particularly affects the tiny fingerlike structures of the small intestine called villi.

In these highly structured moments where the consensus view of reality rubs up against the tiny planet of terror that Sam and Amelia call home, director Kent actually finds impromptu bursts of laughter — which only makes the movie feel that much more unhinged.

The black - and - white images in each spread depict the tiny dwellings — small structures, mounds of mud, heaps of rocks — of an imagined group of what he called Little People, for whom Simonds constructed diorama - sized site - specific villages that were nested in and around art institutions and crumbling buildings in New York and in other

Initially, her interest in landscape used an idea of architecture to provide the structure — an earlier series was inspired by Italo Calvino's «Invisible Cities» while other pictures include tiny landscapes, which call to mind Vermeer's «View of Delft».

I, honestly, don't even like to call these structures «Tiny Homes» as I believe they are very different categorically from the home I live in.

For the structure of the house we followed plans designed by Laird Herbert, founder of a small company out of the Yukon called Leaf House, which specializes in cold climate tiny living.