Sentences with phrase «tissues fluoresced»
When Ruben and his colleague Willem J. Hillenius of the College of Charleston, in South Carolina, illuminated Scipionyx with ultraviolet light the fossilized tissues fluoresced in various colors because they had replaced by minerals at differing rates.
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He examined the tissue with a scanning electron microscope and rinsed it with antibodies that fluoresce in the presence of the bacteria that cause syphilis, Treponema pallidum.
Scientists aren't sure why Pd lights up under UV light, but they think that once Pd filaments, called hyphae, penetrate the bat's skin, those hyphae secrete substances that eat away at the living tissue and also happen to fluoresce under UV light.
When zebrafish with the green fluorescing endothelial gene matured, the researchers observed green FGPs on the surface of the fish's brains — confirming that these cells arose from endothelial tissue.
«Upon addition of chem7 to the roots, we found that both colors existed but the area that contains fluoresced cells (tissues with high cell division activity) became smaller.»
The near - infrared light that causes the nanotubes to fluoresce can penetrate about eight centimeters into human tissue, so physicians could potentially shine the light through skin and flesh to look for fluorescence from nanotubes signaling the presence of cancer cells.
The researchers took healthy tissue and tumor samples from mice, and trained the nanoparticle - GFP sensors to recognize the bad cells, and for the GFP to fluoresce in the presence of metastatic tissues.
Then, with the use of special equipment, the tumor cells will fluoresce or appear as bright blue tissue in the bladder.