Sentences with phrase «transmitting electric signals»

Neurons, or nerve cells, in the brain communicate with each other by transmitting electric signals, or firing action potentials, through long processes named axons (which send out signals) and dendrites (which receive signals).

The electronic fingers mold to the shape of the hand, and so far the researchers have shown that they can transmit electric signals to the skin.

This research demonstrates for the first time that it is possible to transmit electric signals in an insulating material.

Llinás probes the way nerve cells use these channels to manage and transmit electric signals.

As the neurons grow on each side, they sprout long branches, called axons, which creep down the grooves to make contact with neurons growing on the other side in order to transmit electric signals between them.

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With present techniques, teleportation is conceivable only with elementary particles, or theoretically, by encoding information about an object, transmitting the information to another place, such as by radio or electric signal, and creating a copy of the original object in the new location.

However, the scientists speculate that electric signals which are transmitted via the vascular system of plants, so - called vascular bundles, play an important role.

In the brains of all vertebrates, information is transmitted through synapses, a mechanism that allows an electric or chemical signal to be passed from one brain cell to another.

Surface acoustic wave devices transmit a high - frequency signal by converting electric energy to acoustic energy.

Both mice and humans with a silenced FMR1 gene have malformed neurons: Spines on their dendrites are longer, thinner, and more numerous than normal, and they also transmit weaker electric signals.

New shift - by - wire technology uses electric signals to transmit shift operations.