Sentences with phrase «under microscope»

«While these tumors appear to be muscle cells under the microscope, and clinicians had thought that they arose from muscle progenitor cells, that didn't explain why the tumors can occur in tissues that don't have skeletal muscle, like bladder, prostate and liver,» he continued.

Under the microscope the chromosomes of the Werner cells showed more signs of damage than did the healthy counterparts.

The lead author Yaqing (Celia) Li, rehabilitation science post-doctoral fellow, and David Bennett, co-principal investigator and professor, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, were looking at the injured spinal cord of a rat under a microscope and noticed the capillaries contracting in response to application of dietary amino acids like tryptophan.

When examined under a microscope, the tumors resemble immature embryonic kidneys, leading doctors to conclude that Wilms tumors form when kidney development, normally complete by birth, persists into childhood.

By ELISABETH GEAKE Having your skin examined under the microscope can be a chastening experience — particularly if it is done in public at the cosmetics counter of a department store.

To see if bisphosphates are reacting with the breast calcium, Mike Rogers from the Garvan Institute in Sydney, Australia, and colleagues tagged bisphosphonate molecules with a chemical that glows under a microscope.

When tested under a microscope, these human astrocytes accomplished calcium signaling at least three times faster than the mouse astrocytes did.

Tests rely on either expensive equipment for computer - assisted analysis or, in hospitals that can not afford thousands of dollars» worth of machinery, a technician who analyzes sperm cells under a microscope, a process Shafiee says can be subject to human error.

Because they can't fuse, the mitochondria of people with this disease appear small, granular and clumped when viewed under a microscope.

Put a drop of seawater on a slide under a microscope and you will see: amoebas, tiny crustaceans, and plankton, many of which also sport shells.

They look at this «H+E stained» sample under a microscope and then judge the severity of the disease by eye alone.

The Language of Cells: Life as Seen Under the Microscope, Spencer Nadler (Random House) Nadler ventures out of his pathology lab to meet patients and ruminates on the interplay between flawed biology and radiant humanity.

She put a flask of pink syrup under a microscope and invited me to look.

Under a microscope, a pyrenoid looks like a spherical bubble inside the cell.

Zebrafish embryos have transparent brains, which allowed Peri and her team to track the microglia in real time under the microscope.

The paper is published in PLOS Biology at a time when experimental processes are under the microscope following increased levels of retractions and some journals are reviewing their peer review procedures.

That way, any neuron that had extra CREB by virtue of getting infected with the virus would also conveniently light up under the microscope.

Under the microscope, the brains of the two tigers that died of CDV infection were riddled with lesions, indicating they suffered from severe viral encephalitis, consistent with their clumsy, abnormal behavior.

«By the 30th day of culture, there were obvious clumps of fluorescent cells visible under the microscope,» says lead author Valentin Sluch, Ph.D., a former Johns Hopkins biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology student and now a postdoctoral scholar working at Novartis, a pharmaceutical company.

Under the microscope, the resulting slices of amygdala lit up like a Christmas tree: green if they had absorbed the extra CREB, red if positive for Arc.

Researchers also studied the brain tissue of the infected mice under a microscope and found that the memory problems tracked with changes in nerve cells.

The operations took place under a microscope with barely visible needles and probes; the investigators must have supremely steady hands.

The «eureka» moment came later, as the slices were examined under a microscope at Israel's Weizmann Institute.

After checking and double - checking to make sure he had the right animal, he placed a piece of tissue culled from the transplant target area under a microscope.

Under the microscope, the etching showed the zigzag had undergone millennia of weathering, confirming the marks were more than 300,000 years older than the previously oldest known engraving: a zigzag etched into a piece of ochre by an anatomically modern human in Blombos Cave, South Africa.

The researchers in Allegra Goodman's fictional lab put mentoring, apprenticeship, ambition, loyalty, competition, deception, and integrity under the microscope

This is a photograph of the biologically - inspired microphone taken under a microscope, providing a top - side view.

What's more, these mice's brains looked inflamed under the microscope, full of immune cells called microglia that were still revved up 30 and 60 days after infection.

Using fluorescent labels, they were able to track the fates of marked and unmarked chromosomes under the microscope, from egg cells and sperm to the dividing cells of embryos after fertilization.

When Pearse put the first one under her microscope, she found that, as is common in cancer, its chromosomes were mangled: One pair of chromosomes was missing entirely, one lacked a partner, one was chomped off, and some leftover bits were jammed together into extra chromosomes.

Kidneys, livers and hearts turned a dark purplish - blue, clear and stark under his microscope, but the brain remained a pale whitish - yellow.

Peering at Miceli's lung tissue under a microscope, Lauridson was certain that severe asthma, combined with the way she was restrained at the jail, had caused her death.

Nabokov stared at these under a microscope «six hours a day, seven days a week, until his eyesight was permanently impaired», according to museum staff.

24 hours, 72 hours, 30 days, and 60 days later, the researchers killed the hamsters a few at a time and looked at their brain tissue under a microscope.

Under the microscope, a skin cell might look cancerous when it really wasn't.

Under the microscope, borophene displays corrugations that demonstrate its wavy nature, meaning it can be highly stretched once removed from the substrate, or reattached to a soft one, Yakobson said.

But under the microscope, this female hopper resembled a giant translucent shrimp with many powerful, kicking legs.

A technician then examines the sample under a microscope for the oddly - shaped cells that are a precursor to cancer.

Research findings often crumble under the microscope.

The companion piece to this article, «Scientists under the microscope,» focuses on how to distinguish between scientific criticism and personal attacks.Both of these stories tie in with Science's special section on the end of privacy in science.The content in this issue is free to access through 5 February 2015.

One of the most widely recognized biological structures in the cell, the tightly wound and elongated chromosome with its classic X-shaped structure can be easily discerned under a microscope and has been a common image in text books and popular scientific literature for decades.

I laughed and glanced back under the microscope.

Li and his colleagues flash froze lithium dendrites with liquid nitrogen to preserve their structure before putting them under the microscope.

The specimens, stored in glass vials for safe transport to the lab, were painstakingly identified under a microscope to determine the number of arthropod families represented, indicating overall arthropod diversity in each household.

Under the microscope, this thin section of sauropod bone appears coloured in polarised light.

As such, many women who already felt under the microscope, didn't want to give the impression of weakness, even if it meant risking injury.

The biopsies were thinly sliced and stained with a dye called Congo red that allowed the researchers to view the protein clumps in the layers of skin or within the sweat glands and pilomotor muscles (those that cause goose bumps) under the microscope.

One day a collaborator brought a T. rex slide to a conference and showed it to a pathologist, who examined it under a microscope.

The tiny creature's unusual structures only revealed themselves in detail when the amber went under the microscope at the German electron synchrotron (DESY).

But in general, people react more or less in the same manner to the pollen of all grasses growing in Denmark — and you can not distinguish the species when counting pollen under a microscope.