Sentences with phrase «used microscopic»

Due to their tiny size, irregular shape and limited viewing angle, commonly used microscopic imaging techniques can not always capture the whole object's shape often leaving out valuable information that can be important in numerous areas of science, engineering and medicine.

The researchers took molecules of different sizes and colours and used microscopic imaging to see which size of molecule could get into the gap between an immune cell and another cell.

Ali Dhinojwala of the University of Akron in Ohio used microscopic probes to test beads of glue on an orb spider's web and found that elasticity was key.

The real jump here will be to holographic displays, which use microscopic patterns to bend and filter light into images.

Scanning the bones using microscopic computer tomography at a materials science institute in Berlin and the University of Rostock has yielded detailed, 3D images of these injuries.

Meanwhile, other researchers are attempting to develop an alternate space - based interferometry technology that uses microscopic clouds of atoms rather than bulky spacecraft to further shrink the need for long, expensive baselines.

By combining two chemical techniques — narrow capillary electrophoresis and mass spectrometry — Moini figured out how to measure that ratio in just 20 minutes using microscopic samples of silk.

Sionix, an Anaheim, Calif. — based corporation, which manufactures a treatment system that uses microscopic air bubbles to clean water, is testing whether its technology can also reduce levels of metal, namely iron and manganese (both toxic to the body in large amounts) in Santiago Creek near Villa Park Dam in Orange County, Calif..

Using a microscopic imaging approach, called cryo - imaging, and MRI, the researchers verified that the MRI technique could detect micrometastases, even observing bone micrometastases that were less than 0.5 mm — the diameter of a very fine pencil lead.

AFM achieves this level of detail by using a microscopic stylus — similar to a needle on a record player — that barely makes contact with the surface of the material being studied.

«It doesn't make my job any easier,» jokes Dowsett, who uses microscopic fossils to reconstruct Pliocene shorelines.

Using microscopic video recordings, the team showed that underwater oil droplets flowed continuously along the needles at a rate of 2 millimeters per second, similarly to the way water moves along cactus needles, the team reports online today in Nature Communications.

Over a thousand years ago, Mesopotamian artisans stumbled on a new way to add a special sheen to their ceramics: using microscopic pieces of metal.

The patented technique uses microscopic crystals of silicon carbide to punch holes in plant cells so that foreign DNA can enter.

More important, the technique leaves the underlying tissue unharmed, prefiguring a day when doctors might build miniature sensors directly onto the skin of their patients, or biologists might use microscopic tweezers to capture and study individual cells.

Sperm DNA uses these microscopic highways to find the female DNA and merge into a zygote.

Twisted stalks were then observed using microscopic and spectroscopic techniques, 1) to determine whether structures are preserved and 2) to characterize their mineral and organic composition and 3) to provide spectroscopic signatures that could be useful for microfossil search in the rock record.

UTMD uses microscopic, gas - filled bubbles that can be paired with viral therapies, therapeutic genes and proteins, and imaging agents.

Microfluidic devices are tiny chips that can sort out disease biomarkers, cells and other small structures in samples like blood by using microscopic channels incorporated into the devices.

Using a microscopic lense, Biss began to experiment with macrophotography.

Painters and sculptures used photographs as muse to make art with lifelike realism as goal and using microscopic detail to help get there.

They were recently the subjects of a two - hour documentary on the South Bank Show, and have completed a new series of photo - pieces called The Fundamental Pictures, which use microscopic images of their bodily fluids to startling effect.

This catalogue for his exhibition at Marian Goodman Gallery in New York includes an interview with the artist by Benjamin HD Buchloh in which Richter discusses his latest technique of using microscopic models as the basis for his new paintings

Performing serological testing of blood, semen and saliva using microscopic and chemical analysis, instrumentation analysis includes RT - PCR quantitation, PCR amplification, and capillary electrophoresis typing.

Not exact matches

A veteran of digital imaging technology, in 1999 he founded Quantitative Imaging Corp. (QImaging), a manufacturer of digital cameras for scientific and industrial uses — the kind, for example, that can detect microscopic, early - stage cancer cells.

This year, though, a team from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has developed an approach that uses a regular laser - sintering printer to control the microscopic grain structure of the metal.

Whiteheadians seem able to imagine such ecstatically spanned unities - across - time on the so - called «microscopic» scale of the «specious present,» but give up on the idea as the scope of the temporal disclosure space is widened to the scale of human lifetime and of generations.7 But worse than this from the point of view of Heidegger's temporal problematic, by submitting the ecstatic unities of their «specious presents» to the before / after ordering and metric properties of linear time, at least in terms of their mutually external relations and arrangements, they give back ontologically every advantage they gained from the use of an cc - static - temporal disclosure horizon in the first place, even though it was only the single horizon of presence.

Metal oxides such as zinc oxide and titanium dioxide are increasingly being used in sunscreens and cosmetics in the form of nanoparticles — microscopic particles of matter measured on the nanoscale.

WebMD is also undecided on whether or not it's safe, but notes that when using dye, a very small amount should ever be absorbed into the bloodstream, meaning an even microscopic amount would ever reach the baby.

If you are using too little detergent to release this soil, you will then get a microscopic build up of oils on the surface of the fabric eventually causing it to repel or stink.

Our specialized team can often provide a rapid diagnosis for blood and / or protein using a specialized urine microscopic technique with contrast (Nomarski optics).

The team created microscopic wounds in the pupae's epithelial layer using a laser that can be focused down to a point small enough to punch microscopic holes in individual cells (less than a millionth of a meter).

Pan, Schweitzer and their team used both scanning and transmission electron microscopy to get microscopic details of the feather's surface and its internal structure.

«On a microscopic scale various layers of cement appear, and each one provides information on the moment when they precipitated, the conditions that existed, etc.» Secondly, they analysed the materials trapped in these cements where «we found foundry slag from the industrial revolution, even waste bearing the seals of European companies that used to dump their slag when they arrived with their vessels.

It uses the pressure of a highly focused laser beam to levitate and manipulate delicate microscopic objects such as viruses, bacteria and DNA strands without causing them damage.

Microscopic identification of the microbiota in healthy (left) and inflamed intestine (right) using specific gene probes.

The researchers, including Stanford's Schnitzer, used the same microscopic technique as Dulac's team but implanted the lens in the ventromedial hypothalamus, an evolutionarily ancient structure involved in social behavior.

Biomedical engineer Elisa Konofagou at Columbia University is pursuing another way to sneak drugs into the brain, by drilling microscopic channels with a high - intensity ultrasound device similar to the therapeutic ultrasound doctors use to dislodge kidney stones.

Staff Writer Bob Service talks with Sarah Crespi about building microscopic teddy bears, doughnuts, and more from genetic material, and using these techniques to push forward fields from materials science to drug delivery.

High - frequency sound can kill microscopic pathogens, but the sound waves normally need to travel through a contact medium such as water or gel, limiting the use of ultrasound as a germicide.

In a second piece, Wise explained how a marine ecologist is using robots (with casings made from surplus fire extinguishers) to mimic the motions of microscopic marine life, including crab larvae, as they move through ocean waters during their development into adult organisms.

It can be used to build a camera or be fashioned into a microscopic factory that churns out drugs and maybe even biofuels.

Using the new methods of micromachining, which borrow technology for making computer chips to carve out and build up microscopic structures on silicon wafers, Peter Gammel and his colleagues at Bell Labs / Lucent Technologies reduced three of the critical devices of a cell phone to Lilliputian size that will allow all the components of a phone to be constructed on a single chip.

The team used records of oxygen isotope ratios (which provide a record of ancient water temperature) from microscopic plankton fossils recovered from the Mediterranean Sea, spanning the last 5.3 million years.

Algae can also be used for biomanufacturing: Microscopic algae are turned into a living machine that can be genetically programmed to produce molecules like lipids and hydrocarbons ideally suited for biofuels.

His research career has ranged widely, from the macroscopic study of alloys to the microscopic study of thin films such as those used in silicon chips.

Microscopic imaging reveals the pattern of annual rings in shrub stems, which the researchers used to determine that shrub growth is controlled by temperatures in June, the first month of the brief arctic growing season.

Kelly Benoit - Bird uses sonar to watch the underwater movements of all kinds of creatures, from microscopic zooplankton to giant gray whales.

The team used stable isotope labels to trace plant litter - derived carbon and nitrogen as the litter decomposed and formed soil, specifically the fraction of soil called organic matter, which comes from plant inputs and microscopic animals.

Using proteomics, microscopic analysis, and functional assays, the group provided definitive evidence that membralin functions as part of the ERAD system.