Sentences with phrase «which sits»

Even better, hyaluronic acid isn't found inside your cells; it exists as the single greatest part of the extracellular matrix (ECM) which sits between cells.

This is in contrast to «subcutaneous» fat, which sits under the skin and gives a «flabby» or overweight appearance

It stores it as glycogen, which sits in your liver and muscles.

However, there are certain areas that have a permeable barrier, such as the periventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus, which sits in the 3rd ventricle of the brain.

The skin is composed of three layers: the epidermis, which is the thinnest of the three layers and sits on the very top; the dermis, which sits in the middle; and the hypodermis, which connects skin to bone and muscle.

Increased brain activity in the prefrontal cortex was seen in MRIs of those who exercised and decreased activity in a part of the brain which sits behind it.

If yes, then you can't afford to overlook the importance of training your brachialis muscle, which sits right under your biceps, and your brachioradialis muscle, which is a long muscle that runs from deep inside the center of your upper arm to the center of your forearm.

But of course, DuPont broke its own rules and hundreds of thousands of pounds of PFOA powder made its way through the outfall pipes of DuPont's facility in Washington, WV, which sits on the Ohio River.

An aerial view of the University of Rochester's River Campus, which sits in a graceful bend in the Genesee River.

This supermassive black hole, which sits at the centre of a galaxy, was once one of the brightest X-ray sources in the sky.

Incredibly, the only substantial damage sustained by the radio telescope's suspended, 900 - ton receiver platform, which sits 150 meters above the 305 - meter dish, was the loss of the catwalk floor and the 430 MHz line feed; the five - ton line feed also smashed a few dozen of the dish's 38,000 panels in its fall.

In Valdez, which sits along the cool waters of Prince William Sound, the temperature reached a remarkable 90 °F Monday, beating the previous all - time mark of 87 °F.

Chief among them was the finding that in all placental mammals FOXP3 acts through a snippet of DNA called the CNS1 enhancer to trigger the formation of a cohort of Tregs designated «peripheral» (whereas most Tregs are produced in the thymus gland, which sits between the lungs, a subset of the cells act as sentinels suppressing runaway immune responses in the body's peripheral tissues).

Wicker, then a congressman, was one of the two coauthors, in 1995, of the Dickey - Wicker amendment, which prohibits federal funding for research in which human embryos are destroyed, and which sits at the heart of the current legal dispute.

Since 1995, Ghez has used the Keck Observatory, which sits atop Hawaii's dormant Mauna Kea volcano, to study the rotational center of the Milky Way and the movement of thousands of stars close to this galactic center.

As part of a project documenting the global bleaching event, he had surveyed Lizard Island, which sits about 90 km north of Cooktown in far north Queensland, when it was in full glorious health; then just as it started bleaching this year; then finally a few weeks after the bleaching began.

Since 1995, Ghez has been using the Keck Observatory, which sits atop Hawaii's dormant Mauna Kea volcano, to study the rotational center of the Milky Way and the movement of 200 stars close to this galactic center.

The full range of topography on Mars is about 19 miles (30 kilometers), one and a half times the range of elevations found on Earth, The most curious aspect of the map is the striking difference between the planet's low, smooth Northern Hemisphere and the heavily cratered Southern Hemisphere,» which sits, on average, about three miles (five kilometers) higher than the north.

The «Lonely Mountain» is another oddity, a conical - shaped mountain about 4 miles (6 kilometers) tall which sits all by itself with no other similar features near it.

The genetically modified neurons then produce the light - sensitive protein, which sits on their outside, the membrane.

At a conference on oil field infrastructure in October, one executive noted that McKenzie County, which sits in the heart of the oil patch and had a population of 6,360 people in 2010, required nearly $ 200 million in road repairs.

Editor Janet Raloff, freshly back from Antarctica, scooped other science magazines with this story of living cells discovered in Lake Whillans, which sits 800 meters below the surface of an ice sheet -LRB-

In this week's Nature, Masaru Okabe and Naokazu Inoue and their colleagues at Osaka University report that the protein, which sits on the outside of sperm cells, plays a make - or - break role in the fusion of sperm and eggs.

Each sensor consists of a tiny well, inside which sits a fragment of single - stranded DNA linked to a small bead.

But first physicists must find the exact mass of each copy of the prototype kilo, which sits in a vault in Paris, while they are in a vacuum.

In Ocean City, N.J., emergency sirens sounded yesterday afternoon as police blocked access to the bridges that connect the resort community, which sits on a narrow barrier island, to the mainland.

The vast gas and dust cloud Sagittarius B2 — which sits near Sagittarius A * at the center of our galaxy — contains traces of propylene oxide.

The center, which sits in a research park developed by the University of Maryland, will also oversee a partnership with the school that will pair undergraduates studying atmospheric and oceanic science with federal researchers, and enable the students to become government - certified meteorologists and oceanographers.

The network spans the Juan de Fuca plate, which sits between the Pacific and the North American plates and hosts earthquakes and tsunamis, giant clams and whale pods, along with hydrothermal vents and frozen methane deposits.

The GABAergic neurons project from the ventral part of the medulla, which sits at the top of the spinal cord, into many regions of the brainstem and hypothalamus, and thus are able to affect many bodily functions.

One of the genes, which sits on chromosome 13, is active in a part of the brain called the diencephalon.

The small table at which he sits with guests is placed so far from his desk, his bookshelf and personal pictures of his family that all these more intimate items seem to be in another room entirely.

A collapse of Tehri Dam in the central Himalayas, which sits above a fault, would, for instance, release a wall of water about 200 meters high, slamming through two towns.

Among their complaints, the lawmakers noted that the site surrounds artist Michael Heizer's large installation «City,» which sits on private land.

Pheromones are detected by the so - called vomeronasal organ, which sits in the nasal cavity and sets off a cascade of nerve signals that ends in the accessory olfactory bulb, the organ that processes pheromones.

Lake Chad, which sits in the center of this climatologically conflicted transition zone, serves as a bellwether for changing conditions in the Sahel.

Any liquid will coat the sides of a dish in which it sits — thanks again to the slight attraction between atoms — but the liquid's internal friction limits how far the coating may spread.

«It's possible that for male - type balding we may discover a defect in the androgen receptor molecule which sits in the hair follicles,» says Hoffman.

Dodge Pond, which sits on the outskirts of Lyme, Conn., is an ordinary New England lake.

Your final destination today is the charming city of Victoria — capital of British Columbia, Canada's westernmost province — which sits on the southern tip of Vancouver Island against a backdrop of coastal mountains.

They used data from IceCube, the world's largest neutrino detector, which sits below the Antarctic ice.

Cerealia Facula, in the center of the crater, consists of bright material covering a 6 - mile - wide (10 - kilometer - wide) pit, within which sits a small dome.

If you think in terms of a hat you see a hat in front of you and suppose you had the bag which sits on top in the center of the hat, to you all the world looks symmetric.

The Pine Island Glacier, which sits on part of west Antarctica, is the single largest contributor to global sea - level rise.

The older eruption is plowing a layer of glowing hydrogen gas from the center of NGC 5195, which sits about 26 million light - years away in the constellation Canes Venatici.

Mannheim, which sits at the junction of the Rhine and Neckar rivers, its cobblestone streets lined with upscale shops and outdoor cafés, provides a quiet workplace and sanctuary for Duesberg during these summers.

The spacecraft was sent to a halo orbit around a sun — Earth libration point, L1, which sits nearly a million miles into space on a line from Earth toward the sun.

Indeed, observes Smith, the «most curious aspect of the topographic map is the striking difference between the planet's low, smooth northern hemisphere and the heavily cratered southern hemisphere,» which sits, on average, about three miles higher than the north.

The big question is how much damage a quake of that size could do to Bangladesh, which sits atop a layer of sediment about 12 miles thick.

It also fences off the entire astronomy division — which sits within NSF's math and physical sciences directorate — from any reductions.