Sentences with phrase «with tiny brain»

She and her husband share their home with two affectionate rescue cats: Pearl, a short - legged and sassy tabby / calico mix, and Joey, a beautiful Russian Blue / tabby with a tiny brain and a huge heart.

An international team of scientists, including one from the University of Colorado Denver and another from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, announced the discovery Thursday of a new species of hominin, a small creature with a tiny brain that opens the door to a new way of thinking about our ancient ancestors.

«Ancient ancestor of humans with tiny brain discovered: Homo naledi raises intriguing questions about our evolutionary past.»

But within days skeptics emerged, countering that the tiny remains instead belonged to a small - bodied population of modern humans and that LB1 — with her tiny brain and other odd features — was a diseased member of the group.

The hippo skull, meanwhile, with its tiny brain case and tilted aspect, somehow suggests gentleness.

With tiny brains and force of numbers, social insects have achieved most of the things we consider quintessentially human — farming, warfare, air conditioning — and have taken over the world.

However, within a given order, such as, say, primates, some of the most playful species were those with the tiniest brains.

The skeletal remains belonged to an ancient people with tiny brains, and so short that they have been nicknamed «hobbits».

BrisScience on Monday 27th will deal with how bees do such amazing stuff with tiny brains.

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He slams faith, he slams UFO's, he slams anything his tiny little brain can't explain with concrete facts.

If the Sun or the Moon were a tiny bit different, perhaps we wouldn't be here; but perhaps we would be - and possibly we would be even better, with sturdier bodies, larger, more active brains, better resistance to disease, etc..

Even the sparrow, with its little bird brain, has to make tiny choices about the sticks to pick up to construct its nest.

Even people with less than a high school education today recognize the priority of the brain over the blood, so much so in fact, that in the movie, Hannibal (about a cannibalistic serial killer), the thought of slicing out tiny parts of a person's brain, cooking them in a pan, and serving the pieces to that person to eat has become in the public's mind a more disturbing image than, say, serving a person a glass of their own blood to drink, which appears relatively tame in comparison.

My tiny brain remains pre-occupied with million things keeping me engrossed in useless thoughts and the clock keeps ticking away!

At first, almost every sight, sound, and smell is a new one — every interaction with the non-uterine world presents a new challenge to that tiny little brain.

However, coping with toddler behaviour can become child's play when you understand what goes on in that tiny brain.

Any new parent knows that life with a tiny infant means your days basically revolve around a seemingly never - ending cycle of bottles and diaper changes — and when you're also really sleep deprived, it honestly doesn't take long before your brain starts to go a little loopy.

Any new parent knows that life with a tiny infant means your days basically revolve around a seemingly never - ending cycle of bottles and diaper changes — and when you're also really sleep deprived, it honestly doesn't take long before your brain star...

Tiny balls of brain tissue made from donated stem cells from children with autism or a condition that makes them hyper - sociable show intriguing differences

But when University of Michigan biophysical chemist Raoul Kopelman, the tiny voltmeter's inventor, flooded rat brain cells with the devices, he detected fields as strong as 15 million volts per meter throughout.

The cells also underwent tiny zaps of electricity, which allowed researchers to see how the neurons might have communicated with other nerve cells in the brain.

The team found that humans are equipped with tiny differences in a particular regulator of gene activity, dubbed HARE5, that when introduced into a mouse embryo, led to a 12 % bigger brain than in the embryos treated with the HARE5 sequence from chimpanzees.

Stuart Hameroff, an anesthesiologist who has spent many years studying brain functions, has collaborated with renowned Oxford University polymath Roger Penrose on a model that explains consciousness as the result of quantum processes occurring in tiny structures called microtubules in brain cells.

On the 42nd day of gestation, she surgically removed the fetuses, fitted them with tiny tanks that pumped the neurotoxin into their brains, then returned them to the uterus.

The transparency made it possible for them to identify peripheral nerves — tiny bundles of nerves that are poorly understood — and to map the spread of viruses across the mouse's blood - brain barrier, which they did by marking the virus with a fluorescent agent, injecting it into the mouse's tail and watching it spread into the brain.

Almost all of the ads provoked their biggest responses in the amygdala, a tiny part of the brain that is mainly associated with fear and anxiety.

Merging man and machine The spectacular successes of brain implants in primates has paved the way for new human trials, including one at Brown University, where neuroscientist John Donoghue is moving ahead with BrainGate, a minuscule array of tiny, spikelike electrodes implanted in the motor cortex.

Injected into mice, synthetic prions punch tiny holes in brain tissue (right), compared with healthy animals (left).

It is certainly a simpler and more plausible idea than the truth that Cajal saw in his microscope: that the brain is stuffed with billions of tiny cells of many different sizes and shapes.

That is, ghostly blue light that illuminates the catacombs of the brain and causes a tiny subset of neurons with a known identity to produce electrical spikes wakes up the animal.

Before neuroscience could tackle its biggest question — how the brain transforms chemical reactions and electrical pulses into cognition — it had to wrestle with the tiny.

By targeting this switch with tiny molecules, researchers could deny the macrophages calcium and prevent inflammation — even in the brain.

With these tiny wobbles, the brain can compress memories of time from several seconds down to hundredths of a second — a small enough package to store for later retrieval.

Even with their tiny bird brains, rooks comprehend basic principles of physics at the same level as a 6 - month - old baby — and beyond that of chimpanzees — a new study reports.

Our ideas about later human evolution, meanwhile, have been shattered by the remains of a tiny, novel human species with a small but intricately folded brain.

«We have begun doing X-ray tomography on large brain tissues, then we've gone deeper into specific tiny regions of interest in the same tissue with an electron microscope to see the full connectome there,» Dyer said.

In a group of animals in which tiny implanted windows allowed direct imaging of brain tissue, the progression of A-beta plaque deposition was fastest in animals receiving APOE4 and slowest, sometimes even appearing to regress, in mice injected with APOE2.

Researchers report that one tiny variation in the sequence of a gene may cause some people to be more impaired by traumatic brain injury (TBI) than others with comparable wounds.

Garcez and her colleagues at the Instituto D'Or in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil are starting experiments in which they will infect so - called cerebral organoids — tiny models of the developing human brain — with Zika virus and see whether their development is affected.

For example, it could be used to image neurons in living mice by combining the Raman scattering technique with existing methods in which tiny windows are implanted in the brains and spinal cords of laboratory animals.

Some of the pinpointed genes are known to be involved in the function of synapses, tiny connectors that allow brain cells to communicate with each other through electrical and chemical signals.

The findings suggest that the lethal power of the virus — known for infecting and killing cells in the brains of fetuses, causing babies to be born with tiny, misshapen heads — could be directed at malignant cells in the brain.

Anyone who has tried to swat an insect can attest to how difficult it is to make contact with such elusive targets, but dragonflies, in spite of their tiny brains, have mastered the art.

The new study combined two methods: So - called «patch recording» of tiny voltages in single frog brain cells and how the voltages change in response to sounds of different lengths, and the administration of drugs that block neurotransmitters — a way to learn how brain cells respond to sound with and without the normal neurotransmitters.

When the researchers made tiny lesions in the brain with a laser, nearby microglia immediately extended new arms to create a barrier around the injury and began retracting arms on the opposite side, the team reports online 14 April in Science.

It is particularly difficult to control because it does not grow as a round, well - circumscribed mass — instead, because astrocytes» main job is to travel among the neurons, it is able to send out fingerlike projections throughout the brain, essentially creating tiny, multiple «highways» that spread malignant cells with extreme efficiency.

With eyes twice as big as their brains, a head that can rotate 180 degrees in each direction and the ability to track prey using ultrasound, the tiny animals are formidable nocturnal hunters.

Brain cells communicate with each other by firing off tiny chemical and electrical signals.

Karin Nordström's group from the University of Uppsala, Sweden, and Flinders University, Australia, and Shannon Olsson's team from the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bangalore, India, have long been interested in how insects, with their «teeny - tiny» brains can recognize objects such as flowers.

Now the weird thing about sediba is, it has a very human like pelvis but it has a tiny brain, so obviously something, some kind of other selective force is acting on the pelvis that has nothing to do with the expansion of brain size that you see in our genus.