Sentences with phrase «zapped with»

In the process, the donor cells are merged with egg cells extracted from other dogs, zapped with an electrical current to spur splitting, then implanted in more dogs who serve as surrogates, carrying the embryos to pregnancy.

So, what that mostly leaves are the jokes, the majority of which could use some serious punching - up from a screenwriter who's a lot less inclined toward delivering the most obvious gags in any given situation; if, in a movie, you've ever seen the wrong person get zapped with a taser, a poisonous snake biting someone's naughty bits, or a rich, out - of - touch character humorously failing to relate to the working class, well, you've probably seen it executed better than it is here.

The chocolate is also zapped with the light»n lovely Gallo Family Vineyards» wine.

It feels like you're being zapped with an electric cattle prod.

Zapped with cosmic rays and ultraviolet light, the space between the stars is so hostile that most astronomers once thought it couldn't possibly harbor something as fragile as molecules.

The team placed two diamonds in front of an ultrafast laser, which zapped them with a pulse of light that lasted 100 femtoseconds (or 10 - 13 seconds).

The term «artificial muscles» is actually a bit of a grab bag that refers to materials that contract, expand, or rotate when heated, zapped with electricity, or hit with some other stimulus.

9 The bugs are anesthetized with carbon dioxide, then zapped with electricity, which makes them release venom into minuscule glass capillaries connected to their fangs.

If liquid is zapped with sound waves in the right manner, it will «crack,» creating bubbles that contract so violently that they glow with light.

ON A ROLL A mini four - wheeled vehicle rolls across a surface when zapped with electricity that contorts the wheels» axle.

A carbon double bond serves as an axle between two wheels; when the entire unit is zapped with electricity, the double bond becomes a single bond.

The scaffold is made from a polymer sheet and zapped with a laser to form a honeycomb structure of individual pores, each shaped like a concertina roughly 500 micrometres long.

«If the planet gets zapped with radiation all the time by flares from its parent star, the surface might not be a very pleasant place to live.

Engines on the ship pumped 5500 liters of lake water per minute, sent it through a filter, and then sent it through a vat in which it was zapped with 254 - nanometer - wavelength UV light.

Stanley Miller, who died on May 20, performed one of biology's most famous experiments in 1952, when he showed that simple compounds could form amino acids when zapped with electricity.

To add one plus one, the physicists used two of the carbon atoms and zapped them with a series of radio pulses.

Made of a single molecule, the «vehicle» has four wheel - like paddles that rotate in the same direction when zapped with a beam of electrons.

In a 2006 study, people zapped with unpredictable electric shocks to the hand rated the pain as more unpleasant than when they knew what to expect.

CELLS absorb chemotherapy drugs more readily if they are zapped with red light.

Then they zapped them with gamma rays to simulate the dose they would receive in Martian soil over long periods of time.

The acids form when organic, carbon - containing compounds and water are zapped with a source of energy, such as photons — a process that can take place on Earth or in space.

The fragments clung to their opposite partners, closing the zipper once more, but this time causing it to glow brightly when zapped with light.

In the 1960s, as a graduate - student researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, he discovered that dogs zapped with an electric shock and allowed to escape by jumping over a low barrier quickly learned to do so, but most shocked dogs given no escape option eventually gave up, even when a way to flee was introduced later.

Just remember, streaming costs bandwidth and you want to make sure you have enough on your phone or home's Internet connection before getting zapped with a huge bill for going over your allotted bandwidth.

The chocolate is also zapped with the light»n lovely Gallo Family Vineyards» wine.

The pumpkin started out as a big piece of raw pumpkin, which I grated and zapped with some water in the microwave till it went soft.

Either way you're getting zapped with a megadose of nutrients especially Vitamin A. Add those alluring pumpkin spices and it couldn't possible be more fragrant.

Well before modern genetic engineering technology was around, humans found ways to tweak the DNA of plants by zapping it with chemicals or radiation — resulting in crops that are not considered GMOs.

I don't think God zaps us with lightning or yells at us from a cloud.

The substance, which consists of a fluid of hydrogen ions running through a lattice of oxygen, was formed by compressing water between two diamonds and then zapping it with a laser.

But what if fixing a busted bicuspid was as easy as zapping it with a laser?

Zaps with light force the bot's fins to flutter, letting researchers drive it through a watery obstacle course, Kit Parker of Harvard University and colleagues report in the July 8 Science.

If the researchers find cells with decent enough DNA, Iritani says, he would inject a mammoth cell's nucleus into an elephant egg and zap it with electricity to jolt the egg into fertilization mode.

Their idea is to first detect the debris with a telescope mounted on the outside of the ISS, and then if they find something, they'll zap it with powerful lasers.

We're talking about trans fats, created in laboratories, like a Frankenstein monster, in an attempt to make a better dietary fat out of plant oils by zapping them with energy.

Rx These growths are harmless, but you can opt to have your dermatologist remove them, either through freezing them with liquid nitrogen (cryosurgery), burning them off (electrocautery), or, if they're large, zapping them with a laser.

Sewell doesn't do so much — just zap us with his smug smile — but it's enough to save «Bless the Child» from mediocrity.

As often as the G - Man zaps the monster with a cattle prod, del Toro's script (co-written with Vanessa Taylor) zaps us with one progressive message or another.

she shouts as she zaps him with the defibrillator.

His aptitude for running toward a unconcious chum makes him a prime candidate for an Explosive Gel trap, or better yet a handy upgraded gadget that will sabotage his equipment, zapping him with an electric shock when he goes to revive a comrade.

Would you like to slice him up with Wolverine's claws or zap him with ice like a warrior from Mortal Kombat?

Familiar music and sound effects are used throughout and you'll take on the usual cute enemies and can zap them with magical spells from the series.

The Secret Apprentice doesn't just Force grip foes to throw them aside - he Force grips them in midair, zapping them with lightning, then dropping them to the ground to explode like a bomb.

You can even tag enemies up to three times, which results in your field zapping them with electricity that's three times as strong.

The only way to neutralize this big bug is to zap it with the ship's energy shield; that'll expose its weak spot and allow me to fire on it from one of the craft's onboard turrets.

Lastly, you can befriend monsters by zapping them with the A button several times.

The game is smooth to control as you essentially teleport about blasting enemies or zapping them with the special tools at your disposal.

It worked pretty well, but would occasionally latch on to the wrong push pin or object and would cause me to get caught by secret service agents or hospital orderlies who would zap me with their tasers.

There are also a handful of new enemies, such as undead mages who will zap you with lightning, and mutant dogs with miniguns strapped to their backs.

It told the story of Rebecca Chambers, the only surviving member of the STARS Bravo team, and featured partner zapping with a new male character, Billy Coen.