Science news articles about 'tiny hairs'

  • St. Jude finds 'dancing' hair cells are key to humans' acute hearing

    ... Sound entering the cochlea is detected by the vibration of tiny, hair-like cilia that extend from cochlear ... passive detectors, the so-called “outer hair cells” amplify the sound signal as it transforms ...
  • Scientists grow cochlea hair cells

    PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 27 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have grown tiny hair cells that are necessary for hearing, suggesting a new therapy to regain hearing might be possible.
  • Hairs control kidney regrowth

    Researchers have found that tiny hair-like structures in the kidney seem to regulate kidney regrowth – and cause a disease if faulty.
  • Superglue from the sea

    ... they gather food and particles to build their shells with." Tiny, hair-like cilia brush the sand grains ... natural adhesive to build tubes by gluing together tiny pieces of egg shell, glass beads, ...
  • Researchers control the assembly of nanobristles into helical clusters

    ... (SEAS) have discovered a way to synthesize and control the formation of nanobristles, akin to tiny hairs, into helical clusters and have further demonstrated the fabrication of such highly ordered ...
  • Froggin' Amazing

    ... first pass through a strong outer membrane. But even though tiny hairs called cilia stir the fluid inside these quarter-inch-diameter eggs, most of the oxygen is near the eggs’ ...
  • Study offers clues to beating hearing loss

    ... of some forms of deafness. The Leeds team has discovered that the myosin 7 motor protein - found in the tiny hairs of the inner ear that pick up sound - moves and works in a different way from many ...
  • New Way to Distinguish Cancerous from Normal Cells

    ... cancer from normal cells. They have identified a critical difference between the surface properties of normal and cancer cells: variation in brushes or tiny "hairs" that cover the cell surface.
  • Power steering for your hearing

    ... researchers have learned how quiet sounds are magnified by bundles of tiny, hair-like tubes atop ... Rabbitt, Breneman and Brownell find evidence the hair cells themselves – like the stereocilia bundles ...
  • Protein-protein interaction explains vision loss in genetic diseases

    ... to do with the structure or function of cilia, he said. Cilia are tiny hair-like structures that either move things along inside the cell or help with sensory activities. "Anything ...
  • Weeding out marijuana: Researchers close in on engineering recognizable, drug-free Cannabis plant

    ... of plant biology in the College of Biological Sciences. The study revealed that the genes are active in tiny hairs covering the flowers of Cannabis plants. In marijuana, the hairs accumulate high ...
  • The lotus's clever way of staying dry

    ... hairs projecting upward. When a water droplet lands on this type of surface, it only touches the ends of the tiny hairs. The droplet is buoyed by air pockets below and ultimately is repelled off the ...
  • Mushrooms, water-repellants more similar than you might think

    ... hairs projecting upward. When a water droplet lands on this type of surface, it only touches the ends of the tiny hairs. This creates pockets of air underneath the droplet that keeps it from touching ...
  • Nano bubble gum for enhancing drug delivery in gut

    ... beads are silicon nanowires designed to form an adhesive interface with the tiny, hair-like cilia that cover the cells lining the gut. They are designed to stick like burrs to the cells ...

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