From 1845 (when this was discovered by Schmidt) until 1958 (when cellulose fibres were found in mammalian connective tissue), ascidians were believed to be the only animals that synthesised cellulose.

Insects cannot metabolise cellulose independently, but the presence of these bacteria allow cellulose to be metabolised into basic sugars.

The hydroxyl groups on the cellulose are reported to help stabilize the particles.

You need to eat more fiber.

Carbon fiber, alternatively graphite fiber or CF, is a material consisting of fibers about 5 10 μm in diameter and composed mostly of carbon atoms.

it is easy and cheap to cultivate and free from any serious pests and diseases

In 1985, the country's first fibre optic cable was installed.

Non polymer materials can also be used as the matrix for carbon fibers.

I'm essentially using a kombucha recipe, which is a symbiotic mix of bacteria, yeasts and other micro organisms, which spin cellulose in a fermentation process.

Bacterial cellulose is actually already being used for wound healing, and possibly in the future for biocompatible blood vessels, possibly even replacement bone tissue.

Red (or pink) lentils contain a lower concentration of fiber than green lentils (11 versus 31 ).

These fibroblasts secrete collagen, which interacts with fibers on the surfaces of adjacent bone and cementum.

Between 1720 and 1870 there were more than 100 mills in Lancaster county that processed hemp fiber.

The research name of the para aramid fibre was originally Fiber X, but it was soon called Arenka.

The light source is normally outside the body and the light is typically directed via an optical fiber system.

It was concluded that those at greatest risk are workers who handle asbestos fibres for various uses.

An example of successful waste management is the reprocessing of PET bottles (made of polyethylene terephthalate) into polyester fibers.

It is not as durable as other fibers, and so is usually used as a blend with other fibers such as cotton or wool.

The fibers of the corticospinal tract terminate at different levels in the anterior horn of the grey matter of the spinal cord.

Like Kevlar, Zylon is used in a number of applications that require very high strength with excellent thermal stability.

Electrodiagnostics Muscle fibers of patients with MG are easily fatigued, thus do not respond as well as muscles in healthy individuals to repeated stimulation.

The core is about 60 of the plant and has thick (ø 38 µm) but short (0.5 mm) and thin walled (3 µm) fibres.

Finally, I came to know it is a special cellulose derived from a pinewood, but even after that, you need a multimillion dollar plant like this to process that material. Again, a stop up.

And eye meat is something different, something more fibrous, something more powerful, perhaps. But what could that be, eye meat?

Many designers have begun experimenting with bamboo fibre, which absorbs greenhouse gases during its life cycle and grows quickly and plentifully without pesticides.

It is made from both carded and combed yarns, and may be woven of various fibers, such as cotton, polyester, or various blends.

He is also known for his discovery in 1839 of Purkinje fibres, the fibrous tissue that conducts electrical impulses from the atrioventricular node to all parts of the ventricles of the heart.

Photonic crystal fibres were first developed by Philip Russell in 1998, and can be designed to possess enhanced properties over (normal) optical fibres.

The livelihood component includes learning processes concerning skills development involving existing alternative sources of income such as abaca fibre production, handicraft making and cash crop production.

This is a fiber optic cable that was laid between those two cities to just be able to traffic one signal 37 times faster than you can click a mouse just for the Carnival and the Knife.

That was like the fibers of the cotton candy creating this structure, this tubularized structure, which is a biomaterial that we can then use to help your body regenerate using your very own cells to do so.

A woman named Joanna Aizenberg, at Lucent, is now learning to do this in a low temperature process to create these sort of lenses. She's also looking at fiber optics.

Single or multiple video inputs with connector types consistent with the analogue or digital video provided such as coaxial cable, twisted pair or optical fiber cable.

Some reasonable estimates put the cost at around 1 billion for an Africa wide fiber optic network that could bring Internet connectivity and telephone service across the continent s villages and cities.

In this TED archive video from 1998, paralympic sprinter Aimee Mullins talks about her record setting career as a runner, and about the amazing carbon fiber prosthetic legs that helped her cross the finish line.

Regarding the exemption request by the United States for CFC 113 used for high modulus polyethylene fibre, he noted that it met the technical criteria for classification as a process agent.

It started in Japan. Sumitomo had developed a technology essentially to impregnate a polyethylene based fiber with organic insecticide, so you could create a bed net, a malaria bed net, that would last five years and not need to be re dipped.

Stains may be used to define and examine bulk tissues (highlighting, for example, muscle fibers or connective tissue), cell populations (classifying different blood cells, for instance), or organelles within individual cells.

Epidermal nerve fiber density testing (ENFD) is a more recently developed neuropathology test in which a punch skin biopsy is taken to identify small fiber neuropathies by analyzing the nerve fibers of the skin.

In the field of health and medicine, the Committee noted that a filter made of nanoaluminium oxide fibres could be used to remove impurities from drinking water in areas on Earth where water was scarce and potentially contaminated.

The first commercial products involving two dimensionally periodic photonic crystals are already available in the form of photonic crystal fibers, which use a microscale structure to confine light with radically different characteristics compared to conventional optical fiber for applications in nonlinear devices and guiding exotic wavelengths.

And with the new generation of scanning tools, for the first time we can actually see individual inter neural fibers and see them processing and signaling in real time but then the question is, OK, we can get this data now, but can we understand it?