They cultured M. smegmatis, which is closely related to M. tuberculosis but faster growing, in a tiny chamber with a constant flow of nutrients, allowing them to watch single live cells growing and replicating.
He burst into a tiny chamber of commerce and began joking with businessmen, teachers and farmers.
Sheathed in stainless steel, the 27-ton finial is really an extremely tall, narrow pyramid, about three feet wide at the base, with a tiny chamber inside and a service ladder leading up into the darkness.
With the help of his father-in-law, who works at Argonne National Laboratory, Epstein designed an upgrade: a plastic chip with three hundred and eighty-four holes in it, each hole a tiny isolation chamber for one bacterium.
Each nanoliter-scale aqueous droplet is a tiny reaction chamber that contains a single cell, barcoded and UMI-labeled primers, and reaction buffer.
"Twitter is a tiny echo chamber.
To better understand the navigation mechanism, the team placed sea urchin sperm in tiny chambers, added a modified version of resact at precise time intervals, and recorded videos of their flagellum movements and of the calcium influx simultaneously.
And it may indeed be the case that their technique, which involves banging together the nuclei of deuterium atoms (a heavy form of hydrogen) using a tiny crystal in a palm-sized vacuum chamber, will never provide a source of power.
Separate operations like mixing or purging can be controlled in the tiny chambers.
Heath's group uses homemade microfluidic chips to study individual cells, which are positioned in their own tiny chambers inside the microchip.
You might hurl it against a wall in defense or crush it with your boot or run over it a bunch of times, but it survives because it has no actual hard skeleton, just tiny chambers of air that deflate and inflate in different patterns to do things like walk and slither.
