Sentence examples for attach to a surface from inspiring English sources

The cancer-like cells could grow in sparse cultures and without having to attach to a surface, and they showed many other changes.

Scientists knew that the presence of certain bacteria helps trigger the larvae of the tubeworm Hydroides elegans to attach to a surface and metamorphose.

When cells attach to a surface, filopodia are the initial mechanisms through which a cell "senses" its surroundings and it has been well established that cells extend filopodia at or near nanotopographical cues such as grooves and nanocolumns [15], [30], [42].

In S. aureus, the expression of CWA proteins is integral to the ability of the organism to attach to a surface and thereby initiate biofilm formation (Fig.  5).

Following translocation of the endometrial tissue into the peritoneal cavity, the endometrial fragments must survive the defenses of the body, attach to a surface, and subsequently invade and modify the peritoneal membrane in order to establish a lesion.

Moreover, the group showed that the presence of persisters was not dependent on the formation of a complex biofilm structure, but rather on the ability to attach to a surface.

Many choanoflagellates are solitary and sessile (attached to a surface), with or without a stalk.

The foliose forms are flat, leaflike, and loosely attached to a surface.

The gametes from different individuals unite to form a planula, a ciliated, free-swimming larva, which attaches to a surface and develops into a polyp.

As with other hydroids, the medusoid form is produced by a small, sedentary polypoid form (cylindrical, stalklike, and permanently attached to a surface).

The polyp may be solitary, as in the sea anemone, or colonial, as in coral, and is sessile (attached to a surface).