Down's syndrome, Alzheimer's disease, autism, diabetes, ageing research, cancers of all types: that's a minuscule range of diseases that have been and continue to be utterly dependent on the fruit fly.
Mr. Breheny conceded that given the small number of spray toads, their minuscule range and their extreme vulnerability to environmental disturbance, it was possible that the researchers might one day have to conclude that returning them to the wild was impossible.
His prototype, he said, will test a finger-stick drop of blood for flu, malaria, typhoid, dengue, measles, rickettsia, salmonella and other fever-causing infections -- a tall order, because the infecting agents range from minuscule viruses to relatively immense parasites.
The nine guest rooms, ranging from minuscule to palatial with prices starting at less than $100, are located on the fourth and fifth floors.
They range from the minuscule (how to clear the debris under the abandoned railroad trestle in Kent that blocks river passage) to the daunting (how to help Cleveland and Akron find the right plans and financing to solve serious sewage overflows during rainstorms that feed the river's violation of federal pollution standards).
These minuscule molecular machines perform a bewildering range of tasks inside and outside the living cell – including synthesising pretty much all the other interesting molecules in our bodies – but even so the conversation stalls.
Transistors, along with such subsequent developments as integrated circuits, are made of crystalline solid materials called semiconductors, which have electrical properties that can be varied over an extremely wide range by the addition of minuscule quantities of other elements.
Gauge isn't extremely important here, as long as the wire is copper, the resistance-per-foot is in the mili-ohm range, meaning there will be minuscule, if any, voltage drop across the wire.
The world features countless interconnected systems ranging in size from the minuscule (metabolic networks within a single cell) to the immense (international financial markets).
iRig Mic Cast (£29.99) A minuscule unidirectional microphone with a headphone monitor output and adjustable range, the iRig Mic Cast is a godsend for on-the-hoof interviewers and smartphone film‑makers.
A NEW range of televisions from Sony is the first to use minuscule devices known as quantum dots to produce colours which are more vibrant than those which appear on a conventional liquid-crystal display (LCD).
