Sentence examples for rest dormant from inspiring English sources

Unlike many video games, which are rigged to respond only to inputs and otherwise rest dormant, like a musical instrument awaiting a player, No Man's Sky will tick and function regardless of human interaction.

But that evidence, based on metabolic products and cell counts, is uncertain: It's possible that only a fraction of the bugs are active and the rest dormant.

Tomita et al (2005) detected Gata-4 in neural crest-derived cardiac progenitor cells that rest as dormant stem cells in the heart.

On the other hand, the inactivation of Myc in HCC causes a subpopulation of cells to differentiate while the rest remain dormant, giving rise to a phenotypically diverse tumor population and possibly the origin of CSCs [ 67].

Some organisms form spores, a resting or dormant stage that is resistant to heat, cold, drying, and chemical action.

Bacterial spores serve largely as a resting, or dormant, stage in the bacterial life cycle, serving to preserve the bacterium through periods of unfavourable conditions.

They rested the dormant slugger for a pair of games over the weekend, much to Fielder's chagrin, and when he returned on Monday they dropped him to sixth in the lineup and stuck him back at first base where he was a regular until the 2014 season (Fielder accumulated an awful -17.4 defensive WAR after debuting in 2005).

First, it is now acknowledged that microglial cells in the healthy brain is not in a resting or dormant state but rather have an active surveying function, constantly exploring the cerebral parenchyma [1], [2].

Most nephrogenic rests become dormant, mature or spontaneously regress.

Many bacteria have evolved the ability to survive long-term environmentally unfavourable conditions by differentiation into dormant resting stages, most commonly referred to as spores or cysts.

This suggested that the spherical particles in natural fluid inclusions might be in a dormant resting state, which is reversed to growth as rod-shaped or pleomorphic cells, once conditions for proliferation are met.