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Four years earlier, when I was one, after the Chernobyl accident, the rain came down black, and my sister's hair fell out in clumps, and I spent nine months in the hospital.
Now, we harvest from hundreds of family-owned clumps.
This causes the protein molecules to stick to each other, forming clumps that eventually become large plaques and tangles.
The inflationary model describes a brief era of incredibly rapid expansion that relates quantum fluctuations in the energy of the early universe, to the formation of clumps of gas that eventually led to galaxies.
However, by breaking up the clumps into individual particles, the total surface area is increased, and each particle has an exposed surface that can react.
They might be bits of tissue, red blood cells, or clumps of protein.
The clumps disrupt transport and communication along the neuron and drive the breakdown of connections within the brain.
Once the tau proteins start clumping together, they cause more clumps to form and continue to spread throughout the brain, even after head impacts have stopped.
For instance, any unreacted carbon atoms from the logs form little clumps of soot that rise into the flames and emit the yellow-orange light we associate with a campfire.
Its lactic acids caused proteins to coagulate, binding into soft clumps.
These clumps, or curds, became the building blocks of cheese, which would eventually be aged, pressed, ripened, and whizzed into a diverse cornucopia of dairy delights.
We got these little clumps of beating human heart muscle in the dish, and that was cool, because it said, in principle, this should be able to be done.
We grow our heart muscle cells in little three-dimensional clumps called cardiac organoids.
We’ve observed thousands of these disks in the sky, at various stages of development as dust clumps together into larger and larger masses.
One theory suggests that high energy particles can knock more electrons off of some dust clumps, leaving them positively charged.
In the other universe, the things that start out like small clumps, they just stay really small.
And you can see that there's a lot of other material around it, little small clumps.
If those dark matter particles are moving really fast, then the gravity in small clumps is not strong enough to slow those fast particles down.
They never collapse into these small clumps.
If you don't have those small clumps, then you get fewer small galaxies.
So if you want to put a million things down amongst eight million positions and you can have some of them overlapping, the clumps will be further apart.
The image that stays with me most is when Yasuko stands before the mirror combing her hair, silently watching it come out in clumps.
The film had me laughing throughout, like when the two main characters (who dress like oi punks, which added to my enjoyment) trash an establishment owned by a white bigot in the middle of the film for no reason (the scene seemed to be randomly thrown in), the ninjas at the end who turn into clumps of grass and either teleport or travel underground and then take their normal ninja shape again, the special team called in by the ninjas to fight the mafia (who are the protagonists) which includes an italian (i think?) knife thrower with a huge ridiculous scar on his face (who is an expert at throwing knives into apples suspended by wires in mid air), a Chinese swordsman, a Japanese ninja, and an African American fellow from detroit who as far as i could tell didn't know any actual kung fu, so just rolled around a lot and sort of threw people.
The research found that amyloid-beta – the substance that clumps together and forms amyloid plaques – becomes depleted in the cerebrospinal fluid around the brain as long as 25 years before the onset of dementia.
"That damned captain," the Canadian went on, "must really be sure of his course, because if these clumps of coral so much as brush us, they'll rip our hull into a thousand pieces!"
Clumps of trees here and there stood out like black rocks, and the tall lines of the poplars that rose above the mist were like a beach stirred by the wind.
Its white houses with their high pitched roofs of red tiles are spread over the slope of a hill, the slightest contours of which are indicated by clumps of sturdy chestnuts.
And they didn't give me pills; they gave me clumps on the side of the head.
And, strange as it may appear, those clumps on the head often cured me - for the time being.
It was a poky, little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and uncongenial atmosphere.