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The pups of nurturing moms turned out less sensitive to stress because their brains developed more cortisol receptors, which stick to cortisol and dampen the stress response.
The pups of negligent moms had the opposite outcome, and so became more sensitive to stress throughout life.
The more a given unit of insulin lowers blood sugar, the more sensitive you are to insulin.
Even the body's aches make you more sensitive, drawing attention to infected cuts that might be worsening, or even causing your condition.
The frontal lobes are so sensitive to drops in glucose, in fact, that a change in mental function is one of the primary signals of nutrient deficiency.
Components of the cells that are sensitive to dryness, like DNA, proteins, and membranes, get trapped in this matrix.
If we can understand how they, and other creatures, stabilize their sensitive biological molecules, perhaps we could apply this knowledge to help us stabilize vaccines, or to develop stress-tolerant crops that can cope with Earth's changing climate.
Tense muscles and inflamed, sensitive nerves cause varying degrees of discomfort in each headache.
Scientists have theories for what the actual cause is, ranging from spasming blood vessels to overly sensitive nociceptors, but no one knows for sure.
While making the book, we took great care that none of the illustrations were objectionable in any way and that it is culturally sensitive.
If we want to use a really sensitive, fancy instrument called a mass spectrometer, then we make a molecule with a unique mass.
At the site of an amputation, severed nerve endings can thicken and become more sensitive, transmitting distress signals even in response to mild pressure.
Sensitive body parts with many nerve endings, like the lips and hands, are represented by the largest areas.
And then we have to be sensitive about how this technology can be developed and put into action in those regions.
But what's clear is the kinds of changes we're seeing show that the roots of altruism and compassion are just as much a part of human nature as cruelty and violence, maybe even more so, and while some people do seem to be inherently more sensitive to the suffering of distant others, I really believe that the ability to remove oneself from the center of the circle and expand the circle of compassion outward to include even strangers is within reach for almost everyone.
Can we harness these same technologies for an emotionally sensitive output?
The feet are actually extremely sensitive receptors, on the lookout for the right surface on a bacterial cell.
Sometimes we're expected to do good and sometimes not, and it means that people are really sensitive to cues that they're expected to do good in a particular situation, which brings us to the third and final item on our checklist: to communicate expectations, to tell people, "Do the good deed right now." Here's a simple way to communicate expectations; simply tell them, "Hey, everybody else is doing the good deed."
So our telescope may not be quite sensitive enough to pick up this signal.
We're building the Square Kilometre Array, a new radio telescope, and it's going to be a thousand times bigger than the MWA, a thousand times more sensitive, and have an even better resolution.
But also be sensitive to it in your own life.
Maybe if you have a very sensitive seismic instrument, you might be able to detect it.
It's been a very bad match for those of us who were born extremely sensitive.
Shockingly, people rated their social security number as far more sensitive than any other kind of information, including their brain data.
It turns out they also act as sensitive chemical sensors in many other parts of the body.
Our sexual histories are as personal to us as our medical histories, and when you overlap the two, you can find yourself in a very sensitive space.
Now, I'm not sensitive and I'm only truly dirty after a day in the field, but this is damaging language.
Surveillance means government collection and use of private and sensitive data about us.
But the history of surveillance is one that includes surveillance abuses where this sensitive information has been used against people because of their race, their national origin, their sexual orientation, and in particular, because of their activism, their political beliefs.
These detectors are very, very, very sensitive; they're the most precise instruments in the world.
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