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We could redesign this jacket to have a hidden wireframe, kind of like the skeleton of a fish, that holds all important items together.
You can hold it like a liver, but it has no cells; it's just a skeleton of the liver.
"I recall one patient who was at that point no more than a skeleton encased in shrinking skin, unable to speak, his mouth crusted with candida that was resistant to the usual medications.
But what seems so slow and graceful from the outside is really more like chaos inside, because cells control their shape with a skeleton of rigid protein fibers, and those fibers are constantly falling apart.
But of course, all of the soft tissue has decomposed, and the skeleton itself has limited health information.
And what's really important about dental calculus is that it fossilizes just like the rest of the skeleton, it's abundant in quantity before the present day and it's ubiquitous worldwide.
And so we can also now virtually gain access to this even more distant organ system that, from the skeleton alone, has long decomposed.
They use a skeleton that we call a hydrostatic skeleton.
And a hydrostatic skeleton uses two elements.
When you look at a penis in cross section, it has a lot of the hallmarks of a hydrostatic skeleton.
And that was because every hydrostatic skeleton that we had found in nature up to that point had the same basic elements.
It had the central fluid, it had the surrounding wall, and the reinforcing fibers in the wall were arranged in crossed helices around the long axis of the skeleton.
It's a model skeleton that I made out of a piece of cloth that I wrapped around an inflated balloon.
So you can see that the fibers wrap in helices, and those fibers can reorient as the skeleton moves, which means the skeleton's flexible.
Now my adviser's concern was what if the penile wall tissue is just the same as any other hydrostatic skeleton.
The arrow shows you the long axis of the skeleton.
Why was everyone surprised at this? That's because we knew theoretically that there was another way of arranging fibers in a hydrostatic skeleton, and that was with fibers at zero degrees and 90 degrees to the long axis of the structure.
Those fibers in that particular orientation give the skeleton a very, very different behavior.
They're an integral part of the penile skeleton.
He's born in Cameroon, which is smack in the middle of my tropics map, and more specifically his skeleton wound up in the Smithsonian museum getting picked clean by beetles.
Selam is our most complete skeleton of a three-year-old girl who lived and died 3.3 million years ago.
And among the answers that you can get from this skeleton are included: first, this skeleton documents, for the first time, how infants looked over three million years ago.
It was not known in the fossil record, and we have it in this skeleton.
Vultures usually remove the eyes first, then tear the skin, start pulling the tissues, and leave you with a skeleton.
So we have created a very disruptive structure which mimics the design of bone, or a skeleton, which occurs in nature.
And this is combined with a top-down approach, because what we are doing in our daily life is we train our muscles, we train our skeleton, and it's getting stronger.
So our building block is carbon nanotubes, for example, to create a large, rivet-less skeleton at the end of the day.
It is not the skeleton of boxes, it is the nervous system of adaptiveness and intelligence.
It can only add new boxes, new bones in the skeleton.
We literally bring the skeleton out of the ground.
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