Vessels in sentence

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So I have shown you this to demonstrate how many boats, how many vessels it takes to catch one of these guys.

And the answer is six vessels.

And then IDEO and Acumen spent several weeks working with them to help design new social marketing campaigns, community outreach strategies, business models, new water vessels for storing water and carts for delivering water.

I know that because I have friends who work on fisheries' research vessels who have sent to me reports from boats out in the ocean.

He was first known for creating giant photo-realistic canvases, paintings of everyday objects, the stainless steel kitchen vessels and tiffin containers known to every Indian.

More complex structures such as blood vessels, urethras, which I showed you, they're definitely more complex because you're introducing two different cell types.

We do know that some bacterial species that have earthly origin are capable of almost unimaginable extremes of temperature and other harsh changes in environment, including hard radiation strong enough and maintained long enough to crack the Pyrex vessels around the growing population of bacteria.

And if you look through the eye, or you look at the vessels on the white of the eye, in fact, you may be able to do this directly, without drawing any blood at all, or through your nail beds.

Because if you actually look through your fingernails, you can see blood vessels, and once you see blood vessels, we think we can see the malaria.

The revolution is called angiogenesis, and it's based on the process that our bodies use to grow blood vessels.

So why should we care about blood vessels?

The smallest blood vessels are called capillaries.

And these are the vessels of life, and as I'll show you, they can also be the vessels of death.

Now, the remarkable thing about blood vessels is that they have this ability to adapt to whatever environment they're growing in.

We get most of these blood vessels when we're actually still in the womb.

And what that means is that as adults, blood vessels don't normally grow.

In women, blood vessels grow every month, to build the lining of the uterus.

And after injury, blood vessels actually have to grow under the scab in order to heal a wound.

And this is actually what it looks like, hundreds of blood vessels, all growing toward the center of the wound.

So the body has the ability to regulate the amount of blood vessels that are present at any given time.

It does this through an elaborate and elegant system of checks and balances, stimulators and inhibitors of angiogenesis, such that, when we need a brief burst of blood vessels, the body can do this by releasing stimulators, proteins called angiogenic factors, that act as natural fertilizer, and stimulate new blood vessels to sprout.

When those excess vessels are no longer needed, the body prunes them back to baseline, using naturally-occurring inhibitors of angiogenesis.

But what we now know, is that for a number of diseases, there are defects in the system, where the body can't prune back extra blood vessels, or can't grow enough new ones in the right place at the right time.

And under the microscope, you can see hundreds of these brown-stained blood vessels, capillaries that are feeding cancer cells, bringing oxygen and nutrients.

So the body's ability to balance angiogenesis, when it's working properly, prevents blood vessels from feeding cancers.

In fact, if you actually block angiogenesis and prevent blood vessels from ever reaching cancer cells, tumors simply can't grow up.

Cancer cells mutate, and they gain the ability to release lots of those angiogenic factors, natural fertilizer, that tip the balance in favor of blood vessels invading the cancer.

And once those vessels invade the cancer, it can expand, it can invade local tissues, and the same vessels that are feeding tumors allow cancer cells to exit into the circulation as metastases.

We call this antiangiogenic therapy, and it's completely different from chemotherapy, because it selectively aims at the blood vessels that are feeding the cancers.

But I actually took a completely opposite approach, and began asking: What could we be adding to our diet that's naturally antiangiogenic, and that could boost the body's defense system, and beat back those blood vessels that are feeding cancers?

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