Accor, a hotel company, pores over comments on websites and sorts them into 30 different categories.
"I apparently clogged a lot of the pores and some follicles, and choked them out during the six-week run, " he recalled.
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Make your nanoshells the right size, then, and they can pass through the capillary pores and lodge in a tumour, but not in a normal organ.
He's still acquisitive, but the process is slow because he pores over the books of a dozen companies for every one he buys.
Another has perfectly arrayed pores 3 nanometers across, a mesh so fine it is used to filter individual amino acids in the DNA sequencing process.
When heated in the absence of oxygen (a process called pyrolysis), keratin forms hollow tubular structures six millionths of a metre across and riddled with microscopic pores, much like carbon nanotubes.
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Though potentially good for the pores, this was not my idea of a birthday treat.
In a hot climate like the Dominican Republic, you get you can get even more evaporation than in a cold climate like Scotland or Ireland (because the pores of the wood are more open).
Type a phrase into Google and, in an instant, it pores over an astounding 8 billion Web pages.
Eventually, when the pores closed completely, the primitive cells would have had a sodium pump that could power their cellular reactions, enabling more complex life to form.
Many of the responses involve running strands of DNA through tiny pores of one sort or another and Jeff Schloss, a programme director at the National Human Genome Research Institute (which is part of the NIH), reckons this is a particularly fruitful approach.
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These porous sheets, which together form a coarse white powder, vastly outperformed sheets that did not have the pores, and commercially available chunks of boron nitride that is not made up of the tiny sheets.
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It is made from a blend of crushed rock, rubber and polyurethane, a synthetic plastic that replaces bitumen as the binding agent and allows even bigger pores in the road surface.
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By stringing together thousands of these so-called droplets (which measure about 50 microns across) using a custom-built 3D printer, the Oxford team believes it has engineered a "new type of material" that could eventually be used to ferry drugs throughout our internal systems to a specific target site, fill-in for damaged tissues or even mimic neural pathways via specially printed protein pores.
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