At that time, Forest was developing an instrument for genetic analysis involving thousands of glass tubes.
And medical students use the glass tubes to practice catheter or stent placement.
Boyden told him about his own work in neuroscience, and about a problem that involved glass tubes for measuring neurons.
Just off the M8 at Newhouse, there's a shiny newish building packed to the steel rafters with tiny glass tubes in plastic trays.
There are artificial tornadoes in glass tubes, a creepy video art installation, a cooperative Pac-Man game, and a place to send text messages to fish.
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For both modes of crystal fibre, the pattern of holes is generated by stacking hollow glass tubes a millimetre or so in diameter to form a rod several centimetres thick.
The two researchers realized they could combine forces by creating a bundle of glass tubes, similar to what was being used for DNA analysis, for recording the electrical activity of individual neurons.
Thus the genome project would come to rely on new machines from lab equipment maker Applied Biosystems, which industrialized the process of counting these DNA letters, using tiny glass tubes that sorted DNA fragments by length.
Paul Andreu designed the first terminal at Charles de Gaulle, north of Paris, as a doughnut-shaped structure with glass tubes crossing through the middle, but when it came time to expand the airport, in the nineteen-eighties, only a few years after the first part was finished, his futuristic form seemed more like a cartoon than like a functional building, and more conventional terminals were ordered up.
Dr Knight replaced the cladding with glass that has tubes of air running along it.
Corning made huge profits because it dominated the business of making the glass envelopes that house TV picture tubes, first for black and white, later for color.
Scientific glass--for beakers, test tubes and flasks--has led Corning into a small but important base in medical products.
For example cathode ray tubes those monstrous glass blobs found behind the housings of all of our old TVs and monitors, cost far more to process properly and safely than the value they can produce from the lead, copper and glass in them.
But their tubes are cut up carefully and some of the glass is re-used.
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