Sentences with phrase «helix as»

This straight 6 - millimeter mild steel line becomes a twisting helix as it maps the inner space of a prone body, referencing the connective structures of electricity and implying a transmission that passes from body to city.

The studio confirmed to Pocket - lint, «Amazon has acquired Double Helix as part of our ongoing commitment to build innovative games for customers.»

Not exact matches

Helix does the sequencing in its own lab, then sends some of that information to its test partners, such as National Geographic.

HELIX GETS $ 200 MILLION IN FUNDING AS IT AIMS TO GROW ITS MARKETPLACE: Helix, the California - based consumer genetics startup, raised $ 200 million to expand its DNA marketplace, according to TechCrHELIX GETS $ 200 MILLION IN FUNDING AS IT AIMS TO GROW ITS MARKETPLACE: Helix, the California - based consumer genetics startup, raised $ 200 million to expand its DNA marketplace, according to TechCrHelix, the California - based consumer genetics startup, raised $ 200 million to expand its DNA marketplace, according to TechCrunch.

Helix, Casper and other budding mattress startups such as Leesa are up against giants.

As an added perk for this seventh iteration of the program, accelerator companies also get access to Helix, the Illumina - affiliated genomics product marketplace that's aiming to close out the year with roughly $ 300 million in total financing.

A lesser known fact is that he was high as balls on LSD when he realized that the molecule would have to be shaped like a double helix.

But as Huxley presciently discerned decades before the unraveling of the DNA double - helix, such a world would ultimately be an inhuman world: a world of souls without longing, without passion, without striving, without surprise, without desire — in a word, a world without love.

Some, such as the «double - helix» model of the DNA molecule, are closer to observations and can be taken more literally.

When the cell reproduced, unwinding its double helix and reconstituting it in new cells, X and Y replicated as well, their chemical bond just as stable as the A-T and C - G pairings in DNA's normal sequence.

Following its helical path through space, the helix appears to wind up very tightly as it accelerates, and winds down very loosely as it decelerates.

The structure of CX3CR1 includes a domain known as Helix 8, which is important for initiating a signaling cascade.

In March of 2006, astronomers reported an 80 light year - long nebula near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, the Double Helix Nebula, which is, as the name implies, twisted into a double spiral shape.

Those instructions are found not in the letters of the DNA itself but on it, in an array of chemical markers and switches, known collectively as the epigenome, that lie along the length of the double helix.

Each monomer contributes a carboxyl - terminal helix to an antiparallel four - helix bundle that functions as a tetramerization domain.

As saturated fats can not be accommodated by the rough surface of the helix while unsaturated fats can, the fat sensor's structure changes depending on the membrane environments.

When the fragment bound DNA, a region previously referred to as the «disordered domain» became more ordered and moved along with two helices toward the 3» to 5» exonuclease domain to form the binding groove.

In the double - helix configuration, two strands of DNA are joined to each other by hydrogen bonds in an arrangement known as base pairing.

But with DNA as a template, Tour says, «we can use nature's materials to just shake and bake,» cooking up custom - made fullerene polymers that mimic the size and shape of a given DNA helix.

These weak interactions, such as hydrogen bonds, van der Waals forces, and π - π interactions, govern the assembly of everything from DNA in its famous double helix to the bonding of H2O molecules in liquid water.

This process has been exploited to assess the energetics of transmembrane - helices, as described in two recent studies by the von Heijne and White groups (published here and elsewhere).

A large water - filled cavity and helix dipoles are positioned so as to overcome electrostatic destabilization of an ion in the pore at the center of the bilayer.

Hartgerink and lead author Vivek Kumar, a postdoctoral researcher at Rice, viewed clotting as a good avenue of investigation for practical application of KOD, a synthetic protein made of 36 amino acids that self - assemble into triple - helix nanofibers and hydrogels.

They combined the protein with synthetic molecules, known as PNAs, that mimic DNA and bind to the target gene to form a triple helix.

But as the cylinder gets wider, the possibilities spiral into mind - bogglingly complex helices and patterns.

In particular, astronomers were hoping for clues as to what forces might have shaped the Helix's ragged edge, which looks like a series of arrows pointing back to the dying star at the center.

They observed hundreds of mating Helix aspersa snails and selected 18 that had successfully stabbed their partner with a love dart, as well as 21 that had shot and missed.

Cas9, an enzyme that acts as molecular scissors, snips both strands of the DNA double helix, which can ultimately disable a gene.

For the past decade or so, they have been exposing a nested hierarchy of structural motifs in genomes that are every bit as elemental to the identity and activity of each cell as the double helix.

As they push against the cell wall, they force the helix to rotate.

Now, scientists have pinpointed crucial steps in the beginning of the replication process, including surprising structural details about the enzyme that «unzips» and splits the DNA double helix so the two halves can serve as templates for DNA duplication.

They appear as discrete segments of the 3 billion or so pairs of nucleotides, the «letters» of the genetic code that make up the rungs of the double helix.

Conventional CRISPR uses a guide RNA (gRNA) coupled with an enzyme known as a nuclease, most commonly Cas9, that together attach to a specific stretch of DNA bases; the nuclease then snips the double helix.

Base editors borrow from CRISPR's components — guide RNAs (gRNAs) and Cas9 or other nucleases — but don't cut the double helix and instead chemically alter single bases with deaminase enzymes such as TadA and ADAR.

The bonds that hold together a necklace's triple helices begin to break as the elastic material is pulled apart.

We create our memories even as they create us — a Möbius strip, an Escher print, a double helix, if you will, from which the blueprint of self emerges.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Watson, as well as his colleagues Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, for their discovery of the double - helix structure of DNA.

The diffraction pattern you see not only suggested the likely double helix structure, but also that phosphate structures (what we now know as DNA bases) were on the outside.

The Golden Helix Foundation has been established in 2003 as an international non-profit scientific research organization with interdisciplinary research and educational activities in the field of genome medicine.

The Golden Helix Academy provides training in the field of Genomic and Precision Medicine offering different type of training as outline below:

RNA, or ribonucleic acid, is very similar to DNA except that it is happy to live in a single - stranded state (as opposed to DNA's desire to form complementary double - stranded helixes).

Instead of using double - stranded DNA to make genetic libraries that can be fed into a next - gen sequencer, as was standard practice at the time, Meyer and his team first separated the double helix, then prepared the sequence library using each of the single strands, doubling the amount of fragments the group had to sequence.

You have probably heard of the DNA molecule referred to as the «double - helix.»

Another of the lab's achievements is its success in explaining how a six - sided protein ring called helicase — essential in all life — attaches to the double helix and works like a tiny motor, unzipping the two DNA strands as other molecular machines go about copying one of them.

As the electrons flowed into the nickelate, it created a magnetization with a twisting pattern as in a heliAs the electrons flowed into the nickelate, it created a magnetization with a twisting pattern as in a helias in a helix.

the half of the DNA double - helix that is mostly used as a backup, but sometimes produces message molecules

The five helix bundle protein known as λ * 6 - 85 is shown surrounded by 1000 water molecules in the dynamical hydration shell.

A DNA molecule is a long, twisting chain known as a double helix.

Structural studies of apelin and its receptor as well as the characteristics and causes of membrane protein helix kinks.

The meeting will be organized by the Global Genomic Medicine Collaborative and the University of Cape Town as the local host and the Golden Helix Foundation, as G2MC partner.