Sentences with phrase «artificial version»

Both groups designed artificial versions of antibodies, the Y - shaped molecules made by the immune system to target pathogens.

Be sure to keep these plants safely out of reach of animals in your home — or consider using artificial versions.

Creating an efficient artificial version of photosynthesis would realize the dream of solar power as the ultimate green and renewable source of electrical energy.

If you go into an interview projecting a pumped - up, artificial version of yourself, that's the person who's going to get the offer.

Even if the existence of magnetic monopoles as elementary particles remains a fundamental open question, condensed - matter physicists have managed to reproduce artificial versions of these exotic particles in rare - earth oxide crystals called «spin ices.»

There are some amazing artificial versions available that are impossible to distinguish from the real thing — and all they will require is a little light dusting.

Instead, the syrups are engineered using oils extracted from the spices, or artificial versions of them.

An artificial version of the hormone oxytocin is given to women soon after baby is born to deliver the placenta and prevent bleeding.

Pitocin is an artificial version oxytocin, the most impactful hormone in the labor process, the one that controls the contractions.

Cherr thinks it should be fairly easy to make an artificial version of the protein coating that could be applied before sex as a sort of pro-conceptive gel.

Using an artificial version of the protein Izumo, found on the surface of sperm, the team scoured the genetic sequences of millions of proteins until they found one that attached itself to Izumo, like a key in a lock.

One potential way to treat Allan - Herndon - Dudley syndrome, based on this model, may be to develop an artificial version of the thyroid hormone that does not need the biomolecule to cross the blood - brain barrier, Vatine said.

AN ARTIFICIAL version of the buttery coating that protects and nurtures a fetus's developing skin could find a use outside the womb, in speeding up wound healing and treating eczema.

The iris in our eyes shrinks the pupil in bright light and enlarges it in the dark, and now an artificial version could do the same for both eyes and cameras

Scientists at Bayer made an artificial version of the human gene that manufactures factor 8 and inserted it into kidney cells taken from baby hamsters.

Her team found that injecting nanoparticles containing an artificial version, or mimic, of miR - 34a into a mouse with post-menopausal osteoporosis decreased bone loss.

The artificial version excelled in both dry and damp test environments, his team reported in April in Biomaterials.

Biochemists have been harnessing an artificial version of evolution to refine natural enzymes, making new variants that work faster, longer, and at higher temperatures.

To test how likely each species was to be attacked, artificial versions of each ladybird species were presented to wild birds.

It was an artificial version of the same process through which wild viruses shuffle their genes, known as reassortment.

Specifically, Doudna, Charpentier, and their team reported in the 28 June 2012 online issue of Science that they had taken a CRISPR system used by bacteria to thwart reinfections with viruses and created an artificial version that showed the components needed to edit genes.

In the artificial version, the «neurons» are single computational units that are associated with the pixels of the image being analyzed.

It also triggers contractions during labor; in fact, Pitocin, a drug used to speed up labor, is an artificial version of oxytocin.

Vitamin D2 is generally the artificial version in multi-vitamins, although natural D2 does exist in some foods like mushrooms.

Instead, the syrups are engineered using oils extracted from the spices, or artificial versions of them.

This means that what natural testosterone can do the artificial version can do it better.

The main reason these artificial versions are used instead of the natural options is because they are less expensive, more stable, and provide brighter colours.

Present a superficial version of yourself and you risk being matched with women who are only interested in the artificial version of yourself that you've created.

Toying with the human tendency to want to control nature and manipulate the self, the sculptures suggest substituting real intimacy for an artificial version of the same thing.

But the artificial version created by Columbia University professor Klaus Lackner has been grabbing carbon 1,000 times more quickly than the rooted versions (and «several hundred times better,» according to Lackner, than windmills) for a total of 90,000 tons of carbon each year — even without sunlight.