Sentences with phrase «as tiny molecules»

Networks of life The inside of a cell seethes with activity, as tiny molecules, enormous proteins and strands of DNA wash around each other going about their business.

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It is tempting to speculate that this tiny intruder in a Mandarin DNA molecule gave her son his offbeat fascination with a family which at the same time he wanted to repudiate, as well as his sense of the infinite possibilities of existence which he also knew could never be fulfilled.

That approach — known as electrospray ionization — ionizes large molecules by dissolving them in a solvent and using an intense electric field to pull tiny charged droplets of solution from the end of a needle.

Quantum computing's promise is rooted in quantum mechanics, the counterintuitive physics that governs tiny entities such as atoms, electrons and molecules.

Others develop from certain trace vapours, for example when individual sulphuric acid and water molecules cluster as tiny droplets.

Within the crystal, the BTC molecules function as tiny «light antennas»: they capture light and very efficiently pass it on to the lanthanide ions in a radiationless energy - transfer process.

Because even a fairly chubby molecule is hundreds of times as small as today's tiniest transistor, it's an appealing idea.

Circular RNA's function in saliva is not entirely understood, although it does serve as a sponge for tiny RNA molecules called microRNAs, which bind to it.

To map the minute landscape of molecules, at scales as tiny as just tenths of a nanometer, and help decipher their functions, structural biologists have long relied on two tools: nuclear magnetic resonance, or NMR, spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography.

Such quick, efficient DNA nanobots could someday help move tiny cargo, such as molecules or nanoparticles, in a nanofactory that manufactures new types of materials.

But the master molecule, the Werner gene, remained invisible within the nucleus, as tiny to the cell as the cell was to the body.

One theory posits that the energy freed when a chemical binds to the surface is released as heat energy in the form of tiny vibrations of the surface molecules.

The research was carried out by experts in synthetic and theoretical chemistry, materials and electron microscopy and builds on Professor Khlobystov's concept of carbon nano test tubes (World's tiniest test tubes, Guinness Book of World Records 2005), where the nanotube acts as a container for molecules.

Such images could give a deeper understanding of chemical reactions, and may help researchers size up molecules for use as electrical components in tiny circuits.

It may also help researchers size up molecules for use as electrical components in tiny circuits.

The tiny straw - shaped molecules are stronger than steel, flexible, and conductive and have been touted as the right stuff for everything from chemical sensors to wires for nanoscale computer circuitry.

In his original work, Zhang was able to enlist a complex of molecules known as photosystem - I (PS - I), the tiny structures within plant cells that carry out photosynthesis.

Our cells depend on thousands of proteins and nucleic acids that function as tiny machines: molecules that build, fold, cut, destroy, and transport all of the molecules essential for life.

Many of the options for working around this problem, such as encapsulating drug molecules in a protective sheath, are not practical for something that is intended to get into the tiny spaces of the extracellular matrix.

Some are as small as molecules; in fact, there is a borderline area in which you can think of them as very tiny dust grains or as very large molecules.

As a first line of defense against bacterial pathogens, plant cells recognize and respond to tiny bacterial molecules, such as pieces of flagellin that slough off the whip - like flagella that help the bacteria movAs a first line of defense against bacterial pathogens, plant cells recognize and respond to tiny bacterial molecules, such as pieces of flagellin that slough off the whip - like flagella that help the bacteria movas pieces of flagellin that slough off the whip - like flagella that help the bacteria move.

Mitochondria are the tiny compartments inside cells that convert glucose in the cell into molecules of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which serve as units of energy for fueling the various workings of the cell.

Therefore, these tiny microRNAs can potentially be used to treat complex diseases as AMD without having to perform extensive screening for small molecule drugs.

Tiny carrier molecules carry various nutrients such as amino acids, glucose and electrolytes across the cell membrane.

This includes tendons, organs and skin... as well as hormones, enzymes, neurotransmitters and all sorts of tiny molecules.

To understand the ill effects of hyperglycemia, imagine the sugar molecules as tiny soldiers wielding swords.

Imagine these atoms within a molecule as tiny balls, linked by immaterial springs.

Not being absorbed by real world water, visible is not only not capable because of its tiny scale of moving the whole molecule of water into vibration which is what it takes to heat water, but it isn't even able to be absorbed by the electrons of the water molecules as the electrons of the molecules of air absorb it, so water doesn't reflect / scatter visible light on the electrons of molecule level as does air, but gives up and passes it along, and so, visible is transmitted through, also, unchanged, but much delayed.

Tiny visible light is not a powerful energy, it is so weak it gets bounced around all over our sky by the electrons of the molecules of nitrogen and oxygen as they absorb and spit it out again.

UV isn't powerful enough to move molecules into vibration which is what heat, thermal infrared, does, uv is even tinier than visible light, we can't feel UV just as we can't feel Visible or Near Infrared because these are not hot, Nothing to do with heat, they work on electronic transition levels not on kinetic vibrational.

1 molecule out of 2500 molecules of air is co2, as Anymoose points out, but only about 4 % of these are contributed by man and it this tiny addition which supposedly tips the see - saw and causes thermal runaway of the planet.

If you make the parcels of gas small enough, then you reach a scale where «temperature» as an average measure of energy breaks down, where the tiny parcels of gas are constantly «heating» or «cooling» a tiny bit in the sense that the volume in question gains or loses a bit of energy during the random motion of the molecules.

Or put another way, if you look at the bottom of a tiny cube (say 10 ^ -8 m on a side), nearly as many molecules will be passing downward as upward.

The team grew tiny, upright zinc oxide nanorods, which act as photocatalysts for breaking apart organic molecules when exposed to UV light, on the surface of optical disks.

Its molecules are held together by means of the exchange of tiny particles known as morons.