Sentences with phrase «because nucleic»

The technique as proposed would work because nucleic acids like DNA are promiscuous.

Not exact matches

But before life arose, nitrogen fixation must have occurred via purely chemical means: That's because amino acids and nucleic acids, which both contain nitrogen, were likely the organic compounds that developed into Earth's first lifeforms.

MicroRNAs are short bits of nucleic acid — the material of DNA and RNA — that can bind to messenger RNAs that code for protein because they have a complementary sequence of A, U, C and G.

He won two Nobel Prizes for chemistry, but we claim him for molecular biology because the methods he developed for sequencing proteins and nucleic acids provide the basis for much of what we do today.

Genetic therapies, such as those made from DNA or RNA, face challenges because of the difficulty in delivering the nucleic acid to the right cells.

Large - scale and effective studies of biological molecules with a different structural basis such as proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, lipids and numerous metabolites (including e.g. fatty acids, amino acids, purines, pyrimidines or steroids) is currently highly attractive because of the availability of modern instruments and tools for both separation and analysis (2 - D chromatographs, capillary electrophoresis systems, microfluidics, mass spectrometers, powerful NMR spectrometers, DNA / RNA arrays and others).

The U.S. Supreme Court held that cDNA is eligible for patenting because it has a different nucleic acid sequence than the naturally occurring gene.