Sentences with phrase «biological catalysts»

Digestive enzymes are those enzymes found in the body that function as biological catalysts to begin the breakdown of foods so that the important nutrients in the food can be properly absorbed and utilized.

Northwestern University scientists have developed a robust new material, inspired by biological catalysts, that is extraordinarily effective at destroying toxic nerve agents that are a threat around the globe.

By Ronnie Landis The entire field of nutrition could be simplified into biological mineralogy, the study of minerals as biological catalysts.

Get below 5 °C, and enzymes, the biological catalysts that facilitate all of life's chemistry, work painfully slowly.

And by engineering the enzyme, the researchers created a biological catalyst that performs the reaction more efficiently than any artificial one.

Being able to see the inner workings of this biological catalyst provided us with the blueprints to engineer a faster and more efficient enzyme.»

The chemical reaction that a biological catalyst uses to make methane involves the rare - in - nature methyl radical, unusual because it is based on carbon.