Sentences with phrase «carried by the molecule»

«Most important functions in cells are carried by molecules that work in groups.»

Cholesterol runs through the blood carried by molecules called lipoproteins.

That reduction in density results in a temperature fall because the kinetic energy carried by the molecule when it started at the surface was gradually replaced by potential energy as it rose.

Not exact matches

Since information can be carried by subatomic particles and photons, then DNA molecules themselves need not be transmitted through the wormhole.

These simulations reveal that the molecules can «surf» across the surface whilst being carried by the moving ripples of graphene.

He discovered carbon 60, which he named buckminsterfullerene — buckyballs for short — because the molecule carries the structure of geodesic domes created by Buckminster Fuller.

The difference in the energy is determined by the properties of the molecules, and thus the scattered photons carry a unique fingerprint of the substance.

Sickle cell disease is a recessive genetic disorder caused by a single mutation in both copies of a gene coding for beta - globin, a protein that forms part of the oxygen - carrying molecule hemoglobin.

This molecule, which the researchers call pteronenone, had a structure similar to that of chemicals which absorb the Sun's damaging ultraviolet rays and are carried by other planktonic creatures (Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol 60, p 780).

Gene activity can't be efficiently measured directly, but can be inferred by monitoring RNA, the molecules that carry information from the genes for producing proteins and other cellular activities.

Strands of siRNA are carried inside the sphere, surrounded by more lipopeptide molecules.

Snippets of RNA known as short interfering RNA (siRNA) turn off specific genes inside living cells by destroying the messenger RNA molecules that carry DNA's instructions to the rest of the cell.

The conventional view is that the main function of RNA is to convey instructions from DNA to the protein - making factories in cells — a task carried out by large molecules of «messenger» RNA.

In one experiment, the researchers confirmed previous observations that moving fluids can repress quorum sensing by carrying away messenger 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.

The researchers ascribe this effect to the interaction between the electrons carrying electricity and the magnetic field which is generated by the surrounding atomic nuclei in the organic molecules.

A team of researchers led by biophysicists at the University of Washington have come one step closer to designing tailor - made drug molecules that are more precise and carry fewer side effects than most existing therapeutic compounds.

By varying properties such as charge, composition, and attached surface molecules, researchers can design nanoparticles to deliver medicine to specific body regions and cell types — and even to carry medicine into cells.

An Israeli - led team has found that some of the receptor molecules carried by our cells can cause them to self - destruct, even if they are not triggered to do so by an external signal.

In the traditional view of photosynthesis, the energy carried by photons streaming from the sun is transferred by bouncing from one chlorophyll molecule to the next, a process that ultimately builds simple carbohydrates from water and carbon dioxide.

By engineering red blood cells to have «sticky» proteins on their surface, a team of researchers has given the cells the ability to carry anything from drugs to treat immune disorders or cancer to radioactive molecules used in imaging of blood vessels.

By manipulating the molecular distance between the electron - donating molecule (donor) and the electron - accepting molecule (acceptor) that carry the exciplex's hole and electron, respectively, the researchers could modify the properties of these weakly bound excitons.

The researchers showed that Hsp90 inhibition reduced production of AR - V7 through a new and unexpected mechanism of action — by changing the way that messenger RNA molecules carrying the code for AR - V7 are processed.

This particular ion channel transmits electrical impulses by allowing charged particles to cross cell membranes in the presence of ATP, the ubiquitous energy - carrying molecule.

The bug manufactures an amino acid not made by any other living thing and uses it to construct its proteins, the molecules that carry out the lion's share of cellular chemistry.

By forcing adult mice with sickle cell disease to produce a fetal version of the hemoglobin molecule that carries oxygen in blood, a research team has eliminated symptoms of disorder in the animals.

When water molecules rise into the upper atmosphere, sunlight breaks the water into hydrogen ions which are fast and escape easily, and heavier oxygen ions which are carried away by the electric field.

The short size of the locus was ideal for 454 sequencing, and because single - molecule reads are generated, the authors were able to identify haplotypes of somatic hypermutations carried by individual leukemic cells.

HIPWAC measures the very slight color (frequency) change of the hydrocarbon's infrared light caused by the motion of these molecules as they are carried by Titan's winds.

Also, the reason the molecules «see» the solar winds when they are ionized is they now have a charge, and thus can interact with the magnetic field carried by the solar wind.

Stephan's nanoparticles also have the potential to help make current immunotherapies more effective by providing T cells with nanoparticle «backpacks» to carry the right mix of molecules that T cells need to survive and sustain a robust anti-cancer response.

Impulses — carried by certain molecules derived from oxygen, food and water — activate signals and messages that enable function to occur.

By the turn of the 21st century, scientists had learned that vitamin K produces similar changes to glutamic acid molecules to activate a handful of other vital proteins in the body, with the collective name of Gla - proteins.12 - 16 According to 2014 research, 16 different vitamin K - dependent Gla - proteins have been identified.17 This means that they depend on vitamin K to activate them in order to carry out their intended role.

Warming ground warms these inert molecules by Conduction, then they transfer a lot of heat to higher levels of the Troposphere via Convection (carries a lot more energy in air then conduction....

The number of molecules passing through unit area per unit time multiplied by the average energy carried per molecule.

To conserve momentum there must be more going up than down, and in fact, all this excess momentum must eventually be carried by photons to outer space because otherwise the «trapping» molecules would end in the stratosphere.

In effect the evaporation sucks energy from the oceans against the thermal gradient within the ocean bulk and despite the warming of the topmost molecules caused by infra red radiation and then expels it to the air in the form of latent heat carried by water vapour.

It is carried high into the atmosphere by convection, and then is radiated from below the tropopause either by exciting CO2 molecules or from the tops of clouds.