Researchers do have a few
clues about the molecules that might be involved.
A single crystal is isolated and bombarded with X-rays, and the resulting patterns of diffraction are analyzed for
clues about the molecule's architecture.
Not exact matches
«There are probably a lot more
clues in the asteroids
about what
molecules were really there,» said Hud.
Originally, however, they were not examining brown fat thermogenesis, but instead were looking for
clues to the function of ERRβ, a protein
about which little was known at the time, except that it was closely related to ERRα, appeared in brown fat cells, and also worked as a so - called nuclear receptor — a molecular switch for gene activation that can be turned on by small lipophilic
molecules or a signaling protein partner.
An international team of astronomers has looked at something very big — a distant galaxy — to study the behavior of things very small — atoms and
molecules — to gain vital
clues about the fundamental nature of our entire Universe.
The method scales up a technique known as single -
molecule fluorescence in situ hybridization (smFISH) and determines where RNA transcripts are located in the cell, providing important
clues about their biological function.