Sentences with phrase «clues about the molecules»

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.