Sentences with phrase «how simple molecules»

So, we were starting to look at how simple molecules like sugars get across these fatty acid membranes, you know, spontaneously without any help from fancy proteins — and it turned out completely unexpectedly that ribose, which is one of the building blocks of RNA, gets across a wide range of membranes much more quickly than a set of very closely related sugars.

«It never ceases to amaze me how a simple molecule, such as saccharin — something many people put in their coffee everyday — may have untapped uses, including as a possible lead compound to target aggressive cancers,» says Robert McKenna, Ph.D., who is at the University of Florida.

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How did relatively simple molecules in the primordial broth give rise to more and more complex compounds?

To explain how his hypothetical code - script might work — it had to be extremely complicated because it involved «all the future development of the organism» — Schrödinger resorted to some simple mathematics to show how the variety of different molecules found in an organism could be encoded.

Life must have begun with a simple molecule that could reproduce itself — and now we think we know how to make one.

And it's essential to understand how neurobiological processing conducted by molecules and cells and electrical signaling gets translated into behaviors, from simple bodily movements to complex social interactions.

The simple Stokes - Einstein relationship is based on arguments about how molecules move randomly at the microscopic level.

Next, he wrote a simple aqueous geochemistry model to calculate how much of these gases would have been dissolved in shallow lakes and reservoirs — environments that would have been more conducive to concentrating life - forming reactions, versus vast oceans, where molecules could easily dissipate.

Research published in Nature Communications shows how scientists can measure, in real - time, the time that it takes and the separation distance of two atoms when the bond is broken in the simplest diatomic molecule.

On a simple level, the origin - of - life debate comes down to a question of how the first complex molecules came to be.

Ever since Stanley Miller inaugurated the era of serious research in the origin of life, chemists have been at the forefront of answering the question at the crux of the matter: how did the simple, primordial molecules on an early Earth self - assemble to form self - replicating, robust chemical structures subject to Darwinian natural selection?

Dreams is a very difficult game to portray from simple trailers, so the team at Media Molecule have been live streaming sessions with the developers and testers in order to show off the tools and how they work.

These had a passing resemblance to the real molecules, but had properties that were much simpler, for the purposes of demonstrating some important aspects of how radiation interacts with the atmosphere.