Sentences with phrase «known chemical structure»

With this model, the investigators searched a database of more than 250,000 diverse chemical compounds with known chemical structure.

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In the long term, knowing this structure may allow us to find chemical and mechanical tools to change it — fixing it where it has gone wrong in an individual and improving it where it puts whole populations at risk.

However, the continuity of structure and function from nonliving matter to living and from the simplest forms of life to the most complicated strongly suggests that even the most characteristic human activities such as thought and consciousness have an explanation, as yet only partly known, in chemical and physical phenomena.

Human Problem No. 1 is no longer that of deciding whether we can escape the socio - physical in - folding of the human race upon itself, since this is irrevocably imposed on us by the physico - chemical structure of the Earth.

Hofmann knew that quinine, the only effective treatment for malaria and thus vital to the British Empire, was also an amine, with a chemical structure very similar to that of several coal tar components, including naphtha.

All studies that make use of chemical compounds (including pharmaceutical research) must disclose the full structures of those compounds, including stereochemistry if known.

On the outside of the heterochromatin bundles are chemical markers, known as epigenetic tags, which control the structure of the heterochromatin.

He already knew that plants can change their chemical structure to protect themselves once attacked, or just touched, by a hungry herbivore.

Hodgkin began investigating sterols in 1932, when x-rays were used only to confirm what organic chemists already knew about a chemical structure.

Different combinations of overexpressed and underexpressed proteins known to be responsible for corneal development in Drosophila may alter the nipple pattern to another pattern type and thus shed the light on chemical nature of compounds, forming the Turing - type structures upon insect eyes.

«We know, for example, that there are certain chemical and physical process that can produce ringed structures in the dust like the ones we have seen previously.

Knowing how the internal and surface structure of a battery material changes over a wide range of chemical compositions will aid future studies on cathode transformations and could also lead to the development of new battery materials.

«The ability of the top teams to predict population - level toxicity for unknown compounds — based on similarities in chemical structure to known compounds — far surpassed our anticipations,» says Lara Mangravite, Director of Systems Biology at Sage Bionetworks.

«In practice, and for each unwanted effect, there is a biological part that we know, but this part does not offer a complete picture of the mechanism and perhaps we will be able to fill this gap by «looking at» the chemical structure,» upholds Duran.

Tiny biodegradable rod - like structures made from silica, known as mesoporous silica rods (MSRs), can be loaded with biological and chemical drug components and then delivered by needle just underneath the skin.

MDFF simulates the chemical interactions of every atom in a system and makes use of what is known about the structure from EM, crystallography and other experimental data.

Researchers from Boston College and Harvard have created an elusive honeycomb - structured material capable of frustrating the magnetic properties within it in order to produce a chemical entity known as «spin liquid,» long theorized as a gateway to the free - flowing properties of quantum computing, according to a new report in the Journal of the American Chemical chemical entity known as «spin liquid,» long theorized as a gateway to the free - flowing properties of quantum computing, according to a new report in the Journal of the American Chemical Chemical Society.

He wants to exploit DNA's unique chemical properties to process information like a computer (using novel scientific disciplines known as molecular programming and DNA computing) and even appropriate the DNA molecule as a scaffold on which to build useful structures.

Other scientists working at his institute, the U.S. Army's Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, have been studying these stable porous structures, and were working with one called UiO - 66 that was made up of terephthalic acid, a known visible obscurant.

We do not know the structure of the proposed pregnane, and many possible structures are consistent with the exact mass and chemical formula we infer from it.

He was best known in the field for work on the motion of stars, the formation of the galaxy, spiral structures and chemical evolution of galaxies, and the distributions and motions of galaxies and quasars.

The samples ranged from a simple alcohol to a complex plant hormone, and the new method, dubbed «CAL» for covalent alignment (the molecules form a type of chemical bond known as a covalent bond in the MOFs), enables researchers to determine the complete structure of a molecule from a single MOF crystal that contains the sample molecules in its pores.

When tiny crystals known as nanoparticles assemble into complex, highly branched structures they gain unique properties that can be used to channel light, promote chemical reactions or store energy.

Sotiris is known in the chemical physics community for his research on intermolecular interactions in aqueous ionic clusters and the use of ab - initio electronic structure calculations to elucidate their structural and spectral features and the development of interaction potentials for water.

Also known as polyols, sugar alcohols get their name because part of their chemical structure resembles sugar and part resembles alcohol.

While we won't get into the specifics of trans fats chemical structure, we now know its structure is likely the cause of the myriad of problems brought on by trans fat consumption.

We know that glucose and vitamin C have similar chemical structures, so what happens when the sugar levels go up?

Most antibiotics have two names — the brand name (also known as a trade name) and a generic name which is based on the antibiotic's chemical class / structure.

Although not much is known about its toxicity, «The chemical's structure is similar to that of organochlorine pesticides such as heptachlor, chlordane, aldrin, and mirex, all of which have been either banned or restricted in the U.S.»:: ES&T;, see also earlier ES&T;