Sentences with phrase «like key locks»

If the hostel your staying at comes with lockers, make sure you bring your own combination lock (I don't like key locks because then it's another thing to worry about).

Not exact matches

A bit like a PIN, the private key can be stored offline in a text file or even on a piece of paper locked in a safe, where hackers can't get to it.

The details are complex, but the basic idea, oversimplifying quite a bit, is that Apple's backup systems will act a like a giant iPhone: User data is protected with a combination of the user's password and a strong encryption key that's physically locked into a hardware module and can't be easily extracted.

They remind us about what truly matters and sometimes, they make our misadventures (like locking your keys in the car, forgetting to pick up gifts altogether, or lost luggage) seem totally normal.

It is like a precious key to a locked door that we can not find.

Pies and chocolate go together like a lock and a key.

Like lock me up and throw away the key kind of love.

When he locked up Steph from the top of the key to the rim, and swatted his weak stuff literally into his face, and then acted like it was just another day at the office, was another «this kid is gonna be legit» moments.

The first lesson I learned is to not stick your car keys and phone in that bag, if the babies fall asleep and the car is like mine and automatically locks, you are now arms full of sleeping babies to get to the keys.

«Sometimes, getting the baby into the pelvis is like fitting a key into a lock,» Hartley says.

Dr Ranjit Gill, chief clinical officer of Stockport Clinical Commissioning Group, told the Manchester Evening news, «this fits our plans like a key in a lock... the deal will be really good for patients in Greater Manchester and will help us join up NHS care with social care for the first time».

The researchers were on the lookout for molecules that could bind precisely with defective RNAs — like keys fitting in the right locks.

Using an artificial version of the protein Izumo, found on the surface of sperm, the team scoured the genetic sequences of millions of proteins until they found one that attached itself to Izumo, like a key in a lock.

Like a key fitting into a lock, the carrier molecules bind to certain receptors or biomarkers and the radioactive atoms enable PET or SPECT scanners to image areas where the tracers have collected in large numbers.

The enzyme pocket has a special shape so that only one specific substrate is able to bind to it, just like only one key fits into a specific lock.

The reigning but still unproved explanation of smell supposes that the shape is the thing, with receptors fitting like a lock into the molecule's key.

Lanza also designed the nanoparticles to carry targeting molecules that home in on and bind to cancer cells that carry the complementary receptor, like a lock and key.

The way molecules and receptors work, it's like keys fitting into locks.

«We need to design nanoparticles that will, like a lock - and - key mechanism, travel through the body and interact only with the diseased cell surface,» says Marth.

In the hippocampus and the amygdala, areas of the brain thought to be associated with episodic memory, researchers had shown that the chemical signaling agent called glutamate acts like a key in the lock of some of these protein «flood gates.»

But there's a dark side to cancer - killing drugs designed to match distinct cancer mutations like a key into a lock.

«It's almost like a lock and key.»

Folded proteins tend to bind to their targets firmly, like a key in a lock, at just one or two spots, but their more stretched - out wiggly cousins are like molecular Velcro, attaching lightly at multiple locations and releasing with ease.

Wang's technology uses nanoparticles that are shaped to fit like a lock - and - key to either THC or to reagents attached to a surface.

Knowing its molecular structure could allow for the development of tailor - made drugs that fit to the receptor like a key into a lock.

This small protein molecule contains a loop which fits, like a key in a lock, into the ion channel proteins found on nerve cell membranes, which are used to transport sodium and potassium ions in and out of the cell.

Not every PY motif binds to every WW domain; the interaction is specific, like a lock and key.

Insulin can open up a cell's outer membrane like a key in a door lock and set in motion the machinery that feeds the cell glucose, which is converted to energy.

Then the understanding evolved — it was found that not all protein «keys» are rigid, some are more like boiled spaghetti which can still operate the rigid lock successfully, by adjusting its shape.»

A hormone is like a microscopic key floating in the bloodstream: When it finds a matching lock, it binds to the receptor and triggers the cell to do something, such as grow or divide.

Thornton, for example, has studied the evolution of hormones and their receptors, which fit together like lock and key.

«It's like resistance is a lock and venom is the key and I have to have the right key to open my office and another one to open the office next door,» Holding said.

If any of these structures which fit the T - cells» specific receptors like a key fits the right lock — then the T - cell will proliferate and set off a series of signals, starting the process of eradicating the diseased cell.

These signals generally work like a key (the peptide) fitting into a lock on the surface of a cell (the protein receptor).

Adenosine helps to sustain such cells by fitting into a protein called the A2A adenosine receptor on their surfaces, like a key into a lock.

To cause an infection, viruses work like a lock and key, attaching to specific receptors on cells to take hold and spread.

These cells contain receptors that accept certain bacteria only — like a lock waiting for the right key.

Interestingly, the dominant model for the mechanism by which a small molecule like a drug fits into the active site of a disease - promoting enzyme and modulates its activity is that of a «lock and key».

Gern explains that the genetics of the receptor — which serves like a lock - and - key mechanism that allows the virus to enter and infect a host cell — influences who is likely to be most affected by the virus.

Using computer simulations called molecular docking, team members screened more than 3 million molecules to find some 2,500 that fit the mu receptor like a perfectly cut key in a lock.

«Conventional antibiotics are like keys in a lock,» explains Zasloff.

Those hormones fit like keys into «locks» on the outside of a cell.

The epitope is located in the antigen where the antigen molecule docks, like a key that opens the lock.

Therefore, each tRNA has a specific three - nucleotide sequence called an anti-codon that matches up with the appropriate mRNA codon, like a lock and key.

Later on, scientists identified a molecule, B7 - H1, subsequently renamed PD - L1, which binds to PD - 1, clicking like a key in a lock.

Top with the cloth eye patch to lock in both moisture and key ingredients like caffeine.

A xenoestrogens will be recognized by the body as an estrogen, and it will attach to the same receptors as estrogen, like a key fitting one type of lock.

A key tip at this age is to invest in quality hair care, like the Shu Uemura range, to ensure your locks are in their best condition.

Synthetic hormones fit more like a skeleton key in some, but not all, hormone receptor («lock») sites.

It acts very much like a lock and key.