Sentences with phrase «make small molecules»

During digestion, they make vitamins that are vital for life, send signals to the immune system, and make small molecules that can help your brain work.

If that goal can be realized, it will help shift the bottleneck from synthesis to function and bring the power of making small molecules to nonspecialists.»

Karenia also makes small molecules that are toxic to other marine algae, which is what the new study analyzed.

Not exact matches

«Our research and development team has made tremendous progress with our portfolio of novel, small molecule Naᵥ1.7 inhibitors for the treatment of acute and chronic pain,» said Stan Abel, President and Chief Executive Officer of SiteOne Therapeutics.

The fat molecules are also smaller with goat milk versus cow milk, further making goat cheese more easily digestible.

Goat's milk contains smaller fat molecules, non-allergenic, A2 beta - casein proteins (A2 milk) and less lactose (milk sugar) than cow's milk making it a better choice to consume all - around.

Goat's milk has a smaller protein molecule, making it significantly easier to digest than cow's dairy.

The speed with which the wave moves suggests that it travels through gap junctions and is made up either of calcium ions or some other small signaling molecule.

Others include modification of the histone proteins that DNA winds around to form chromatin — the tightly packed cluster that makes up chromosomes — and the activation of small non-coding RNA molecules.

«Small molecule could make a big difference for arthritis patients.»

One of the small - molecule iron catalysts, iron PDP, is available commercially from Sigma - Aldrich and Strem, and the researchers are in talks to make the second catalyst available as well.

Still eager to make an MIS - like contraceptive for all women that is cheap and easy to use, perhaps as a pill, the researchers are searching libraries of small molecules to find one that mimics the action of MIS.

Smaller than a speck of dust and made up of a group of molecules, the nano - sized flower and petals provide a large surface area for immobilizing the highly active enzymes that are needed to detect the bacteria at low levels.

Already, large companies such as DuPont are harnessing synthetic biology, and small companies «are being built around the idea of using organisms, designing organisms, using tools of synthetic biology to make molecules that can't be produced any other way,» Glass says.

Our guide is a small, «elegant» molecule called carbon disulfide — a compound that is a key ingredient in the making of viscose (better known as rayon) and is also insidiously toxic, having devastated the minds and bodies.

Autophagy involves breaking down the cell's parts — its protein - making, power - generating, and transport systems — into small molecules.

Every protein consists of a long chain of joined - together amino acids, which are small molecules made up of atoms of carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur and hydrogen.

Arnold and collaborators then devised a way to make these WGM biosensors sensitive enough to identify even the smallest individual bio-particles from the RNA virus MS2 to single molecules down to 6 zepto - grams (6x10 - 21grams), below the mass of all known cancer markers.

Usually, in small - molecule junctions, electrons «pushed» through the junction by the applied bias make the leap continuously, from one electrode into the other, so that the number of electrons on the molecule at each instant of time is not well - defined.

By tweaking the smallest units of life, scientists are making bigger gains in producing alternative and renewable energy, with recent efforts aimed at molecule - level controls and promoting fractal growth patterns to create different fuels and improve efficiencies.

«Perhaps most exciting, this work has opened up an actionable roadmap to a general and automated way to make most small molecules.

The large molecules — long chains of smaller molecules bonded together, form any synthetic clothing you might be wearing, rubbers and glues, and anything made of plastic.

«But in small - molecule efforts, it is the ability to work in teams that make you successful.»

Known as the blood - brain barrier, cells that line the brain and spinal cord are tightly packed, making it difficult for anything besides very small molecules to cross from the bloodstream into the central nervous system.

The same is true for a powerful nucleoside analog — a small molecule that's cheap to make — developed by the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.

Because the forces at work are so small, self - assembling molecules can get trapped in undesirable conformations, making defects all but impossible to avoid.

However, small molecules are notoriously difficult to make in a lab.

«Small molecules are much easier to make than larger compounds, they are easier to get into cells and their potential for getting into the brain is higher,» he said.

«Dr. Burke's research has yielded a significant advance that helps make complex small molecule synthesis more efficient, flexible and accessible,» said Miles Fabian of the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of General Medical Sciences, which partially funded the research.

Traditionally, a highly trained chemist spends years trying to figure out how to make each one before its function can even be explored, a slowdown that hinders development of small - molecule - based medications and technologies.

Typical air filters, which are usually made of micron - sized fibers of synthetic plastics, physically filter the small particles but aren't able to chemically capture gaseous molecules.

The team wanted to make the smaller, more flexible molecules better and efficient antimicrobials by attaching them to the carbon nanodot scaffolding, so they built two different molecules: CND - PAM1 and CND - PAM2.

The researchers behind the new study, from Winston - Salem State University in the US and Universiti Malaysia Sarawak in Malaysia, have found that adding similar, but smaller polycationic molecules onto a new kind of material called carbon nanodots makes them even better at killing drug - resistant bacteria.

Simultaneously, cryoprotectants that are made up of smaller molecules such as ethylene glycol or glycerol are able to permeate the cell so it doesn't shrink up like a raisin.

The molecule, miR - 34a, belongs to a family of small molecules called microRNAs (miRNAs) that serve as brakes to help regulate how much of a protein is made, which in turn, determines how cells respond.

Proteins are made of smaller molecules called amino acids, which combine to form modules.

One of the small - molecule compounds the scientists were testing as an ethA booster, SMARt - 420, surprisingly increased ethA2 activity, making the prodrug of ethionamide a bacteria killer.

To confirm this, the team worked with collaborators at the University of Texas Medical Branch who tested what happened to the ability of EBOV to make copies of itself in the presence of one of the small molecules that they had studied.

4 Plastics are made from polymers — enormous molecules that link hundreds of thousands of small molecular units known as monomers.

«We were making small, easily synthesized, programmable molecules» — molecules designed and synthesized with parts that control their behavior — «which assembled on the nanoscale into highly functional materials,» Smith says.

Taking yet another tack, physicist Jan Hendrik Schn, with help from other researchers at Bell Laboratories, has refined a technique he recently described for making transistors out of a layer of small carbon molecules.

A kind of molecular Venus flytrap made by a group of American chemists can entice smaller molecules into its central cavity and then flex shut, trapping them inside.

That, in turn, may render chemical bonds shorter and stronger, making molecules trapped within such fields as much as 25 % smaller, scientists estimate.

Instead of using the chemically linked long - chain molecules found in traditional rubbers, Ludwik Leibler and his colleagues at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris thought they could make stretchy materials from much smaller building blocks that associate with each other in a network.

Their analysis identified a series of possible small molecules that make economic sense and could be made by converting captured CO2.

To make the findings more relevant to patients, they are also examining direct cellular conversion strategies using small molecules and other non-viral methods.

By using a small molecule called 2 - bromo - palmitate (2BP) that inhibits these palmitate - adding enzymes, the researchers surmise that cancer patients might be able to one day make their cells more sensitive to cancer - fighting EGFR inhibitors.

«Now that we have this quantifiable result, that with only 12 building blocks we can make more than 75 percent of polyenes, we are committed to figuring out a global collection of building blocks — how to make them, how to put them together — to create a generalized approach for small - molecule synthesis.»

While its extreme conductivity makes graphene especially suited for small - scale electronics, the authors» primary interest lay in how it accommodated nearly any type of molecule — specifically, ammonia — they placed between it and the ferroelectric layer.

Small molecules that latch on to the body's cannabinoid receptors can make other docking sites on the receptor change shape to fit the body's natural cannabinoids.