Sentences with phrase «molecules sticking to you»

The increased prevalence among diabetics (particularly insulin - dependent diabetics) may be due to glucose molecules sticking to the collagen fibres in the joint capsule, which causes stiffness.

Two possible ways that the inner solar system received water are: water molecules sticking to dust grains inside the «snow line» (as shown in the inset) and carbonaceous chondrite material flung into the inner solar system by the effect of gravity from protoJupiter.

All of these molecules stick to the surface of dust specks, accumulating icy layers over millions of years.

During a routine characterization, the researchers found that some solvent molecules stuck to MOF - 5 when they used a method that should have gotten rid of it all.

When added to human blood, the CP molecules stuck to the PC - groups on blood cell membranes because of their opposite charges.

They might also be useful for nanoscale sensors: They're so small that even if a single molecule sticks to them, it can change the conducting properties, allowing you to sense the presence of individual molecules.

If there is no cell to kill in the vicinity, the molecules stick to one another and drift away.

The fraction of time a receptor is bound depends on both how often a molecule hits it and the amount of time the molecule sticks to the receptor.

Furthermore, the instrument can be employed to measure the force between the tip and a surface, and in some cases even the force between a molecule stuck to the tip and other molecules in a biological tissue.

When the cell sees that the messenger has a drug molecule stuck to it, it recognises that something unusual has happened, and responds by deleting the message molecule.

HbA1c is a measure of the percentage of hemoglobin compounds in your red blood cells have a sugar molecules stuck to them.

Not exact matches

Water molecules move from areas of low surface tension to high surface tension and so the sticks moved.

It will shear the weak bonds that keep the molecules of plastic sticking together but it will not break the plastic molecules themselves — that is, the bowling ball breaking the plastic film does not generate enough heat to set the plastic on fire.

As water evaporates from the leaves and petals of the plant, it «sticks» to other water molecules and pulls that water into the space left behind.

The nature of the bonds that stick the BPA molecules together doesn't allow the oligomers to revert to BPA.

So for the current technology that we have, it makes more sense to stick with [molecules with fewer carbon atoms] such as ethylene or carbon monoxide, and then to upgrade those molecules using other processes.

Typically, chemists make molecules by mixing up many constituent atoms, some of which stick to each other to form the desired compounds.

Students assembled models of molecules of elements and compounds using balls to represent atoms and sticks to represent connections between atoms.

Water molecules try to distribute these charged pairs equally throughout the gel, but the pairs are stuck to the polymer; to compensate, the water molecules force their way into the polymer mesh, making the entire gel swell.

Water will stick even to a duck's back — if you mix in trace amounts of tiny coiled molecules called polymers, researchers report in the 13 June issue of Nature.

And ApoE is bound to fat, so it tends to stick to other molecules in biochemical assays, says Menelas Pangalos, who leads research on small - molecule discovery at AstraZeneca in Macclesfield, UK, and has long had an interest in ApoE.

It is relatively easy to get small pieces of dust to stick together, because of electrostatic forces and van der Waals forces (tiny forces arising from the polarity of molecules).

Or perhaps, he says, formation models need to be adjusted to make it easier for larger building blocks to grow in the outer solar system where comets form and where ice and organic molecules could assist in the sticking.

«When small molecules are administered, they can stick to many different proteins in the body because their size enables them to interact with many targets, not just the intended target, causing more side effects.»

Then, to improve the resolution of the STM and make it sensitive to the phase of the molecule's orbital, the researchers stuck a single carbon monoxide molecule on the metal STM tip.

The researchers designed a molecule combining 7,8 - dihydroxyflavone, which mimics a protein critical for development and function of the nervous system, and bisphosphonate, a type of drug that sticks to bones.

The phenomenon can be understood through the action of water molecules, which condense to form liquid droplets by sticking to particles like dust and pollen.

The trick is, as we mentioned earlier, the ability of water molecules to stick to each other and to other surfaces so strongly.

As a result, water molecules tend to stick to one another; that adhesion is why water forms rounded droplets on a smooth surface and does not spread out into a completely flat film.

Until now, geckos were thought to be able to stick to surfaces using van der Waals forces, the weak attraction resulting from the temporary movement of charged particles within a molecule.

At night the chamber is opened, allowing ambient air to diffuse through the porous MOF and water molecules to stick to its interior surfaces, gathering in groups of eight to form tiny cubic droplets.

The molecule has two striking similarities to proteins that make mussels stick.

Opposite charges attract, so water molecules tend to stick to each other as a positive hydrogen atom of one molecule attaches itself to the oxygen atom of its neighbour.

Yet the molecules in glue need to adhere not just to the things you're trying to stick together, but also to each other.

Unlike aptamers, which are capable only of sticking to something else, ribozymes can change the structure of other molecules.

Chemists used to create models of molecules using plastic balls and sticks.

The measurement involves sticking the measuring head, which is around three centimeters in size, to the baby's skin and irradiating it with visible light; some glucose molecules diffuse through the membrane from the skin.

Highly reactive fluoride sticks to molecules in the tooth that become exposed when bacteria - produced acid attacks the teeth.

Sulfur atoms at one end of the molecules naturally bind to gold surfaces, and the molecular stalks stick straight up if packed in tight.

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It is harder for molecules to stick permanently to a smooth than to a rough surface, because a smooth surface offers fewer sites where a new molecule can bond to several of the present surface molecules at once.

You can imagine organic molecules might stick to something and over time turn it black.

For the first time, complex organic molecules (depicted by stick molecules in the artist's representation above) that are potential precursors to some building blocks of life have been spotted in the protoplanetary disk surrounding another star.

In August, physicists at the University of Tennessee announced that the force that holds 1950 DA together is the same force that allows the fine hair on a gecko's feet to stick to vertical surfaces: namely, weak electric attraction between individual molecules, called van der Waals» forces.

In the resulting mixture, each molecule has two or three sticking points that allow it to connect reversibly to other molecules in the system.

Understanding the fundamental laws of attraction when it comes to molecules, the researchers designed the rings so that they stick to one another.

The sewage has a naturally low pH, so the magnetite is positively charged and the negatively charged carboxylic molecules in the sewage stick to it.

The researchers think that the unfolded protein is likely to stick to nonchaperone molecules, as well, causing other problems in the cell and disrupting the flow within a cell.

Microscopists have been able to peer deep into cells, thanks to fluorescent molecules that stick to cellular structures.

Having charges stuck in these traps may increase the chance for interactions with other charges and electrical excitations that can destroy the molecules and lead to degradation.