Sentences with phrase «much simpler building blocks»

Alon described that complex genetic networks can be understood in terms of much simpler building blocks, called network motifs.

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«Old - fashioned retro toys, such as red rubber balls, simple building blocks, clay and crayons, that don't cost so much and are usually hidden in the back shelves are usually much healthier for children than the electronic educational toys that have fancier boxes and cost $ 89.99,» says Temple University developmental psychologist Kathy Hirsh - Pasek.

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.

«In our quest to find materials based on biology's building blocks — but which are much simpler - it is difficult to rationally design these materials because there are very many possible permutations that could be explored,» Ulijn said.

While much of the past work with DNA analogs such as PNA has focused on nucleobases already anchored to their backbone units, Ghadiri had the idea of working with simpler building blocks.