Sentences with phrase «natural counterpart»

This new work, described in a study published in the journal Energy and Environmental Science, is the first to successfully demonstrate the approach of going from carbon dioxide directly to target products, namely ethanol and ethylene, at energy conversion efficiencies rivaling natural counterparts.

Existing fluorescent SM analogs behave differently from their fully functional natural counterparts.

This new work, described in a study published in the journal Energy and Environmental Science, is the first to successfully demonstrate the approach of going from carbon dioxide directly to target products, namely ethanol and ethylene, at energy conversion efficiencies rivaling natural counterparts.

Like their natural counterpart, wool diaper covers, fleece diaper covers are not the most trim cloth diaper covers.

To find out, we need an experiment that contrasts infant isolation with its natural counterpart: babies going to bed with the awareness that their caregivers are present (i.e., in the same room) and responsive (i.e., ready to attend, rather than ignore, infants that become distressed).

Our synthetic loops showed almost exactly the same patterns of infectivity as their natural counterparts had.

The new peptide adopts a three dimensional shape that penetrates bacterial envelopes more efficiently compared to its natural counterparts.

Researchers found that the densified wood could withstand being stretched or pulled 11.5 times harder than its natural counterpart without breaking.

Because the peptides are designed from the bottom up to mimic their natural counterparts, the lab found they create an optimal environment for the body's own systems to encourage healing.

«So, even well - managed present - day forests store much less carbon than their natural counterparts in 1750, which explains the [net] lack of carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere.»

A modified mosquito is less fit than its natural counterpart.

Next the team want to look at exactly how the particles behave in an animal, particularly whether they circulate in the same way as their natural counterparts.

Under a concept known as «substantial equivalence,» GM food proponents say they are functionally the same and thus as safe as their natural counterparts, with no need for special labelling.

Many also protested the idea that an applicant had to demonstrate structural differences between a product and its natural counterpart.

Using cutting - edge materials, a team of researchers has now developed electronic whiskers with a sensitivity and size mimicking their natural counterparts.

An examiner can also decide to let an application proceed because the product is sufficiently different from its natural counterpart based on «structure, function, and / or other properties,» which may be reassuring to academia, says Robert Hardy, director of contracts and intellectual property management for the Council on Governmental Relations (COGR), a Washington, D.C. — based association of research universities.

A major obstacle to applying genetic engineering to benefit humans and the environment is the risk that organisms whose genes have been altered might produce offspring with their natural counterparts, releasing the novel genes into the wild.

Researchers have used test - tube evolution to create a new, smaller enzyme that still performs the function of its natural counterpart.

They found that both D - GLP1 and D - PTH elicited cellular responses similar to their natural counterparts but had a longer - lasting effect.

The aim is to stamp out their natural counterparts, which carry dengue fever.

And to help them distinguish between the synthetic genome and its natural counterpart, they added a special watermark: their own names and that of the institute, spelled out in letters of the genetic code.

The conversion rate was lower, but the induced neurons seemed just as much like their natural counterparts as those produced from embryonic mouse fibroblasts.

To do the job of its natural counterpart, folic acid must first be activated by a liver enzyme called dihydrofolate reductase, or DHFR.

Although the use of rigid metal and plastic parts tends to result in stiff, mechanical motion, a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) is experimenting with the use of a single piece of flexible silicon and urethane polymer to create robotic fish that smoothly wriggle through the water much like their natural counterparts.

Her greenhouse - grown soybean plants fix twice as much nitrogen from the atmosphere as their natural counterparts, grow larger and produce up to 36 percent more seeds.

Harvard computer scientist Radhika Nagpal and her colleagues in the TERMES Project are making artificial termites that can, like their natural counterparts, build structures much bigger than themselves.

Artificial photosynthesis has a way to go to achieve the controlled, stable process of its natural counterpart.

The industrial contribution of CO2 and other greenhouse gases to the atmosphere differs from its natural counterparts in fundamental ways.

In addition, the synthetic catalyst can operate at conditions that would disable its natural counterpart.

No matter how regularly you exercise, artificial muscles have long since surpassed their natural counterparts.

Some synthetic ingredients can be safer and way more effective than their natural counterparts.

Most synthetic are only half as potent & effective as their natural counterparts, but far from harmful.

Synthetic vitamins have been proven to be directly responsible for hypervitaminosis in children (especially synthetic vitamin A), not to mention the fact that some synthetic vitamins are shown to inhibit the uptake of their natural counterpart (ironically resulting in a vitamin deficiency).

Over the years we've seen examples of dilution, substitution, and even the use of synthetic alternatives masquerading as their natural counterparts.

We now know that synthetic vitamins, like ascorbic acid, do not work anywhere near as well as their natural counterparts.

1) In the future, most patented drugs, which are chemically altered forms of naturally occurring molecules, will be rendered obsolete, or considered less desirable than natural counterparts.

She notes that many toxic ingredients aren't added because they'll increase functionality or user experience; rather they are added to skincare products because they're widely available and, compared to many of their natural counterparts, cost very little.

Generally speaking, you should expect highly processed foods (e.g., oils made from nuts and seeds) to contain less vitamin E than their whole, natural counterparts (e.g., whole nuts and seeds).

The aim was to study the relationship between space, form, light and its natural counterpart, shadow.

Many of these robots are inspired by the propulsion of their natural counterparts like fish, snakes and squid, easily navigating the water.

Artificial photosynthesis has a way to go to achieve the controlled, stable process of its natural counterpart.

Over the last few years, great strides have been made in creating artificial leaves that mimic the ability of their natural counterparts to produce energy from water and sunlight.

But a synthetic tree now in development may be better for the environment than its natural counterparts; click through to see why.Living trees are one of nature's best carbon capturers; planting them can help counteract the carbon emissions of everything from cars to planes (though they're just a small part of a bigger solution).

«So not only will the resultant climate change be faster than anything Earth has seen for millions of years, the climate that will exist is likely to have no natural counterpart, as far as we can tell, in at least the last 420 million years.»

«By mimicking their natural counterparts through silhouette and behavior, they are indistinguishable from real - life birds of prey to other birds.

With a surface that closely mimics the natural look, warmth and rustic charm of real wood, this type of tile flooring is quickly gaining popularity for its greater durability versus its natural counterpart.