Sentences with phrase «of synthetic molecules»

Everything from the chair that we sit in to the clothes that we wear to the food that we eat to the drugs that we are prescribed to the buildings that we inhabit to the modes of transportation that get us to work consist in large part of synthetic molecules that did not exist before in nature.

All the tiny tubes of synthetic molecules in the lab indeed seem to contain salt or chalk dust or the like.

In a second study, Isaacs, Ryan Gallagher, and Jaymin Patel at Yale devised a strategy to layer multiple safeguards that also limit growth of GMOs to environments that contain a different set of synthetic molecules.

Researchers at Osaka University overcame these limitations with fluorescent SM analogs by joining several fluorescent chemical compounds (fluorophores) that were highly hydrophilic to the hydrophobic lipid part (mainly acyl chains) of the synthetic molecule.

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With some building blocks of life being found in clouds of gas and dust in space, complicated molecules, and the results of Dr. Venter creating a life form using a synthetic DNA code, science is coming to the conclusion that no god is required to start life.

«It's a type of molecule called an antisense oligonucleotide, or ASO, that essentially is synthetic string of nucleic acid that binds a specific sequence in the gene.»

This synthetic molecule is a modified version of a sugar that TB bacteria consume to help build their cell walls.

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.

«So if you are interested in using the tools of synthetic biology to create new pharmaceuticals, then you need to have an idea of how... eukaryotes use pathways to create complicated molecules.

A study published in the journal PLOS ONE reports that the synthetic molecule JK - 31 blocks the signalling of a «growth factor» chemical that promotes the creation of networks of blood vessels to feed tumors.

Ten years later, no one knows what was in the cloud of gases released by the combustion of all that jet fuel and building material but science has revealed what was in the dust — cement, steel, gypsum from drywall, building materials, cellulose from paper, synthetic molecules from rugs, glass fibers and human hair from the long decades of the two towers» use, among other items.

Researchers at the University of Leeds have made a new synthetic anti-cancer molecule that targets two key mechanisms in the spread of malignant tumors through the body.

Today, the pharmaceutical industry screens synthetic chemical libraries of thousands of molecules to find one that may have a medicinal effect, said Parekkadan, who joined Rutgers» School of Engineering in January.

«Connecting two carbon atoms is a crucial step in synthesizing heterocycle - containing molecules», explains University of Groningen Associate Professor of Synthetic Organic Chemistry Syuzanna Harutyunyan.

From the vantage point of developing predictive design and formation approaches for synthetic materials, the observations suggest how chemical energy stored across adjacent regions with unequal distributions of dissolved molecules can use processes derived from biology to drive structural reorganizations for advanced functions.

Ulijn's gel is composed of two simple synthetic peptide derivatives: (1) a component that binds to copies of itself with high directional preference, resulting in the spontaneous formation of nanoscale fibers when the molecules are dissolved in water, and (2) a surfactant - like molecule that associates with the fiber surface and presents simple, cell - compatible chemical groups.

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.

While previous synthetic polymers involved simple covalent bonding, where molecules shared electrons to bind them together, this system uses highly specific «grabber» ends on each molecule that bond with only one type of «pin» end on another molecule.

Amines are used widely in bioactive molecules, drugs, and various organic materials, and preparing them is one of the most important tasks for synthetic chemists in both academia and industry.

3 Synthetic Molecules Researchers at Northwestern University recently engineered versions of antimicrobial peptides to make them more resilient.

The advancement, using a new kind of synthetic polymer (a polymer is a large molecule composed of many repeated smaller molecules) has self - healing properties that mimic human skin, which means that e-skin «wounds» can quickly «heal» themselves in remarkably short time — less than a day.

In synthetic biology, those standardized pieces come in the form of DNA snippets, coded in strings of letters, each one representing a nucleotide in the alphabet of the molecule itself.

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.

In the first of these papers, Huc and his colleagues developed a pattern of binding interactions required to enable synthetic molecules to assume stable forms similar to the helical backbones of proteins.

Not only can synthetic molecules mimic the structures of their biological models, they can also take on their functions and may even successfully compete with them, as an artificial DNA sequence designed by Ludwig - Maximilians - Universitaet (LMU) in Munich chemist Ivan Huc now shows.

In the new study, he introduces a synthetic molecule which folds into a helical structure that mimics surface features of the DNA double helix, and whose precise shape can be altered in a modular fashion by the attachment of various substituents.

The process allows small, synthetic molecules to exhibit the functional diversity of much larger enzymatic catalysts, and offers a promising new tool for synthesizing therapeutics based on natural products.

Researchers investigated the effect of dronabinol, a synthetic version of the molecule Delta - 9 THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), which is in cannabis, on sleep apnea in a Phase 2 trial.

Motion is part of a protein's function, allowing it to adjust its 3D shape and interact with other molecules like biological molecules and synthetic drugs.

The researchers did this by changing the framework — or scaffolding — of the small, synthetic molecules.

However, it was not clear how SMs interacted with other molecules of raft domains, mainly because of the lack of a suitable synthetic probe of SM.

The research was carried out by experts in synthetic and theoretical chemistry, materials and electron microscopy and builds on Professor Khlobystov's concept of carbon nano test tubes (World's tiniest test tubes, Guinness Book of World Records 2005), where the nanotube acts as a container for molecules.

Although designing and building test molecules entails «a lot of chemical creativity,» Mattmann says that the most interesting work comes «when we start doing the chemical biology» — introducing the synthetic molecules into the living systems.

In fact, had scientists not created synthetic, mostly natural - gas - based fertilizer decades ago to improve nature's method of «fixing» nitrogen — a process of breaking nitrogen molecules apart to make them available to plants — neither you nor I, nor most of the 7 billion people crowding the planet, would be here today.

Led by Dr. Peter Glazer, chair of therapeutic radiology, Dr. Mark Saltzman, chair of biomedical engineering, and Dr. Marie Egan, professor of pediatrics and of cellular and molecular physiology, the collaborative team used synthetic molecules similar to DNA — called peptide nucleic acids, or PNAs — as well as donor DNA, to edit the genetic defect.

Nearly identical molecules can have quite different scents — synthetic musk was accidentally created from a tweaking of TNT molecules in an explosives lab — and radically different structures

It is a common structural element of the penicillins, their synthetic and semi-synthetic derivatives, and other related molecules that constitute the broad family of drugs called the beta - lactam antibiotics.

«This is a competitive arena that includes agrichemical giants who are busily working to bring similar drought - protecting molecules to market, so this is a landmark discovery because quinabactin is the first - in - class synthetic molecule of its kind,» Cutler said.

Prof. Ryotaro Matsuda, the Graduate School of Engineering at Nagoya University, and Prof. Susumu Kitagawa, the Department of Synthetic Chemistry & Biological Chemistry and the Director of the Institute for Integrated Cell - Material Sciences at Kyoto University, won the contest «Air Liquide Essential Molecules Challenge.»

The researchers created synthetic liquid organelles by combining, in a solution, negatively - charged RNA molecules with positively - charged short peptides — chains of amino acids similar to, but smaller than, proteins.

We were able to replicate this process in a biologically - reasonable way in the lab by controlling the electrostatic charge of the molecules that form our synthetic liquid organelles.

«The three - dimensional structures of naturally occurring molecules are often more complex, more twisted, than synthetic molecules, and that's precisely what allows pyridomycin to bind onto these two sites simultaneously.»

Most of these molecules, which can be found with or without synthetic modifications and exert their beneficial effect on human health, are derived from microorganisms or plants.

Instead of marrying the clotting proteins to a natural substance in the body, they are attached to synthetic polyethylene glycol (PEG) molecules (see «PEGylation protection»).

The compound — part of a class of plant molecules known as neolignans — is about 30 times as potent as l - menthol and almost as potent as icilin, a synthetic cooling agent.

«This is another great example of how using a synthetic «bottom - up» engineering approach and leveraging the power of biological design — this time at the scale of individual molecules interacting on cell membranes — can lead to breakthrough technologies for medicine that overcome limitations that hold back more conventional approaches,» said Wyss Institute Founding Director Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children's Hospital and Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Ethylene is one of the most widely used molecules in the chemical industry and is the starting material in the manufacture of detergents, synthetic lubricants, and the vast majority of plastics like polyethylene, polystyrene, and polyvinyl chloride essential to modern society.»

Nobuaki Kambe, Professor, and Takanori Iwasaki, Assistant Professor, at the Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University developed a synthetic method by constructing carbon frameworks of 8 carbons through the formation of a bond of two butadiene molecules by using a cheap nickel catalyst and introducing an alkyl group and a benzene ring to an internal and terminal carbons of 1,6 - octadiene, respectively.

In the current study, dye molecules responsive to particular ranges of light energy are used as synthetic chromophores.