Sentences with phrase «other synthetic molecules»

Male fetuses are particularly sensitive to toxins such as environmental lead, sex hormone analogs, medications and other synthetic molecules.

Not exact matches

The cell into which the synthetic genome was then transplanted contained its own proteins, lipids and other molecules.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

They also hope to tweak the synthetic system so that it can sense and respond to signaling molecules released by other species of pathogenic bacteria, such as those responsible for cholera.

Like other nuclear receptors, HNF - 4α has a pocket that binds natural signaling molecules or could be targeted with synthetic drugs.

What's more, these synthetic zinc finger molecules can be tweaked and packaged with other drugs, to produce multi-purpose DNA - binding tools that can stick, slice, glue and block.

Human industrial activity may also prove to be visible in the geological record in the form of long - lived synthetic molecules from plastics and other products, or radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons.

These and other programs involved calculated reverse synthetic schemes where the target molecule was entered and the programs calculated possible synthetic paths, based on the existing literature.