Sentences with phrase «potential building block of life»
Two teams of researchers report today that they have detected a prebiotic molecule — a potential building block of life — around newly formed sunlike stars.
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The Index's authors define social progress as «the capacity of a society to meet the basic human needs of its citizens, establish the building blocks that allow citizens and communities to enhance and sustain the quality of their lives, and create the conditions for all individuals to reach their full potential.»
Given the potential for living systems to produce highly complex chemical compounds, researchers working with Michelle C.Y. Chang at the University of California, Berkeley (USA), aimed to manipulate the biosynthetic machinery in cells to use simple fluorinated building blocks to make new organofluorine target molecules.
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.
More importantly, chemists have now found solid potential chemical pathways for the synthesis of life's basic building blocks; nucleotides, ribose, amino acids and lipids.
The field of single - cell sequencing is rapidly expanding, with the potential to precisely study how the basic building blocks of life function and evolve.
Scientists are taking a closer look at this Saturn moon and finding more and more potential building blocks for very basic life there, despite Titan's surface temperature of -300 degrees Fahrenheit.
By looking for evidence of water, carbon, and other important building blocks of life in the Martian soil and atmosphere, SAM will help discover whether Mars ever had the potential to support life.
Aside from genetics, there are three main building blocks which form the foundation of a cat's potential life span.
A nutritious, age - specific diet forms the second building block of increasing a cat's potential life span.