Sentences with phrase «precursor molecule into»

It involves injecting short segments of an insulin precursor molecule into the blood, helping to train immune cells to stop attacking the insulin - producing pancreatic cells.

FEBID uses an electron beam from a scanning electron microscope to condense gaseous precursor molecules into a solid deposit on a surface.

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They also found that distant metastases and their precursors processed glucose through a growth - promoting series of metabolic reactions called the pentose phosphate pathway, which burns (or oxidizes) glucose - derived molecules into building blocks for tumors.

When life on Earth was first getting started, simple molecules bonded together into the precursors of modern genetic material.

Previous studies have revealed that exercise induces the production of irisin and its precursor molecule, FNDC5 (fibronectin - type III domain - containing 5) protein, which convert white fat tissue into beneficial, calorie - burning brown fat.

«We knew from our work in Drosophila that Zucchini functions at the initial processing step, in which long piRNA precursor molecules are cut into shorter fragments,» explains Haase.

It is responsible for most anabolic reactions, in which precursor molecules are joined together into larger molecules.

Eventually, more debris and enzymes spill into the joint fluid and destroy molecules called glycosaminoglycan and hyaluronate which are important precursors that form the cartilage proteoglycans.

The researchers basically amplified and then short - circuited E. coli's internal machinery for producing large fatty - acid molecules, enabling them to convert precursor molecules directly into fuels and other chemicals.