Sentences with phrase «simple chemical building»

A machine in University of Illinois chemistry professor Martin Burke's lab assembles complex small molecules out of simple chemical building blocks, like a 3 - D printer on the molecular level.

«Our results demonstrate that complex lipid membranes capable of indefinite self - synthesis can emerge when supplied with simpler chemical building blocks,» said Devaraj.

synthesize (n. synthesis) To produce something — such as to build a substance chemically — by combining raw ingredients (simpler chemical building blocks).

Not exact matches

You start with simple dna made from chemicals that are the same in all animals and you build specific triggers into these codes to aid in the ability of these creatures to adapt to the changes in invironment and food sources and to be able to avoid preditors.

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.

Chemists have long sought to develop new reactions for the direct conversion of simple hydrocarbon building blocks into valuable materials such as pharmaceuticals in a way that dependably creates the same chemical bonds and orientations.

Chelators are organic compounds that bind metal ions, and in this case, they also generate «hydroxyl radicals» to break down wood and produce simple building - block chemicals.

University of Illinois chemist Martin Burke, a pioneer of a technique that constructs complex molecules from simple chemical «building blocks,» led a group that found that thousands of compounds in a class of molecules called polyenes — many of which have great potential as drugs — can be built simply and economically from a scant one dozen different building blocks.

University of Illinois chemistry professor Martin Burke led a team that discovered a simple system to synthesize a large class of medically important molecules using only 12 different chemical «building blocks.»

In the same way that plastic building blocks of different sizes and shapes can snap together because they share a simple connector, the chemical building blocks are linked together with one simple reaction.

A popular one is that life appeared in the «primordial soup ``, a mixture of simple chemicals that could react to form the building blocks of life.

But in a matter of mere weeks, chemical reactions had produced thirteen of the amino acids necessary for life, showing that these building blocks of proteins could be spawned from the simplest chemicals.

The concept is fairly simple: The seed hulls contain lignans, which are chemicals that help bind up excess hormones, while the seed oils contain essential fatty acids that provide the building blocks for making hormones.

«The reality is that for the novice student engaged in basic skill building, such as learning chemical symbols, individual learning through reading or simple drill and practice might be the optimal learning design.

This is not as simple an act as parking a truck loaded with 7000 pounds of fertilizing chemicals in front of a federal building in Oklahoma City.