Sentences with phrase «specific chemical structures»

The group, led by principal investigator and Ames Laboratory scientist Emily Smith, is receiving $ 1 million a year for three years from the DOE's Office of Science to develop a subdiffraction Raman imaging platform that will provide an unprecedented look at the specific chemical structures of plant cell walls and then determine how best to deconstruct plant material as a source of biofuels.

Klein and Dravid created an antibody — an immune molecule that detects specific chemical structures — that binds to a particle implicated in Alzheimer's.

Curcumin, the main active ingredient in turmeric has proven anti-inflammatory and antoxidant effects — it can target multiple steps in the inflammatory pathway at the molecular level and it can neutralize free radicals due to its specific chemical structure.

Not exact matches

The New York WaterMaker is a patent - pending water source replication system that not only functions as a commercial water filter, but also replicates the exact hardness, molecular structure, and chemical composition of a specific location's water, with a key focus on replicating New York City water.

It is emerging that the chemical structure of RNA molecules is extensively modified by specific enzymes normally present in our cells, which are commonly found to be altered in severe medical syndromes and various types of cancers.

Tissue from their placentas, the uterine structure that provides oxygen and nutrients to the fetus, was analyzed for a specific enzyme, CYP1A1, which changes endocrine - disrupting chemicals into a form that can interfere directly with the body's thyroid hormone receptors.

«Small molecules» are a specific class of complex, compact chemical structures found throughout nature.

«Together, they form a kind of highly - specific fish hook that can bind onto a protein if its form perfectly matches the protein's structure,» says Jörg Scheuermann, who is currently finishing his habilitation thesis on DNA - encoded chemical libraries in Dario Neri's group.

They coated this scaffold with growth factors — chemical cues to goad stem cells into becoming specific cell types — then soaked the structure in a solution of stem cells extracted from Beyene's bone marrow.

inorganic material that has a characteristic chemical composition and specific crystal structure.

mineral A chemical compound that is solid and stable at room temperatures and has a specific formula, or recipe (with atoms occurring in certain proportions) and a specific crystalline structure (meaning that its atoms are organized in certain regular three - dimensional patterns).

The laboratory is defining in chemical terms the specific structures (epitopes) that the immune system recognizes, and uses this knowledge to measure and understand immune responses.

Sterol analogues found in many varieties of plants are combined with specific bacteria and the resulting hormone is bio identical in chemical structure to the hormone produced by the human body.