Sentences with phrase «stick to other molecules»

Because they can recognize and stick to other molecules, people are interested in using them as receptors for sensors.

And ApoE is bound to fat, so it tends to stick to other molecules in biochemical assays, says Menelas Pangalos, who leads research on small - molecule discovery at AstraZeneca in Macclesfield, UK, and has long had an interest in ApoE.

Not exact matches

As water evaporates from the leaves and petals of the plant, it «sticks» to other water molecules and pulls that water into the space left behind.

So for the current technology that we have, it makes more sense to stick with [molecules with fewer carbon atoms] such as ethylene or carbon monoxide, and then to upgrade those molecules using other processes.

Typically, chemists make molecules by mixing up many constituent atoms, some of which stick to each other to form the desired compounds.

The trick is, as we mentioned earlier, the ability of water molecules to stick to each other and to other surfaces so strongly.

Opposite charges attract, so water molecules tend to stick to each other as a positive hydrogen atom of one molecule attaches itself to the oxygen atom of its neighbour.

Yet the molecules in glue need to adhere not just to the things you're trying to stick together, but also to each other.

Unlike aptamers, which are capable only of sticking to something else, ribozymes can change the structure of other molecules.

In the resulting mixture, each molecule has two or three sticking points that allow it to connect reversibly to other molecules in the system.

The researchers think that the unfolded protein is likely to stick to nonchaperone molecules, as well, causing other problems in the cell and disrupting the flow within a cell.

Having charges stuck in these traps may increase the chance for interactions with other charges and electrical excitations that can destroy the molecules and lead to degradation.

On the other end, he stuck six negatively charged sugars designed to attract thrombin molecules.

«Various forms of carbon, including nanotubes, are considered for hydrogen or other fuel storage because they have a huge internal surface area for the fuel molecules to stick to.

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.

Furthermore, the instrument can be employed to measure the force between the tip and a surface, and in some cases even the force between a molecule stuck to the tip and other molecules in a biological tissue.

When the surface was negatively charged, some water molecules became stuck to the surface, while other water molecules became disordered and moved away from the surface.

Drug - makers can build designer molecules with a sequence that will stick to the messenger molecule of the huntingtin gene, but not to other messengers.

Because it has positive (hydrogen) and negative (oxygen) charges, it sticks or bonds to other water molecules.

Or H2O gas is not ideal gas because instead bouncing around freely it's sticking to other H2O molecules and being forced apart by other molecules of gas.

Though these gas molecules «try» to stick together, but the energy of all the other types of gases disrupt this from happening.