Sentences with phrase «synthesising molecules»

After characterising the shape of one of these catalysts, the focus of his research changed to that recognised by the 2016 Nobel Prize in chemistry: synthesising molecules with interlocking rings and knots.

«The bottom line is: if you're going to design and synthesise molecules you'd better understand organic chemistry.»

At the moment the best approach chemists have is to design and synthesise a molecule, bottle it and call in «noses» to assess the concoction.

Not exact matches

Now her team has finished the end of the pathway, engineering yeasts to synthesise finished drugs from another type of precursor molecule (Nature Chemical Biology, DOI: 10.1038 / nchembio.1613).

Christina Smolke of Stanford University in California and her colleagues have been looking at synthesising these complex molecules from simple sugars.

These lower the freezing point of their body fluids as winter approaches by synthesising antifreeze molecules and getting rid of anything that could act as a nucleation site for ice crystals to form around, such as gut contents and bacteria.

The scientists synthesised four variants, or derivatives, of THC by attaching a light - sensitive «antenna» to the THC molecule.

But because RNA molecules are quick and cheap to synthesise, the new game goes a step further.

This would allow them to synthesise bespoke molecules that can function as chemical sensors or be used in other applications.

However, up to now the enzymes have had to be driven using reducing equivalents — very complex molecules which are very expensive to synthesise.

They also imaged two flat molecules, hexabenzocoronene and DBNP, which were synthesised specially for the imaging.

By carefully analysing its structure, the ITbM researchers prepared compounds that were similar to KL001, thus synthesising the first circadian shortening molecules that target the CRY protein.

Chemists in California have identified and synthesised a complex sugar molecule which lies on the surface of white blood cells, and through which the cells «recognise» those blood vessels that lie near injured tissue.

«Our results have shown that as the leftover gas from a supernova begins to cool down to below 200 °C, the many heavy elements that are synthesised can begin to harbour rich molecules, creating a dust factory.

This method joins molecules together in a series of steps, while keeping one end of the compound being synthesised anchored to a polystyrene bead.

Even so, its supporters still have to provide firm evidence that larger molecules and membranes can be synthesised at alkaline hydrothermal vents, says David Deamer of the University of California, Santa Cruz, who is a leading proponent of the idea that life evolved in evaporating pools instead.

Here, we demonstrate that the optical gain properties of a newly synthesised and very luminescent (absolute PL quantum yield 79 %) nanographene molecule, namely dibenzo [hi, st] ovalene (DBOV 1) can be preserved in the solid state by simply blending the active molecule with polystyrene (PS).

rational drug design: which involves designing and synthesising compounds based on the known structure of a specific target molecule.

Over the next decade, Sauvage and his group synthesised and characterised molecules with more complex topologies, including a doubly - interlocking catenane and molecular trefoil knot with three loops and three crossings.

Three years later, Profs. Schill and Lüttringhaus synthesised the first molecule with two interlocking rings, in an elegant, but lengthy, process that built each ring of the [2] catenane sequentially.