Sentences with phrase «synthesize nucleic»

My colleagues and I first undertook to synthesize nucleic acids outside the living cell, with the help of cellular enzymes, in 1954.

To try to block elastase, biochemist Drew Smith of NeXstar Pharmaceuticals in Boulder, Colorado, earlier this year synthesized a nucleic acid sequence called an aptamer, which is designed for its shape.

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«Antisense» compounds are synthesized with nucleotides, the building blocks of nucleic acid, often shown as various combinations of A, U, G and C.

Aptamer - quantum dot (APT - QD) bioconjugates were synthesized by conjugating cadmium - telluride quantum dots (QDs, semiconductor nanoparticles) to aptamers (nucleic - acid based ligands), by amide crosslinking.