Sentences with phrase «synthetic molecules»

All the tiny tubes of synthetic molecules in the lab indeed seem to contain salt or chalk dust or the like.

Human industrial activity may also prove to be visible in the geological record in the form of long - lived synthetic molecules from plastics and other products, or radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons.

The hope is to discover environmental factors that contribute to autism risk, from diet or infection to toxins like heavy metals, pesticides, and the countless synthetic molecules in products today.

These have little resemblance to robots but are synthetic molecules designed to recognize a molecule and then do something.

They combined the protein with synthetic molecules, known as PNAs, that mimic DNA and bind to the target gene to form a triple helix.

Led by Dr. Peter Glazer, chair of therapeutic radiology, Dr. Mark Saltzman, chair of biomedical engineering, and Dr. Marie Egan, professor of pediatrics and of cellular and molecular physiology, the collaborative team used synthetic molecules similar to DNA — called peptide nucleic acids, or PNAs — as well as donor DNA, to edit the genetic defect.

MEET PG5, the largest stable synthetic molecule ever made.

19 In 2011 chemists at the Swiss Institute of Technology created the largest synthetic molecule ever, a polymer called PG5, with the mass of 200 million hydrogen atoms.

3 Synthetic Molecules Researchers at Northwestern University recently engineered versions of antimicrobial peptides to make them more resilient.

Not only can synthetic molecules mimic the structures of their biological models, they can also take on their functions and may even successfully compete with them, as an artificial DNA sequence designed by Ludwig - Maximilians - Universitaet (LMU) in Munich chemist Ivan Huc now shows.

Led by Dr. Peter Glazer, chair of therapeutic radiology, Mark Saltzman, chair of biomedical engineering, and Dr. Marie Egan, professor of pediatrics and of cellular and molecular physiology, the collaborative team used synthetic molecules similar to DNA — called peptide nucleic acids, or PNAs — as well as donor DNA, to edit the genetic defect.

In the first of these papers, Huc and his colleagues developed a pattern of binding interactions required to enable synthetic molecules to assume stable forms similar to the helical backbones of proteins.

Male fetuses are particularly sensitive to toxins such as environmental lead, sex hormone analogs, medications and other synthetic molecules.

Now, research led by Osaka University in collaboration with JST ERATO Lipid Active Structure Project has developed new fluorescent synthetic molecules (analogs) that structurally mimic SMs and can be studied in live cells.

«This is a competitive arena that includes agrichemical giants who are busily working to bring similar drought - protecting molecules to market, so this is a landmark discovery because quinabactin is the first - in - class synthetic molecule of its kind,» Cutler said.

This development could find broad applications in pharmaceutical and agricultural industries, enabling medicinal chemists to tailor synthetic molecules with halogen substituents in order to improve their pharmacological profiles.

Methods: Synthetic molecules called peptoids have caught the interest of researchers because they are cheap, versatile and customizable.

At its core, G100 consists of Glucopyranosyl Lipid A (GLA), a potent small synthetic molecule that selectively binds to the Toll - like Receptor - 4 (TLR4) receptor.

These notes have been used by traditional cultures for centuries prior to finding their way into the Western fragrance repertoire, and were used in commercial perfumes until recently when synthetic molecules were developed to replace them.

In a second study, Isaacs, Ryan Gallagher, and Jaymin Patel at Yale devised a strategy to layer multiple safeguards that also limit growth of GMOs to environments that contain a different set of synthetic molecules.

Ten years later, no one knows what was in the cloud of gases released by the combustion of all that jet fuel and building material but science has revealed what was in the dust — cement, steel, gypsum from drywall, building materials, cellulose from paper, synthetic molecules from rugs, glass fibers and human hair from the long decades of the two towers» use, among other items.

Previously, polystyrene was the largest stable synthetic molecule, at 40 million hydrogen masses.

Not only can synthetic molecules mimic the structures of their biological models, they can also take on their functions and may even successfully compete with them, as an artificial DNA sequence designed by Ludwig - Maximilians - Universitaet...

However, the researchers were able to successfully repair damaged mucins in the lab by replacing the lost sugars with synthetic molecules.

In an elegant proof - of - principle approach, the researchers used synthetic molecules to decrease the physical distance between the ER and mitochondria in cells and in liver tissue and found that this intervention impaired mitochondrial function and made mice more sensitive to high fat diet - induced insulin resistance and diabetes.

MARKING MICROBES When tuberculosis bacteria, seen in this scanning electron micrograph, gobble up a new synthetic molecule, they glow under a microscope — making them easy to spot in tests.

The problem for scientists is that these synthetic molecules tend to get destroyed by the immune systems of live trial subjects.

This synthetic molecule is a modified version of a sugar that TB bacteria consume to help build their cell walls.

Soft colloids are made up of flexible materials, for example, polymers, such as proteins and synthetic molecules.

Hale envisioned integrating the synthetic molecule into a topical spray to treat patients in the field or loading it into a biomask for more definitive treatment after evacuation.

A study published in the journal PLOS ONE reports that the synthetic molecule JK - 31 blocks the signalling of a «growth factor» chemical that promotes the creation of networks of blood vessels to feed tumors.

Called peptoids, these synthetic molecules are stronger than natural peptides, last longer in the body, and are cheaper to produce.

«The synthetic molecules made by our lab don't exactly look like rhamnolipids, but they can control bioactivities, such as swarming movements, surface adhesion and biofilm formation.»

He hoped to develop a synthetic molecule that would carry oxygen just as well as iron.

In the new study, he introduces a synthetic molecule which folds into a helical structure that mimics surface features of the DNA double helix, and whose precise shape can be altered in a modular fashion by the attachment of various substituents.

To see if our strategy works on humans, we will have to use massive doses of synthetic molecules.»

Even if the staph somehow develop a way to resist the peptides, the synthetic molecules can simply be reconfigured, allowing humans to take a cue from the bugs themselves and constantly upgrade our own arsenal.

The synthetic molecule blocks these proteins as they shift from their normal state into an abnormally folded form by targeting a toxic intermediate phase.

The process allows small, synthetic molecules to exhibit the functional diversity of much larger enzymatic catalysts, and offers a promising new tool for synthesizing therapeutics based on natural products.

The researchers did this by changing the framework — or scaffolding — of the small, synthetic molecules.

Researchers at Osaka University overcame these limitations with fluorescent SM analogs by joining several fluorescent chemical compounds (fluorophores) that were highly hydrophilic to the hydrophobic lipid part (mainly acyl chains) of the synthetic molecule.

After confirming that the synthetic molecules behaved similarly to natural SM by using simple model membranes, the team next used highly sensitive single - molecule imaging to monitor the role of SMs in living cell membranes.

Although designing and building test molecules entails «a lot of chemical creativity,» Mattmann says that the most interesting work comes «when we start doing the chemical biology» — introducing the synthetic molecules into the living systems.

But researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown that levels of the tau protein can be reduced — and some of the neurological damage caused by tau even reversed - by a synthetic molecule that targets the genetic instructions for building tau before the protein is made.

«The three - dimensional structures of naturally occurring molecules are often more complex, more twisted, than synthetic molecules, and that's precisely what allows pyridomycin to bind onto these two sites simultaneously.»

This demonstrates the numerous opportunities for data mining, designing drug candidates, developing models to predict biological activity, and studying interactions between cellular targets and synthetic molecules.

A synthetic molecule can surmount barriers to transcription elongation at repressive microsatellite repeats that cause Friedreich's ataxia.

«Traveling salesman uncorks synthetic biology bottleneck: Computer program scrambles genetic codes for production of repetitive DNA and synthetic molecules.»

«In the end, we get a synthetic molecule that has the same size, shape, and function as hemoglobin.