Sentences with phrase «synthetic molecules mimic»
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.
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The advancement, using a new kind of synthetic polymer (a polymer is a large molecule composed of many repeated smaller molecules) has self - healing properties that mimic human skin, which means that e-skin «wounds» can quickly «heal» themselves in remarkably short time — less than a day.
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.
They combined the protein with synthetic molecules, known as PNAs, that mimic DNA and bind to the target gene to form a triple helix.
The researchers used a synthetic chemistry method they previously developed to combine the gp120 fragment with a sugar molecule, also shared among HIV strains, to mimic the sugar shield on the HIV envelope.