Sentences with phrase «synthetic molecules similar»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

«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.

The researchers created synthetic liquid organelles by combining, in a solution, negatively - charged RNA molecules with positively - charged short peptides — chains of amino acids similar to, but smaller than, proteins.

Nearly identical molecules can have quite different scents — synthetic musk was accidentally created from a tweaking of TNT molecules in an explosives lab — and radically different structurescan smell similar, like the bitter almond tinge common to both marzipan and cyanide.

They then identified synthetic peptides, based on the known structure of a molecule similar to IL28B, that could block the receptor — the hunt will now be on for small molecule antagonists.

Pharmaceutical companies realised this so, over time, as technology and scientific testing became more sophisticated, synthetic drugs were manufactured with the same or similar molecule structure to the original plant source.