Sentences with phrase «synthetic substitutes»

The chicle boom continued up until the Great Depression of the 1930s when it collapsed as a result of the general economic malaise and the development of synthetic substitutes for chewing gum base.

While severity varies, bone defects and injuries are currently treated with bone grafts, taken either from another part of the patient's body or a donor bone bank, or with synthetic substitutes.

In August researchers announced the creation of a microscopic device that can make an electrical connection to an individual neuron, an invention that might one day lead to synthetic substitutes for damaged nerve cells.

We know that formula is a synthetic substitute for human milk.

Their synthetic substitutes ought to be ready for human trials in about three years, Barker estimates.

A vaccine is a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease.

This is accomplished with a synthetic substitute that is attached to your pet's knee joint.

You can have a surgery to remove the thyroid gland and take thyroxine, which is a synthetic substitute.