Sentences with phrase «useful chemicals like»

He did his postdoctoral work in the lab of Jay Keasling, a pioneer of engineering microbes that consume renewable feedstock and spit out useful chemicals like diesel fuel or fragrance molecules for the cosmetics industry.

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The ones that help the rotifer survive are kept around in the population — some perform useful functions, like breaking certain chemical bonds — while those that don't help die off.

Kinetic chemical synthesis may also allow for nanothreads with mixed diamond and graphite - like bonding that that could have useful semiconducting properties.

This strategy led to the discovery of NIR luminescence and also paves the way for other types of nanoparticle alloys that are useful not only in imaging, but in applications like catalysis for the industrial - scale conversion of fossil fuels into fine chemicals.

The scientists say such chemicals could become useful in the future for enhancing a drought resistance response, when crops experience a severe drought, like the one that occurred in the Midwest in the summer of 2012.

He wants to exploit DNA's unique chemical properties to process information like a computer (using novel scientific disciplines known as molecular programming and DNA computing) and even appropriate the DNA molecule as a scaffold on which to build useful structures.

Tracking the complex chemical reactions that occur when new biofuels made from plants are upgraded to useful fuels like gasoline or diesel fuel.

However, topical treatments can still be extremely useful and if you do use them, then the best products are almost always natural ones like raw honey and jojoba oil, rather than harsh chemicals such as Benzoyl Peroxide.

These can be highly useful for people who like to keep things as natural and chemical - free as possible.

Instead, scientists have turned to Moorella thermoacetica, a bacteria that resides at the bottom of very still swamps, silently breathing in carbon dioxide and excreting acetic acid (the acid in vinegar), which is a remarkably useful chemical that could be reacted into other valuable resources like fuels, drugs, or plastics.