How to Use biomolecule in a Sentence

biomolecule

noun

• On-and-off periods of water on Mars might have cooked up favorable conditions for chemical reactions that assemble compounds into biomolecules.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
• The droplet attracts biomolecules from the tissue, and is then drawn back into the pen.
  — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 19 Sep. 2017
• For Wiemann, the first clues to how biomolecules might persist for hundreds of millions of years came from dinosaur eggs.
  — Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, 8 Oct. 2019
• Many of our favorite things are packed with a biomolecule called carbohydrates.
  — Delaney Nothaft, USA TODAY, 2 June 2023
• In essence, this method allows researchers to freeze a biomolecule in solution then fire electrons at it to study its structure up close.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 6 Apr. 2018
• The trees’ wood and bark contains a lot of cellulose, a large biomolecule made up of the elements carbon, hydrogen and oxygen.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 16 June 2023
• Then the samples are pelted by a beam of radiation that can fry sensitive biomolecules.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 4 Oct. 2017
• Plants, like all living things, need nitrogen to build amino acids and other essential biomolecules.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 27 May 2018
• Carbon can form strong, stable chains and rings of atoms that are ideal for use as information-carrying biomolecules.
  — James Trefil and Michael Summers, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2019
• Scientists are also beginning to address the potential roles many other important biomolecules in the cell play in aging as well.
  — Ellen Quarles, Fortune Well, 7 July 2023
• The most informative biomolecules, according to Huber, include lipids — fats, waxes and oils — that aren’t soluble in water.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 27 Mar. 2023
• Major advances in the imaging of biomolecules--everything from the needles that bacteria use to attack cells to the structure of Zika virus--have garnered three scientists the 2017 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 4 Oct. 2017
• Language models can be used to generate other classes of biomolecules, notably nucleic acids.
  — Rob Toews, Forbes, 16 July 2023
• Because fat is a nonpolar biomolecule, the greater fat content, locked within the casein network, gives rise to a predominantly nonpolar cheese matrix.
  — Alice Chi Phung, Discover Magazine, 4 Feb. 2014
• The technique helped visualize biomolecules—everything from the needles that bacteria use to attack cells to the structure of Zika virus—with unprecedented detail.
  — Giorgia Guglielmi, Science | AAAS, 6 Oct. 2017
• Already, researchers have used the imaging technique to expose for the first time the structure of hundreds of key biomolecules, including the Zika virus and proteins that cause antibiotic resistance or impede chemotherapy.
  — David Gauthier-Villars, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2017
• Cases like BDO production demonstrate the fact that a wide range of the planet’s genetic diversity is newly accessible in the service of biomolecule synthesis.
  — Jeffrey Marlow, WIRED, 31 Mar. 2015
• Their work may lead to greater understanding of proteins incorporating this biomolecule, and dysfunctions of this process, including cancer.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 June 2017
• The device is equipped with bacteria engineered to sense particular biomolecules in the gastrointestinal tract, and it could be tailored to any number of disease-relevant molecules.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 24 May 2018
• Minerals might have prodded life along by catalyzing reactions that produced biomolecules, for example.
  — Quanta Magazine, 11 Aug. 2015
• The discovery that such fossils can harbor bacterial communities different from those in the surrounding stone complicates the search for dinosaur DNA, proteins and other biomolecules.
  — Riley Black, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2020
• In three new papers, researchers suggest magnetic minerals common on early Earth could have caused key biomolecules to accumulate on their surface in just one mirror image form, setting off a positive feedback that continued to favor the same form.
  — Byrobert F. Service, science.org, 13 June 2023

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024