How to Use nucleic acid in a Sentence

nucleic acid

noun

• The first step extracts RNA, the nucleic acid in the virus, from a specimen — a nasal swab placed in a liquid.
  — Guy Boulton, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2020
• Gilbert was the co-winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on nucleic acids.
  — Daniel C. Schlenoff, Scientific American, 19 May 2020
• The protein structure of CAS, shown with nucleic acids bound.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 2 Dec. 2023
• Most of our tools for working with nucleic acids are specific to DNA.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Feb. 2020
• Very low levels of nucleic acid to chase to discover the disease.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 4 Jan. 2020
• Now, dozens of companies around the world make and ship synthetic nucleic acids en masse.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 6 May 2024
• In Shanghai, those who must leave the city, as well as those entering the city, must show a negative nucleic acid test taken in the last 48 hours.
  — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
• The first set of HIV drugs were nucleic acid inhibitors, known as chain terminator drugs.
  — William A. Haseltine, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2020
• In rapid testing, explained Procop, there are two kinds of tests — antigen tests and nucleic acid tests.
  — Joshua Bote, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2020
• For most of life’s history, nucleic acids have handled the former job and proteins the latter one.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 Nov. 2017
• Some tests look for a piece of the coating of the virus—they’re called antigen tests—and other tests detect nucleic acid (such as RNA) belonging to the coronavirus.
  — Allison Duncan, Health.com, 7 Oct. 2020
• The city carried out more than 18 million nucleic acid tests during the 4-day period.
  — Bloomberg.com, 31 Mar. 2022
• Testers at the labs run the swabs through expensive machines that tear apart any virus in the sample and scrutinize its nucleic acid, giving them a detailed map of its genome.
  — David Axe, Rolling Stone, 23 Dec. 2021
• Schools are closed and residents can’t leave the city without a recent negative nucleic acid test.
  — Trefor Moss, WSJ, 18 June 2020
• Since March, the 33-year-old multi-disciplinary artist from Jiangsu province has been filming his own nucleic acid tests with a small camera in his mouth.
  — Fox News, 3 Oct. 2022
• At the local hospital, medical staff took a phlegm sample and sent it for a nucleic acid test, the most common method in use around China to identify the virus.
  — Jeremy Page, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2020
• The only tests that are acceptable are nucleic acid tests — not rapid antigen tests nor antibody tests.
  — Michael Hamad, courant.com, 23 Oct. 2020
• Beijing also rolled out mass nucleic acid testing for the coronavirus, setting up 193 sampling booths across the city.
  — James Griffiths, CNN, 29 June 2020
• Elsewhere, researchers have designed short strings of nucleic acids that grab onto two parts of the Cas9 complex and completely shut down gene editing in human cells10.
  — Elie Dolgin, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2020
• The tests counted in this figure are PCR genetic tests, molecular testing of nucleic acid, as well as antigen tests.
  — Laura Hancock, cleveland, 28 Dec. 2021
• From Saturday, guests must present a negative nucleic acid test (such as a PCR test) taken within 24 hours in order to enter the resort.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 11 Mar. 2022
• In fact, coronavirus core proteins often share upward of 95% of their nucleic acid or protein sequences due to their close origins.
  — Andy Plump, STAT, 19 May 2021
• The code was incomplete, a sequence of programming phrases that bracketed a partial map of nucleic acids, amino acid chains, and proteins.
  — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 5 Feb. 2024
• Authorities will also move away from relying on mass nucleic acid PCR testing and expand the use of rapid antigen tests.
  — Karson Yiu, ABC News, 7 Dec. 2022
• The technique as proposed would work because nucleic acids like DNA are promiscuous.
  — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 23 Mar. 2018
• Together the bases and sugar-phosphates form nucleotides; DNA itself is a nucleic acid.
  — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2023
• But experts say China's nucleic acid tests could be picking up genetic fragments of dead virus, which are no longer infectious.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN, 13 Nov. 2020
• Desvignes took a methodical approach, looking for patterns in the piles of nucleic acid data.
  — Melina Walling, The Arizona Republic, 11 June 2022
• At this point, the reader preheats the cartridge to the temperature required for the nucleic acid amplification.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 14 Feb. 2022
• The new tool was required because databases of protein and nucleic acid sequences are expanding at a ridiculous rate, so the techniques for analyzing all of that data need to keep up.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 2 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 4 Oct 2024