as in member
one of the parts that make up a whole
historically the infantry division has been a basic building block of armies
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Proteins are the building blocks of muscles, tissues, and cells, and sufficient protein intake is necessary for muscle protein synthesis and repair.
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Lindsey Desoto, Health, 15 Oct. 2024
Recently, artificial intelligence has been tapped by Baker and others to predict protein structures with unprecedented accuracy and speed, expanding scientists' ability to model the building blocks of life, according to UW Medicine.
—Christine Clarridge, Axios, 9 Oct. 2024
They are made of chains of amino acids—commonly considered life’s building blocks—and their specific function is determined by the complex three-dimensional shape these chains fold into.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024
Proteins, a string of amino acid molecules, are the building blocks of life.
—Christian Edwards, CNN, 9 Oct. 2024
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Lindsey Desoto, Health, 15 Oct. 2024
Recently, artificial intelligence has been tapped by Baker and others to predict protein structures with unprecedented accuracy and speed, expanding scientists' ability to model the building blocks of life, according to UW Medicine.
—Christine Clarridge, Axios, 9 Oct. 2024
They are made of chains of amino acids—commonly considered life’s building blocks—and their specific function is determined by the complex three-dimensional shape these chains fold into.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024
Proteins, a string of amino acid molecules, are the building blocks of life.
—Christian Edwards, CNN, 9 Oct. 2024
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“Building block.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/building%20block. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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