How to Use molecular in a Sentence

molecular

adjective
  • On a molecular level, the biosimilars are all about the same.
    Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Fatty acids are one of the molecular building blocks that make up fats.
    Eyleen Jorgelina O'Rourke, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The area is made up of three giant bunches of cold atomic gas called molecular clouds.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Now, that’s because of how it’s produced on the molecular level.
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The newts’ toxins kill by plugging up molecular pores in muscle and nerve cells.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2023
  • One of the biggest roadblocks has been finding the right molecular targets.
    Angus Chen Reprints, STAT, 18 Jan. 2023
  • As the star forms, the dust and gas resemble ribbons that come from a surrounding molecular cloud.
    Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2023
  • These tests might be antigen or molecular (e.g., PCR) tests.
    Allison Duncan, Health, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Now scientists have traced two detailed molecular pathways from the brain to the gut that produce IBD flares.
    Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2023
  • There is ceramic inside the aluminum from a molecular point of view.
    Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Mol and others are trying to learn the molecular design rules that will make this possible.
    IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The body’s molecular clock may also be a reason morning exercise could help with weight loss.
    Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • According to a study published December 15 in the journal Cell Host & Microbe, plants use a stealth molecular weapon to attack the cells of gray mold.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 Dec. 2023
  • But molecular motion is quite slow compared with the motion of electrons, explains Weiss.
    IEEE Spectrum, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The study looked at the functions of the gene at a molecular level, one of the first steps in translating the unique biology to something useful for drug discovery.
    Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 9 June 2023
  • But the old view of bilirubin as molecular trash is still holding back research on how to take advantage of its salutary effects, Stec says.
    Bymitch Leslie, science.org, 8 June 2023
  • That lone gene simply can’t produce enough protein to serve its molecular purpose.
    Elie Dolgin, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2023
  • The photo depicts the Barnard 150 dark nebula—dark in the sense that the thick molecular clouds of this nebula obscure light coming from beyond it toward Earth.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 15 Nov. 2023
  • This molecular cloud is so cold and dark that various molecules have frozen onto grains of dust inside.
    Bymary Kekatos, ABC News, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Here on Earth, capturing this tiny tunneling rate for the first time shows that physicists are on the right track with their quantum molecular theories.
    Elise Cutts, Scientific American, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Our favorite special touch for the anniversary car comes in the form of the molecular cloth seats, which VW says are unique for each of the 1984 vehicles being produced—like a snowflake or fingerprint.
    Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 24 July 2023
  • By feeding the stem cells a specific molecular cocktail, the team coaxed them into intestinal cells.
    WIRED, 2 Feb. 2023
  • However, what really makes a product great starts at a molecular level, which urges us to look at the formula.
    Alyssa Brascia, Peoplemag, 21 Aug. 2023
  • That insight directed attention to the place where chromosomes 9 and 22 joined up, revealing the molecular source of the problem.
    WIRED, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Gallone cautions, for example, that the molecular clock date is a rough estimate.
    Byann Gibbons, science.org, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Now, with the help of the marine bristle worm Platynereis dumerilii, researchers have begun to tease out the molecular mechanism by which myriad sea species may pay attention to the cycle of the moon.
    Virat Markandeya, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Some of the therapies are understanding the molecular activity, what genes got messed up in these cancers, or what's going on at the level of the tumor.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Scotland time, at which point the curator of the site there in Edinburgh, a professor of molecular evolution named Andrew Rambaut, was alert and ready to speed things along.
    David Quammen, New York Times, 25 July 2023
  • Darker spots in the image are dense with the building blocks of stars, while jets of molecular hydrogen are seen shooting in opposite directions colored in red.
    oregonlive, 13 July 2023
  • The researchers then started identifying the microbes in the samples, using molecular tools to spot their telltale marker genes.
    Saugat Bolakhe, Quanta Magazine, 17 July 2023

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