Examples of biomolecule in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web 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 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 Minerals might have prodded life along by catalyzing reactions that produced biomolecules, for example. — Quanta Magazine, 11 Aug. 2015 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 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 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded jointly to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson for developing cryo-electron microscopy that can determine high-resolution structures of biomolecules in solution. — Steve Mirsky, Scientific American, 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 While researchers first developed the technique in the 1970s and 1980s, recent advances in computing power have transformed what was once 2D images into detailed 3D models of biomolecules, with increasingly fine resolution. — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 6 Apr. 2018 See More

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