How to Use molecular biology in a Sentence

molecular biology

noun
  • The technique has found broad use in molecular biology, and even in medicine.
    Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 4 Oct. 2017
  • What is more, the tools of molecular biology have moved out of the lab and into the clinic.
    The Economist, 16 Sep. 2017
  • Looming on the horizon, though, lay a challenge from the hot new field of molecular biology.
    BostonGlobe.com, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Most of the tools of molecular biology at the time did not work on glycans, so Bertozzi was seeking a way to probe their roles.
    Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Sun had already taken a leave from her work as a post-doctorate fellow in molecular biology.
    Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Sep. 2020
  • One is that the tools of molecular biology are becoming more and more powerful every year.
    Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Arakawa studies the molecular biology of tardigrades and had scraped the moss from his own apartment's parking lot in Tokyo.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Still, the way the study crosses from animal behavior to molecular biology is unique.
    Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Dec. 2020
  • Kindra Crick studied molecular biology and painting and brings both disciplines to bear in her art work.
    Amy Wang | The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 11 Jan. 2018
  • The central dogma in molecular biology is a very beautiful thing.
    Ingrid Wickelgren, Quanta Magazine, 5 Feb. 2025
  • This breakthrough also arrives in the time of an evolving central dogma of molecular biology.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • During that early era of molecular biology, people were identifying new genes and peptides all the time.
    Megan Molteni and Elaine Chen, STAT, 30 Sep. 2023
  • And advances in genetic testing and molecular biology are yielding new drugs at a remarkable pace.
    Emily Bobrow, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2018
  • In the years since these viruses first emerged as a severe global health threat, researchers have been studying their molecular biology in an effort to answer such questions.
    Simon Makin, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2020
  • His work with molecular biology and genomics at Reclamation could change how the agency manages mussels in the future.
    Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic, 25 Apr. 2022
  • In other words, the work is way over on the molecular biology end of things, bordering closely on regular biology.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 7 Oct. 2020
  • DeepMind trounced academic molecular biology labs that had been working on the protein-folding problem for a lot longer.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2020
  • Modern methods of molecular biology can detect changes in activity of all genes in the genome in response to a chemical insult.
    Alexander Suvorov, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Mythos can also produce novel research and hypotheses in areas like molecular biology and genomics.
    Rob Toews, Forbes.com, 22 June 2026
  • Surabhi is going to Yale University to study cell and molecular biology and plans to become a physician.
    Ana Goñi-Lessan, USA TODAY, 19 May 2022
  • Don’t use a seat in a classroom to support the sham notion that the newest millionaire QB has a keen interest in molecular biology.
    Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 22 July 2021
  • He was born in Morocco and holds a PhD in molecular biology and immunology.
    Riley Griffin, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2021
  • But advances in molecular biology have revealed that there is a specific set of genes responsible for the formation of a skeleton in echinoderms.
    Samuel Zamora, The Conversation, 24 May 2022
  • That groundbreaking discovery, published in the journal Nature, was a huge advancement in science that gave way to the field of molecular biology.
    Christina Zdanowicz, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The goal was to study preventive medicine, including diet and exercise, and conduct research in molecular biology to understand the causes of cell death.
    James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2020
  • Is the molecular biology correct?
    Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 4 June 2026
  • James Watson and Francis Crick’s discovery would change history and begin a new field of study called molecular biology.
    Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The research involves studying the molecular biology of water bears both for the short-term, such as water bears that live on the station for seven days to see their immediate adaptation, as well as long-term.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 May 2021
  • Into this scaffold, the research team introduced human cells that had been reprogrammed using molecular biology techniques into pluripotent stem cells.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 Nov. 2025
  • For the second year in a row, molecular biology major Walker Vickery spent his summer internship engaged in the care and feeding of nature’s most prolific killer.
    Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 5 Oct. 2017

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