Sentence examples for and so impede from inspiring English sources

Moreover, PDMS-based microfluidic devices are known to absorb small hydrophilic molecules and so impede reliable drug transfer studies37,38,39.

There was some concern that the banks would take steps to fill the shortfalls identified by the European Banking Authority by reducing their lending, and so impede any European recovery.

But, in an interesting illustration of how modern campaigns by activists against companies can gather momentum, the top-tier companies now complain that lesser ones get away with poor labour practices, and so impede progress in the whole sector.

Interaction between COL2 and LUM can diminish the ability of MMP13 to cleave COL2 [ 42] and so impede collagenolysis, thus the increased expression of LUM observed in cartilage may be a protective mechanism to prevent the degradative process.

It is postulated that secretion of considerable amounts of SDF-1, in an autocrine manner by cycling post-natal HSCs, might interfere with HSC ability to respond to a chemotactic SDF-1 gradient, and so impede their trans-marrow trafficking, lodgment and retention in BM niches [ 42].

Migration limits the genetic divergence of populations and so impedes the process of speciation.

This result is intuitively explained by the authors as follows: Too strong diffusion diminishes the stochasticity of dynamics and so impedes the transition, whereas too weak diffusion prevents replicators from encountering each other and, thus, from catalyzing each other's replication.

"Impede" is a transitive verb, so "impede on" is not correct.

The lack of large-scale presurgical fMRI studies is apparent and so far impeded further clinical implementation of this technique within the diagnostic setting prior to neurosurgery [ 12].

The upper stream of the Hongshui, however, is so impeded by rapids and deep gorges that it is virtually unnavigable.

If interstate commerce should be so impeded, Congress might—under its commerce power—find it 'necessary and proper' to condemn all state taxes on gross receipts, in order to 'carry into execution' its granted power to regulate and protect interstate commerce.