Sentence examples for becoming functional from inspiring English sources

Dermitzakis et al. (2003) noted that CRMs have short words that are close to becoming functional sites, and thus have the potential to quickly gain new function.

We detected core peptides from human laminin that are involved in adhesion and spreading, which are the first steps of various cells including osteogenic cells, in becoming functional.

"We think this opens new possibilities in regenerative medicine...One possible advantage over other stem cell techniques is that the cells are already there in the right place with the possibility of becoming functional cells - with no need for grafts," said Manuel Serrano of the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre in Madrid.

Early stage embryos have specialized teeth for opening the capsules, while later-stage embryos have their teeth hidden and swallow the capsules whole, their teeth not becoming functional again until just after birth.

Newly formed tracheal tubes have a narrow lumen diameter that must expand several-fold before becoming functional.

When the fetal thyroid is just becoming functional, its iodine intake is maximal.

The presence of a promoter (if functional) could promote transcription of regions carried in proximity, which is the first step toward becoming a functional gene.

Bess fantasized becoming a functional hermaphrodite and, in the mid-nineteen-fifties, fortified with liquor, performed surgery on himself to achieve the condition.

Instead, the risk is that Microsoft is becoming the functional equivalent of an old-style utility, with extensive government regulation that could even extend into determining what products it sells and at what prices.

The country needs grants, not more debt.The progress from being a fragile state to becoming a functional one is inevitably slow.

Oberon said she was spoiling him, that she had ruined him and that he had no hope of ever becoming a functional changeling, and in a fit of enthusiastic discipline he scolded the boy and ordered him to pick up some toys he had left scattered in the hall, and threatened to feed him to a bear if he did not.