Sentence examples for compound work from inspiring English sources

To make a compound work better against a specific disease target, medicinal chemists optimize the drug, tweaking its structure or physical properties to make it more effective and safer.

They developed a compound to block the protease, and analyzed the way the compound worked.

The experimental drug, called an "antisense" compound, works by canceling out the effects of certain genetic mutations.

Several experiments suggest the compound works like traditional superconductors like niobium and not like high-temperature superconductors, which still are not fully understood.

Then you have to recruit patients with antibiotic-resistant infections who are not too sick from something else, so you can prove the compound works.

Called SRT-2104, this compound works on an enzyme called SIRT1 that, when activated, seems to slow aging in mice and other animals.

Dr. de Cabo and his team "make a reasonable case" that the compound works by activating sirtuins, although they have not proved it, Dr. Vijg said.

Now that it has been isolated, scientists can try to determine how the compound works and how it might be beneficial to agriculture -- by speeding up the germination of certain weed species, for example, when preparing land for cultivation.

The compound works by blocking a faulty signal in brains affected by neurodegenerative diseases, which shuts down the production of essential proteins, leading to brain cells being unprotected and dying off.

Dark whispers swirled that thousands may have died, and that the outbreak really resulted from an accident at a local military compound working on biological weapons, in contravention of the USSR's international treaties.

Yet scientists know surprisingly little about how the compound works.