Sentence examples for devoid of machinery from inspiring English sources

This happens in cavernous chambers devoid of machinery, where windows are opened or shut depending on winds and humidity.

They were not due to return from holiday until next week but got wind of the covert operation in mid-August and turned up at the Firem factory in the town of Formigine to find the place devoid of machinery.

This concept is almost certainly incorrect, because viruses are completely devoid of the machinery for life processes; therefore, they could not have survived in the absence of cells.

While it's generally accepted that thrill machines are subject to the laws of physics, filmmaker Fernando Livschitz of Black Sheep Films imagines a supernatural amusement park devoid of the machinery necessary to make the rides actually operate.

Despite their length, axons are devoid of the machinery for biosynthetic processes, and all axonal components are synthesised in the cell body, translocated from the cell body into the axonal process, and then transported to their final destination within the axon [ 46].

For instance, a strain devoid of the apoptotic machinery or overexpressing superoxide dismutase (and therefore with diminished levels of superoxide) shows an initial advantage in a direct over-time competition assay with a wild type strain; however, it gets finally outcompeted by the wild type strain because it accumulates damaged or unfit cells [ 17, 18].

Such reduced eukaryotes could hold important information about intron and spliceosome evolution as they harbor so few spliceosomal introns (less than 40), and some microsporidia are completely devoid of introns and splicing machinery [ 7, 8].

Thus, the stable formation of a transcriptionally inert nuclear compartment devoid of active marks and transcription machinery is a feature of XCI shared across all therian mammals.

During blood-stage infection, the parasite resides in a parasitophorous vacuole (PV) within the erythrocyte, a cell devoid of organelles, protein synthesis and trafficking machinery.

Thus, the inactive X chromosome in all therian mammals forms a transcriptionally inert nuclear compartment devoid of active histone marks and transcription machinery, and that this must be an ancestral epigenetic characteristic of the therian X inactivation system.

With the exception of the MPRs, ETCs are devoid of any of the cargo or machinery proteins found in the tubular sorting endosome.