All have one thing in common: they are built on a basis of carbon atoms, which are also the indispensable building blocks of life, and thus both groups are classed as "organic".
With either nanobiotechnology or bionanotechnology, biological molecules are indispensable building blocks for fabricating functional nanomaterials, nanodevices and nanosystems.
Having survived billions of years of evolution on Earth, ribose has been considered to be one of the indispensable building blocks of contemporary life [1].
"Heritage is our 'cultural DNA': material objects (artworks, monuments) and immaterial forms of heritage (values, ideas) are the essential building blocks of local, national, or transnational identities and indispensable for preparing individuals and societies for an uncertain future," she says.
Seemingly overnight, California has become for Democrats what the South once was in national elections -- their indispensable electoral building block.
The premise is not that meat provided some indispensable nutritional building block but rather that, as a limited commodity, it exerted a civilizing influence, giving rise to ingenuity (and, one imagines, politics) as people learned to barter and share.
In the Harvard Business Review article that I coauthored in 2011, "Making Yourself Indispensable," we found that most leadership characteristics have between 8-12 complementary behaviors that serve as a sort of building block for a given area of strength.
Soria is a vital building block.
