Most syntheses in organic chemistry target one molecule, or a few closely related analogues at most.
The meandering course of Darwinian evolution couldn't produce a microbe's flagellum, a DNA molecule, or a human eye, say ID's adherents.
You'll be able to turn a kid into a molecule — either a little alcohol molecule or a great big protein.
Evolutionary biologists sometimes anthropomorphize DNA for the same reason that science teachers find it useful to have their students imagine the world from the viewpoint of a molecule or a beam of light.
They are nanosized, nearly monodisperse macromolecules that include symmetrical branching units built around a small molecule or a linear polymer core.
Because this is about the same size as a protein molecule or a short sequence of DNA, quantum dots could be near-perfect beacons for lighting up biological events.
In the future, if a molecule or a drug makes it onto the market for one particular disease, then doctors can test it on their particular disease of expertise.
Most of these methods take advantage of the greatly enhanced electromagnetic field of surface plasmon waves to excite a chromophoric molecule for example, a Raman molecule or a fluorescent dye.
Photons have no mass, but they do have momentum, and transferring this momentum to an atom, a molecule, or a cell enables physicists to control the particle's movement, holding it absolutely still for observation, or pulling on it to monitor its response.
This is the slow-burn process that Martin's fellow anthropologist of science Paul Rabinow calls "observing observers observing". She wasn't there to muckrake but to grasp what happens when the object of laboratory study is not a molecule or a rat but a human being.
Because they are so tiny about the same size as a protein molecule or a short sequence of DNA they can be used as probes to track reactions in living cells.These tiny light tags are helping researchers in drug discovery, medical diagnostics and in the analysis of gene expression.
