Sentence examples for render inactive from inspiring English sources

Their hope was that one of the mutations would render inactive the gene that makes the unknown receptor.

The spacecraft has landed on the comet and been rendered inactive.

'Caged' compounds are biological molecules that are rendered inactive by a protecting (cage) group.

This enzyme is rendered inactive in individuals who have alkaptonuria, owing to mutation of the enzyme's gene HGD.

Antihistamines are readily absorbed from the alimentary tract, and most are rendered inactive by monoamine oxidase enzymes in the liver.

During antibiotic challenge, these rare, phenotypic variants enter a dormant state where antibiotic primary targets are rendered inactive, allowing them to survive.

It is not just Bin Laden who has been killed or rendered inactive, but pretty much everyone else in the senior and middle ranks of the organisation.

An interesting feature of the genome is that 150 of its genes have been rendered inactive by natural mutation, a process that affects any gene that the organism no longer needs.

Parker said that he had gained his weight not from eating too much apple pie - "I don't even like sweets, I eat mostly seafood" - but from having been rendered inactive due to the knee injury incurred while playing.

There are hereditary mechanisms whereby once a portion of DNA is rendered inactive in a cell it remains inactive in all of that cell's descendents.

In this situation, the catalyst is rendered inactive and low quality nanotubes are produced, as detected for samples prepared with 0.3 g ferrocene.