Sentence examples for structure scientists from inspiring English sources

To probe small bones for the secrets of their structure, scientists used to labor over photographs with rulers.

By studying the cognitive, behavioral, or emotional deficits that occur after an injury to a specific neural structure, scientists can deduce something about that structure's typical role in the brain.

Although Chaser was able to understand some basic syntax-like structure, scientists working with dolphins have succeeded in combining up to five words in one sentence containing complex concepts like "through" or "imitate".

The shape of the Milky Way galaxy, our solar system's home, may look a bit like a snail, but spiral galaxies haven't always had this structure, scientists say.

Because so much is known about the poliovirus and because it has a very simple structure, scientists continue to use the poliovirus as a model to study virus behavior.

But now, by comparing organisms' genetic material and microscopic internal structures, scientists are drawing the tree all over again.

Often the very process of preparing the molecule for study destroys the structures scientists most wish to see.

During the determination of macromolecular structures, scientists routinely use complex graphics software to display various representations of the molecule of interest.

To find the structures, scientists must track flow, not by watching it go by but from the perspective of the droplets of water or molecules of air moving in it.

Because MRI is so good at creating 3-D images of internal structures, scientists would like to harness it for imaging much smaller biological samples, such as individual proteins.

Since DNA can polymerize -- linking many molecules together into larger structures -- scientists have been using it as a nanoscale building material, constructing geometric shapes and even working mechanical devices.