How to Use biochemical in a Sentence
biochemical
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Speaking of the biochemical elements of the brain, there are plenty of research studies that have sought to discover how thinking impacts the internal chemistry of the brain.
— Lance Eliot, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024 -
Will the study of moondust give us clues to the biochemical origin of life?
— Dan Q. Posin, Popular Mechanics, 11 Mar. 2021 -
Or simply whether it can be shown to be involved in some biochemical process in the cell?
— Philip Ball, Scientific American, 14 May 2024 -
While with Walsh, Schultz and colleagues put their biochemical skills to work by brewing beer in the lab.
— Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 May 2017 -
That has to do with the biochemical change in the receptor itself.
— Lynne Terry, OregonLive.com, 11 Dec. 2017 -
Karikó and Weissman—the toast of the biochemical and medical fields!
— Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 2 Nov. 2021 -
A biochemical reaction is taking place and the flesh is melting off the bones.
— Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 16 Aug. 2017 -
When the heart stops beating, blood flow is cut off from the body in a process called ischemia and a cascade of biochemical effects begins.
— Evan Bush, NBC News, 3 Aug. 2022 -
Research has shown that naming your fear helps to decrease biochemical markers of fear in the brain.
— Anchorage Daily News, 19 May 2020 -
This leads to complex biochemical events that turn on genes, which may result in poor health outcomes.
— April Thames, The Conversation, 17 Oct. 2019 -
Saturated fat is bad, and the key to why is found in its biochemical structure.
— Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 24 Mar. 2022 -
The plan was to pursue a career in biochemical research.
— San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2022 -
And for writers, there might even be a fragile biochemical moment when the drinking helps.
— James Parker, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2020 -
If the brain and the rest of the body are chilled, however, biochemical reactions are slowed, and the body can go for longer periods of time without oxygen.
— Claire Bugos, Smithsonian, 23 Nov. 2019 -
Humans can improve on this biochemical process to help the planet.
— Big Think, 24 June 2024 -
The biochemical change may very well add calm to the drum of our heart, some research suggests -- translated as a sense of well-being soothing brain and emotions.
— cleveland, 21 Nov. 2022 -
The same [conflicts] are present in biochemical knowledge.
— Casey Ross, STAT, 18 May 2018 -
The virus was obviously a new biochemical weapon, the guard reasoned.
— Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020 -
Scientists are still not sure what drives this daily rhythm, but a biochemical clock synced to the sun is one of the primary hypotheses.
— Ferris Jabr, Smithsonian, 22 June 2017 -
To solve the plant mystery, the study authors studied the biochemical reactions that take place in a variety of pink roses called Old Blush.
— Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Popular Science, 3 May 2023 -
The classic flame graphic with ends curled up like a biochemical hazard symbol came licking down the men’s runway for Fall 2018.
— Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 31 Jan. 2018 -
Scientists still don’t even know the full biochemical pathway that cochineal insects use to make the compound, Frandsen says.
— Brittany J. Miller, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2022 -
Paraglide into a Czechoslovakian river in order to redirect a biochemical weapon and save the world?
— Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 11 Aug. 2022 -
But there are difficulties in getting some of the biochemical agents into a form stable enough to make it through the digestive tract and throughout the body.
— Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2021 -
Future interests are to study the biochemical relationship to the structure of the brain.
— Staff Report, Houston Chronicle, 29 May 2018 -
The new methods use biometrics to analyze biochemical traces in sweat found along the ridges of a fingerprint.
— Rod McCullom, The Atlantic, 13 Apr. 2018 -
Certain structural and biochemical changes that take place in the brain after an injury like a stroke may also play a role in post-stroke depression.
— Julia Ries, Health, 17 Feb. 2023 -
And Smith discovered that a certain biochemical profile of skull-collecting F. archboldi was a close match to that of the Odontomachus found at the same site.
— Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2022 -
Light bulbs are stealing the night, with costs to our ecosystems, energy sources, and even our internal biochemical rhythms.
— George Stone, National Geographic, 5 Nov. 2019 -
By offering a new source of biochemical defense against stressors, this protein could be the difference between life and death for anemones in a changing ocean.
— Jules Jacobs, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Aug. 2024
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