How to Use biochemical in a Sentence

biochemical

adjective
  • 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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