The fat was stored outside the cell walls, making it easier to extract without first killing the algae.
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The process involves the cell walls of MRSA, which contain special molecules that bind to certain receptors found on T-cells.
What is unusual about Physisporinus and Xylaria is that they gradually degrade the cell walls of the wood they infect thinning them rather than destroying them completely.
Unlike traditional antibiotics, which must get through the cell walls or membranes of the germs, these compounds poke holes in the outside of the bacteria, killing them.
Another restraint on producing large quantities of algae is that its cell walls are difficult to break, making extraction of the oil inside an energy intensive process.
One intriguing finding, when comparing the limited set of data on prisoners with people from similar racial and economic groups outside cell walls, is that the prisoners appear to be healthier.
Scientists divide bacteria into so-called "gram positive" varieties like Strep, which lack rigid cell walls and can be stained with dye, and "gram negative" ones that have cell walls and aren't dyeable.
Zhang lead a Virginia Tech team that developed a way to produce large quantities of hydrogen from xylose, an abundant simple sugar that makes up 30 percent of the cell walls of plants.
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For example, the distance between the centers of two black holes in galaxy clusters distant from each other and the gap between cell walls in a living organism differ on a vast scale, despite their sharing of common structures at the atomic level.
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New technologies mostly start off as closed systems, because they can evolve more rapidly that way (think cell walls.) But once a technology becomes universally available the dynamic shifts, and open standards allow the growth to be consolidated with other, often competing, technologies.
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Once these polymers come into contact with water in or on the body, they self assemble into a new polymer structure that is designed to target bacteria membranes based on electrostatic interaction and break through their cell membranes and walls.
He did this so many times that the walls of his cell were black with soot.
Moving his art from drawings on the walls of his cell, the untrained Noguera manifested his cell wall creations to canvas.
He said that the policemen had splashed soapy water on the floor and walls of the cell, as they usually did, and that the old man, who had not bathed in a week, had yanked his shirt off and rubbed his frail back against the wet floor.
For these kids, suffering from diseases such as hemophilia, sickle cell anemia and cancer, it is a chance to see past the walls of the hospital to what the world might be like if a diagnosis didn't control their every move, if clinics and hospital rooms weren't like second homes.
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