The ions, having lost their stabilizing electron, go off looking for electrons to steal from other molecules.
While Schwab kept looking for his protein, researchers identified other molecules that held up nerve growth.
Scientists have long known that proteins and other molecules in the body don't act alone.
Also, a gas molecule does not care what other molecules far away from it are doing.
This film holds the atoms together too tightly for them to react with other molecules.
More specialised cells use dopamine, serotonin, acetylcholine and a variety of other molecules.
In this phase mast cells - which are responsible for causing allergies - release histamine and other molecules such as chemokines.
Other molecules that react with light then attach to the phospholipids and, with a little illumination, start firing out electrons like mad.
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Similarly, the molecules for water resistance can be more expensive than some other molecules, but it costs less than premier chemicals like Gore-Tex.
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Stephen Wilson, a chemist at New York University, discovered that the surface of the fullerene molecule could be used as a scaffold to support other molecules.
From their barrel-like structure, it is tempting to think that vaults could serve as containers for other molecules opening up into flowers when their cargoes need to be released.
Fattom figured the same process would work on other elusive molecules, and he set his sights on nicotine.
Recently, the Mars rover Curiosity took its first whiff of the Martian air, but found no sign of methane or other organic molecules.
The odd thing about prion diseases is that the misfolded protein in question somehow acts as a catalyst for other protein molecules of the same type to misfold in the same way.
If you try to cram a lot of electrons into the same place they want to repel each other, unlike say oil molecules, which attract each other.
HINT, crops up in 11 different genes for receptor proteins that sit on a cell's surface waiting for messenger molecules from other cells.
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One of the ways functional genomics works is to use models to identify proteins or small molecules that interact with other proteins.
Electrons, like that imaginary tennis ball, can simply jump (or tunnel) from one place to another, and molecules can attract each other at moderate distances.
At body temperature, the polymer-water bonds weaken, and the polymer molecules prefer to bond with each other.
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The dust is formed when suitable molecules cool and combine with each other.
The other is a way to top up the healing molecules once some of them have been used.
Air Products makes roughly 80% of its molecules from scratch, while Praxair and other marketers simply package and resell.
Not only does a tiny test tube require far less fluid, it can also speed reactions, because all the molecules are so much closer to each other.
This is something that is hard to do with conventional shots, since different vaccine molecules will react together unless insulated from one other.
And going through the hyper-rational process fits in well with other cultural artifacts of medicine like memorizing a thousand carbon molecules to pass organic chemistry or spending six months studying for the MCATs.
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Such thinking permits the design of drug molecules to treat complex human diseases or to modify other difficult biological disorders.
Although the fibre in question could not conduct electricity, the same technique should work with conductive molecules, which could serve as minute diodes and other circuit components.
With the habitability issue out of the way, Curiosity has yet to explore the question of organic molecules, which could indicate life but could also come from other sources.
Fortunately for the future of the battery, it turns out its color molecules are also carriers of carbonyl and hydroxyl groups that make it ripe for use as an electrode and that purpurin is far easier to process than other organic materials: "These aromatic systems are electron-rich molecules that easily coordinate with lithium, " said CCNY Professor George John.
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