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And along with that, some acetic acid.
A virus is a string of nucleic acid with attitude.
She took the bone, and she dumped it into acid.
Now we all know that bones are fossilized, and so if you dump it into acid, there shouldn't be anything left.
You don't have to heat them up as hot as you would something you do pressure canning because bacterial spores can't grow in the acid.
I heard about women being molested in their beds, flogged in their burqas, left for dead in parking lots, acid burned in their kitchens.
We want to talk about storing energy, and unfortunately the best thing we've got going is something that was developed in France a hundred and fifty years ago, the lead acid battery.
This includes arson, urban sprawl, acid rain, not to mention terrorism and wars.
What silk biologists do is we try to relate these sequences, these amino acid sequences, to the mechanical properties of the silk fibers.
Perflourooctanoic acid.
Our instrument took this image of the veil of Venus, which turned out to be a smog of sulfuric acid.
The vitamin A that we ingest is converted by a family of enzymes to something called retinoic acid.
The blockade of this enzyme should deprive the testes of retinoic acid and stop sperm production without affecting vitamin A's functions elsewhere in the body.
The reality is, there's the Woolworth Building in a veil of smoke from the site, but it's now like a scrim across a theater, and it's turning pink, you know, and down below there are hoses spraying, and the lights have come on for the evening, and the water is turning acid green because the sodium lamps are on, and I'm thinking, "My God, who could dream this up?"
This is the amino acid tryptophan.
The way this showed up in the textbook, it looked like this: "Bacteriophage replication is initiated through the introduction of viral nucleic acid into a bacterium."
Even harder was getting paint to stick to the acid in a grapefruit.
Another theory is they are acid junkies and potheads, right?
This is a sea dragon, and the one on the bottom, the blue one, is a juvenile that has not yet swallowed the acid, has not yet taken in the brown-green algae pond scum into its body to give it energy.
But the acid test is always going to be, how would sharks really behave in the context of these patterns and shapes.
In particular, there's a medication, valproic acid, which mothers with epilepsy sometimes take, we know can increase that risk of autism.
In rural areas in India, if anything is to go by the recent gang rapes in Badaun and acid attacks in Odisha and Aligarh are supposed to go by, we need to act really soon.
Where's the cure for acid reflux?
I was with women in Pakistan who have had their faces melted off with acid.
So in the blind and deaf world of the tick, the important signals are temperature and butyric acid; in the world of the black ghost knifefish, its sensory world is lavishly colored by electrical fields; and for the echolocating bat, its reality is constructed out of air compression waves.
But within every one of these proteins, there's a new amino acid that natural life can't build proteins with.
When cells are damaged, they release a chemical called arachidonic acid.
And two enzymes called COX-1 and COX-2 convert this arachidonic acid into prostaglandin H2, which is then converted into a bunch of other chemicals that do a bunch of things, including raise your body temperature, cause inflammation and lower the pain threshold.
The active sites of COX-1 and COX-2 fit arachidonic acid very cozily.
It enters the active site and then breaks off, leaving half of itself in there, totally blocking that channel and making it impossible for the arachidonic acid to fit.
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