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And all of those compounds have evolved purely for one purpose: disable and, eventually, kill.
Just imagine what we could do if we could harvest all those super powerful compounds and use them to our benefit.
You see, venom is that kind of huge library of chemical compounds that are available to us, that are produced by hundreds of thousands of live creatures.
Spiders alone are actually thought to produce over 10 million different kinds of compounds with potential therapeutic application.
So that means that there is still 99.99 percent of all those compounds that are out there, completely unknown, and are just waiting to be harvested and tested, which is fantastic.
But now that my students and myself have started to look into it, I can tell you those guys actually are producing very, very interesting compounds.
We spend so many hours, so much resources, so much time trying to get those compounds ready, and then we test them.
Now, that little spider happens to produce amazingly powerful antimicrobial compounds.
Now, enzymes are simply compounds that exist in all living things.
And these organisms, because they're very separate from the surface, make a vast array of novel compounds.
Liquids such as water allow chemical compounds to remain in suspension instead of sinking under the force of gravity.
They have discovered pathways that create flavors, although it's very important to understand that those compounds that it's cranking out have to match a receptor in our genome, in our tongue, for us to understand and interpret those flavors.
It's very simple: we don't invent molecules, compounds.
And we found the malaria associated compounds were a group of compounds, mainly aldehydes, a group of compounds that smelled, that signified the malaria at signal here.
They take the sediment itself, they extract the oil from it, and from that they can produce compounds which turn out to be very specific to particular microbial groups.
Billions of years ago on the young planet Earth simple organic compounds assembled into more complex coalitions that could grow and reproduce.
Elements and compounds essential to life include hydrogen, methane, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, phosphates, and ammonia.
A hydrothermal vent is a fissure in the Earth’s crust where seawater seeps into magma chambers and is ejected back out at high temperatures, along with a rich slurry of minerals and simple chemical compounds.
It exudes [unclear]-like compounds from the roots.
This solution mixes with organic compounds and results in a kind of chemical factory, which researchers have shown can manufacture simple cellular structures that are the first steps toward life.
Now using this method with our malaria samples, we were able to find out what the mosquito was detecting, and we found the malaria-associated compounds, mainly aldehydes, a group of compounds that smelled, that signified the malaria signal here.
Enzymes can both activate drugs, by breaking them down into their therapeutic ingredients from more complex molecules, and deactivate them, by breaking harmful compounds down into harmless metabolites.
Researchers in the 1930s investigated this idea by injecting compounds derived from mustard gas into the veins of cancer patients.
Chemotherapy drugs are delivered through pills and injections and use "cytotoxic agents," which means compounds that are toxic to living cells.
Another form of chemotherapy involves compounds called microtubule stabilizers.
A powerhouse for synthesizing organic chemical compounds.
It's a bioreactor; a kind of microorganism brewery that contains yeasts that have been engineered to produce specific commodity chemicals and compounds like fragrances and flavors.
And we have found that the organic compounds coming from this moon are in fact more complex than we previously reported.
And that is a circumstance that could supply the chemical energy and the chemical compounds needed to sustain life.
Penicillin binds to one of the compounds that weaves this mesh together and prevents the wall from being reconstructed at a critical phase.
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