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Penicillin and similar compounds quickly transformed the treatment of infections.
In the case of penicillin, some bacteria produce compounds that can break down the key structure that interferes with cell wall synthesis.
The chemistry from compounds in the environment is orders of magnitude more complex than our best chemists can produce.
Importantly, the same technology can be used to search for antiviral compounds that could help us fight the current pandemic.
These data will be use to train a machine learning model that will be applied to an in silico library of over a billion molecules to search for potential novel antiviral compounds.
In this pilot project, we first tested roughly 2,500 compounds against E. coli.
This is a fascinating research from WHO that shows the effect of generic drugs on anti-retroviral drug compounds and cocktails.
We're looking at a lot of compounds, but recently been quite interested in the flame retardants, the brominated flame retardants that are in many, many things that we use in our everyday life, from the cushions in the chairs we're all sitting on to the plastic casings of our computers, our television sets and so on.
Well, we detected 113 different compounds in my blood.
So what we're doing, we're putting compounds with petroleum solvents onto a petroleum spill.
Oil contains hundreds of hydrocarbon compounds and other compounds that are toxic to every organ in the body.
Corexit also contains petroleum solvents and many other toxic compounds.
Derivatives, derivatives, these are whole big groups of many, many compounds, these sorbitans.
Think about it with the Corexit hitting the membranes, and it will clog up the gills, and then these animals are going to be getting something like what you call chemical pneumonia, trying to aspirate the compounds.
What if it involves some cool, ultra-stable compounds that we could use to increase the shelf life in biomedical or industrial applications?
These two compounds are mixed and dissolved to become an ink.
Ridiculous fluff, that compounds its error by trying to have meaning.
Before Lacey can do anything his guest dies, he rings his parole officer looking for help, but before he can do the right thing, the belligerent toothpick chewing Sims arrives at his door determined to pin the crime on him, the dead body only compounds Lacey's fate.
His look compounds these drawbacks with its strangeness - it somehow seems all wrong; his body is to wiry for his head and shoulders, his head is reptilian and bug-eyed.
In "Assassination Tango" he not only repeats all his earlier mistakes, but adds to and compounds them in the process.
Poor quality and poor story only compounds the fact that it is a total lie.
Cargill’s new product is an example of synthetic biology, a form of genetic engineering that uses modified organisms to manufacture compounds that would never be produced naturally.
And yet there is one area in which the dangers are already apparent: the economic damage that will be caused as lab-grown compounds replace field-grown stevia.
But the people who truly “love China” are more likely to be found in the streets of Hong Kong than in the closed government compounds of Beijing.
Throughout our lives, we are exposed to a complex mixture of food compounds.
Many compounds, seemingly unimportant in the past, are now recognized as influencing our health.
It consists of two strings – formed from phosphate and sugar – along which four unique chemical compounds (DNA bases) are attached.
Konzo occurs when cassava tubers are not properly prepared before consumption, which usually requires soaking them until they ferment and then drying them in the sun to allow for the breakdown of cyanogenic compounds.
Thus, the neurocognitive effects documented for non-konzo children in konzo-affected households and communities make it all the more important to ensure food safety in regions dependent on bitter varieties of cassava with high levels of cyanogenic compounds.
There are also health concerns over the potential leaching of chemical compounds from PET bottles, as well as from the large reusable polycarbonate containers in which bottlers deliver water to homes and offices.
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