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  • There are ways to tell with absolute certainty whether someone is having a heart attack, but those involve tests of particular enzymes that can take hours for results.†   (source)
  • It was routine to check liver enzymes two weeks after starting treatment so the drug could be discontinued if there was any sign of liver damage.†   (source)
  • Perhaps an enzyme imbalance.†   (source)
  • "Fascinating," said the woman, "to think that it possesses some process or enzyme that can convert common metals into something extraordinary.†   (source)
  • Disturbs the gastric enzymes and leads to ulcers, the occupational disease of the underground.†   (source)
  • There is a purity within her, a careful enzymatic balance she does not wish to disturb.†   (source)
  • I will have a positive attitude, take care of myself, I'll feed myself enzymes, and friendly bacteria.†   (source)
  • His ability, for example, to switch from enzymes to Quality Lit.†   (source)
  • It'll cut the DNA, using what are called restriction enzymes.   (source)
  • Each enzyme was like a single worker in a kitchen, doing just one thing.   (source)
    enzyme = a complex protein that is produced by cells and acts as a chemical catalyst (causing a chemical reaction)
  • Because this enzyme was a marker for genetic engineering, and not found in wild animals, technicians assumed it was a lab contaminant and did not report it when they called Dr. Cruz, the referring physician in Puntarenas.   (source)
    enzyme = complex protein that cause a chemical reaction
  • Complex flavors are being made through fermentation, enzyme reactions, fungal cultures, and tissue cultures.   (source)
  • I inserted a gene that makes a single faulty enzyme in protein metabolism.†   (source)
    enzyme = substance that causes a chemical reaction
  • As you can see in line 1201, two enzymes will cut on either side of the damaged point.†   (source)
    enzymes = substances that causes a chemical reaction
  • Here is the same section of DNA, with the points of the restriction enzymes located.†   (source)
  • Restriction Enzyme Sequence Alignment†   (source)
    enzyme = substance that causes a chemical reaction
  • This amount of DNA probably contains instructions to make a single protein—say, a hormone or an enzyme.†   (source)
  • Whatever problems might arise in the DNA were essentially point-problems in the code, causing a specific problem in the phenotype: an enzyme that didn't switch on, or a protein that didn't fold.†   (source)
  • You couldn't really predict behavior, and you couldn't really control it, except in very crude ways, like making an animal dependent on a dietary substance by withholding an enzyme.†   (source)
  • A single microscopic bacterium, too small to see with the naked eye, but containing the genes for a heart-attack enzyme, streptokinase, or for "ice-minus," which prevented frost damage to crops, might be worth five billion dollars to the right buyer.†   (source)
  • The dark bars you see are restriction fragments—small sections of dinosaur DNA, broken by enzymes and then analyzed.†   (source)
    enzymes = substances that causes a chemical reaction
  • After that, Hammond had agreed to study dilophosaur venom, which was found to contain seven different toxic enzymes.†   (source)
  • Chang had used those cells to discover enzymes and genes specific to liver cells.†   (source)
  • Which means that it has no proteins as we know them, and no enzymes.†   (source)
  • Cells could keep the hundreds of separate reactions straight, using enzymes.†   (source)
  • Enzymes were essential to life on earth.†   (source)
  • Without enzymes, there could be no chemical reactions.†   (source)
  • We busted that serum enzyme problem wide open!'†   (source)
  • The problem I was telling you about having to do with serum enzymes?†   (source)
  • After weeks of trying different combinations of enzymes, Hilton came up with just the right combination for us.†   (source)
  • They recycle organic matter with powerful enzymes that can break down organic molecules into simple molecules and minerals.†   (source)
  • By the early nineties, a scientist at Yale had used HeLa to discover that human cancer cells contain an enzyme called telomerase that rebuilds their telomeres.†   (source)
  • If a chromosome disappeared and production of a certain enzyme stopped, researchers knew the gene for that enzyme must be on the most recently vanished chromosome.†   (source)
  • It's crammed full of molecules and vessels endlessly shuttling enzymes and sugars from one part of the cell to another, pumping water, nutrients, and oxygen in and out of the cell.†   (source)
  • The other unusual thing scientists had noticed about cells growing in culture was that once they transformed and became cancerous, they all behaved alike—dividing identically and producing exactly the same proteins and enzymes, even though they'd all produced different ones before becoming malignant.†   (source)
  • And it could do it many different ways: strep produced an enzyme, streptokinase, that dissolved coagulated plasma.†   (source)
  • He remembered that it operated like a kind of waterfall: one enzyme was set off, and activated, which acted on a second enzyme, which acted on a third; the third on a fourth; and so on, down through twelve or thirteen steps, until finally blood clotted.†   (source)
  • On earth, organisms had evolved by learning to carry out biochemical reactions in a small space, with the help of protein enzymes.†   (source)
  • It was almost impossible: on earth, proteins were part of the cell wall, and comprised all the enzymes known to man.†   (source)
  • Enzymes, the matchmakers of life, helped chemical reactions to go forward at body temperature and atmospheric pressure.†   (source)
  • And vaguely he remembered the rest, the details: all the intermediate steps, the necessary enzymes, the metals, ions, local factors.†   (source)
  • His own research with staphylococcus, for example, had shown that this organism produced two enzymes that altered blood.†   (source)
  • He recalled the remark of George Thompson, the British biochemist, who had called enzymes "the matchmakers of life."†   (source)
  • It was true; enzymes acted as catalysts for all chemical reactions, by providing a surface for two molecules to come together and react upon.†   (source)
  • There were hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of enzymes, each existing solely to aid a single chemical reaction.†   (source)
  • But enzymes had a further use.†   (source)
  • And life without enzymes?†   (source)
  • MEDCOM PROGRAM LAB/ANALYS CK/JGG/1223098 i BLOOD PROTEIN COUNTSRBC RETIC ALB PLATES GLOB WBC FIBRIN DIFF TOTAL HEMATOCRIT FRACTION HEMOGLOBIN INDICES MCV DIAGNOSTICS MCHC PROTIME CHOLEST PTT CREAT SED RATE GLUCOSE PBI CHEMISTRY BEI i BRO I IBC CA NPN CL BUN MG BILIRU, DIFF P04 CEPH/FLOC K THYMOL/TURB NA C02 BSP 188 MICHAEL CRICHTON ENZYMES PULMONARY AMYLASE TVC CHOLINESTERASE TV LIPASE IC PHOSPHATASE, ACID IRV ALKALINE ERV LDH MBC SGOT SGPT URINE STEROIDS SPGR ALDO PH L7-OH PROT 17-KS GLUC ACTH KETONE ALL ELECTROLYTES VITS ALL STEROIDS A ALL INORGANICS ALLB CATECHOLS C PORPHYRINS E UROBIL K 5-HIAA Hall stared at the list.†   (source)
  • It's a controlled belch, with a hypergolic effect from an enzyme secreted between the first and second rows of teeth.†   (source)
  • Although he had told me in large (though generally impenetrable) detail about the technical nature of his research (enzymes, ion transference, permeable membranes, etc., also the fetus of that miserable rabbit), he had never divulged to me—nor had I out of reticence asked—anything concerning the ultimate justification for this complex and, beyond doubt, profoundly challenging biological enterprise.†   (source)
  • He had attempted to describe his experiment to me in detail—it had to do with amniotic fluid and the fetus of a rabbit, including weird stuff about enzymes and ion transference—but he had given up on me with an understanding laugh when, having taken me beyond my depth, he saw my look of pain and boredom.†   (source)
  • If it was an enzymatic block of some kind—like arsenic or strychnine—we'd expect fifteen or thirty seconds, perhaps longer.†   (source)
  • There ensued certain descriptions which I don't command the physical chemistry to repeat, the kinesis of enzymes and so forth.†   (source)
  • But what about Bordet's contention that it's an enzyme?†   (source)
  • Or maybe it's a chemical principle, an enzyme.†   (source)
  • Back in 1881 he was confirming Pasteur's results in chicken cholera immunity and, for relief and pastime, trying to separate an enzyme from yeast.†   (source)
  • He learned the involved mysteries of freezing-point determinations, osmotic pressure determinations, and tried to apply Northrop's generalizations on enzymes to the study of phage.†   (source)
  • William T. Smith, assistant in bio-chemistry—the possibility of increasing the effects of all enzymes by doses of X-rays, as he heard one associate-member vituperate another for his notions of cell-chemistry and denounce Ehrlich as "the Edison of medical science," Martin perceived new avenues of exciting research; he stood on a mountain, and unknown valleys, craggy tantalizing paths, were open to his feet.†   (source)
  • His article attacks Tanida's theory of enzyme fusion—   (source)
    enzyme = complex protein that cause a chemical reaction
  • Because it's there, the true key—the right enzyme—can't even enter the lock.   (source)
  • And, of course, newly produced amino acids compete with the normal enzymes causing brain damage.   (source)
    enzymes = complex proteins that cause chemical reactions
  • I call it competitive inhibition of enzymes.   (source)
  • Think of the enzyme produced by the defective gene as a wrong key which fits into the chemical lock of the central nervous system—but won't turn.   (source)
    enzyme = a protein that causes a chemical reaction
  • But Tanida himself first propounded the theory of blocking the maverick enzyme through combination, and now he points out that—   (source)
    enzyme = complex protein that cause a chemical reaction
  • It is my own feeling that the most successful line of research will be that taken by the men studying enzyme imbalances.   (source)
    enzyme = any complex protein that causes a chemical reaction
  • —the concept of changing the chemical structure of the enzyme blocking the step in the metabolic pathway.   (source)
    enzyme = complex protein that cause a chemical reaction
  • He explained the enzyme-block theory and went on to describe my physical condition before and after surgery.   (source)
  • Then Strauss said that the project had as much to do with his techniques in psychosurgery and enzyme-injection patterns, as with Nemur's theories, and that someday thousands of neurosurgeons all over the world would be using his methods, but at this point Nemur reminded him that those new techniques would never have come about if not for his original theory.   (source)
    enzyme = complex proteins that cause chemical reactions
  • We don't know exactly what causes the type of phenylketonuria that Charlie was suffering from as a child—some unusual biochemical or genetic situation, possibly ionizing radiation or natural radiation or even a virus attack on the fetus—whatever it was resulted in a defective gene which produces a, shall we say, 'maverick enzyme' that creates defective biochemical reactions.   (source)
    enzyme = complex protein that causes a chemical reaction
  • Many researchers have been able to reverse the process through injections of chemicals which combine with the defective enzymes, changing the molecular shape of the interfering key, as it were.   (source)
    enzymes = complex proteins that cause chemical reactions
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