How to Use biochemistry in a Sentence

biochemistry

noun
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  • Foli later moved to the U.S. to study biochemistry and food science.
    — Dallas News, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Brains, we were told, could be cured through the correction of biochemistry.
    — Scott Shannon, Wired, 18 May 2021
  • The company sent her to meet Mr. Free, who was setting up a biochemistry lab.
    — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 7 May 2021
  • Keyla holds a PhD in biochemistry and worked her way up the ladder at Procter & Gamble and e.l.f.
    — Jane Hanson, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Rajagopalan first came to the United States 20 years ago to get her doctorate in biochemistry.
    — Bridgette M. Redman, Chron, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Bile’s severe biochemistry can damage cells that haven’t evolved strategies to deal with it.
    — Benjamin Plackett, Discover Magazine, 14 June 2022
  • Ridgeway will major in biochemistry and be a walk-on for the Washington State football team.
    — oregonlive, 1 July 2021
  • Wright is planning to study biochemistry at Yale University in the fall.
    — Seamus Webster, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2022
  • So, the Cliff Notes version of all this fall color biochemistry is that yellows and oranges are there all summer and come to the forefront as the green pigments fade away.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 8 Oct. 2022
  • Then Saldaña, a chemist who holds his doctorate in the biochemistry of agave, ages his spirit for two years in bourbon barrels.
    — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Once inside the cell, the virus has to evade the cell’s immune defenses and then commandeer the appropriate parts of the host’s biochemistry to churn out new viruses.
    — Bob Holmes, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2020
  • All of this biochemistry is in service of a simple point, which is that there’s a big grey area between the extremes of being fully fueled and bonking.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The novel spans a single weekend in the life of Wallace, a Black and gay graduate student in a Midwestern biochemistry lab.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Diffusion is a slow process, and a bacterium the size of T. magnifica would need several hours to move stuff around, grinding its biochemistry to a halt.
    — Sumeet Kulkarni, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2022
  • Kopps has earned a degree in biochemistry and according to his bio plans to be an orthopedic surgeon.
    — Bob Holt, Arkansas Online, 12 July 2021
  • With a background in biochemistry, Briony Marshall knows all about molecules.
    — Eva Amsen, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Those years would bring more life changes, including a divorce, a return to academia, and a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from Lewis & Clark College.
    — oregonlive, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Morton is also going to school for biochemistry, so the flexible hours are important to him.
    — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 23 July 2021
  • The applications for these nanoparticles range from LED displays and solar cells to imaging in biochemistry and medicine.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Review the sources used below for this article: Essays in biochemistry.
    — Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024
  • As president of the Academic Senate and chair of the chemistry and biochemistry department, Gerber has the ear of professors.
    — Nanette Asimov, SFChronicle.com, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Troy said she’s headed to Loyola Maryland next year for college and majoring in biochemistry, but volleyball isn’t in her plans.
    — Pat Stoetzer, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 23 May 2021
  • When starting her college adventure, a major in biochemistry with the goal of researching cancer and special disease was the plan.
    — Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 May 2021
  • Some of the scientists are focussed on transforming the plant’s leaves, others on altering its biochemistry.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The biochemistry of the mouth is different than that of the nose and may affect the test results, potentially yielding false positives, scientists said.
    — New York Times, 14 Jan. 2022
  • In a Universe with no dark matter, only that first generation of stars would exist, meaning there would be no rocky planets, no biochemistry, and no life.
    — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 17 June 2021
  • Imagine a tattoo that alerts you to a health problem signaled by a change in your biochemistry, or to radiation exposure that could be dangerous to your health.
    — Carson J Bruns, The Conversation, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Starting with the original version of the enzyme, the researchers engineered in two amino acids that could form a chemical bond between those two parts (for those who know biochemistry, that's a disulfide bridge).
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 Apr. 2020
  • Luke plans to study biochemistry at Case Western Reserve University and hopes to contribute to the development of new medicines.
    — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 25 May 2021
  • His parents worked at the National Institutes of Health, and Redfield speaks of his father’s work in a biochemistry lab in the 1950s as furthering science even after his early death.
    — USA Today, 11 Nov. 2020

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