How to Use molecular in a Sentence

molecular

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  • The antigen test is to the molecular test like a cloth mask is to the N95.
    — Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2021
  • By the time the molecular part of the project was set to begin, the pandemic had hit.
    — Quanta Magazine, 9 Sep. 2024
  • There’s now a class of at-home molecular tests that can already do that.
    — Wired, 7 Aug. 2022
  • On a molecular level, the biosimilars are all about the same.
    — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Fatty acids are one of the molecular building blocks that make up fats.
    — Eyleen Jorgelina O'Rourke, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The area is made up of three giant bunches of cold atomic gas called molecular clouds.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Now, that’s because of how it’s produced on the molecular level.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The newts’ toxins kill by plugging up molecular pores in muscle and nerve cells.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2023
  • One of the biggest roadblocks has been finding the right molecular targets.
    — Angus Chen Reprints, STAT, 18 Jan. 2023
  • The site, open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. offers both rapid antigen and molecular PCR tests.
    — Stephen Hudak, orlandosentinel.com, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Researchers perform a type of molecular PCR test, the most common test used to detect Covid-19 in patients, to search for the virus.
    — Brianna Abbott, WSJ, 25 July 2021
  • He his famous for his molecular French fare that has earned two Michelin stars.
    — Ramsey Qubein, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2024
  • As the star forms, the dust and gas resemble ribbons that come from a surrounding molecular cloud.
    — Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2023
  • These tests might be antigen or molecular (e.g., PCR) tests.
    — Allison Duncan, Health, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Now scientists have traced two detailed molecular pathways from the brain to the gut that produce IBD flares.
    — Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The share of positive molecular PCR tests hit an all-time high of almost 31% on Monday.
    — Jeff Amy, ajc, 28 Dec. 2021
  • There is ceramic inside the aluminum from a molecular point of view.
    — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 4 Sep. 2023
  • On the molecular menu eats-wise, the ice-cold oysters and pearls ($24) are well-suited for your social media feed and your sense of child-like whimsy.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2022
  • This gene codes for one of the six proteins that form a molecular complex called shelterin that coats and protects telomeres.
    — Jonathan Alder, The Conversation, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Data from Goel and others back this up on a molecular level.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2021
  • In the new Webb image, forming stars can be seen pulling in ribbon-like gas and dust from a surrounding molecular cloud.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Mol and others are trying to learn the molecular design rules that will make this possible.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Her group is working to understand the finer details of how the drug works at a molecular level.
    — Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2021
  • That helped the team analyze the molecular structures for certain markers in beer, like rice.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 27 Aug. 2021
  • But results submitted to the FDA show that Acon’s test results agree with those of standard molecular tests more than 90 percent of the time.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2021
  • This is where the new molecular cancer treatment comes into play.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 20 Oct. 2022
  • The glucose in your cells then supplies your body with energy at the molecular level.
    — Rosemary Trout, Discover Magazine, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The Challenge of Protein Folding Proteins are the molecular machines of life.
    — Marc Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2024
  • This methanol could only have formed on grains of carbon monoxide–rich ice, which would have filled the cold molecular cloud from which the protoplanetary disk came but would then have vaporized in the warm disk.
    — Elise Cutts, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2024
  • The tests were carried out digitally, through molecular experiments, and in mice.
    — Michael Franco, New Atlas, 26 Dec. 2024

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