How to Use molecular biology in a Sentence

molecular biology

noun
Definition of molecular biologynext
  • What is more, the tools of molecular biology have moved out of the lab and into the clinic.
    — The Economist, 16 Sep. 2017
  • Most of the tools of molecular biology at the time did not work on glycans, so Bertozzi was seeking a way to probe their roles.
    — Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The technique has found broad use in molecular biology, and even in medicine.
    — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Looming on the horizon, though, lay a challenge from the hot new field of molecular biology.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Arakawa studies the molecular biology of tardigrades and had scraped the moss from his own apartment's parking lot in Tokyo.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2018
  • That job led to a one-year lab position in 1960 at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, then a center of the exciting new field of molecular biology.
    — Trip Gabriel, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Don’t use a seat in a classroom to support the sham notion that the newest millionaire QB has a keen interest in molecular biology.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 22 July 2021
  • Besides being a doctor, Doohan has a Ph.D. in molecular biology, which Lin said gives her rare insight.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2021
  • One is that the tools of molecular biology are becoming more and more powerful every year.
    — Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Kindra Crick studied molecular biology and painting and brings both disciplines to bear in her art work.
    — Amy Wang | The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 11 Jan. 2018
  • In the years since these viruses first emerged as a severe global health threat, researchers have been studying their molecular biology in an effort to answer such questions.
    — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Still, the way the study crosses from animal behavior to molecular biology is unique.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Dec. 2020
  • His work with molecular biology and genomics at Reclamation could change how the agency manages mussels in the future.
    — Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Sun had already taken a leave from her work as a post-doctorate fellow in molecular biology.
    — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Sep. 2020
  • The professor of molecular biology who led the French research team stated that the rats’ diet was comparable to the kind of exposure that humans who eat GMO foods get.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2013
  • Surabhi is going to Yale University to study cell and molecular biology and plans to become a physician.
    — Ana Goñi-Lessan, USA TODAY, 19 May 2022
  • He was born in Morocco and holds a PhD in molecular biology and immunology.
    — Riley Griffin, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Kazuharu Arakawa, a researcher who studies the molecular biology of tardigrades at Japan's Keio University, discovered the newfound species in a small sample of moss.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Whitson has a master’s degree in counseling, pastors at church and completed part of the coursework for a Ph.D. in molecular biology.
    — Julia O'Malley, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Dec. 2022
  • The research involves studying the molecular biology of water bears both for the short-term, such as water bears that live on the station for seven days to see their immediate adaptation, as well as long-term.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 May 2021
  • DeepMind trounced academic molecular biology labs that had been working on the protein-folding problem for a lot longer.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2020
  • The success of Herceptin, along with the advance of molecular biology techniques and DNA sequencing, led to an explosion of biomarker research.
    — Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2019
  • While this research area at the intersection of molecular biology and computer science has been around since the 1980s, scientists have struggled to find a way to correct the errors that DNA can be so prone to making.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2020
  • Even so, Pauling is considered one of the greatest scientists of all time, having won two Nobel Prizes in two different fields, and he is credited with being the founder of the field of molecular biology.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 24 Feb. 2022
  • James Watson and Francis Crick’s discovery would change history and begin a new field of study called molecular biology.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Modern methods of molecular biology can detect changes in activity of all genes in the genome in response to a chemical insult.
    — Alexander Suvorov, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2020
  • During that early era of molecular biology, people were identifying new genes and peptides all the time.
    — Megan Molteni and Elaine Chen, STAT, 30 Sep. 2023
  • In other words, the work is way over on the molecular biology end of things, bordering closely on regular biology.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Holland was in grad school studying molecular biology and Noodles was working as a custodian at a Garden Grove elementary school.
    — Kelli Fadroski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2024
  • Their daughter is studying business and marketing; their son, molecular biology.
    — Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 16 Apr. 2024

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