How to Use biochemical in a Sentence

biochemical

adjective
  • Will the study of moondust give us clues to the biochemical origin of life?
    — Dan Q. Posin, Popular Mechanics, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Or simply whether it can be shown to be involved in some biochemical process in the cell?
    — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
  • Our first date was a biochemical warfare class, for God’s sake.
    — Lesley M. M. Blume, Vogue, 9 Jan. 2025
  • This leads to complex biochemical events that turn on genes, which may result in poor health outcomes.
    — April Thames, The Conversation, 17 Oct. 2019
  • That has to do with the biochemical change in the receptor itself.
    — Lynne Terry, OregonLive.com, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Humans can improve on this biochemical process to help the planet.
    — Big Think, 24 June 2024
  • What if their cells got instructions in some other biochemical way?
    — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Saturated fat is bad, and the key to why is found in its biochemical structure.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Research has shown that naming your fear helps to decrease biochemical markers of fear in the brain.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 19 May 2020
  • And for writers, there might even be a fragile biochemical moment when the drinking helps.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2020
  • The biochemical shock made my emotional upset much, much worse.
    — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 6 Feb. 2024
  • While with Walsh, Schultz and colleagues put their biochemical skills to work by brewing beer in the lab.
    — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 May 2017
  • All sorts of biochemical elements in our brain seem to work in a manner that gives rise to our minds and our ability to think.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • There's no pill or injection that can replace the biochemical changes that take place after a great workout.
    — arkansasonline.com, 13 July 2025
  • The biochemical case against it is substantial.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026
  • But the important first step on this biochemical pathway takes place in the oral microbiome.
    — New Atlas, 27 July 2025
  • Melanin is the biochemical compound that makes skin colorful.
    — Lynn M. Thomas, Quartz Africa, 9 Mar. 2020
  • The warmth of the sun ensures plenty of biochemical activity to push good growth.
    — Paul Cappiello, Louisville Courier Journal, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Karikó and Weissman—the toast of the biochemical and medical fields!
    — Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 2 Nov. 2021
  • When the heart stops beating, blood flow is cut off from the body in a process called ischemia and a cascade of biochemical effects begins.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The virus was obviously a new biochemical weapon, the guard reasoned.
    — Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Data from those flies showed that spaceflight caused serious structural and biochemical changes to their hearts.
    — Malia Wollan, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Specialized immune system cells swarm to the misguided cells and light them up with tiny biochemical weapons.
    — Joshua Tompkins, Los Angeles Magazine, 2 Apr. 2018
  • But de Villers-Sidani wondered what biochemical changes might be involved in brain training.
    — Lindsey Leake, NBC news, 19 Oct. 2025
  • That protein acts as a biochemical defender that helps to keep the cancer cells functioning.
    — Scientific American, 25 Dec. 2019
  • These cells had all ramped up a biochemical system that sops up iron, a necessary metal to produce energy and more cell parts.
    — Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Light bulbs are stealing the night, with costs to our ecosystems, energy sources, and even our internal biochemical rhythms.
    — George Stone, National Geographic, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Scientists are still not sure what drives this daily rhythm, but a biochemical clock synced to the sun is one of the primary hypotheses.
    — Ferris Jabr, Smithsonian, 22 June 2017
  • But ibogaine is a dirty drug, a blunt biochemical instrument that travels all across the body and puts particular stress on the heart.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 12 June 2026
  • The new methods use biometrics to analyze biochemical traces in sweat found along the ridges of a fingerprint.
    — Rod McCullom, The Atlantic, 13 Apr. 2018

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