How to Use biomolecule in a Sentence

biomolecule

noun
  • So, why should there be any biomolecules left?
    — Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Big Think, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Ancient biomolecules can tell us a lot about the distant past.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The droplet attracts biomolecules from the tissue, and is then drawn back into the pen.
    — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 19 Sep. 2017
  • Many of our favorite things are packed with a biomolecule called carbohydrates.
    — Delaney Nothaft, USA TODAY, 2 June 2023
  • Scientists also search for ancient biomolecules in rocks.
    — Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 27 Nov. 2025
  • This indicates that the process is likely encoded in the slime’s biomolecules.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 9 May 2026
  • These bonds show up in various biomolecules, so there are many enzymes that can manipulate them.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Feb. 2025
  • The new work shows that even when ancient biomolecules are gone, the pattern of their fragments in old rocks can still reveal clues about past life.
    — Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 27 Nov. 2025
  • Plants, like all living things, need nitrogen to build amino acids and other essential biomolecules.
    — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 27 May 2018
  • In essence, this method allows researchers to freeze a biomolecule in solution then fire electrons at it to study its structure up close.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 6 Apr. 2018
  • For Wiemann, the first clues to how biomolecules might persist for hundreds of millions of years came from dinosaur eggs.
    — Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, 8 Oct. 2019
  • Then the samples are pelted by a beam of radiation that can fry sensitive biomolecules.
    — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 4 Oct. 2017
  • In expansion microscopy, specific biomolecules such as proteins are anchored to the gel.
    — Molly Herring, Quanta Magazine, 4 Feb. 2026
  • And ultimately, these ionic liquids might be able to support biomolecules like proteins.
    — Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Carbon can form strong, stable chains and rings of atoms that are ideal for use as information-carrying biomolecules.
    — James Trefil and Michael Summers, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2019
  • But some of the organisms in the microbiome can do this job for us—and can thus extract beneficial biomolecules that support our health.
    — Juergen Eckhardt, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Language models can be used to generate other classes of biomolecules, notably nucleic acids.
    — Rob Toews, Forbes, 16 July 2023
  • In addition, subclasses of biomolecules have even more specializations in their structures and functions.
    — Julie Pollock, The Conversation, 1 May 2026
  • Teeth, which preserve biomolecules well, provided the most reliable source of ancient DNA.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
  • These bugs could lead to the development of novel biomolecules for use in food preservation, healthcare, and industrial iron capture.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Scientists are also beginning to address the potential roles many other important biomolecules in the cell play in aging as well.
    — Ellen Quarles, Fortune Well, 7 July 2023
  • Minerals might have prodded life along by catalyzing reactions that produced biomolecules, for example.
    — Quanta Magazine, 11 Aug. 2015
  • His research has helped illuminate how some of the earliest biomolecules may have arisen and how RNA could assemble, replicate and evolve.
    — Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2026
  • The most informative biomolecules, according to Huber, include lipids — fats, waxes and oils — that aren’t soluble in water.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Their work may lead to greater understanding of proteins incorporating this biomolecule, and dysfunctions of this process, including cancer.
    — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 June 2017
  • It could be used to assemble biomolecules or nanomachines, or even potentially guiding drugs to viruses and bacteria inside living organisms.
    — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Because fat is a nonpolar biomolecule, the greater fat content, locked within the casein network, gives rise to a predominantly nonpolar cheese matrix.
    — Alice Chi Phung, Discover Magazine, 4 Feb. 2014
  • Of the many elements thought crucial for life, one of the most important is phosphorus, which serves as a building block for DNA and other biomolecules.
    — Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 24 July 2025
  • These surfaces appear throughout math and science — in proofs of important conjectures in geometry and topology, in the study of cells and black holes, and even in the design of biomolecules.
    — Quanta Magazine, 12 Nov. 2025
  • All living things need the element to make biomolecules such as DNA, but most species can’t make use of the N2 molecule, nitrogen’s gaseous form.
    — Katherine Bourzac, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025

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