How to Use biochemistry in a Sentence

biochemistry

noun
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  • Dye was on track to graduate with a degree in biochemistry in the spring and had aspirations to become a dermatologist, 11 Alive reports.
    — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 23 July 2024
  • Depending on the time of year and the biochemistry, the saltern might be a swath of salmon-pink stripes.
    — Katherine Wheelock, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 June 2017
  • Foli later moved to the U.S. to study biochemistry and food science.
    — Dallas News, 15 Dec. 2022
  • But zoom in enough, and the biochemistry that makes up life is really just physics.
    — Sigal Samuel, Vox, 4 June 2024
  • To find out, the researchers in France did some old fashioned biochemistry.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Her mother left India to come to the United States in 1958 to study biochemistry.
    — Lz Granderson, Sun Sentinel, 25 June 2024
  • 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
  • Doudna agreed to use her skills in genetics and biochemistry to find out.
    — Megan Molteni, STAT, 21 Feb. 2024
  • As the seasons change, a riot of red shows up in the world around us, showcasing some of the most vivid hues that plant biochemistry can create.
    — Veronique Greenwood, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • Liu plans to attend the University of Texas at Austin to major in biochemistry.
    — Staff Report, Houston Chronicle, 29 May 2018
  • 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
  • Kaman, 76, with both a PhD in biochemistry and a law degree, remained in an active role with The Cowtown up until about two years ago.
    — John Henry, star-telegram, 23 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • The highest ranked of all designs are then synthesized in a Stanford biochemistry lab.
    — Theo Karasavvas, Ars Technica, 23 July 2017
  • 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
  • Little is known about the biochemistry of how smoke contaminates wine.
    — Doug Main, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • According to the Daily Beast, Wolf switched jobs to work at a biochemistry research lab as a recruiter after a classmate tipped her off to the position.
    — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Breslow, 37, was born and raised in Trumbull and majored in molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale.
    — Dom Amore, courant.com, 8 Apr. 2018
  • She was born at the old Radcliffe Infirmary, went to a local state school, and studied biochemistry at the university.
    — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 9 May 2016
  • By her sophomore year at Brooklyn College, Ms. Nelson aspired to be a chemist and was planning to major in biochemistry.
    — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • Magnesium-sodium phosphate is a compound that can be dissolved in water and serves as a component of biochemistry for life.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 27 June 2024

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