"We purify the oil through a chemical process that uses methanol and sodium methylate to strip the glycerin out of the oil," Baker said. From Wordnik.com. [PHOTOS: From Yankee Stadium French Fries To Biofuel] Reference
Especially while offspring are in utero, what their mothers do—or eat—can “methylate” particular genes in the offspring, changing how those genes behave. From Wordnik.com. [Origins] Reference
The explanation is that there is so much sulfide in the sediments as a result of years of accumulating wastes from sewage treatment plants, that the mercury is tightly bound to sulfide and not available for the bacteria to methylate. From Wordnik.com. [Metal pollution in coastal environments] Reference
Mercury in these consumers likely originates from estuaries, where conditions are conducive for bacteria to methylate mercury, or from the open ocean, where regions called the oxygen minimum zone appear to have water chemistry that is favorable for methylation. From Wordnik.com. [Mercury in the Gulf of Maine watershed] Reference
(R, S) - AdoMet and using it to methylate homocysteine to form methionine. From Wordnik.com. [Vimeo / Recent Public Videos] Reference
Last night, however, I managed to secure and methylate a good-sized scorpion. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,] Reference
That mutation causes the cell to methylate a regulatory region of the FMR1 gene. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
PRC2 can then methylate chromatin, preventing the activation of developmental regulator genes that would otherwise act to alter the identity of the cell. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
On the evening of the 5th of October a small snake and several very large scorpions came crawling about us as we sat round the fire; we managed to bottle the scorpions, but though we wounded the snake it escaped; I was very anxious to methylate him also, but it appeared he had other ideas, and I should not be at all surprised if a pressing interview with his undertaker was one of them. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,] Reference
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