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A good spray combines enzymes and ingredients that are safe for humans to tackle any unexpected excrement.

The end result is a high-quality and flavorful juice packed with all the enzymes, antioxidants, and vitamins of the original ingredients.

Unlike most biotech drugs, RNA is not made in fermenters or living cells—it’s produced inside plastic bags of chemicals and enzymes.

After some time teaching, she turned her research —developing the use of radioactive isotopes for precise measurements of biological chemicals in the body — from hormones and enzymes to vitamins and viruses.

Scientists then set about breeding wheat that was lower in these enzymes.

Women also make less of an enzyme called alcohol dehydrogenase, which breaks down alcohol before it hits the bloodstream.

In particular, “prolonged fasting reduced the enzyme PKA,” explains the USC announcement.

That life-giving source is the enzyme telomerase, which can actually lengthen telomeres.

It has nothing to do with aroma; the word refers to the enzyme aromatase.

The answer lies in polyphenol oxidase, an enzyme that combines with oxygen to speed up cellular decomposition.

Stevens obtained a nitrogenous oxidizing enzyme from Rhus vernicifera.

You will remember that starch in the growing corn grain was changed to grape sugar by an enzyme called diastase.

The digestion or change of starch to grape sugar is caused by the presence in the saliva of an enzyme, or digestive ferment.

By adding the enzyme maltase from yeast to a forty per cent.

Even the color of our hair and eyes depends on an enzyme which manufactures the coloring matter.

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On this page you'll find 67 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to enzyme, such as: impetus, incentive, motivation, stimulant, adjuvant, and agitator.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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