granule

Even though you can activate active dry yeast in milk, certain milk enzymes and proteins can inhibit the individual yeast granules, which contain almost a skin or coating.

She spends her morning crunching instant coffee granules, repeating Snoop Dogg’s daily affirmations, which she’s translated into Czech, and trying on outfits.

So far, hundreds of millions of nurdles may have been cleared away - but the remaining, lentil-sized microplastic granules have become increasingly difficult to find as they disappear deeper into the sand.

These signals get transmitted through the granule cells' axons -- their arm-like extension, known as mossy fibers.

The granules, which seem to sort mRNAs so they can later be translated into proteins or degraded, were the main focus of Kedersha’s research career.