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Example sentences for: diatom

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Rogers envisages loading diatoms with a drug that would then leach out into the blood stream at a rate dependent on the diatom species used.
, a marine centric diatom ‘We believe that knowing this genome will help us to figure out how to mimic the processes that diatoms use to construct their very precise structures, and that we can then learn how to create similarly precise structures ourselves’.
, he says, is the ‘lab rat’ of the diatom world but is much less important ecologically than
, she continues, was chosen as the first diatom to sequence in part because it has a small genome, but mainly because it represents a cosmopolitan genus of diatoms and its physiology has been well studied.
‘When a diatom divides, each daughter cell makes a new half shell’, explains Tiffany.