building block
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These structures form when sections of DNA rich in the building block guanine fold into distinctive arrangements involving four interacting strands or segments.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026
Can Carleton be a building block player for a new franchise?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026
It will be a building block and a key ingredient in every new “unicorn” — a company with a valuation of at least $1 billion.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 21, 2026
"This Picasso initiative is one more building block so that one day Alzheimer's will be nothing more than a bad memory," the foundation's head Olivier de Ladoucette said, the AFP news agency reported.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2026
This method is based on the slow decay of radioactive carbon 14, a very minor component of carbon, the ubiquitous building block of life, into the nonradioactive isotope nitrogen 14.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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