thill

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The findings suggest that one promising direction for development of better treatments might be to target biological processes in the bacterium that help maintain levels of compounds known as thiols.

From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2024

Supersulfides are gaining prominence for their occurrence as low-molecular-weight thiols or persulfidated cysteine residues, observed more frequently in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.

From Science Daily • Jan. 16, 2024

Finally, in the presence of sulfur-containing compounds called thiols and trace amounts of iron or nickel salts, these intermediates transform into the pyrimidines cytosine and uracil.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 18, 2018

Yet there is something a bit dreary about Kramer’s call for such unvarnished expressions of judgment—something as inaccessible, in its way, as references to thiols or pyrazines.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 29, 2015

“Our nose is able to detect thiols at extremely low levels, parts per billion,” Dr. Wood said.

From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2012