Sentences with phrase «as organisms develop»

As organisms develop, genes turn on and off with a precise order and timing, much like the order and duration of notes in a song.

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They're hoping to find out what controls the size of the nucleus, the central compartment of a cell that contains the DNA, and other components of the cell as it develops into a many - celled organism.

One thing that many Christians get hung up on is the idea of evolution as a belief that we all developed from single celled organisms and that our genetic map split from apes and etc..

The fossil record which shows millions of years of stable species, then an explosion of necessarily mutations, all occurring at the precise necessary time required for complex organisms to develop, and ALL escaping fossilization «the sudden appearance of most species in the geologic record and the lack of evidence of substantial gradual change in most species — from their initial appearance until their extinction — has long been noted, including by Charles Darwin who appealed to the imperfection of the record as the favored explanation» — Wikipedia

How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself originated; but I may remark that, as some of the lowest organisms in which nerves can not be detected, are capable of perceiving light, it does not seem impossible that certain sensitive elements in their sarcode should become aggregated and developed into nerves, endowed with this special sensibility.»

If that sort of situation developed from such an apparently unambiguous procedure as the deployment of pesticides, what potential disaster may be lurking in the laboratories of those who are creating new organisms whose pathogenic effects can not possibly be predicted with accuracy?

That is, those events which are later than others lie in the same direction as the more evolved stages of the biosphere, the more developed stages of individual organisms, the more entropic states of closed physical systems, or the events of a causal chain which can be the effects but not the causes of a given event on the chain.

They provide the organism, or, as Santayana puts it, the psyche (this being the power of the organism to develop and protect its form in a manner responsive to the environment) with its consciousness (symbolic rather than literal of what and where it is, and of what it is up to, but play no real part in controlling its behavior.

Today, new technologies are being used to artificially develop other traits in plants, such as resistance to browning in apples, and creating new organisms using synthetic biology.

Volume VII, Number 2 On Forgetting to Wear Boots — Stephen Talbott Organizations as Living Organisms: Developing a Seven-fold View — Magda Lissau Educating the Will?Part II: Developing Feeling Will in Contrast to Sense / Nerve Will — Michael Howard Recapitulation and the Waldorf Curriculum — Alduino Mazzone

The components of his / her organism (organs and systems) continue developing and learning to work together as one team.

Biology as a separate science was developed in the nineteenth century, as scientists discovered that organisms shared fundamental characteristics.

Fermentation engineers are responsible for engineering the organism that produces the product of interest, developing large - scale production processes (which, by the way, is not as easy as you might think), and figuring out how to process large quantities of raw material.

Developed by Harvard geneticist George Church, a modified E. coli strain provides what's known as codon security: Biosensors can't spill their tweaked genes into the ecosystem because a segment of their genetic code has been made incompatible with all living organisms.

For example, genetically engineered organisms used in the research laboratory to develop new chemical synthesis methods are not likely to require the same level of public dialogue as products that have more uncertainty associated with them, such as organisms with gene drives, which enhance organisms» ability to pass certain genetic traits on to their offspring.

Many other organisms have developed their own, equally cunning ways to control the color and movement of light, as the photographs on these pages illustrate.

In living systems, these patterns emerge as organisms reproduce, grow and develop.

Collins said that because Hydra is such a simple animal and because it is able to regenerate after complete dissociation into individual cells, it offers researchers the opportunity to use similar techniques as the ones employed in their experiments to examine how an organism develops from an unstructured group of cells into a complex body plan.

ECO2 developed a generic approach for estimating consequences, probability and risk associated with sub-seabed CO2 storage based on the assessment of the environmental value of local organisms as indicated for example by the Natura 2000 network of nature protection areas or the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North - East Atlantic (OSPAR), the vulnerability of environmental resources and possible impacts on them as well as consequences and risks.

«The genome contains all the information needed to build and maintain an organism, but it also holds the details of an individual's risk of developing common diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer,» says study lead - author Arttu Jolma, doctoral student at the Department of Biosciences and Nutrition.

The Aberdeen scientists are studying the potential of marine organisms as a source for new chemical compounds, which could be used to develop novel treatments for cancer, inflammation, infection and parasitic diseases.

In just the past few years, strains of Escherichia coli have emerged that can thrive in salted foods like sausage or acidic foods such as apple juice, and certain strains of Salmonella have developed the ability to resist food - processing temperatures that kill other organisms.

To remedy that absence, Golden's lab, along with plant physiologist Takao Kondo and colleagues at Nagoya University in Japan, developed an easy - to - read gauge of changing photosynthetic activity in colonies of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus, a blue - green alga whose one - celled organisms divide as often as once every 5 to 6 hours.

In some organisms, the assignment of a cell to the germ line is caused by an inheritance - based mechanism: Before there is even an embryo, the molecular content of some cells predetermines them to develop as either germ or soma.

That single cell contains all the genetic information needed to develop into a human, and passes identical copies of that information to each new cell as it divides into the many diverse types of cells that make up a complex organism like a human being.

Using a novel method they developed to map chromosome breaks in a model organism, the budding yeast, Wenyi Feng, Ph.D., of Upstate Medical University and her colleagues have discovered new information as to how and where chromosome fragile sites can occur in human DNA.

Untapped resource Researchers at Scotland's University of Aberdeen Marine Biodiscovery Center (MBC) are studying the potential of deep - sea marine organisms as a source for new chemical compounds, which could be used to develop novel treatments for cancer, inflammation, infection and parasitic diseases.

Understanding the fundamental principles of how chromatin is faithfully duplicated is essential to understand how our organism is developed and maintained, and also how diseases such as cancer arise.

«As we've developed genomic methodologies, we're finding that organisms are exchanging genes with other species,» Arnold said.

Fluorescent or glowing proteins, which are substantial to molecular biology today, were developed from research interest in the phenomenon of glowing marine organisms, such as Aequorea aequorea (a jellyfish) or Noctiluca scintillans (a dinoflagellate).

As for next steps, Habtour said the intent is to develop the experimental and theoretical principles that govern the interplay between internal interfaces and kinetics of interactions in time - variant systems observed in biological organisms, which ensure their flexible locomotion and resilience.

As part of his research, Dr. Chang has defined several novel mechanisms and mediators of action of probiotic organisms that are currently being developed as therapeutic agentAs part of his research, Dr. Chang has defined several novel mechanisms and mediators of action of probiotic organisms that are currently being developed as therapeutic agentas therapeutic agents.

Their work is starting to reveal how diverse ecological communities can change and adapt over time, putting to the test ideas developed out in the field about how organisms adapt to one another as well as to their environment.

It allows plant breeders to take a desirable trait (like resistance to drought, insects, weeds, and disease) from one plant or organism and transfer it to the plant they want to improve, as well as make a change to an existing trait in a plant they are developing.

This slime mould is a protist that we are developing as a model organism to understand the evolution of decision - making.

In 1998 Aizenberg joined Bell Labs as a member of the Technical Staff where she has made several pioneering contributions including developing new biomimetic approaches for the synthesis of ordered mineral films with highly controlled shapes and orientations, and discovering unique optical systems formed by organisms (microlenses and optical fibers) that outshine technological analogs, and characterized the associated organic molecules.

Stem cell researchers hope to discover how organisms develop from a single cell and how healthy cells might be used to replace damaged cells that cause such diseases as diabetes, Parkinson's and Lou Gehrig's disease.

But in recent decades, scientific advances — such as the ability to manipulate genes and turn them on and off in developing embryos — have provided us with a plethora of new information, and insights into how organisms develop and change.

These mice developed hallmark signs of PD in their brains and behavior: loss of dopaminergic neurons in the SNc, impaired generation of new neurons in one of the few regions capable of producing them in adult organisms, and impaired muscle coordination similar to human victims of Parkinson's (as evidenced by difficulty in rearing up on their hind legs)(Figure 2).

2004 — Natasha Raikhel — for her studies of protein trafficking and for developing the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana as the organism of choice for plant cell biology

Enriched by the rapid evolution of these technologies, TEFOR - TACGene has developed a solid expertise in the design, production and use of TALE - N and CRISPR / Cas9 systems, both for its own research projects in cultured cells and in collaboration, in many model organisms, including the rat, zebrafish, Drosophila, and Xenopus as part of the National Infrastructure in Biology and Health TEFOR supported by Investissement d'Avenir programme (2012 - 2019).

We established the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum as an EvoDevo model organism in our group and developed a non-invasive long - time fluorescence live imaging protocol for Tribolium embryos for our LSFMs.

However, if this star is as young as chromospheric activity alone would suggest, then it is likely that only primitive organisms like bacteria that can survive heavy meteorite or cometary bombardment would be likely to survive on any Earth - type planet that has cooled sufficiently to allow carbon - based lifeforms to develop.

«Possible mechanisms to regulate the coherence of the oscillation, as a living organism would have evolved to develop a robust circadian rhythm, or daily biological clock, can also be revealed from the theoretical analyses,» Lin said.

Dr. Ingber is recognized as a pioneer of the emerging field of biologically inspired engineering, and oversees efforts at the Wyss Institute that strive to identify the mechanisms that living organisms use to self - assemble, and to apply these principles to develop advanced materials and devices for healthcare and the environment.

For example, reactions triggered at the surfaces of white blood cells amplify to produce organism scale behaviors, such as fighting infection or developing immunity.

Enterprising companies have developed an amalgam of cement and freshwater rock to be used as a base for living organisms to colonize.

Salmonella and Campylobacter are known to cause disease in people, while organisms such as Brachyspira pilosicoli, although usually seen in developing countries, can be found anywhere.

As we have mentioned in the beginning of this article, dogs — or any organism for that matter — need proteins to help build, grow, and develop cells and tissues, synthesize hormones and enzymes as well as other substances of physiologic importance, and contribute to the overall development of the organisAs we have mentioned in the beginning of this article, dogs — or any organism for that matter — need proteins to help build, grow, and develop cells and tissues, synthesize hormones and enzymes as well as other substances of physiologic importance, and contribute to the overall development of the organisas well as other substances of physiologic importance, and contribute to the overall development of the organisas other substances of physiologic importance, and contribute to the overall development of the organism.

Cooking or pasteurization through the application of heat until the protein reaches an internal temperature adequate to destroy pathogenic organisms has been the traditional method used to eliminate pathogens in animal - source protein, although the AVMA recognizes that newer technologies and other methods such as irradiation are constantly being developed and implemented.