Sentences with phrase «biological studies on»

An acclaimed physician - scientist, entrepreneur and university leader, William R. Brody joined the Salk Institute for Biological Studies on March 2, 2009, after 12 years as president of Johns Hopkins University.

In the new interdisciplinary work of the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition, with the collaboration of the Department of Nutrition, Food Science and Gastronomy of the University of Barcelona (computational chemistry); Rocío Gámez - Montaño, from the University of Guanajato in Mexico (synthesis and mechanism model); John M. Kelly from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine of the United Kingdom (biological studies on anti-parasite activity), and Diego Muñoz - Torrero from the Department of Pharmacology, Therapeutics and Toxicology of the UAB, in the field of chemic compound pharmacy.

«Finally, this robot can contribute to biological studies on bat flight,» Hutchinson added.

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But if you are looking for consilience, in which multiple lines of independent evidence converge on the same target, then Schwartz's argument is a good one to have in your arsenal, for it fits nicely with biological arguments for intelligent design (cf. Michael Behe's Darwin's Black Box), recent philosophical work on mental causation (cf. Robert Koons» Realism Regained), cosmological fine - tuning (cf. John Barrow and Frank Tipler's The Anthropic Cosmological Principle), and consciousness studies (cf. Dean Radin's The Conscious Universe).

If you really want to stop making a total and complete ass out of yourself why don't you start by reading a few research studies on the biological differences between gay and straight people.

This fact of our experience is not always given the attention it deserves, and many times descriptions of humankind are produced that suggest a quasi-morphological portrayal, as if human existence were like counting the spots on some insect or were like a diagram of a dead cat as it is studied in a biological laboratory.

It is possible that the drug is harmful to developing babies, but it's also possible that women who are on antidepressant medications are more severely depressed from the start and there is a biological or behavioral factor in these moms that accounts for the correlation found in the study.

A recent study has reported an association between dietary long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids and mental development in infants.32 It has been suggested that these fatty acids can be an explanation for the beneficial effect of nutrition with human milk on mental development of the child.33 34 This may be a plausible biological explanation of the correlation between breast feeding and mental development.

Although these findings are based on observational studies and can not prove a direct cause and effect relationship between breastfeeding and SIDS prevention, researchers say there are several plausible biological reasons.

Aged 29, Neil studied Biological Sciences at Oxford, where he was President of the Union, before embarking on a career in investment banking.

Field expeditions to learn about and describe biological and cultural diversity and the history of life and civilization generally require museum scientists engage on a global scale with their counterparts to gain access to field sites, samples, and permits, and to begin a discourse of the study target.

The fields within biology are further divided based on the scale at which organisms are studied and the methods used to study them: biochemistry examines the fundamental chemistry of life; molecular biology studies the complex interactions of systems of biological molecules; cellular biology examines the basic building block of all life, the cell; physiology examines the physical and chemical functions of the tissues and organ systems of an organism; and ecology examines how various organisms interrelate.

As of mid-February 2017, more than 544,000 Veterans have provided DNA specimens, military exposure information, and access to health records to facilitate studies on topics ranging from the biological underpinnings of Gulf War illness and PTSD to schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

Boyle, a neuroscientist and chief of the science policy branch at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, has studied the biological causes of addiction.

Editor's Note (10/2/17): Seventeen years before the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to three U.S. scientists for their research on biological clocks, one of them, Michael W. Young, set out an account in Scientific American describing the genetic studies that identified the «molecular timepieces» that are ubiquitous throughout the animal kingdom.

«CRISPR - on is a tool that will be very useful for studying many biological processes, particularly for studying gene functions and gene networks,» says Whitehead Founding Member Rudolf Jaenisch.

«We use biological nanoparticles — a plant virus — to deliver a pesticide,» said Paul Chariou, a PhD student in biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve and author of a study on the process published in the journal ACS Nano.

«This study provides evidence from a human population that magnetic field non-ionizing radiation could have adverse biological impacts on human health,» he said.

The primary scientific goals of the Phoenix mission are to study the history of water on the Red Planet and to search for habitable zones by sniffing out any signs of current liquid or frozen water and traces of organic and biological material.

But well - designed studies looking at telomere length and signs of health like resting heart rate have begun to provide new details concerning telomeres» effects on biological processes, which may help us establish causality in the future.

«In addition, there are plans for further molecular biological studies with the objective of understanding exactly how the 5 - LO inhibitors act on the leukaemic cells.»

Wade, on the other hand, tackles controversial subjects — arguing, for example, that studying the biological basis of race is both scientifically valid and medically useful — but says little on the politics of genetics.

One area of research within mechanobiology, the study of how physical forces influence biological processes, is on the interplay between cells and their environment and how it impacts their ability to grow and spread.

Other researchers on the study were Gene R. Stoner and Raynard Fung of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

They specifically studied the length of telomeres (repeated DNA sequences) on the ends of chromosomes in leukocytes (white blood cells); the protective caps are believed to be markers of biological aging, because they shrink over time.

Now, with a $ 2.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education, AAAS's Project 2061 and the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) are embarking on a project to develop chemistry and biochemistry materials for middle school students and teachers, based on the latest research in learning.

When he graduated from Beijing's Peking University in 2004, he chose to go to graduate school to study biology, believing that studying fundamental biological mechanisms would allow him to have the greatest possible impact on human health.

«Biofilms were rampant on the Mir space station and continue to be a challenge on the International Space Station, but we still don't really know what role gravity plays in their growth and development,» said Cynthia Collins, Ph.D., principal investigator for the study and assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. «Before we start sending astronauts to Mars or embarking on other long - term spaceflight missions, we need to be as certain as possible that we have eliminated or significantly reduced the risk that biofilms pose to the human crew and their equipment.»

«We were staggered by the number of birds moving through this trade,» says Martin Gilbert, a veterinarian at the Wildlife Conservation Society who recently co-authored a study in Biological Conservation on merit releases.

«Consistently across all biomes, we found that soil respiration increased with soil temperature up to about 25 ° C (77 ° F),» said Joanna Carey, a postdoctoral scientist in the Marine Biological Laboratory Ecosystems Center in Woods Hole, Mass., and the lead scientist on the study.

It is the first biological flag to predict the risk of an individual going on to develop depression, says Barbara Sahakian at the University of Cambridge, one of the study's authors.

This indicates that soils will typically respond strongly to increasing temperature by releasing more carbon dioxide, said Jianwu Tang with the Marine Biological Laboratory Ecosystems Center and a lead scientist on the study.

This global biological recordbased on daily observations of ocean algae and land plants from NASAs Sea - viewing Wide Field - of - View Sensor (SeaWiFS) missionwill enable scientists to study the fate of atmospheric carbon, terrestrial plant productivity and the health of the oceans food web.

But Grazyna Jasienska, who studies longevity and reproductive health at Jagiellonian University Medical College in Cracow, Poland, believes that the effects of sons on a woman's lifespan are certainly real — and are probably due to biological factors, such as breastfeeding.

The study focused on how the biodiversity and biological characteristics of fish communities changed in the marine reserve following a sustained period of sea warming in comparison to nearby sites open to fishing.

A study published in the current issue of Biological Psychiatry tested a new imaging method that provided reliable neurofeedback on the level of amygdala activity using electroencephalography (EEG), and allowed people to alter their own emotional responses through self - regulation of its activity.

This review examines three areas of study — one, the biological pathways of alcohol - linked breast cancer; two, the epidemiological risk relationship between drinking and breast cancer; and three, the global burden of breast cancer incidence and mortality that is attributable to drinking — with a focus on light drinking.

A: I'm working on using solid - state defects in diamonds as magnetic field sensors, with the goal of using them as little nanoscale MRI machines that can study the structure and dynamics of single biological molecules (e.g., proteins).

For his Ph.D., he focused on biological questions, for example developing an algorithm to study populations that are mixtures of other populations, which is the result of a process called admixture, and infer properties of the original populations.

«Instead of building a metabolic framework from the ground up, we can reverse engineer existing regulons to enable an organism to thrive on a novel nutrient,» said Nikhil U. Nair, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering at Tufts and corresponding author of this study.

The tree limb she's straddling is thick with epiphytes — plants that grow on other plants — and they're the reason she's come to this dizzying study site at the La Selva Biological Station in northern Costa Rica.

Dr Crispin Jordan, of the University of Edinburgh's School of Biological Sciences, who led the study, said: «Plants and their flowers exist in all shapes and sizes, and our finding that the arrangement of flowers can influence how bees forage might go some way to explaining how plants, which rely on others species to spread pollen, can influence their own reproduction.»

Taking into account other recent studies, such as the finding that newly hatched domestic chicks show a preference for consonant intervals, this report lends support to the idea that some features of human musical systems may be based, at least in part, on biological principles that are shared with other animals such as songbirds.

Steven Whitfield at Florida International University in Miami, US, and colleagues studied data on ground - dwelling reptiles and amphibians collected over the past 35 years at La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica.

The study is part of a critical body of work on risk taking and decision making among older adults from the USC Davis School of Gerontology, named for AARP founder Leonard Davis and the leading research center in the world on aging and its biological, psychological, political and economic dimensions.

«Regardless of whether you're in a closed or open environment, there's always a constant exchange of microbes between a host and their environment, and that constant exposure has impacts on health; for example it can lead to changes in a host's immune system that help the host stave off pathogens,» said Argonne's Jack Gilbert, an author of the study and the director of The Microbiome Center, a joint Argonne, University of Chicago and Marine Biological Laboratory program.

The Technical Working Group on Biological Evidence Preservation, cosponsored by NIST and the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), commissioned the study and report.

Their dual training gives them a unique perspective: Well - trained physician - scientists have the experience and instincts to observe clinical syndromes, reflect on symptoms in the light of fundamental biological science, and pursue the study of those diseases through hypothesis - driven research.

Dr Renate Smallegange, a visiting researcher at the School who worked on the pilot study, said: «It is exciting that we are the first ones to prove this phenomenon in a biological relevant system of mosquito, parasite and blood host, and, moreover, in a system affecting millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa.»

Borch, working on an unrelated experiment studying the composition of uranium at mined and unmined sites in Wyoming, surmised that this biogenic (of biological origin), non-crystalline uranium might occur naturally within ore deposits.