Sentences with phrase «biological systems science»

Complex questions such as these are addressed by biological systems science, where these results can be used to understand the effects of genetic perturbations on inherited and expressed characteristics in a larger context.

The BER program contains two main components, biological systems sciences, which fund research such as genomics and advanced biofuel, and earth and environmental systems sciences (EESE), which funds research such as atmospheric monitoring and modeling.

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What strikes me as another salient detail is the final topic in the historical section of the biological sciences, «The physiology of the nervous system and its application to psychology» (C.II.m).

Recently, there has been considerable increase in scientific understanding of the spontaneous development of spatial and temporal organization (structure) in physical, chemical, and biological systems.3 In an earlier note (PS 11:35), I suggested that this progress in science raises points that may be helpful in dealing with a question of current importance for process philosophy.

The findings published by Silvano Ferrari and colleagues from the TU Vienna and the Centre for Computational Materials Science (CMS), Austria, will improve our understanding of what makes self - assembly in biological systems possible.

«Within these genomes, the areas where we see relatively common Neanderthal introgression are in genes related to metabolism and immune system responses,» says Recep Ozgur Taskent, the study's first author and a UB PhD candidate in biological sciences.

«We found that the syncytiotrophoblasts formed in our system recapitulated the barrier properties of the naturally occurring cells and they resisted infection by a model virus and three genetically different strains of Toxoplasma,» said co-investigator Jon P. Boyle, Ph.D., associate professor of biological sciences at Pitt.

Bry «has developed a highly innovative and nationally recognized system to use the biological samples obtained routinely in the course of clinical care as the basis of population - based discovery research,» Isaac «Zak» Kohane, director of the Children's Hospital Informatics Program and professor of pediatrics and health sciences and technology at Harvard Medical School, writes in an e-mail.

This special section of Science focuses on the current state of knowledge about the effects of climate change on natural systems, with particular emphasis on how knowledge of the past is helping us to understand potential biological impacts and improve predictive power.

«P. aeruginosa biofilm infections are a leading cause of death for people suffering from cystic fibrosis, a genetic condition that affects the lungs and the digestive system,» said Principal Investigator Lars Dietrich, an associate professor of biological sciences.

The computer science carried out at the centre will focus on mimicking the behaviour of biological systems to develop new concepts and programming languages adapted to the modelling of complex systems, says Corrado Priami, president of the centre, in an e-mail.

The following Berkeley Lab researchers also contributed to the study: Benjamin Bowen, a member of Northen's lab in EGSB and at the Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, helped analyze metabolomics data; Ulas Karaoz in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA) analyzed metagenomics data; and Joel Swenson, a former postdoctoral researcher in Biosciences» Biological Systems and Engineering Division, helped conduct correlation and statistical analyses.

Chien Ho, professor of biological sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, and his colleagues have developed a novel way to improve delivery of chemotherapy nanodrugs by using Intralipid ®, an FDA - approved nutrition source to temporarily blunt the reticuloendothelial system — a network of cells and tissues found throughout the body, including in the blood, lymph nodes, spleen and liver, that play an important role in the immune system.

Both the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) and the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW)(which oversees the NIHS) have invested in projects in nanotechnology in biological systems.

Any company that has significant diagnostic information and genomic capabilities, if they want to go for the gold ring, they try to figure out how to make it useful to the health industry rather than just producing research tools,» says David Galas, a professor at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, Washington, and the vice president and chief science officer for biological and life sciences at the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio.

For example, in a recent Nature Physics paper, physicist Neill Lambert of the Advanced Science Institute in Japan called out new photosynthesis research as remarkable just for suggesting quantum effects can happen in biological systems at room temperature.

We hope that these insights will help to build a foundation for better understanding, and perhaps one day better combatting, decision - making biases in the legal system,» said co-author Owen Jones, professor of law and biological sciences at Vanderbilt and director of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience.

One of the key frontier areas of materials science is the study of materials derived from, inspired by, or used to repair human and other biological systems.

The program, which is based in the School of Computing Science, focuses on computing and engineering skills for the programming of biological systems.

The observations, courtesy of a new deepwater laser - and - camera system, could start to clarify a missing piece of biological roles in sequestering carbon in the deep ocean, researchers say May 3 in Science Advances.

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«Learning more about primordial life, and how it can be re-manipulated, will open up a lot of new avenues for science, and shed light on the puzzle of how complex biological systems evolve at the most fundamental molecular level» underlines Lynn Kamerlin, corresponding author, from the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University.

It also provides crucial information for synthetic biology, the branch of science that designs and builds artificial biological devices and systems.

As biological data is becoming more abundant and available, data - driven analytics methods and high - performance computing systems are becoming more useful in suggesting novel hypotheses for life sciences experiments and discovery.

In a video interview with Science Netlinks, an education service from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dabiri says that «we look at biological systems from the perspective of an engineer, to see them as mechanisms and devices, and to learn from those animals new design strategies for new technologies.»

«We have shown that with the right combination of signals, the endogenous immune system can routinely overcome large immunosuppressive tumors, which was an unanswered question,» says Darrell Irvine, a professor of biological engineering and of materials science and engineering, and a member of MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research.

Increased irisin levels in circulation upon systemic administration can recapitulate part of the beneficial effects of exercise in the skeletal system,» said senior study author Jake Chen, D.M.D., M.D.S., Ph.D., professor and biological sciences researcher at TUSDM.

There is a lot of excitement about intelligent therapeutics, where chemistry interfaces with biological systems to cure disease; a view based on computer science could play a role.

Chad Dickinson, a biological science technician with the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team, fits a Global Positioning System collar on a male grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park.

The Environomics Future Science Platform has teamed with the Atlas of Living Australia to build a new online system to make cutting - edge biological records accessible.

The NASA Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission, with a target launch within the next 5 years, aims to make measurements that will advance ocean and atmospheric science and facilitate interdisciplinary studies involving the interaction of the atmosphere with ocean biological systems.

Edward Boyden, an associate professor of media arts and sciences, biological engineering, and brain and cognitive sciences, was one of five scientists honored with the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, given for «transformative advances toward understanding living systems and extending human life.»

«The best evidence suggests an important contribution from biological sources, particularly agriculture,» said Robert Jackson, chair of Stanford University's Earth System Science Department, who co-authored the study.

Sponsor: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Biological and Environmental Research (BER) Atmospheric System Research program.

Since biological systems challenge the available methods, and the necessary foundations in physics, computer science, and mathematics are often missing, the CellDevo track greatly benefits from the fundamental research in computer science, bio-image informatics, biophysics, and applied mathematics represented in the CompBio and BioPhysEng tracks and help to develop the methodological foundations for future biology in tight integration with life imaging and other experimental approaches.

Sponsor: The research was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Biological and Environmental Research for the Earth System Modeling program.

Sponsor: This research was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research as part of the Earth System Modeling program, and used data from the ARM Climate Research Facility.

He succeeds Francis J. Pierce, professor in the departments of crop and soil sciences and biological systems engineering and founding director of CPAS.

Topics ranging from systems and synthetic biology, digital healthcare, cancer, genomics, immunology, biological engineering, microbiology, and cell biology will be covered, but anyone interested in interdisciplinary life sciences research and its applications should attend.

He also led a Laboratory Objective at in the field of Chemical Imaging of Dynamic Systems aimed at developing unique capabilities addressing challenges in the materials, chemical, biological, and environmental sciences.

Science is a group effort and by teaching others to use our systems approaches we will greatly enhance their ability to conduct research and solve complex biological problems.

Modern biophysics is a broad and rapidly advancing field encompassing the study of biological structures with a focus on mechanisms at the molecular, cellular, and systems level using the concepts and methods of physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering, and computational science.

Chief Science and Technology Officer and Vice President of Deconstruction Blake Simmons is Division Director of the Biological Systems & Engineering Division for the Biosciences Area at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

The Gender Summit is a platform for dialogue where scientists, policymakers, gender scholars and stakeholders in science systems examine new research evidence showing when, why, and how biological differences (sex) and socio - cultural differences (gender) between females and males impact on outcomes.

We provide leadership and expertise to major programs within the Department of Energy's Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research program, including the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Climate Research Facility, the Atmospheric System Research program, and DOE's climate modeling programs.

The Expedition 55 crew explored a wide variety of life science today studying how different biological systems are affected by long - term exposure to microgravity.

Janelia scientists are working on some of science's most challenging problems: discovering the basic rules and mechanisms of the brain's information - processing system and developing optical, biological, and computational technologies for creating and interpreting biological images.

It is part of both the Science of Computing, Biological Systems Sciences, and Chemical Imaging research areas.

NECSI's unified mathematically - based approach transcends the boundaries of physical, biological and social sciences, as well as engineering, management, and medicine (see Complex Systems Resources).

Researchers use a variety of information and tools, such as mathematical modeling, to describe the complex interactions among components of a biological system and make predictions that help guide and further refine experimental science.