Sentences with phrase «cell science as»

Not exact matches

According to Science Daily, Dr. Nagy, senior investigator at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, there is a «new method of generating stem cells that does not require embryos as starting points and could be used to generate cells from many adult tissues such as a patient's own skin cells.»

Whether it is changing text books to teach religion as a «science,» making laws that prohibit stem - cell research which would without question help those in need, to stopping of any kind of gay rights, trying to put religion (christianity) into schools, a woman's right to choose, etc, etc...

@Rachel, Many Atheists are simply trying to counter-act the influence of Christians in their lives, such as science in science class, gay marriage, stem cell research, women's choices on reproduction.

That balance has changed considerably in the past few years, as alternative avenues of stem - cell science have opened up and it increasingly seems like whatever therapeutic potential such cells may someday have could be explored and achieved without the destruction of embryos.

But even as he does so, the underlying science may well move the politics of stem - cell research in the other direction.

Biology can be designated as a science logically distinct from physics and chemistry because its heuristic field is constituted by questions directed toward whole organisms (plants and animals), cells and their «achievements» rather than toward atoms and molecules as such.

As a medical professional, one would think you'd understand that biological evolution, much like general relativity, quantum mechanics, the germ theory of disease, cell theory, plate tectonic theory, etc is a scientific theory and should be taught in science class based on the preponderance of evidence that backs it.

One clear positive element in the stem - cell debate for me was hearing the top researchers in biomedical science reinforce The Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC 343: «Man is the summit of the Creator's work, as the inspired account expresses by clearly distinguishing the creation of man from that of other creatures»).

Its nice to see people using their science books, and Pedro its nice to see you've read some science as well as religious books, I would just like to say that no one has actually figured out how the first cell came into existence billions of years ago.

Despite its demonization as a right wing Christian rejection of modern science if not modernity as a whole, the language of Bush's order manages to acknowledge the serious and profound ethical dilemmas that surround stem cell research and to clearly articulate both the scientific and moral principles that ground its decisions.

RS: According to the hypothesis of formative causation, outlined in my book A New Science of Life, systems such as molecules, crystals, cells, organs and organisms are organized by specific morphogenetic fields, which give them their characteristic form and organization.

Fairies and gods, if they exist, occupy something of the same conceptual space as organic cells, photons, and the force of gravity, and so the sciences might perhaps have something to say about them, if a proper medium for investigating them could be found.

Science tells us that each living cell contains as much information as one hundred volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Obama's elevation of bodily suffering above all other considerations, as he articulates it in his remarks to the press following his new executive order on stem cell research, is clearly an expression of this Cartesian legacy, of a modern science pregnant with moral attachments.

«Once this novel tumor - homing agent binds to the EphA2 receptor, the oncogene functions as a cancer - specific molecular Trojan horse for paclitaxel, carrying the drug inside the cancel cell, killing the cell, and thwarting metastasis,» said Maurizio Pellecchia, a professor of biomedical sciences at UCR's School of Medicine who led the research.

The German - born Frank, who was inducted as a AAAS fellow in 1997, is a professor of biochemistry, molecular biophysics and biological sciences at Columbia in New York City and the Scottish - born Henderson, who has been a AAAS member since 1996, has served as director of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology research facility where hundreds of scientists work on neurobiology, cell biology and biotechnology.

When compared to other religious groups, Evangelicals have often been more wary of science as evidenced in debates about evolution, stem cell research, and climate change.

Immunophenotyping — a laboratory procedure used to study the proteins expressed by cells — is very commonly used in basic science research as well as in laboratory diagnostic testing.

I spent the next decade completing rigorous basic science research training: completing a high school summer internship, attending the University of Maryland, Baltimore County as a Meyerhoff Scholar, and completing my Ph.D. in the Stanford immunology program, where my work focused on the mechanisms regulating hematopoietic and leukemic stem cells.

In its 20 and 27 April issues, Science Signaling presents a set of Teaching Resources as well as student - authored Journal Clubs that cover topics ranging from signaling in cells of the immune system to signaling in plants.

Adenovirus 36 has been found to encourage the transformation of adult stem cells in fatty tissue into fat cells as discussed on the daily Scientific American podcast 60 - Second Science on August 20th.

Contacted by Science about the e-mail, one of the corresponding authors, Thomas Perlmann of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, responded that the images are from triple immunohistochemistry staining, so are indeed from the same set of cells «displayed as double staining for clarity.»

So far, researchers with the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle have described the intricate shapes and electrical properties of about 100 nerve cells, or neurons, taken from the brains of 36 patients as they underwent surgery for conditions such as brain tumors or epilepsy.

Editors from Cell, Science, The Journal of Experimental Medicine, and The New England Journal of Medicine shared the podium at the Science Editors panel and answered questions ranging from the life of a submitted manuscript to science editing as a career Science, The Journal of Experimental Medicine, and The New England Journal of Medicine shared the podium at the Science Editors panel and answered questions ranging from the life of a submitted manuscript to science editing as a career Science Editors panel and answered questions ranging from the life of a submitted manuscript to science editing as a career science editing as a career choice.

Also look at the institution's broader scientific environment, because «you can benefit from help even from people that are not with the label «biomaterials,»» says Dupont - Gillain, who, as a bioengineer and physical chemist, collaborates with colleagues in surface science and cell biologists to develop biomimetic surfaces that can trigger desired cell behaviors.

Who We Are As Scientists 6 October 2006 Spurred by the stem - cell scandal, a group of Korean early - career scientists organized an international conference on ethical issues in science.

Also note that Science, Nature, and Cell have the highest impact factors in this list, suggesting that these journals are, as you would expect, the top of the heap.

The research, published in the current issue of the journal Science, demonstrates that brain cells, known as astrocytes, which play fundamental roles in nearly all aspects of brain function, can be adjusted by neurons in response to injury and disease.

After an earlier stint as a senior writer at Science, where she was widely known for her coverage of the Human Genome Project, Leslie returned as a deputy news editor in 2000, specializing in public health, infectious diseases, stem cells, and ecology.

A competitive faculty application package, I was told, should include publications in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nature, or Science; evidence of fundraising such as travel grants and in - kind research support; and teaching experience as a teaching assistant or guest lecturer.

Dr Lee Campbell, Research Projects and Science Communications Manager at Cancer Research Wales, who part - fund the study, commented: «This is an exciting breakthrough as cancer stem cells are thought to be responsible for the failure of many cancer treatments and the re-emergence of cancers, often many years after the initial disease.

The site would not only include access to studies published by AAAS journals such as Science — it would include embargoed access to studies from a number of other top journals, including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Journal of the American Medical Association, The Lancet, Cell, and The Astrophysical Journal.

The Eppendorf & Science Prize in Neurobiology recognizes outstanding international neurobiological research based on current methods and advances in the field of molecular and cell biology by a young early - career scientist, as described in a 1,000 - word essay based on research performed within the last three years.

Once stem cells can be grown and differentiated in a controlled way to replace degenerated cells and repair tissues, medical science may then be able to diagnose and cure many intractable diseases at their earliest stages, such as type 1 diabetes, Parkinson's disease, various cardiovascular diseases, liver disease, and cancer.

The reviewers dismissed his research as «not impactful,» a common refrain in science funding, which means that Matthew's research might certainly shed light on how cells work — but when it came down to it, how much do we really need to know about how cells work?

The study was supported by a Science of Human Appearance Career Development Award from the Dermatology Foundation and by grants from the Medical Research Council of the UK, the Empire State Development's Division of Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR), New York Stem Cell Science (NYSTEM), and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council in the UK (BBSRC), as well as earlier support from the Steven and Michele Kirsch Foundation.

So far the biggest advances have been with thin tissues such as skin, blood vessels, and bladders (Science, 16 April 1999, p. 422 and 19 November 1999, p. 1493), because foams with holes big enough to house living cells tend to come in thin sheets.

A team headed by Hanns Ulrich Zeilhofer from the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Zurich did now reveal which inhibitory neurons in the spinal cord are responsible for this control function: As the study published in the science journal Neuron shows, the control cells are located in the spinal dorsal horn and use the amino acid glycine as an inhibitory messengeAs the study published in the science journal Neuron shows, the control cells are located in the spinal dorsal horn and use the amino acid glycine as an inhibitory messengeas an inhibitory messenger.

I might as well hire someone who demonstrated the interest and tenacity to stay in science,» says Bob van de Water, a molecular cell biologist at Leiden University.

A new study in the journal Science claims that our planet's air circulates as four major cells, not two as is the conventional wisdom.

In a previous related study published in the Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, the same team of NTU scientists found that fish scale - derived collagen would induce human umbilical vein endothelial cells to express 2.5 times more of a specific type of collagen responsible for blood vessel formation, as compared to endothelial cells cultured on bovine collagen.

More knowledge of the basic function of auxin is in itself important to the life sciences: how plants function at various levels, from cell to organs and as a whole.

Researchers led by Yang Yang, the Carol and Lawrence E. Tannas, Jr., Professor of Engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, said the new cells could serve as a power - generating layer on windows and smartphone displays without compromising users» ability to see through the surface.

Science hails these discoveries, which are prompting biologists to overhaul their vision of the cell and its evolution, as 2002's Breakthrough of the Year.

As Nature detailed last week, one Italian science agency recently sent out a call for stem cell grant proposals but specifically excluded human ES cell research, leading three Italian scientists to sue the government.

One of the most popular things the council did was to suggest science could come to the rescue and find a way around an ethical impasse to produce a mode of obtaining stem cells that everybody would regard as ethical, and that this vexed period of our politics could be put behind us.

As a result of this careful debugging, yeast cells with the synthetic chromosomes grow just as quickly in the lab as normal, wild yeast, despite the wholesale alterations (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.aaf4557As a result of this careful debugging, yeast cells with the synthetic chromosomes grow just as quickly in the lab as normal, wild yeast, despite the wholesale alterations (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.aaf4557as quickly in the lab as normal, wild yeast, despite the wholesale alterations (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.aaf4557as normal, wild yeast, despite the wholesale alterations (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.aaf4557).

Michael Sandel, a Harvard professor of political science who served for four years on President Bush's bioethics panel, said the committee's prolonged discussion of alternative methods of isolating embryonic stem cells could be viewed as an effort to diminish public support for the research.

Using perovskites, a Korean research team, led by Professor Seunghyup Yoo of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and Professor Nam - Gyu Park of Sungkyunkwan University, has developed a semi-transparent solar cell that is highly efficient and functions very effectively as a thermal mirror.

The same goes for another cell membrane protein, LAG - 3, which is present in neurons and which was recently described in Science as binding tightly to the rogue Parkinson's protein.