Sentences with phrase «clevers used human»

For his experiments, Clevers used human intestinal stem cells that his lab had discovered in 2007.

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The BBC team used clever analogies and appealing graphics to discuss three key numbers that help clarify important questions about climate change: 0.85 degrees Celsius — how much the Earth has warmed since the 1880s; 95 % — how sure scientists are that human activity is the major cause of Earth's recent warming; and one trillion tons — the best estimate of the amount of carbon that can be burned before risking dangerous climate change.

The researchers used the power of gene sequencing and clever computational methods to uncover the «source code» for human endothelial cells and learn how that code is disturbed in human disease.

«Research using human fetal tissue is invaluable to scientific and medical communities worldwide that study and work on human development and disease,» said Hans Clevers, president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), and a stem cell researcher at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, in a statement released 14 July.

This research has shown that these early human - like people were very clever about how they opened these large freshwater mussels; they drilled a hole through the shell using a sharp object, possibly a shark's tooth, exactly at the point where the muscle is attached that keeps the shell closed.

Clevers and other scientists have developed organoids of the gut, liver, lung, brain, and many other human organs that can be used to model disease or to serve as test beds for drugs.

«Most researchers studying late human evolution will use the term to refer to older lineages, not directly linked to modern lineages, rather than (meaning) less evolved and adapted, or less clever,» Douka said.

51) Drost, J., van Boxtel, R., Blokzijl, F., Mizutani, T., Sasaki, N., Sasselli, V., de Ligt, J., Behjati, S., Grolleman, J.E., van Wezel, T., Nik - Zainal, S., Kuiper, R.P., Cuppen, E., and Clevers, H. Use of CRISPR - modified human stem cell organoids to study the origin of mutational signatures in cancer.

In this elegant argument for oversight, the use of «enhanced persons» as a PC euphemism for mutants or human lab experiments is particularly clever.

The Hermit and the Time Machine is clever and charming with an environmental message that is handled in thought - provoking ways — robots using recycled dump materials, no more humans in existence because they polluted and poisoned the planet.

Throughout the narrative The Turing Test attempts to tackle a lot of sci - fi staples, including questions about humanity, what makes a person and whether an A.I. can become essentially human, before wrapping up using the kind of ambiguous ending that writers always seem to think is clever To be brutally honest it's never as smart as it would like to believe.

Combat relies mostly on ranged combat with your bows (the aforementioned ropecaster binds bigger enemies down, the sling lobs bombs, etc) and the clever use of traps to stun various human and robotic foes.

Very often left open for discussion, and through clever use of universal metaphors and delicate color symbolism, they provide a mixed view at both artist's intimate world and associations of shared experiences of everyday moments and recognizable human conditions.

That is very clever, since humans have had impact on the climate since sheep over grazed in the Middle East and farmers started diverting water and changing vegetation and land use.

A Dutch landscape architecture firm is proposing a clever way to help animals navigate the urban environment — using the same infrastructure human city - dwellers rely on to get from place to place.

Making use of clever algorithms and programmes in this way, the technology used can document and categorise information much more quickly than could be done manually by a human.