Sentences with phrase «other biologists studying»

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But, as Bohm points out, such a position can not stand up to critical analysis, for the molecules studied by biologists in living organisms are constituted of electrons, protons and other such particles, from which it must follow that they too are capable of behaving in ways that can not be described in terms of mechanical concepts.

Whitehead in this respect as in others provides a rigorous ontological grounding at the microcosmic level for the macrocosmic phenomena studied by biologists.

Stacey Baker, public engagement program associate at AAAS and a trained biologist, spoke with a teenager who wants to study biology about the many paths open to scientists and the other elements beyond your field of study — such as they type of work environment a candidate might be seeking — to keep in mind when selecting a career.

He's trying to spur other biologists to study illegal grows too.

The new study offers «yet another piece of information» that selecting for changes in behavior can trigger a host of other changes in domesticated animals, says Greger Larson, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, who was not involved with the work.

What unites the sociologists, physicists, biologists, and other scientists studying networks is the recognition that «whether they're networks of people, computers, genes, [or] neurons, they often obey similar mathematical rules and have similar properties,» says Nicholas Christakis, a professor of sociology and of medical sociology at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

But this — and several other studies reported here — reveals how readily humpbacks around the world come up with new hunting strategies, says Alexander Werth, a marine biologist at Hampden - Sydney College in Virginia who was not involved with the work.

Almost 40 percent of self - identifying DIY biologists (most of whom are unaffiliated with a conventional research institutions) work in community labs — more than any other setting, including hackerspaces, professional labs and homes — according to a forthcoming study I coauthored at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Biologists have been studying which species of flowers can be sustainably harvested and which management practices are most effective inside the park and in other regions where the flowers grow.

Scientists knew that fruit flies, cockroaches, and other simple organisms have sensory processors that resemble a cortex, but these were «always interpreted as a striking example of convergent evolution of unrelated structures,» says molecular biologist Raju Tomer, who led the study at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Germany.

Past work by Corrie Moreau, an evolutionary biologist at the Field Museum in Chicago, who was not involved with this study, revealed that one of the supersoldier species is located near the base of the Pheidole family tree, closely related to the ancestral ant, while other supersoldier species were scattered within the tree.

Evolutionary biologist Heike Feldhaar, who studies ants at the University of Würzburg, Germany, says the new study is interesting because it highlights the growing awareness that factors other than just relatedness are important in the lifestyle of social insects.

Other evolutionary biologists applaud the study.

In a new study published in the Dec. 11 issue of Current Biology, marine biologist Greg Rouse at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and his collaborators reported a new twist to the Osedax story, revealing an evolutionary oddity unlike any other in the animal kingdom.

This latest study is one of only a few well - documented examples of what evolutionary biologists call «character displacement,» in which similar species competing with each other evolve differences to take advantage of different ecological niches.

And the trouble with extrapolating so much from mouse studies is that «nobody has actually shown over the long term how long these quote un-quote improvements persist, and we don't know whether it's broadly improving aspects of aging or it's specific to certain tissues,» said Matt Kaeberlein, a biologist who studies aging in dogs and other animal models at the University of Washington.

Some biologists extrapolate findings from rodent studies of epigenetic inheritance to humans, but others remain skeptical

Lydia Villa - Komaroff, a molecular and cellular biologist and co-founding member of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos / Hispanics and Native Americans in Science, underscored the value of basic research, noting that her work studying strains of infection - resistant bacteria led to a discovery that «made it possible to make insulin and other treatments in bacteria.

«This is the closest thing to a smoking gun we've ever had,» says Greger Larson, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom who has studied the domestication of pigs, dogs, and other animals.

Black bears in Yosemite National Park that don't seek out human foods subsist primarily on plants and nuts, according to a study conducted by biologists at UC San Diego who also found that ants and other sources of animal protein, such as mule deer, make up only a small fraction of the bears» annual diet.

«Our team studied thousands of molecular clues in each of these samples, sifting through extensive data on the activity of genes, proteins and other molecules to identify those of most interest,» says Katrina Waters, a biologist at PNNL and a corresponding author of the study.

Biologists, chemists, psychologists and a range of other scientists wanted to study the environmental, economic and mental health consequences of the disaster; local scientists wanted to study the effects of the spill on their communities; and leaders at the local and federal government needed guidance on how to respond.

And to date, biologists studying other species have seen venom genes evolve at a breakneck pace: The conotoxins employed by cone snails, for example, are known to mutate rapidly.

Jeff Smith, a first - year postdoc at OISB who studies cell signaling using proteomics, notes that with no specific categories for systems biology on research - grant applications, he has no choice but to place himself in direct competition with biochemists and biologists in other fields.

The data collected by observers over the past century allow researchers, conservation biologists and other interested individuals to study the long - term health and status of bird populations across North America.

That means the animals move through the corridors and breed with other populations, says study author Stephen Mech, now a conservation biologist at the University of Memphis in Tennessee.

But Charlotte Lindqvist, an evolutionary biologist at the University at Buffalo in New York, cautions that this conclusion is based on the analysis of just one gene and needs to be backed up by studies of other genetic material.

However, other studies have not found that pesticides increase susceptibility to the fungus, said Carlos Davidson, a biologist and professor of environmental studies at San Francisco State University.

«Clearly, estrogen regulates TLR8 and other TLRs in ways that change the threshold of an inflammatory response, and female cells are hard wired to be more sensitive to this change,» said Nicholas Young, PhD, a molecular biologist with Ohio State's department of immunology who worked on the study.

Russell Burke, a biologist at Hoftstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., who has studied Italian wall lizards in the U.S., says the species would be «at least as good as, and possibly better than» other bio-indicators, such as mice and plants.

Although researchers knew that CONSTANS production levels varied, the new study shows that the protein is subject to «a whole other level of regulation... that's controlled by these photoreceptors,» says molecular biologist Mark Doyle of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

The results make it clear, says stem - cell biologist Amy Wagers, who headed the study, that these hematopoietic stem cells can do a lot for blood diseases but not for diseases affecting other kinds of cells.

In a new study reported in Cell, an international group of plant biologists at ITbM, Nagoya University and other research institutes, have examined the ovules of plant cells by live - imaging to reveal a novel cell - elimination system based on an unusual cell fusion.

«The percentage of cells that become insulin positive is remarkable and way above what others have reported,» says developmental biologist Palle Serup, who studies pancreas development at the Hagedorn Research Institute in Gentofte, Denmark.

The finding suggests that saliva exchange could play yet - undiscovered roles in many other animals, from birds to humans, says Adria LeBoeuf, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, and the study's lead author.

Pardis Sabeti (Harvard University)-- Systems biologist Dr. Sabeti is a physician scientist studying infectious disease evolution and the transmission of Ebola virus, Lassa fever, and other neglected, but deadly, tropical diseases.

I didn't groan at this idea unlike most other Star Wars fans — many of whom were outraged by the perceived reduction of the Force from a grand, almost magical power to a function of biology — because I'm a biologist who studies bioenergetics: How organisms convert various molecules (food) into chemical energy (adenosine triphosphate or ATP, a compound that enables energy transfer between cells) that can be used to power life.

It also supports our belief that in the future, one might be able to use this approach for replacement of cells lost or malfunctioning due to other more common diseases of the retina,» said lead study author cell biologist Jason Meyer, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology in the School of Science at Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis.

They are missing blood vessels, immune cells and functional connections to other areas of the nervous system,» Jürgen Knoblich, a molecular biologist at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology in Vienna who was not involved in the study, tells The Scientist by email.

While biologists have tracked how global warming has altered the developmental, migration, timing and other behavior in plants and animals, what makes this study unusual is the physical changes in the bees, said study co-author Candace Galen at the University of Missouri.

Craig Kaplan, a molecular biologist at Texas A&M University, says this and other recent studies also make it clear that pausing can occur for very different lengths of time depending on the promoter.

Using the European XFEL's brilliant X-ray radiation, physicists, chemists, biologists, and other scientists from all over the world will be able to map the atomic details of viruses, decipher the molecular composition of cells, take three - dimensional images of the nanoworld, film chemical reactions, study processes such as those occurring deep inside planets, and more.

George Q. Daley, a stem cell biologist at Boston Children's Hospital, said Dr. Niakan's study of human embryos was «critical because we know them to be quite different from embryos of mice» and other mammals studied in laboratories.

Based on a novel by Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation follows biologist Lena (Natalie Portman) as she and four other scientists (Jennifer Jason Leigh's Dr. Ventress, Gina Rodriguez's Anya, Tuva Novotny's Cass, and Tessa Thompson's Josie) agree to venture into an area infected by an alien presence and known as the Shimmer - with the movie detailing the characters» increasingly perilous efforts at studying the unusual activity inside.

This ecomystery, complemented by photos, charts, and other visuals, follows marine biologist Brent Hughes as he studies the healthy seagrass that grows in California's Elkhorn Slough.

Biologists also have used the studies from Marra, Temple, and a number of others to estimate the total U.S. death toll for birds due to cat predation as more than a billion per year.

Dr. Malhi and several other biologists familiar with the study said that the high biological diversity in Yasuní, in itself, hints that the area functioned as a moist refuge for life through past climate shifts that saw much of Amazonia shift to drier forest.

While biologists have tracked how global warming has altered the developmental, migration, timing and other behavior in plants and animals, what makes this study unusual is the physical changes in the bees, said study co-author Candace Galen at the University of Missouri.

What interests me in regard to accelerated anthropogenic ocean acidification and global temperature rise, which are being monitored by instrumentation worldwide, are the vast amounts of data reported and the longitudinal studies done by glaciologists, marine biologists, chemical oceanographers, botanists, climatologists, reef specialists, and their colleagues in other scientific disciplines.

For the study, which first appeared Oct. 30 in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series, Nye and three other NOAA biologists analyzed water temperature trends from North Carolina to the Canadian border off Maine from 1968 to 2007.