Sentences with phrase «work by biologists»

Work by biologists from the University of Miami shows that crabs with dark coloration choose dark sand while crabs with light coloration choose light sand.

Work by biologists and marine scientists at various Norwegian research institutions over the past 10 years has covered such commercial resources as shrimp, scallops, herring and cod.

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According to a 1994 essay in the New York Review of Books by John Maynard Smith, the dean of British neo-Darwinists, «the evolutionary biologists with whom I have discussed his [Gould's] work tend to see him as a man whose ideas are so confused as to be hardly worth bothering with, but as one who should not be publicly criticized because he is at least on our side against the creationists.

Nature and God by L. Charles Birch, a biologist, is an attractive work for the sophisticated layman.133 Richard H. Overman's Evolution and the Christian Doctrine of Creation is more extensive.

If the work of biologists could not yet be interpreted fully in the terms afforded by physics, this represented a gap that further research would fill.

The complaints are tempered by her biologist's curiosity, and the mix of memoir and scientific observation works.

Bones: Skeletons and How They Work by Steve Jenkins (Scholastic, 2010); ages 7 and up Michelle Nijhuis, a biologist and author, recommended this book and the two following ones.

Crona began thinking about rank orders while working with biologist Miriam Barlow on the problem of antibiotic cycling, by which hospital doctors rotate different antibiotics to thwart patient infections.

By the end I was hooked: I knew that I wanted to continue working as a biologist in the realm of international cooperation, contributing to nature conservation and the transfer of knowledge.

The work done by Bárbara is important, as it provides a framework and a simulation tool that many ecologists and conservation biologists will be able to use.»

«Buddy» was the nickname given by wildlife biologist Amanda Shufelberger, who works for Sierra Pacific Industries, a lumber company.

Peng Yin, a systems biologist at Harvard University, who was not involved in the new research, says he is impressed by the work and calls it «an important advance for molecular programming, dynamic DNA nanotechnology and in vitro synthetic biology.»

This structural information can be used by biologists, for example, to determine the precise mechanism by which biomolecules work.

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.

Molecular changes The 2009 health outcomes work, by biologists Ran Huo, Qi Zhou and colleagues at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Nanjing Medical University, involved comparing mice that had undergone IVF and PGD with those that had undergone IVF alone.

The work is the first time anyone has been able to remake a developing tooth's identity by adding certain proteins, says developmental biologist Irma Thesleff of the University of Helsinki in Finland.

While Jarvis and Genome 10K were deciding which avian genomes to sequence, with Jarvis making sure the list included vocal learners and species believed to be their close relatives, they learned about another collaboration in the works led by Guojie Zhang of Chinese sequencing giant BGI and University of Copenhagen evolutionary biologist Tom Gilbert.

«It's unacceptable that those who work for the good of science and public health are called murderers by someone who publicly incites violence against them,» says Dario Padovan, a biologist and president of Pro-Test Italia, quoted in the article.

By 1965, thanks to the inspiring work of Raymond Lindemann, the Odums and many others, trophic dynamic ecology had proved the inter-relatedness of things, paving the way to the shock people felt on reading Silent Spring by the American marine biologist and writer Rachel CarsoBy 1965, thanks to the inspiring work of Raymond Lindemann, the Odums and many others, trophic dynamic ecology had proved the inter-relatedness of things, paving the way to the shock people felt on reading Silent Spring by the American marine biologist and writer Rachel Carsoby the American marine biologist and writer Rachel Carson.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Biologists, computer scientists, and researchers working with minuscule materials would get a boost under a budget proposal unveiled today by the Bush Administration.

Later, inspired by developmental biologists down the hall who were working on fruit fly mutants, Tatar started to employ molecular genetics techniques in his studies.

Blaxter and Arakawa compared their teams» work with a version of the tardigrade genome published by tardigrade biologist Bob Goldstein of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and colleagues.

«While working on this project with cell biologists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, we have been able to verify various hypotheses by selectively replacing specific metabolic products whose synthesis had been blocked by the toxic substance,» Duschl explains.

But recent research by University of Cincinnati Biologist Denis Conover, working alongside Tim Sisson, president of the Western Wildlife Corridor, reveal their approach for safely killing and removing invasive plants, thus leading to a natural resurgence of native species at Bender Mountain Preserve and other natural wooded areas in southwestern Ohio.

Their work has been avidly followed by biologists in the field of organ transplantation: If a donor's heart or kidney could be frozen and stored without damage, physicians could dramatically increase the number of transplants they perform.

Beth Shapiro, an ancient DNA researcher at the University of California, and Ben Novak, a biologist funded by Revive & Restore, are working to do just that.

Jay Cross, a reproductive biologist at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada said work by his lab showed that the genetic disregulation in clones occurs in very specific and limited tissues.

Developmental biologist Thomas Lecuit combines a successful scientific career and fatherhood by keeping work and family completely separate — and that means not even working from home in the evenings or on weekends.

Joel Berger, a biologist at the University of Montana in Missoula and the Wildlife Conservation Society, headquartered in New York, and lead author of the study, says that the work was inspired by an older study that found increases in wildlife poaching in oil and gas boom towns.

Conservation biologists have been profoundly struck by the implications of Paul Martin's work.

A team of Smithsonian biologists led by Brandt Ryder worked closely with Ben Vernasco, a doctoral candidate in biology at Virginia Tech, on a study that aimed to identify characteristics that promote healthy wood thrush populations on U.S. Department of Defense land.

Although physicists have long shared their work as preprints, biologists have been slower to embrace them for various reasons — such as fear of being scooped by the competition and concerns about releasing medical findings that haven't been vetted.

Raghu Kalluri, a cancer biologist at MD Anderson, managed to return to his lab this morning to find everything in working order: Freezers full of important samples had been protected by backup generators, and facilities housing research animals had stayed dry.

At the conference, biologists who work mostly in the field observing the behaviors of bees, ants, wolves, slime molds and other creatures tended to look for the mechanics of natural selection at the behavioral level by examining how individual organisms self - organize into hives, nests, packs, conglomerates or families.

Boris Worm, a marine biologist at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who two years ago predicted the collapse of seafood as a food source by 2048, says Costello's work is noteworthy but adds that catch shares will work better when combined with other tools, such as banning fishing in sensitive areas.

In the May article «The Truth About Invasive Species,» Alan Burdick dismisses the impact of introduced species with the contention that «fifty years of research by invasion biologists around the world has failed to confirm it,» suggesting that all changes and impacts wrought by invaders merely threaten «our self - serving ideas of what nature is supposed to be.»

It had a unique lab run by someone I found totally fascinating: John Paul Scott, a biologist in the psychology department who had done more work than anyone else on social attachments in dogs.

Norway's first CWD case was detected by chance after wildlife biologists working in the rugged mountains of Nordfjella found a sick young reindeer on 15 March 2016.

One study led by Allender and first - year veterinary student Marta Rzadkowska and published in the Journal of Wildlife Diseases, reveals which disinfectant treatments — used by veterinarians and wildlife biologists to prevent the spread of infection — work against the fungus.

Biologist R. Dale Guthrie of the University of Alaska in Fairbanks largely agrees with the findings, but he says more work is needed to explain why some mammoths seem to have survived in regions colonized by humans and why many modern elephants live in areas easily accessible to humans, such as the African savannah.

The research was led by University of Southampton biologist Dr Felix Eigenbrod working in collaboration with Dr Patrick Gonzalez, Climate Change Scientist at the U.S. National Park Service, and two other Southampton scientists — Dr Jadu Dash and Dr Ilse Steyl.

The work was led by reproductive biologist Michael Skinner of Washington State University in Pullman, whose lab has been studying vinclozolin, a fungicide used in the wine industry.

He is working with molecular biologist Jai Rohila of the biology and microbiology department through a two - year project sponsored by the National Institute of Crop Science in Suwaon, South Korea.

Another lab ran into a similar problem when it tried to replicate work by Stanford stem cell biologist Irving Weissman and his colleagues, who reported in 2012 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that an antibody to a tumor cell surface receptor called CD47 can slow tumor growth in mice.

It was accomplished by two biologists at UC San Diego working on the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster who employed a new genomic technology to change how mutations could spread through a population — a concept long established in plants by the father of modern genetics, Gregor Mendel.

Evolutionary biologists Jean - Michel Claverie and Chantal Abergel, the husband - and - wife team at Aix - Marseille University in France who led the work, named it Pithovirus sibericum, inspired by the Greek word «pithos» for the large container used by the ancient Greeks to store wine and food.

This is in line with field observations of hybrid birds made by study co-authors Peter and Rosemary Grant, evolutionary biologists at Princeton University in New Jersey who have worked in the Galapagos for decades.

Evolutionary biologists are working on several approaches for seeing beyond the confusion caused by lateral transfer.

Typically, evidence that disease activity is truly «on - target» with respect to the proposed mechanism can only be examined once appropriate, highly selective chemical tools have been designed, synthesized and iteratively modified by teams of Medicinal Chemists and biologists working with the studied protein.

Endosymbiotic theory, that attempts to explain the origins of eukaryotic cell organelles such as mitochondria in animals and fungi and chloroplasts in plants was greatly advanced by the seminal work of biologist Lynn Margulis in the 1960s.