As a child, Zhang moved with his family from China to Des Moines, where he worked in a gene therapy lab as a high school student; the experience taught him to think
about biology from an engineering point of view.
Not exact matches
A former health care investment analyst with a degree in
biology from Yale University and current CEO of the company, Wojcicki is fascinated by the mysteries of the genome and what it can reveal
about the human body.
Probably you've moved on
from this post, and I will too — but I don't think by «been there, done that» you meant «read
about and understood many things
about evolutionary
biology and paleontology».
By the way,
from the look of your dialogues, you seemed to be quite knowledgeable
about human
biology.
As for
biology and physics, everything we know
about them derives
from painstakingly tracing God's creative activity.
(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level
biology, never been on an archaeological dig, never studied a thing
about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archaeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archaeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories
from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.
For example: Learning
about molecular
biology through observations... still wouldn't prevent someone
from believing in reincarnation.
Then again (and much more likely) the SOB doesn't even exist - and all this suffering and bloodshed is merely the outcome
from ignorant, delusional believers who don't know crap
from Crisco
about evolutionary theory, genetics, astronomy, and
biology.
If a YEC can not understand how their beliefs are contradicted by evidence
from really any field of science,
from physics to geology to
biology, then I have doubts
about their abilities to be talented engineers.
But please do go on tell me more
about how evolution is in fact «false», disprove genetic evidence, paleontological evidence, anatomical evidence, evidence
from cell
biology, virology, zoology, mycology, should I keep going?
I am a well trained Physicist and I know
about the history of the earth with evidences
from [Geo] chemistry, physics,
biology and the like and yet know that they all have holes and are «not proofs» of anything
Your telling me, that given these FACTS that we know are true, a magic being called God chose to suspend the laws of physics and human
biology about 2000 years ago to let us know he's here and never hear
from him again or find any signs of his existance in the know Universe exept that book that you keep pulling nonsense quotes
from?
(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level
biology, never been on an archeological dig, never studied a thing
about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories
from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.
From the AIDS orphan I held in my arms in India, to the passages of Scripture that seemed to condone genocide, to the persuasiveness of
biology textbooks, to my encounters with people of other faiths — my interactions with the world left me wondering if rehearsed answers would be enough to satisfy my doubts
about my faith.
«Creationists may prefer not to think to much
about the conspiratorial implications of what they're arguing, but creationism just won't work without the actual existence of such a «fraud so complex and extensive it involved every field
from archaeology, paleontology, geology and genetics to
biology, chemistry and physics.»
I don't have a strong opinion
about why some people are gay: research implies both
biology and the developmental process likely influence a person's orientation, and the extent to which one is more influential than the other probably differs
from person to person, as sexuality is so layered and complex.
ealthy Infant Sleep 101 Come learn
about the
biology of sleep in babies,
from what current neuroscience and infant mental health tells us.
«How do we learn
from basic
biology to educate both mom and health professionals
about the mystery of what's happening early in life?»
Kitchens are full of science,
from the
biology of yeast making pizza dough rise to growing salt crystals (sugar crystals are fun too, but a little tougher to make work) and learning
about starch!
Come learn
about the
biology of sleep in babies, how does baby sleep differ
from adult sleep and why?
By this I mean when our four year old asks where babies come
from, we will not tell them stories
about cabbage patches and storks, nor will we get out a
biology book and explain
about ovaries and erections.
Covering everything
from the
biology of breastfeeding to breastfeeding as a feminist issue, this book also includes comments
from mothers, father, professionals and the breastfed children themselves
about the concerns, reasons and wonderful memories of breastfeeding long - term.
CHRISTINE STEWART FITZGERALD: So it sounds like you're looking at it
from the biological standpoint and I think incorporating what we talked
about earlier, some of those different cycles on looking at their individual needs and you can kind of customize that because I think you know, kind of what Jen said earlier is that there's a lot of different books out there that will talk
about the new onesies of each of these but as a parent, I think you just have to find what works for you and their
biology is going to be different and their temperaments are different and it's not a one size fits all approach.
Come learn
about the
biology of sleep in babies,
from what current neuroscience and infant mental health tells us.
In the following 2011 TED talk, science reporter, author, and mother Annie Murphy Paul discusses the latest scientific evidence gathered
from the fields of
biology and psychology suggesting that some of our most important learning
about the world happens before we are even born.
Animals can tell us so much
about our common — or «conserved» -
biology because we evolved
from a common ancestor.
Mike Webster
from the University of St Andrews, UK, says that this study provides information
about the basic
biology and ecology of an underexplored ecosystem and will hopefully allow us to monitor and perhaps slow the impacts we have on this ecosystem.
Sarah Zielinski wanted to be a marine biologist when she was growing up, but after graduating
from Cornell University with a B.A. in
biology, and a stint at the National Science Foundation, she realized that she didn't want to spend her life studying just one area of science — she wanted to learn
about it all and share that knowledge with the public.
Meanwhile, his team has continued to learn new things
about elephant seal
biology from ongoing studies of the northern elephant seals at UC's Año Nuevo Natural Reserve.
Posselt writes that, in some cases, including astrophysics and
biology, admissions committees made allowances for certain «specific «underrated» universities whose reputations for strong training in the field surpassed their college or university's relatively weak overall ranking,» but she provides no hints
about which programs these may be, so it is not clear whether any are at institutions that enroll significant numbers of students
from non-elite or minority backgrounds.
Ask a cross-section of scientists how they got into cancer research, and you'll hear
about a dizzying variety of routes
from fields as diverse as
biology, pharmacology, mathematics, and medicine.
Autonomous underwater vehicles will glide outward
from these moorings along preprogrammed paths, capturing details
about the physics, chemistry and
biology of broad areas around the moorings.
Most ethical, policy and media discussions
about synthetic
biology start
from the assumption that these aims have already been achieved: that
biology has become easy to engineer for whatever ends we choose, that the toolbox is available to any student or potential terrorist, that dangerous organisms and powerful bioweapons are easy to make, and that no effective regulation is possible.
Rather he and his colleagues hope that future versions of the guide will incorporate information
about the
biology of mental illness to better distinguish one disorder
from another.
At its most basic, synthetic
biology is
about making DNA
from scratch, on scales
from individual molecules to cells, tissues and even entire organisms.
Susan Gaidos has been writing
about discoveries in areas ranging
from biology and neuroscience to physics and technology for more than three decades.
But in the lab of Nikolov's adviser, Charles Davis, provocative facts
about Rafflesia evolution are starting to pile up, and they could prove useful in a range of fields,
from the
biology of scent to parasitology.
As the three clinical trials progressed over the course of
about 8 years, so did techniques in determining desire, says Kingsberg, a reproductive
biology and psychology researcher at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio, and consultant to Sprout Pharmaceuticals, which bought flibanserin
from Boehringer Ingelheim in 2011, and was in turn purchased last week by Valeant Pharmaceuticals.
A special show all
about synthetic
biology,
from clinical applications and regulatory issues to the do - it - yourself
biology movement.
Though little is known
about Loki, scientists hope that it will help to resolve one of
biology's biggest mysteries: how life transformed
from simple single - celled organisms to the menagerie of complex life known as eukaryotes — a category that includes everything
from yeast to azaleas to elephants.
When factoring in what is now known
about breast cancer
biology and heterogeneity, breast conserving therapy (BCT) may offer a greater survival benefit over mastectomy to women with early stage, hormone - receptor positive disease, according to research
from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
A novel Yale study answers age - old questions
about how cancers spread by applying tools
from evolutionary
biology.
Although the percentage of doctorates awarded to women in life sciences increased
from 15 to 52 percent between 1969 and 2009, only
about a third of assistant professors and less than a fifth of full professors in
biology - related fields in 2009 were female.
Friedberg understood something
about his students that others missed, Bitton says: He «recognized that not everybody could learn the things they were teaching in traditional
biology classes
from a textbook or in 2D.»
And many exchanges were heated because, despite 150 years of research on the
biology of evolution, scientists still disagree
about how and why multicellular creatures and plants emerged
from ancient oceans that teemed with robust and self - reliant single - celled entities.
A new book
about evolutionary
biology prefers its analogies to come
from modern society's complex relationships
About a third of the 150 cell biologists, biophysicists, and technicians already hired for the new center have been drawn
from the European Molecular
Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, the hub of molecular and cell
biology research in Europe for a quarter - century.
Using methods and ideas
from mathematics, physics and
biology, they characterized the shape of eggs
from about 1,400 species of birds and developed a model that explains how an egg's membrane determines its shape.
During the 2004 cicada emergence in Baltimore, one of the administrators in my graduate
biology department told me she was fielding phone calls daily
from people with questions
about cicadas.
Related sites Background on the Anopheles project
from the European Molecular
Biology Laboratory Genoscope's page
about the project Frank Collins's vector
biology program at the University of Notre Dame