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Those who believe these nonsensical ideas DO hold the rest back - be it in creationist ideas
about biology, or stem
cell research, or limiting over-population via contraception, you name it.
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've known that in a general sort of way for a long time, but the concept really hit me earlier in the semester when I started taking
biology and learning more
about cells and nutrition.
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about molecular and
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about ecology, evolution, molecular and
cell biology, genetics, and plant sciences.
Above all, synthetic
biology «requires a new way of thinking
about biology: the idea that
cells are machines and they can be rebuilt the way that electrical engineers now design circuits [and] instruments,» Glass says.
Science Careers talked to Riccardo Guidi, a Ph.D. student at KI, in the department of
cell and molecular
biology, and co-founder of Queerolinska,
about the Pride Parade and what it meant for lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgendered (LGBT) students.
«There's so much unknown
about [stem
cells], you permanently change the boundaries of
biology by working in such a field,» Hochedlinger says.
Dong Wook Han, a professor of stem -
cell biology at Konkuk University in Seoul, is worried
about how the country regulates clinical research on stem
cells.
«There has been ongoing debate
about whether the methylation mark can be passed on through
cell divisions and across generations, and we've now shown that it is,» said corresponding author Susan Strome, a professor of molecular,
cell and developmental
biology at UC Santa Cruz.
During this period, he became interested in
cell and molecular
biology thanks in part to discussions he had with a roommate
about his graduate research in Iowa's microbiology program.
Efforts to obtain and study genomes and enrichment cultures of uncultivated microbial lineages will likely further expand our knowledge
about archaeal phylogenetic and metabolic diversity and their
cell biology and ecological function.
Studying the vying for nutrients in the
cell «will teach us really interesting
biology about how the
cell senses the presence of a parasite metabolically, and how the
cell is able to metabolically respond,» Pernas says — knowledge that could lead to new therapies.
At its most basic, synthetic
biology is
about making DNA from scratch, on scales from individual molecules to
cells, tissues and even entire organisms.
Hwang said the study would provide data
about the best candidates for active surveillance, and create a repository of imaging and
cell samples to advance knowledge into the molecular
biology of DCIS and what fuels or deters its growth.
«This is an important and fundamental paper for understanding human germ - line
cells and finding the basic information
about human germ -
cell biology,» says reproductive biologist Evelyn Telfer of the University of Edinburgh, UK.
«By learning more
about how these
cells work, we are one step closer to understanding the disease states in which these
cells should be studied,» said Cagla Eroglu, an assistant professor of
cell biology and neurobiology at the Duke University Medical Center, who led the research.
James Hewett, associate professor of
biology, and Yifan Gong, a Ph.D. candidate in
biology and neuroscience, have co-authored an article in the journal Neuroscience (Elsevier, 2018)
about a protein in the brain called T -
cell intracellular antigen - 1 (TIA - 1).
However, little is known in humans
about the
biology of CD4 - CTL generation, their functional properties, and heterogeneity, especially in relation to other well - described CD4 + memory T
cell subsets.
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.
«We're excited
about the application of CombiGEM to probe complex multifactorial phenotypes, such as stem
cell differentiation, cancer
biology, and synthetic circuits,» Lu says.
At that time, little was known
about the molecular
biology of development — how what's going on in the development process itself influences what can happen to the evolutionary trajectory of
cells and organisms.
Wei - Chuan Shih, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, said fluorescence microscopy is «a workhorse,» used in
biology, medical diagnostics and other fields to reveal information
about cells and tissue that can't otherwise be detected.
«The exciting part of this work is not just that we made hydrogels, but that we're now equipped with this powerful technique that lets us ask fundamental — and very challenging — questions
about them,» says Takanari Inoue, Ph.D., an associate professor of
cell biology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and senior author of the report on the research published online Nov. 6 in the journal Nature Materials.
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.
As we started to try to understand the
biology of these stem
cells, it very quickly became clear that we needed information
about the genetic content of these organisms.»
As an undergraduate
biology major at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, Niyogi focused on molecular and
cell biology and thought
about immunology or transcription factors as a potential field of study.
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.
But while we have decades of data in mice
about these nervous system support
cells, how relevant those experiments are to human
biology (and the success of potential therapies) has been an open question.
He is «an unusual character» who's distinctive for «bringing epidemiological thinking and methodology into dialogue with molecular and
cell biology» to answer important questions
about aging, says gerontologist Thomas Kirkwood of the University of Newcastle in Newcastle - upon - Tyne, U.K.
So it could be RNA or DNA like we have in modern
biology or it could be some related kind of material; and we are also thinking
about some kind of
cell envelope or
cell membrane — not that that's necessarily the very first way Darwinian systems began, but at some point they had to transition into a system more related to modern
biology where
cells are all bounded by membranes — so we're thinking
about how to assemble these two components and get them to interact with each other.
«While genetic modification of crops can introduce new beneficial traits into existing crops, the resulting products need to be tested for long - term health effects before making assumptions
about their impact on human health,» said senior investigator Frances Sladek, a professor of
cell biology and neuroscience at UC Riverside.
Another dogma in
cell biology seems
about to be toppled: If a mutation in a gene doesn't change the basic sequence of building blocks, then it has no effect.
However, lipids provide a useful tool for systems
biology, because «they can be quantified, which tells us
about the state of a
cell or tissue,» explains Kai Simons, CEO of Lipotype in Dresden, Germany.
Update: In an e-mail, a spokesman for Veridex said the collaboration with Mass General is «is just beginning,» so there are «no details
about what this future system will look like,» except that it will be small enough to sit on a lab bench and will be able to zero in on the
biology of rare
cells.
Clara Franzini — Armstrong writes
about Annemarie Weber, «a major contributor to the renaissance of muscle
biology research in the 1950s to 1970s, when the components of the contractile machinery were identified; novel views of muscle contraction and regulation were elucidated; and principles of energy transduction, motility and intracellular signaling common to all
cells were revealed.»
But it's one that bioethicists have warned
about for at least a dozen years, since advances in stem
cell biology made it easier to produce chimeras.
The workshop intended to serve as a tutorial
about mathematical and bioinformatics approaches in current stem
cell biology.
Andrew Huberman, PhD, University of California, San Diego, brings specialized knowledge
about the
biology of healthy ganglion
cells to the consortium.
Biorelevance is
about emphasizing on
biology and the study of nature to achieve reproducible protocols and phenotypically stable
cell cultures.
The workshop is organized by Ingo Roeder and Ingmar Glauche, Institute for Medical Informatics and Biometry and it is intended as a tutorial
about mathematical and bioinformatics approaches in current stem
cell biology.
«The last 50 years of structural
biology has been
about trying to get detailed pictures of all the parts of the
cell to understand them thoroughly,» Yeates said.
CIRM recognizes that continued advancement in stem
cell research requires an increasing number of experienced and highly skilled scientists who are passionate
about stem
cell biology.
This two - volume reference integrates this exciting area of
biology, combining the prerequisites for a general understanding of adult and embryonic stem
cells, the tools, methods, and experimental protocols needed to study and characterize stem
cells and progenitor populations, as well as a presentation by the world's experts of what is currently known
about each specific organ system.
His revolutionary findings
about oyster
cell biology were published in the journal Science in April 2004.
«Over the past year, the international scientific community, from physicians to computer scientists, has engaged in an open process to plan how to go
about making this revolutionary atlas,» said Aviv Regev, a core member, chair of faculty, and director of the Klarman
Cell Observatory and
Cell Circuits Program at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; an HHMI Investigator; professor of
biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and co-chair, with Sarah Teichmann of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, of the HCA Organizing Committee.
We understand far more
about the
biology of retinal ganglion
cells and glaucoma — which ganglion
cells degenerate early.