Sentences with phrase «advancing our understanding of»

This technique has been used, as Arnold reports, to trace the progress of cancers, advance our understanding of obesity and diabetes, and prove that brain cells continue to form through a human being's lifetime.

«He not only advanced our understanding of the universe and its contents by his discoveries, but by provoking us to think about how the cosmos works,» said Tothill.

«Gaia will greatly advance our understanding of the universe on all cosmic scales,» Timo Prusti, a Gaia project scientist at ESA, said in a news release announcing the discovery.

If ever someone does bring forth such evidence, they will be heralded and awarded with a Nobel Prize for shattering one of the most well supported theories in science and we will all benefit for having advanced our understanding of our world.

I would, therefore, support morally responsible research that promises to advance our understanding of human biology and disease, even if such research made the path to human cloning easier.

This means that the philosopher's penchant for systematicity (which is characteristic of the rule of reason) must be understood, not as a means for advancing our understanding of the world as a whole, but rather as a self - generated illusion of mind as conditioned by the natural world.

Meanwhile, naturalists will continue to advance our understanding of the ways in which the universe works and apply that understanding to improvements in technology that add to our quality of life.

To answer such questions is to advance our understanding of civil religion.

But it is a use — the most likely use, at present — of advancing understanding of the human genome.

«The summit is a gathering of experts from all walks of the serialization landscape, a way to provide an advanced understanding of what new innovations in serialization technologies can bring to your business.»

Designed to help advance their understanding of hydration.

These instructional programs are great for beginners and kids looking to advance their understanding of the fundamentals of sports.

Youth leagues are for all ability levels and kids looking to advance their understanding of the fundamentals of the sport.

The workshop featured presentations from invited speakers and discussions to highlight research findings that advance our understanding of the effects of maternal care services in different types of institutional settings on maternal labor, clinical and other birth procedures, and birth outcomes.

Our Plan therefore articulates the unique role we will play in advancing the understanding of, and response to, this challenge.

The Wisconsin Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program is undertaking multiple efforts to advance understanding of adverse experiences during childhood and to promote trauma - informed practices.

As part of the Microbial Ecology Lab, he will help survey the many distinct habitats of Shedd's animal populations, analyzing how unseen members of complex ecosystems are impacted by changes in the environment, advancing the understanding of how these tiny microbes affect animal health.

Involved fathering and child development: Advancing our understanding of good fathering.

«The study advances our understanding of how the gut microbiome develops early in life,» Thompson said, «which is clearly a really important time period for a person's current and future health.»

As the discipline of IR matured in the 20th century, Realist theorists advanced understandings of states and conflicts as essentially rooted in human nature.

The British Election Study is committed to providing expertise which advances understanding of the British electorate to any interested party, as part of its broad commitment to public engagement and impact.

Such material is made available in an effort to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc..

Dedicated to adhering to the standards of and advancing the understanding of public opinion polls, The Marist Poll was accepted as a Charter Member of the American Association of Public Opinion Research's Transparency Initiative in 2014.

And keep in mind that one apology for your limited English skills is a courteous act, but don't use it as an excuse if you have an advanced understanding of the language.

«Discovery advances understanding of inflammatory bowel disease.»

The most effective way for scientists across disciplines to stand up for science is by reaching out to elected officials at the local, state and federal levels to offer evidence and findings to advance understanding of pressing issues from human health to the environment, said Holt and Ornstein.

That's a shame for the man who discovered what might prove to be the key clue to the theory of everything, advanced our understanding of space and time, helped shape the course of physics for the last four decades and whose insight continues to drive progress in fundamental physics today.

Beatrix Ann Hamburg, a renowned psychiatrist and academic researcher whose pioneering work advanced understanding of mental health for children and adolescents and shaped public policies related to improving the health of minorities, died on April 15.

«Stephen Hawking has done more to advance our understanding of gravitation than anyone since Einstein,» Carroll says.

Three - dimensional models of living tissue will advance understanding of human breast development as well as the growth of breast cancer.

These results significantly advance understanding of how cancer cells are made to move during metastasis and may provide more precise targets for drugs to stop cancer metastasis in patients where there are oncogenic mutations.

Each perplexing scenario forces us to examine the fine print of the problem, thereby advancing our understanding of the theory behind it.

Cognitive research has advanced understanding of children's scientific thinking, which informs how to teach science from preschool to middle school.

Wouldn't the ultimate harnessing of power allow a civilization to advance its understanding of dimensions and possibly transcend far beyond our current abilities?

- Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience Supports collaborations among computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians, statisticians, theoreticians and experimental neuroscientists, which are imperative to advance our understanding of the nervous system and mechanisms underlying brain disorders and have a significant impact on the theory and design of engineered systems.

Given the importance of ATP synthase in fueling the cell, determining the complete structure of the enzyme has been a scientific holy grail, promising to reveal secrets about the ATP machine that could lead to therapeutic target identification and advance understanding of metabolic disease and other cellular pathologies.

The new research advances the understanding of the bullies themselves, Connell said.

In revealing neural entrainment as a generalized strategy for improving sensitivity to informational peaks, this study takes significant steps toward advancing the understanding of human language and perception.

«This paper details an approach that we feel capitalizes on the best aspects of both research techniques to advance our understanding of the behavior of large groups and advance the field,» says Ned Smith, an associate professor of management and organizations at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, who is co-lead author of the paper.

They can be extended to the measurement of the Coulomb energy in other superconducting materials, to other phenomena such as magnetism, to other methods, and provide directions for the development of experiments which will further advance the understanding of superconductivity and other quantum phenomena.

From musing over plant specimens collected by Darwin to a blow - by - blow retelling of paleontology's bruising «Bone Wars,» veteran science writer Conniff lovingly chronicles the institution's role in advancing our understanding of everything

«Dr. Murai and his team have made a remarkable discovery that will advance our understanding of fundamental mechanisms that play a role in brain disease,» says Inez Jabalpurwala, president and CEO of Brain Canada Foundation.

«This not only advances our understanding of how the body responds to cold, but could lead to new ways to control the amount of brown fat in the body, which has links to obesity, diabetes and fatty liver disease,» says senior author Ronald Evans, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and holder of Salk's March of Dimes Chair in Molecular and Developmental Biology.

«Preterm infants fare well in early language development: Study advances understanding of earliest link between language and cognition in vulnerable population.»

Discovered in 1998 by a peat farmer, Fred's well - preserved bones have advanced our understanding of the massive animals» evolution.

Each of these researchers is creating new knowledge and advancing understanding of the world around us.

The project has advanced understanding of the genetic origins of childhood cancers and helped to build a foundation for the next generation of cancer diagnostic and treatment tools.

The Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology acknowledges the increasingly active and important role of neurobiology in advancing our understanding of the functioning of the brain and the nervous system.

In new research, scientists reprogrammed skin cells from patients with rare blood disorders into iPSCs, highlighting the great promise of these cells in advancing understanding of those challenging diseases — and eventually in treating them.

«SYK should advance our understanding of strange metals, which can, in turn, guide the development of high - temperature superconductors and help us pick the best ingredients for these materials,» he says.