Sentences with phrase «as a biologist leading»

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The postulation of extraneous organizational principles leads biologists like Monod to classify Polanyi's thought as vitalistic.2 (Vitalism is the philosophy of nature which holds that the existence of life is exclusively the result of some extra-material principle totally different from matter.)

There have been many such changes, 8 so significant, in fact, that one wonders if Darwin must not be regarded, even by the biologists themselves, more as a precursor of developments leading to present - day evolutionary thinking rather than as a continuing historical source of our scientific understanding of man.

Anyone who suggests anything else is dismissed by many leading biologists, such as Monod and Luria, as a Lamarckist if not a Lysenkoist.

All biologists agree that the behavior of organisms as a whole is directive, in the sense that in the course of evolution some at least of it has been modified by selection so as to lead with greater or less certainty towards states which favour the survival and reproduction of the individual.

The study, published today in the online journal PeerJ, will be available to federal and state wildlife agencies for their consideration to determine whether distinct geographic population segments of the coastal marten warrant state or federal listing as threatened or endangered, said Katie Moriarty, a certified wildlife biologist and lead co-author on the study.

The reserve is one of the largest in the world and has been heralded as a huge success, but this study, led by conservation biologist Leah Gerber of Arizona State University in Tempe, highlights one possible down - side to the reserve.

Dr Evans led an international team of anthropologists and developmental biologists from Finland, USA, UK and Germany, using a new extensive database on fossil hominins and modern humans collected over several decades, as well as high resolution 3D imaging to see inside the fossil teeth.

«As phenology is advancing around the globe, there are concerns that plant - pollinator interactions may be disrupted through phenological mismatches, or mismatches in the timing of when flowers bloom and their pollinators emerge, leading to reduced plant reproduction,» says lead author Zak Gezon, who conducted the research as a doctoral student at Dartmouth and who is now a conservation biologist with Disney's Animal ProgramAs phenology is advancing around the globe, there are concerns that plant - pollinator interactions may be disrupted through phenological mismatches, or mismatches in the timing of when flowers bloom and their pollinators emerge, leading to reduced plant reproduction,» says lead author Zak Gezon, who conducted the research as a doctoral student at Dartmouth and who is now a conservation biologist with Disney's Animal Programas a doctoral student at Dartmouth and who is now a conservation biologist with Disney's Animal Programs.

Using the fossil record as a guide, a research team led by Yale paleontologist and developmental biologist Bhart - Anjan S. Bhullar and Harvard developmental biologist Arhat Abzhanov conducted the first successful reversion of a bird's skull features.

So Anderson, Seattle's lead invertebrate biologist, began to wonder: If keepers recognize octopuses as individuals, how much difference is there among individual octopuses?

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.

At Tufts, Weidhaas worked with John Coffin, a leading molecular biologist who saw her as extraordinarily gifted and focused.

A new study led by biologist R. Thomas Zoeller of the University of Massachusetts Amherst provides «the strongest evidence to date» that endocrine disrupting chemicals such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) found in flame retardant cloth, paint, adhesives and electrical transformers, can interfere with thyroid hormone action in pregnant women and may travel across the placenta to affect the fetus.

The renowned Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson has claimed that the introduction of alien species is second only to habitat destruction as the leading cause of extinctions worldwide.

No jut - jawed military escort leads the way; biologist Shannon Dominick wears a striped sweater as she strolls through this Fort Knox of fungus, merrily discussing certain specimens in the vaults that are commonly called «dog vomit fungi.»

British newspapers reported this weekend that Ian Wilmut, the University of Edinburgh biologist who led the team that in 1997 cloned Dolly the sheep, is getting out of the cloning business in light of the new findings, which seem to offer researchers a likely new source of stem cell lines for basic research that could one day lead to new treatments and perhaps cures for spinal injuries, diabetes and debilitating disorders such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease.

«We culture typical skin cell of the epidermis, such as human keratinocytes, in our dishes to form an artificial epidermis with all of its natural layers,» explained Sibylle Thude, the biologist who led the investigation into the accreditation.

Anticipating the arrival of B. dendrobatidis in El Copé, Panama, as a wave of infection advanced from the northwest of the country, co-author Karen Lips, a biologist at the University of Maryland in College Park, began leading field surveys in the 4 - kilometer area in 1998.

The discovery comes as a surprise to some biologists, but it may eventually help clarify why certain human eye defects arise and lead to ways to repair damaged or diseased eyes.

«They are going strong,» says biologist Jef Boeke of New York University, who helped lead the research as part of the Synthetic Yeast 2.0 project — an effort to build a synthetic genome for yeast that would give scientists nearly complete control of it.

A team of developmental biologists led by Hans Schöler and Karen Hübner at the University of Pennsylvania placed densely packed clusters of stem cells from mouse embryos in a petri dish, using fetal calf serum as a growth medium and adding a gene protein that turns green when germ cells form.

According to Gunther Donn, the cell biologist leading the research, Hoechst hopes that it will be possible to use Basta as a «post-emergent» herbicide, after crops, and any weeds, have put out leaves.

«Cats are known as picky eaters,» said Monell molecular biologist and study lead author Peihua Jiang, PhD.

Scientists were even more stunned in July 2002 when researchers led by stem cell biologist Catherine Verfaillie at the University of Minnesota reported that bone marrow — derived cells they had injected into young embryos contributed to all three embryonic layers, just as embryonic stem cells would do.

Led by reproductive biologist Alex Travis, the engineering effort focuses on a chain of enzymes that metabolize glucose molecules into the biological fuel ATP (a process known as glycolysis), which enables sperm locomotion.

In February a group led by biologist Stephen G. Willis of Durham University in the U.K. reported that they had introduced two butterfly species — known as the marbled white (shown here) and the small skipper — into new habitats about 40 miles and 22 miles, respectively, from their homes.

In another paper in the same issue, a team led by molecular biologist Ronald Plasterk, now at the Hubrecht Laboratory in Utrecht, the Netherlands, reports an intriguing twist: The same genes appear to be responsible for both RNAi and another gene - silencing mechanism known as cosuppression, in which adding extra copies of a gene cause both the new and the existing copies of that gene to be shut down.

«The Channel Islands MPAs appear to be fulfilling their role as refuges for many fish and invertebrate species,» said lead author Jennifer Caselle, a research biologist at UCSB's Marine Science Institute (MSI).

«We think of plankton as the tiny alphabet soup of the ocean, floating around passively while larger organisms eat it,» says biologist Gregory Gavelis, who lead the study while a researcher at the University of British Columbia (UBC).

«They were clearly using the humans as a shield,» says Sam Steyaert, a wildlife biologist at NMBU and the study's lead author.

Same - sex sexual behaviour is common in animals but puzzles evolutionary biologists since it doesn't carry the same obvious benefits as heterosexual courtship behavior that leads to mating and production of offspring.

Lead author, Dr. Simeon Hill, a marine biologist at BAS, said: «Each year, growth of Antarctic krill in the Southern Ocean produces new material that weighs twice as much as all the sugar produced in the world.

As my responsibilities have changed, I have come to realize that professional membership organizations like AAAS (the publisher of Science and ScienceCareers.org) and the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB)-- the organization I direct — provide among the most effective networking opportunities that you can find, leading more often than you might imagine to new professional opportunities, as well as building a strong and lasting sense of communitAs my responsibilities have changed, I have come to realize that professional membership organizations like AAAS (the publisher of Science and ScienceCareers.org) and the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB)-- the organization I direct — provide among the most effective networking opportunities that you can find, leading more often than you might imagine to new professional opportunities, as well as building a strong and lasting sense of communitas well as building a strong and lasting sense of communitas building a strong and lasting sense of community.

A group led by Piero Carninci, a biologist at Omics, looked at how genetic elements known as retrotransposons scattered through genomes affect the synthesis of RNA.

To figure out what goes wrong in these mice, a team led by Jeremy Nathans, a molecular biologist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, examined the skin of newborn Frizzled6 and normal mice under a microscope each day as their first hairs grew in.

Professor Alfonso Martinez - Arias from the Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge, who led the research, says: «Gastrulation was described by biologist Professor Lewis Wolpert as being «truly the most important event in your life» because it creates the blueprint of an organism.

«The field was over-ripe, but not moving as fast as it could,» says George Church, a geneticist and synthetic biologist at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who played a leading role in the HGP.

Even more surprising, said evolutionary biologist William Bradshaw, of the University of Oregon, in Eugene, who led the study, is that this evolutionary change can occur in as little as five years.

In Beyond Biocentrism, acclaimed biologist Robert Lanza, one of TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in 2014, and leading astronomer Bob Berman, take the reader on an intellectual thrill - ride as they re-examine everything we thought we knew about life, death, the universe and the nature of reality itself.

Humans seem to have the same problem as any other animal, said lead author Corsin Müller, a cognitive biologist at the Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna.

Dr. Ding, one of the world's leading chemical biologists in stem - cell science, earlier this year joined Gladstone and the faculty at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), as a professor of pharmaceutical chemistry.

Dr. Padliya spearheaded collaborations with immunologists and cell biologists that led to the issue of two U.S. patents, one pending U.S. patent application, and the publication of one journal article as senior author.

Take the scene early on in which the film's heroes — an all - female government expedition, led by biologist Lena (Natalie Portman), tasked with exploring a quarantined zone known only as «Area X» — encounter a mutated alligator large enough to be mistaken for a small dinosaur, surreal enough to be a mass hallucination.

Now, he's picked up a higher budget and has brought Jeff VanderMeer's novel to the big screen with Natalie Portman in the lead as an ex-military biologist whose military husband returns after a mysterious one - year absence.

This means that bonus returning cast member BD Wong as Dr Henry Wu, the original lead biologist of the park, has been back to play with even more test tubes.

Natalie Portman stars as a biologist who leads a quintet of women — including Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, and Tuva Novotny — into «the Shimmer,» a nebulous disaster area that seems like «the Zone» in Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker reimagined as a Predator movie.

As for the main threats to wildlife, leading biologists and environmental watchdogs agree: human - led activities — including climate change, habitat destruction, and development — are far and away the number one cause of wildlife depletion.

We're leading a movement to overcome local and national challenges caused by free - roaming cats, bringing about change by conveying the most current scientific information, promoting science - based policies, and working with diverse stakeholders such as animal shelters, veterinarians, wildlife rehabilitators, and conservation biologists.

Entry level jobs involving animal care can lead to further educational or business opportunities, and those who start as caretakers may advance to careers as biologists, veterinary technicians, veterinarians, kennel owners, animal trainers, etc..

As John puts it: «It turns out that profit - seeking fishermen should want to catch even fewer fish than the «sustainable» number calculated by biologists, because leaving more fish in the ocean leads to bigger populations that make for easier and more lucrative fishing in the long run.»