Susan Euling, now employed
as a biologist with the EPA's National Center for Environmental Assessment, found the Environmental Fellows Program to be the perfect way to combine her love of the environment with her laboratory training as a postdoc in developmental biology.
As a biologist with a modern scientific library, I know more than Darwin knew.
Not exact matches
Nils Lonberg, a Harvard - trained molecular
biologist who worked at Medarex, had figured out not only how to engineer a mouse
with human immune genes but also how to make antibodies from these genes that were fully human
as well.
As a Biologist he should know the iterizations of error science goes through to get even one «fact:» remotely close to do something useful with as technolog
As a
Biologist he should know the iterizations of error science goes through to get even one «fact:» remotely close to do something useful
with as technolog
as technology.
In short, the irreducible complexity of molecular systems is controversial among molecular
biologists when it is presented
as an idea
with philosophical consequences, and tacitly accepted
as reality when it remains in the world of innocent fact.
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.
Only a few
biologists have actually lived
with animals in their native habitats in order to study their behavior there, and the results are not always recognized
as «scientific», since they are not readily repeatable in the fashion required by science.
Some
biologists try to preserve a modified form of scriptural inerrancy by quoting the verse «a day is
as a thousand years,» and then showing that after all Genesis agrees fairly well
with evolution.
However mad it may seem, the fact remains that great modern
biologists, such
as Julian Huxley and J. B. S. Haldane, are beginning to talk of Mankind, and to predict its future,
as though they were dealing (all things being equal)
with a brain of brains.
She is currently working on an anthology concerning approaches to environmental problems
with a
biologist and has published an article on Whitehead's metaphysical system
as a foundation for environmental ethics in Environmental Ethics 8/3.
As a
biologist who was presented
with a mechanistic, substance image of reality, the author found that process theology lifted the richness of human experience to a level that gave him a new perspective of care for all creation.
3At present, for example, the well - entrenched neo-Darwinian hypothesis of «gradualism» (biological evolution occurs slowly, and more or less continuously
as the constant interplay of random variations and natural selection over vast periods of time) is confronted
with a somewhat more radical and neo-Lamarckian theory of «punctuated equilibrium» favored by Harvard
biologists Stephen Jay Gould and Peter Williamson, collaborated by fossil discoveries of paleontologist and cultural anthropologist Richard Leakey in Africa.
As a biological anthropology major I've read Richard Dawkins (who I admire as an intellectual and work as a biologist) but the difference is I know see the natural world and life itself with a different lenses, not denying anything that science, reason and logic has to offer but only enhancing it with a different purpos
As a biological anthropology major I've read Richard Dawkins (who I admire
as an intellectual and work as a biologist) but the difference is I know see the natural world and life itself with a different lenses, not denying anything that science, reason and logic has to offer but only enhancing it with a different purpos
as an intellectual and work
as a biologist) but the difference is I know see the natural world and life itself with a different lenses, not denying anything that science, reason and logic has to offer but only enhancing it with a different purpos
as a
biologist) but the difference is I know see the natural world and life itself
with a different lenses, not denying anything that science, reason and logic has to offer but only enhancing it
with a different purpose.
Funny how you religious types never have a problem
with the people who invent bombs, but
as soon
as us
biologists start talking about evolution, then we've crossed a line.
Evolutionary
biologists,
with some notable exceptions, such
as Dobzhansky (1967), Wright (1969), Waddington (1961) Rensch (1961), and Thorpe (1965), scarcely seem to recognize that this is a problem requiring interpretation.
Miller's remark that the triumph of theory «is evident in the violence and irrationality» of attacks on it repeats the scornful confidence
with which Haeckel refers to those (distinguished contemporary physicists and
biologists among them) who refused to abandon the «faith of our fathers»
as they attacked his new monistic religion.
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.
Evolutionary
biologists for the most part deal
with living organisms
as objects and not
as subjects, so it is not altogether surprising that they do not take account of the subjective.
However, it is sheds full of thousands of animals living
with their own excrement that are the real source of a massive public health threat — those sheds are «food for flu»
as evolutionary
biologist Rob Wallace states.
For sturgeon, that can be quite literal,
as they are susceptible to lethal collisions
with ships,» said Dr. Phil Willink, senior research
biologist at Shedd Aquarium.
The reviewer wrote, «[i] t would probably... be beneficial to find one or two male
biologists to work
with (or at least obtain internal peer review from, but better yet
as active co-authors)» to prevent the manuscript from «drifting too far away from empirical evidence into ideologically biased assumptions.»
Stacey Baker, public engagement program associate at AAAS and a trained
biologist, spoke
with a teenager who wants to study biology about the many paths open to scientists and the other elements beyond your field of study — such
as they type of work environment a candidate might be seeking — to keep in mind when selecting a career.
Just
as today's engineers design integrated circuits based on the known physical properties of materials and use them to create electronic devices
with amazing capabilities, tomorrow's synthetic
biologists are poised to design and build biological systems that are custom - tailored to make a better world.
Coat the surfaces
with an adhesive such
as Tissue - Tek, sticky gunk that
biologists use to affix cells to microscope plates, and chill the plates to freezing.
Intrigued, after finishing her Ph.D. in 1983, she decided to study telomeres
as a postdoc
with Harvard Medical School chromosome
biologist Jack Szostak.
For Gorbunova, Pereira - Smith also serves
as a role model in another way: Gorbunova, too, works
with her husband, cell
biologist Andrei Seluanov.
«
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 Program
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 Program
as a doctoral student at Dartmouth and who is now a conservation
biologist with Disney's Animal Programs.
Nanoplasmonic materials have attracted the attention of
biologists, chemists, physicists and material scientists,
with possible uses in a diverse array of fields, such
as biosensing, data storage, light generation and solar cells.
Also look at the institution's broader scientific environment, because «you can benefit from help even from people that are not
with the label «biomaterials,»» says Dupont - Gillain, who,
as a bioengineer and physical chemist, collaborates
with colleagues in surface science and cell
biologists to develop biomimetic surfaces that can trigger desired cell behaviors.
Yet,
as Collins, a
biologist at the University of Miami's College of Arts and Sciences who studies the mechanics of neural circuits, notes, «Even the simplest animal
with the simplest neural circuits have so much going on.»
The language of the Wilderness Act describes man
as a «visitor who does not remain»; Jim and Holly Akenson, wildlife
biologists with an exemption, live at the property year - round.
Biologist Frank Collins of the University of Notre Dame in Indiana realized that the answer was
as close
as the lab next door, which for 30 years had been maintaining a colony of mutant mosquitoes
with white eyes instead of the usual reddish brown.
Vamsi Mootha, a mitochondrial
biologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, his graduate student Isha Jain, and their colleagues used a popular DNA - editing tool called CRISPR to knock out about 18,000 different genes in human cells that were altered to have the same problems
as people
with mitochondrial diseases.
The answer may come
with better GPS technology that can measure the birds» vertical positions
as well
as their horizontal ones, says
biologist Ty Hedrick of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
As a graduate student at the University of California, San Francisco, he heard molecular
biologist Cynthia Kenyon describe how worms
with a mutation in a particular gene had double the lifespan of those without it.
A physician and cell
biologist who won a 1972 Nobel Prize for his work describing the structure of antibodies, Edelman is now obsessed
with the enigma of human consciousness — except that he does not see it
as an enigma.
«Transposable elements have been
with us since the beginning of evolution,»
as evolutionary
biologist Josefa González says.
As a molecular
biologist and mentor
with more than 23 years of experience navigating success and failure at the bench, I certainly understand the complicated relationship researchers have
with motivation — and have experienced it firsthand.
Elizabeth Hadly, a
biologist at Stanford University, gave a personal account of her experience
as a scientist engaging
with nonscientists, specifically artists, government officials, and military officers.
Even
as scientists in other fields struggle to find jobs, computational
biologists are being snapped up
as soon
as they graduate
with lucrative salary offers, says Russ Altman, a professor of bioengineering, genetics, and medicine and director of the biomedical informatics training program at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.
Claire Kremen, a conservation
biologist at the University of California, Berkeley (and Harmon - Threatt's mentor), has shown that the diversity of pollinators drops
with increasing distance from wild habitat,
as does the number of visits by wild bees to flowering crops.
Lim's team sits in the NUS Mechanobiology Institute and the faculty of engineering, and
as he consults
with biologists and clinicians
as dictated by the nature of his various projects, he stresses the need for engineers and physical scientists to partner
with medical doctors early and regularly in the innovation process.
For three years, Stanford
biologist Jose Fragoso and his collaborators worked
with these people to collect extensive information on local plant and animal species,
as well
as demographic information on the nearly 10,000 residents of the Rupununi region.
HFSP supports interdisciplinary, basic life - science research, emphasizing international collaborations that bring
biologists together
with scientists from fields such
as the physical sciences, computer science, and engineering.
Biologist Vojtech Novotny has to cope
with warring tribes
as he works in one of the most biologically diverse regions on Earth
With the genetics of the entire species known, it should be possible for the
biologists working on captive breeding programmes to act
as matchmaker and reduce the risk.
At Tufts, Weidhaas worked
with John Coffin, a leading molecular
biologist who saw her
as extraordinarily gifted and focused.
He hopes to pursue projects such
as developing therapeutics
with chemists, working
with biophysicists to study protein conformational changes relevant to viral entry into the cell, and investigating cellular trafficking pathways relevant to the viral life cycle in collaboration
with cell
biologists.
Before
biologists even think about managing a population,
as with the pronghorn, a rough inventory must be taken.
In order to design the most goat - like body, Thwaites teams up
with biologists to dissect Venus, a Buttercups goat that passed away
as a result of Johne's disease.