Sentences with phrase «as biologists call»

While turning a bunch of flies yellow may sound innocuous, «gene drives» — as biologists call the cellular machinery that guarantees inheritance — have enormous potential promise as well as risks.

Not exact matches

Some philosophers and biologists thought so; in fact, the so - called finalists contended that organic evolution as a whole was designed to bring man into existence.

As a behavioral scientist (biologist), I know that there are some that argue that true altruism rarily» if ever, is truly exhibited... there will always be some sort of compensation or benefit from a so called selfless act.

What is it that distinguishes «micro-evolution» as you (but no biologist) calls it from macro evolution?

Groups such as mammals and frogs are known to have rebounded rapidly after that event, diversifying into multiple new forms as they occupied newly available niches — a process evolutionary biologists called adaptive radiation.

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.

Evolu - tionary biologist Casey Dunn of Brown University in Providence, R.I., has frequently been frustrated by what he calls «Jellies are scary» articles, which treat gelatinous animals as a sign of unhealthy ecosystems.

It engages the mechanisms of reciprocal altruism, as the evolutionary biologists call it, as opposed to raw dominance.

Many so - called «charismatic megafauna,» which conservationists select as mascots — or «poster children», are chosen for their looks rather than their ecological importance, notes biologist David Stokes of the University of Washington in Bothell.

Join biologist and photographer Mark W. Moffet of the Smithsonian Institution — who has been called the «Indiana Jones of entomology» — as he journeys to the Amazon, Nigeria, Borneo and beyond to uncover the secret lives of ants.

Harvard University evolutionary biologist Daniel Lieberman, who was not involved in the study, called it a «creative analysis» and saw the team's conclusions as reasonable.

«Altruistic suicide,» as social - insect biologists call it.

THE story behind the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 began nine years earlier, when Janos Vargha, a biologist from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences began a new career as a writer with a small monthly nature magazine called Buvar.

Biologists studying great right whales (such as Roger Payne in Argentine Patagonia) recognize individuals by the unique patterns of whitish growths, called callosities, on the whales» heads.

To find out why, computational biologists came up with a computer model to predict how microbial metabolism and cellular composition change as cell size varies, using details about how much space a bacterium needs for its components — DNA, proteins, and the molecular factories called ribosomes — to function.

So - called RNA viruses are rogues: smaller, fast - replicating shape - shifters, descended from a time that evolutionary biologists refer to as the RNA world, back near the base of life's tree, before today's DNA - based organisms evolved.

Biologist Christian de Duve went so far as to call life «a cosmic imperative.»

In May Vanderbilt University biologist Laurence Zwiebel announced that a compound called VUAA1 is not only 100,000 times as strong as DEET but also potentially cheaper and less harmful to humans.

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.»

But in 2010, Stephen Rossiter, an evolutionary biologist at Queen Mary, University of London, and his colleagues determined that both types of echolocating bats, as well as dolphins, had the same mutations in a particular protein called prestin, which affects the sensitivity of hearing.

Meanwhile, behavioral biologist Henrik Brumm of the University of St. Andrews found that male nightingales have cranked up their mating calls as much as 14 decibels to remain audible over urban sounds.

Systems biology organizations don't usually hire systems biologists, because, as OISB Director Daniel Figeys says, few people have the skills to call themselves systems biologists.

The wispy, ankle - high mustard plant called Arabidopsis serves as a model system for plant biologists.

As a result, biologists have reasoned that the tiny amphibians should behave «rationally,» consistently selecting the male with the most ear - catching call.

During the 20th century, evolutionary biologists such as Ernst Mayr, J.B.S. Haldane, Julian Huxley, and Theodosius Dobzhansky combined Darwinian evolution with our emerging knowledge of genetics to produce the «modern synthesis» that we call evolutionary biology today.

There were hints that a chaperone called heat shock protein 104 (Hsp104) was different: Cell biologist Susan Lindquist of the University of Chicago and her colleagues had shown that yeast lacking Hsp104 couldn't dissolve protein clumps as well as normal controls — suggesting that Hsp104 was needed to untangle gnarled proteins.

The process brings together First Nations, as Native Canadians are called here, conservation biologists, business interests and various layers of government.

ASBMB: You initially were trained as a molecular biologist and have been called a biological chemistry convert.

Mitochondria are the powerhouses of the cell, as biologist Philip Siekevitz called them in 1957.

Nanog is a critical factor required for what cell biologists call «stemness,» which is defined by two qualities: the ability of ES cells to divide or «self - renew» and their plasticity in assuming the identity of almost any cell type, which is also known as «pluripotency.»

Evoking 2016's Arrival, the film stars Natalie Portman as a grieving scientist — she's a biologist who specializes in cancer cell research at Johns Hopkins — who's called to investigate an extraterrestrial phenomenon.

An academic biologist and ex-Army doctor (Natalie Portman) is grieving for her Sgt. husband, who was sent into this growing, living protoplasmic biosphere that scientists have taken to calling «The Shimmer,» as perfectly descriptive a name as you could imagine.

The film follows an expedition into a mysterious zone called Area X. Lena (Portman), a biologist and former soldier, joins a mission to uncover what happened to her husband (Isaac) inside the zone — a sinister and mysterious phenomenon that is expanding across the American coastline, known as The Shimmer Once inside, the expedition discovers a world of mutated landscape and creatures, as dangerous as it is beautiful, that threatens both their lives and their sanity.

At the meeting in London this week on a proposal to denote this moment on Earth as a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, the biologist Erle Ellis noted that most ecological units that biologists traditionally called biomes are now really «anthromes.»

In my talk, I described the park as a positive example of what the biologist Erle C. Ellis calls «anthromes» — «ecological patterns created by sustained direct human interactions with ecosystems.»

As a lifelong animal lover, Wood was inspired to his calling by fellow biologist Bill Adams.