Sentences with phrase «as systems biology»

The research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in September 2017, uses a combination of real - world bacterial culture results and medical records from nursing home patients, and a computing approach known as systems biology.

The current group of centers, residing at universities and medical research facilities across the country, addresses fields such as systems biology, image processing, and biophysical modeling, all of which are related to computational neuroscience.

This is emerging as a new scientific discipline as fields such as systems biology generate large amounts of data, driving a demand for facilities and methods for storing, managing, and analyzing large datasets.

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Ayyadurai bases his claims on systems biology, a computational model that looks at biology as a whole, rather than individual components.

Invoking history, physics, biology, climatology and his background in complex systems to debunk neoclassical economics, Orrell makes a plea for an unorthodox economics, one drawing on ethics and environmentalism as well as emerging areas of mathematics like non-linear dynamics and network theory.

It is a problem that holistic approaches to biology such as general systems theory have been most interested in, and it is the problem that prompted C. Lloyd Morgan to speculate about forms of relatedness.

These are the ideas which were first brought forward in biology by thinkers such as Needham and Woodger (with myself acquiescing on the side - lines) under the name «Organizing Relations,» and by Bertalanffy, who conducted a vigorous propaganda campaign on their behalf, under the name of «Systems Theory, and finally by Norbert Wiener, with equal fervour, as «Cybernetics.»

These days, as assistant professor in genomics and systems biology at Harvard University, she usually is listed last on papers that come out of her lab.

The Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute located in Melbourne, Australia, is a multidisciplinary facility that fuses traditional life sciences research such as biology, chemistry, and genetics with some of the latest technologies including nanotechnology, systems biology, and bioinformatics.

While most of biology and medicine focus on the key roles genes and chemicals play in the formation and control of living systems, the spatial arrangement of the components that make up those systems and the physical forces they experience are being increasingly recognized as equally important.

Such a dynamic mix of backgrounds is emerging as a fundamental requirement of effective work in this emerging field, systems biology.

The agency supports network science through individual institutes (for example, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences funds nine National Centers for Systems Biology, academic centers that emphasize network biology) and through agencywide initiatives (such as the National Technology Centers for Networks and Pathways, funded by the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research and the recently announced Human Connectome Project, which aims to map the connections among the human brain's 100 billion neurons).

The systems biology approach, where cross-disciplinary scientists work together as a team, can potentially make important contributions to research.

Those ideas crystallized and became part of the so - called biolinguistic framework, which looks at language as an element of human biology, rather like, say, the visual system.

Lead author Yarden Katz, a fellow at the center and in the department of systems biology at Harvard Medical School in Boston, says they were interested in examining the relationship between NIH funding and metrics widely used to indicate scientific quality and determine career advancement, such as publication, citation, and patent counts.

My cancer systems biology team at the University of California, Merced, is tackling diagnosis and treatment of therapy - resistant cancers by elucidating the network of changes within cells as a way to identify new drug targets and circumvent cancer resistance.

At the same time, fields that demand multidisciplinary cooperation such as translational medicine, climate science, and systems biology are on the rise.

Few of today's systems biology postgrads, postdocs, and group leaders were trained as interdisciplinary scientists.

I realize that your «Working Group On Review Of Bioengineering And Technology And Instrumentation Development Research», defined «bioengineering and technology» as encompassing areas such as biotechnology, functional genomics, informatics, chemistry and physics, nevertheless they did not discuss the problems experienced by physicists engaged in basic research on the frontier of physics and biology from the present system of study sections.

As a result, 3D cell culture systems have become a staple of cell biology.

In many respects, synthetic biology — a field that «aims to apply standardized engineering techniques to biology and thereby create organisms or biological systems with novel or specialized functions to address countless needs,» as the U.S. Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues defined it — is still very much in its infancy.

By fitting DNA into an engineering template, the messy field of biology emerges as a complex but somewhat predictable system — one that synthetic biologists have begun to maneuver in recent years.

The plenary address titled «Punctuated Equilibrium Meets Cancer: Big Promise Requires Big Change» will draw from evolutionary biology's punctuated equilibrium theory to set out why stable systems such as cancer research sometimes require swift and fundamental change to advance.

For example, among the latest EMBL selection for the international Ph.D. program, there are quite a few students of biology who financed their studies by working as system managers or software developers, i.e., with the right kind of general background.

Cucumber is a major vegetable crop consumed worldwide as well as a model system for sex determination and plant vascular biology.

CRISPR (pronounced crisper) burst on the scientific scene in 2012, when researchers transformed what had originally been identified as a rudimentary immune system in bacteria into one of the most powerful tools in molecular biology.

Joseph Wang at the University of California − San Diego and colleagues in Spain note that small tubular micro-machines have already proven useful in biology, with their ability to work as receptors or drug delivery systems.

In the research community, we've got to develop systems biology approaches, such as this one, that take a more sophisticated approach to get us where we need to be.»

«As far as we know, this is the first time anyone has used an insect system as a model for NIHL (noise - induced hearing loss),» says Daniel Eberl, UI biology professor and corresponding author on the studAs far as we know, this is the first time anyone has used an insect system as a model for NIHL (noise - induced hearing loss),» says Daniel Eberl, UI biology professor and corresponding author on the studas we know, this is the first time anyone has used an insect system as a model for NIHL (noise - induced hearing loss),» says Daniel Eberl, UI biology professor and corresponding author on the studas a model for NIHL (noise - induced hearing loss),» says Daniel Eberl, UI biology professor and corresponding author on the study.

It's only 1 year old, but the Ottawa Institute for Systems Biology (OISB) is emerging as Canada's most important systems biology organiSystems Biology (OISB) is emerging as Canada's most important systems biology organisystems biology organization.

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

«The purpose of the paper was to provide the detailed recipes and protocols so that others can easily duplicate the work and help to further permeate the idea of «building with biology» — so that other researchers and educators can have the tools and the knowledge to build these bio-hybrid systems and attempt to address challenges in health, medicine, and environment that we face as a society,» stated Rashid Bashir, a Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering and head of the Department of Bioengineering at Illinois.

There, they created a control system that runs on chemical power, as is done in biology, without resorting to any computer or electromechanical devices, which are the hallmarks of artificial, hard robotic technology.

With the ability to become all of the blood cells — including your immune cells, red blood cells, all of your blood system, as well as vasculature — hemangioblasts have been biology's holy grail.

to Japan to conduct her early research in systems biology, with Kitano as her mentor.

Researchers working in the new field of synthetic biology can imagine other building blocks: different proteins, amino acids (the core components of proteins), and metabolic systems that would work just as well as, or perhaps even better than, the ones we know.

The research group, led by Erika Matunis, Ph.D., a professor of cell biology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has been using the fruit fly as a model living system in which to study stem cells in their natural state.

«As part of our dedication to safety engineering in biology, we're trying to get better at creating physically contained test systems to develop something that eventually will be so biologically contained that we won't need physical containment anymore,» said Church.

His research and clinical focus includes prognostic factors, genetics, and stem cell biology in AML, MDS, and other myeloid malignancies as well as establishing new prognostic scoring systems in MDS.

Jaleel Miyan, a neurobiologist at the University of Manchester in England who did not participate in this research, stressed the significance of this finding by characterizing the analogy with the lymphatic system as inadequate: «What they have demonstrated is actually far more extensive and important to CSF [cerebrospinal fluid] biology.»

Preference is given to applicants who propose an original study in biology that marks a departure from their previous Ph.D. or postdoctoral work so as to learn new methods or change study system.

Couple that with a condition known to the plant community as «plant blindness» - the tendency for students to be more interested in studying animals than plants, and biology teachers» preference for using animal systems to demonstrate biological concepts - and you have yourself a plant publicity crisis.

His main responsibilities are the development of novel software tools and algorithms for the Virus Pathogen Resource (ViPR) and Influenza Research Database (IRD), as well as research on the comparative evolutionary genomics and systems biology of viruses.

PR - PR is an open - source biology friendly programming language that has utility as a cross-platform lab automation system.

The development of omics technologies, such as metabolomics and proteomics, and systems biology have dramatically enhanced the ability to understand biological phenomena.

Model systems, such as the mammalian gut bacterium E. coli for microbiology and the fruit fly for biomedicine, have been invaluable for deciphering complex biology.

Systems biology research will aim to identify and validate mathematical models that can accurately predict interactions between immune system components in relation to vaccination, as well as develop state - of - the - art methods for the structural and functional analysis of vaccine candidates.

The ERA - Net ERACoSysMed, collaboration on systems medicine funding to promote the implementation of systems biology approaches in clinical research and medical practice, started in January 2015 as the first ERA - Net on systems medicine under the EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020.

As part of our coverage of the 2017 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, held June 2 — 6 in Chicago, we are speaking with Gordon Mills, MD, PhD, chair of the department of systems biology and professor of medicine and immunology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, about ways to incorporate homologous recombination markers into clinical practice for ovarian cancer.

This could radically transform how we respond to outbreaks, but that will only happen if we agree to share our data as widely and as quickly as possible,» said Sabeti, who is also a professor of evolutionary biology and systems biology at Harvard University.