Sentences with phrase «at human hosts»

In the South, they are generally buried too deep in leaf litter — to avoid the heat — to get at human hosts.

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A host of scholars — believers, agnostics and atheists alike — put the number of people killed in all the holy wars, Crusades, inquistions, etc. — IN ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY — at ~ 50 - 75 million.

The argument that life begins at conception is absurd in that what should be said is parasitic life begins at conception, actual human life only becomes a valid argument when the fetus is able to live outside the womb, prior to that the life is basically in the hands of the host — mother.

If and when we are ever visited by an alien civilization, I can imagine one of the creature staring incredulously at the Vatican or wailing wall and asking its human hosts, «so, you REALLY thought it was all about you?»

I work in the real world, at a real job, with a nice, professional gay boss who is an excellent leader and human being, there are a whole host of anti-discrimination laws in my state and I could get written up and fired for being unprofessional (as could anyone else).

One can imagine, if and when we are eventually visited by an alien civilization, one of the creatures staring incredulously at the Vatican and asking its human hosts, «so, you really thought it was all about you?»

Unfortunately, at this formative stage in their lives one viewpoint is pushed to the fore on campus, and that's the opinion that euthanasia, abortion, embryonic stem cell research and a host of other practices which strip humans of their most fundamental right are good things.

She's bringing him to experience the festival for the first time, as they host this pooch - friendly afternoon happy hour at Loews Miami Beach Hotel featuring libations for the two - legged species and plenty of snacks for canines and humans alike.

Specifically, when capsaicin frequently binds to receptors within the human central nervous system's TRPV1 channel (the sensory receptor system for pain and heat detection), these receptors deplete and this depletion results in a whole host of benefits for the central nervous system at large, including terminating cancer cells, increasing the metabolic rate and digestive efficiency, increasing circulatory blood flow, and combatting inflammation, and making you feel better about the world.

Human Race will be hosting an open water swim training day at Dorney Lake with 1 1/2 hr sessions (45 minutes...

Ispa and Noriko Porter, who completed her doctorate at MU and now is an instructor of human development at Washington State University, monitored online message boards hosted by two popular parenting magazines.

His Excellency Mr Ban Ki - moon, current Secretary - General of the United Nations, gave this year's Cyril Foster Lecture on «Human Protection and the 21st Century United Nations» on 2 February at Oxford's Examination Schools, hosted by the Department of Politics and International Relations.

Also at 9:30 a.m., the Lehman College Center for Human Rights & Peace Studies hosts its eighth annual conference, Artist as Witness: Cultural Production, Conflict, and Human Rights in Syria, Lehman College, 250 Bedford Park Blvd. W., East Dining Room, Music Building, the Bronx.

At 7 p.m., New Yorkers for a Human - Scale City and East Harlem Civic Alliance host a 2017 candidates forum featuring candidates from both parties including Tony Avella, Sal Albanese, Bo Dietl and others, P.S. 108, 1615 Madison Ave., Manhattan.

Also at 6 p.m., the NYC Commission on Human Rights and the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs host the First Annual African Community Forum and Resource Fair, Metropolitan College of New York, 463 E. 149th St., the Bronx.

At 9 a.m. Friday, the Center for New York City Affairs will host «Getting Proactive in the Preserving & Strengthening of Human Services in NY,» discussing «the economic and social impact of human services CBOs, and the need to preserve and strengthen their critical role in building foundational supports that contribute to the health and well - being of individuals, families, and communities.&rHuman Services in NY,» discussing «the economic and social impact of human services CBOs, and the need to preserve and strengthen their critical role in building foundational supports that contribute to the health and well - being of individuals, families, and communities.&rhuman services CBOs, and the need to preserve and strengthen their critical role in building foundational supports that contribute to the health and well - being of individuals, families, and communities.»

The Erie County Department of Social Services will join other members of the Lackawanna Stakeholders Coalition to host «Family Night Out» on Monday, March 27 at Catholic Charities in Lackawanna, an event designed to raise awareness among the public of the human needs - based services and resources available to them while bringing the partners providing those services together as well.

Also at 6 p.m., the NYC Commission on Human Rights hosts a conversation on race, community and human rights in Bedford - Stuyvesant, Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Plaza, 1368 Fulton St., BrooHuman Rights hosts a conversation on race, community and human rights in Bedford - Stuyvesant, Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Plaza, 1368 Fulton St., Broohuman rights in Bedford - Stuyvesant, Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Plaza, 1368 Fulton St., Brooklyn.

At 9 a.m., state Sen. Jamaal Bailey hosts a human trafficking awareness assembly, Leaders of Tomorrow School, 3710 Barnes Ave., the Bronx.

At 5:30 p.m., New York Law School hosts a forum on the de Blasio administration's handling of economic inequality, featuring Human Resources Administration Commissioner Steven Banks, Administration for Children's Services Commissioner Gladys Carrion, Counsel to the Mayor Maya Wiley and others, New York Law School Auditorium, 185 West Broadway, Manhattan.

At 8:30 a.m., Fordham University hosts Linda Gibbs, former deputy mayor for health and human services for its «Governance in New York City: The Bloomberg Years» lecture series, E. Gerald Corrigan Conference Center, 113 W. 60th St., Fordham University Lincoln Center Campus, Manhattan.

Anti-Erdogan protesters clashed with police outside Downing Street today (pictured) as they tore into ministers for hosting the Turkish president as he locks up political opponents and human rights campaigners at home.

... Last week, the New York City Human Rights Commission partnered with the Office of the First Lady Chirlane McCray and the Mayor's Office of Special Projects and Community Events to host a panel discussion at New York's historic Gracie Mansion with over 130 advocates, community leaders, academics, and City officials.

At 5:30 p.m., the NYC Commission on Human Rights hosts a panel to highlight the work of public servants of Afro - Caribbean descent, featuring Deputy Commissioner Brittny Saunders, state Sen. Roxanne Persaud and other city officials, Medgar Evers College's Edison O. Jackson Auditorium, 1650 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn.

Poughkeepsie, NY... In a collaborative effort, Dutchess County Executive Marcus Molinaro, the Dutchess County Legislature, and the Health and Human Services Cabinet will host a «Community Forum on Prescription Drug and Opiate Abuse» on Monday, May 19th from 6:30 — 8:30 pm at Locust Grove in Poughkeepsie.

Collectively known as the microbiome and located primarily in the large intestine, these cohabitants outnumber their host human cells at least 10 to 1.

If dozens of human and animal studies published over the past six years are borne out by large clinical trials, nicotine — freed at last of its noxious host, tobacco, and delivered instead by chewing gum or transdermal patch — may prove to be a weirdly, improbably effective drug for relieving or preventing a variety of neurological disorders, including Parkinson's disease, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), Tourette's and schizophrenia.

«We have identified the molecular mechanisms by which the Tat protein made by HIV interacts with the host cell to activate or repress several hundred human genes,» said Dr. Iván D'Orso, Assistant Professor of Microbiology at UT Southwestern and senior author of the study.

By chemically removing the gut microbiome in zebrafish in the lab and then repopulating the gut with two to three bacterial species, University of Oregon biologist Karen Guillemin has shown that certain microbes are especially skilled at suppressing the host immune system and preventing inflammation — a discovery she thinks may have implications for human health.

Alan Alda, star of stage, screen and science, talks with podcast host Steve Mirsky [pictured at left] about his new PBS science series The Human Spark as well as his strong interest in science and long association with Scientific American.

EASY RIDER Gut bacteria have been passed down from the ancestors of humans and African apes for millennia, evolving alongside their hosts, says a new study that looked at bacteria from gorillas, bonobos, chimpanzees and humans.

The study, published Aug. 13, 2014, in the journal Cell Host & Microbe, builds on previous work from researchers at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute that outlined a perplexing quality about HIV: The antibodies that originally arise to fight the virus are ineffective.

Scientists aren't yet certain which animal is the natural host to the Ebola virus or how the virus moves from animals to humans, but fruit bats are prime suspects, noted David Hayman, a senior lecturer in veterinary public health at Massey University in New Zealand.

They report today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that genes of the 1918 virus were most likely present in swine or human hosts at least 2 and possibly 15 years before the pandemic began and combined to form the deadly virus during multiple reassortments, presumably rare events in which flu viruses exchange genes.

And it remains far from clear that bats are the hosts of the deadly zoonotic disease since two similar surveys of thousands of animals, including bats, at sites where human outbreaks occurred in the past failed to turn up any sign of Ebola virus.

On 29 September, AAAS hosted a lively online discussion on Reddit's «Ask Me Anything» (AMA) forum on implicit bias in science — a discussion Smith joined, along with Shirley Malcom, AAAS» director of Education and Human Resources programs, Caleph B. Wilson, a biomedical scientist with Cellectis, a biopharmaceutical company, and Avery Posey, Jr., an instructor in the Center for Cellular Immunotherapies at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Scientists have known for some time that different genes of the host are active (or expressed) at different stretches along the length of the gut, which is about 25 feet in humans.

Given that the investigators have previously shown the influence of the host molecular clock on the gut microbiota, they will also ask if taking this NSAID at different times of day might lead to higher efficacy and less side effects in animal models and eventually in humans.

Research at STRI has also shown that, as with humans, microbes stimulate plants» ability to defend themselves and has demonstrated the magnitude and extent of endophyte effects on host genetic expression.

TV host David Attenborough, shown here working with a film crew at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, is stirring up discussion with comments on human evolution.

«We found that when you perturb gut microbes early in life among mice and then stop the antibiotics, the microbes normalize but the effects on host metabolism are permanent,» says senior author Martin Blaser, MD, the Muriel G. and George W. Singer Professor of Translational Medicine, director of the NYU Human Microbiome Program, and professor of microbiology at NYU School of Medicine.

Dr Smout said the parasite could live for decades in the human body before CCA developed and it had an incentive to keep its host healthy while chewing away at its cells.

The selective loss of large herbivores, for instance, is known to cause relatively systematic increases in abundance of rodents [71], which are thought to be particularly effective at hosting and transmitting human - borne zoonoses, thus driving landscape - level increases in rodent - borne disease [72].

The study results were very surprising: For most of these clinical measures, the association with bacterial genomes was at least as strong, and in some cases stronger, than the association with the host's human genome.

As part of a large survey of possible planet - hosting stars, Lovis and his colleagues used the powerful HARPS (for High Accuracy Radial - Velocity Planet Searcher) spectrograph at La Silla Observatory in Chile, 2,400 meters above sea level, which can detect stellar motions with precisions of less than one meter per second, roughly the walking speed of a human being.

Since her recruitment at SR - Tiget as an independent Project Leader in 2012, promoted to Group Leader in 2016, her team investigates the molecular mechanisms of host - vector interplay during gene transfer in human hematopoietic stem cells (HSC).

Djimdé leads a research group at the University of Science, Techniques and Technologies of Bamako that is working to understand how genome variation in the Plasmodium falciparum parasite, its human host, and the Anopeheles gambaie mosquito vector contribute to the mechanisms of malaria disease spread.

The Jackson Laboratory and American Society of Human Genetics developed this workshop to be hosted at locations across the country.

The Turkana Basin Institute will host the thirteenth workshop of the Stony Brook / TBI Human Evolution Workshop series at its Turkwel campus from August 2 - 6.

Regulatory T - Cells at the Interface between Human Host and Pathogens in Infectious Diseases and Vaccination.