Sentences with phrase «biological understanding»

Findings of such work would have implications not only for improving biological understanding of mechanisms but also for clinical and public health interventions.

I believe that it is time to improve functional validation, so we can have better biological understanding and clinical application of genetic information.

In addition to deepening our basic biological understanding of plant evolution and development, the research offers further avenues for study, including how and why some plants recruit bacteria that impact drought resistance while others don't.

Fundamental biological understanding can be obtained at the interface between the natural and the synthetic.

In the case of sequence data, metadata can encompass what organism or cell was sequenced, where it came from, what it was doing, quality metrics, and a spectrum of other characteristics that add value to the sequence data by providing context for it and enabling greater biological understanding of the significance of the sequence.

We need better biological understanding of brain tumours, but also closer interactions with our clinical colleagues to help translate these discoveries into the clinic.

As a better biological understanding of proprioception emerges, researchers hope to develop prosthetic limbs that can stimulate nerves to restore a sense of position and movement — and thereby become increasingly united with the wearer's self image.

Refocusing our sights on precision health won't be easy — because it involves achieving something more elusive even than a technological leap or a breakthrough in biological understanding: It demands a wholesale re-thinking: We have to convince and train people to be proactive instead of reactive when it comes to their own health.

It is more reasonable and in line with our biological understanding of development to suppose that the capacity for experience, and therefore intrinsic value, increases with the developing person from the fertilized ovum onward.

The significance of the new model, according to Grange, is that «it enables us to now have a biological understanding of the patterns, the co-expression profiles, seen in the Allen Gene Expression Atlas of the Mouse Brain.»

Our biological understanding of homosexuality in women lags behind.

Also, we demonstrated here for the first time that a myc - immortalized cell line could be successfully reprogrammed, opening new avenues for the study of several previously characterized immortalized cell lines that are relevant for the biological understanding of several disorders.

Going from genetic results to biological understanding of disease is the next important challenge,» said Broad Institute member Steve McCarroll, also director of genetics in the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad and an assistant professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School.