Sentences with phrase «biology as a field»

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In the field of biology, evolution may be «just» a theory (as some politicians painfully point out), but it is the theory subscribed to, for good reason, by every real scientist in every established university in the Western world.

It's evangelicals who have taken fields of study, such as biology, archaeology, and biblical studies, and mutilated the square pegs to make them fit into their round holes.

His John Templeton Foundation (est. 1987) supports scientific research at top universities in such fields as theoretical physics, cosmology and evolutionary biology, and also supports informed dialogue between scientists and theologians.

What is the only thing capable of making 40 % of the country fvcking stupid enough to think the entire Universe began less than 10,000 years ago with one man, one woman and a talking snake: (i) paleontology (ii) archeology (iii) biology; or (iv) religion It is only acceptable as an adult to believe Bronze Age mythology like talking snakes, the Red Sea splitting, mana falling from the sky, a man living in a whale's belly, a talking donkey, superhuman strength, a man rising from the dead and angels, ghosts, gods and demons in the field of:

As the reign of law extended its domain over one field after another — astronomy, geology, physics, chemistry, biology, psychology — there was less and less room for supernatural intervention to operate in, so that, if God was located in the supernatural, he was being slowly crowded out.

You can be a creationist and a scientist, as long as your field has absolutely nothing to do with DNA research, such as cancer / molecular biology, genetics and microbio, because in those fields understanding how DNA changes and is likely to change is fundamental.

In terms of scientific policy these figures seem to reflect a disproportionate emphasis on applied work and on the physical sciences, to the neglect of pure research and biology, as well as of the social fields whose growth is essential if technology is to contribute to human welfare.

A whole new field known as quantum biology has sprung up, based on a true breakthrough - the idea that the total split between the micro world of the quantum and the macro world of everyday things may be a false split.

In addition to helping parents make the best and most appropriate decision for themselves, the information provided here should also be of use to educators, health professionals, public health officials, the media, sleep researchers, child protective services, coroners, forensic pathologists, anthropologists, psychiatrists, psychologists and other social scientists, as well as researchers in a variety the developmental fields including human biology.

Applied fields of biology such as medicine and genetic research involve many specialized sub-disciplines.

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.

Trained as a psychobiologist, his research has contributed to advancements in the fields of developmental psychology, physiological psychology, and perception; he has also made important contributions in the fields of genetics, developmental biology, immunobiology, ethology, and molecular biology.

As for learning the biology, this, too, is a vital aspect of the interdisciplinary field I work in.

Over the last decade, the number of academic jobs involving mathematical biology has increased, particularly in math departments, as recognition of the field grows.

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

Postdoctoral Scholar awards are offered to recipients of new or recent doctorates in the fields of chemistry, engineering, geology, geophysics, mathematics, meteorology, physics, and biology as well as oceanography.

But nowadays a deep conceptual link shows up not only between Shannon's information theory and thermodynamics, but in fields as diverse as quantum mechanics, molecular biology and the physics of black holes.

«If you put humans as the target, even though you are not going to make a human baby, it will be provocative, it will be misinterpreted, but people will engage,» says Andrew Hessel, a self - described futurist and biotechnology catalyst at Autodesk in San Francisco, California, a successful software company that specializes in 3D design programs for architecture and other fields that has been exploring synthetic biology applications in recent years.

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.

Ask a cross-section of scientists how they got into cancer research, and you'll hear about a dizzying variety of routes from fields as diverse as biology, pharmacology, mathematics, and medicine.

The Eppendorf & Science Prize in Neurobiology recognizes outstanding international neurobiological research based on current methods and advances in the field of molecular and cell biology by a young early - career scientist, as described in a 1,000 - word essay based on research performed within the last three years.

People often enter food science by transferring from fields such as chemistry or biology.

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

About one - third of respondents listed the field's lack of basic understanding of genome biology as one of the main obstacles to making use of sequence data today.

There's pure biology, chemistry, and physics, as there has always been, but today many people understand more than ever that we must cross boundaries and blend fields.

It is a large field comprised of professionals from many scientific and educational disciplines such as anatomy, animal science, comparative biology, engineering, environmental science, ethics, genetics, microbiology, pharmacology, physiology, and toxicology.

This led me to enter the field of developmental and cell biology, and to eventually discover cyclin as a key regulator of the cell cycle.

The study of ancient proteins, paleoproteomics is an emerging interdisciplinary field that draws from chemistry and molecular biology as much as paleontology, paleoanthropology and archaeology.

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.

Historically, the most common Ph.D. s earned as part of a dual - degree program were in fields with obvious medical relevance: biochemistry, developmental biology, pathology, or genetics.

Like many science writers, I work in a broad range of disciplines — fields as disparate as astrophysics, psychology, reproductive biology, nanotechnology, veterinary medicine, and paleontology.

These tools could also impact fields such as materials science, nanotechnology, biology and medicine.

This high - energy particle collider, envisioned as a possible successor to the Large Hadron Collider, would boost Russia's research in many fields, including information science, biology, and materials science, they say.

As the authors see it, it's only natural that social - science fields like linguistics increasingly exchange knowledge and techniques with fields like statistics and biology.

As his group entered biology - focused collaborations, Schürmann got a first taste of the challenges of merging the two fields.

D. trainees can also do their graduate work outside of the laboratory disciplines in fields such as computational biology, economics, epidemiology, health care policy, anthropology, sociology, or the history of medicine.

But the field began to change as molecular biology techniques became widespread, and an incident with the antihistamine drug Seldane (terfenadine) in 1992 galvanized the research community to pay more attention to drug interactions.

For example, as a field - based Environmental Protection Officer you might draw on one of a number of scientific backgrounds: chemistry (assessing chemistry data for environmental discharges), biology (assessing the impact of pollution), or geology (assessing the risk to ground water from a surface - level spillage).

«This work not only sheds new light on skeleton formation of animals, but also might inspire interdisciplinary studies in fields such as theoretical biology, bioengineering, robotics, and architectural engineering, utilizing mechanisms of self - constructing architectures that self - adjust to their environments, including remote environments such as the deep sea or space,» the researchers write.

As a field, Carter observes, biology is still growing up and dealing with the fact that major societal applications are arising from the science developments of the last 30 years, ranging from new drugs against disease to the cloning of livestock.

It is expected that the super-high magnetic field NMR will greatly contribute to various fields such as structural biology, analytical chemistry and materials engineering.

As an undergraduate biology major at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, Niyogi focused on molecular and cell biology and thought about immunology or transcription factors as a potential field of studAs an undergraduate biology major at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, Niyogi focused on molecular and cell biology and thought about immunology or transcription factors as a potential field of studas a potential field of study.

Kearney has devoted her academic and professional work to the study of biodiversity, evolutionary biology and evolutionary history of organisms, a field known as phylogenetics.

Though Al - Khalili and McFadden did not label it as such at the time, their paper was one of the first in the now burgeoning field of quantum biology.

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.

People can still patent the big applications — a lot of integrated components — but let's at least have the components available as open source so everybody gets equal access, and that will further the field of engineering biology.

The only areas SRC expects to remain largely unaffected are new fields such as molecular biology and nanotechnology; having evolved so recently, their senior staff is still quite young.

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.

3 Robert Hooke contributed to fields as diverse as astronomy, architecture, paleontology, and physics, but his most important accomplishment was in biology.