Sentences with phrase «biology studies because»

This technique, which scientists are rapidly automating, may eventually displace crystallography as the tool of choice in many cell biology studies because it does not require the subject to crystallize and sometimes can even reveal multiple conformational states in a single experiment.

Not exact matches

But we also study mosquito biology because understanding how mosquitoes eat, mate and defend themselves against infection can help us develop strategies to control or eradicate them.

Because, as Belmonte rightly explains, the new «precisely targeted» tools can help us «study species evolution, biology and disease, and may lead ultimately to the ability to grow human organs for transplant.»

This field of research which marries economics with biology and psychology studies certain types of investing decisions — including those made on emotional or speculative grounds, often made hastily without all the facts or because of what others are doing.

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archaeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archaeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archaeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

The only existent I'm aware of that straddles the line between life and nonlife is the virus, and I think it is generally not considered life, though I do believe it is studied thoroughly in biology because it's so much like life and so heavily impacts life forms.

Kauffman was trained as a physician, but gave up medical practice to study fundamental questions in biology: «I entered biology because the magnificent wonder of cell differentiation overwhelmed me» (HU94).

When biology snaps out of this restriction it will become the basic science because it will be studying those individual entities where feelings exist at the conscious level.

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

As I got older I never saw art as a career choice and because I was obsessed with animals I went into the sciences, studying zoology and marine biology at university.

I was studying the molecular biology and biochemistry of these organisms because their proteins had to be very stable to withstand very high temperatures and salt concentrations.

«The results are important because diabetics have a significantly higher fracture risk and their healing process is always delayed,» said Xin Li, PhD, associate professor of basic science and craniofacial biology at NYU Dentistry, and the study's senior investigator.

Dmitry Royhman, currently studying to get his PSM in cell and molecular biology at IIT, says, «The reason I chose to do the PSM instead of the traditional Master's degree was because the M.S. would have restricted me more toward research, and I was not sure that was the path for me.»

Throughout my undergraduate studies in Canada I was encouraged to follow a career in science by several of my biology professors, partly because of the profound lack of diversity in the sciences.

«Studying human islet cells has been a major challenge in the field of diabetes research for decades because the pancreas essentially digests itself shortly after a person's death,» said professor of developmental biology Seung Kim, MD, PhD.

The physician - scientist may study the same properties of the same molecule but for a different reason: because he or she believes that those studies will provide information on the fundamental pathology of a disease or insight into human biology that will provide a better understanding of healthy versus diseased states.

However, Darwin's study did not make headway, because the biology of the protein was just too complex.

«With switchgrass, for example, frequently you can not harvest the first year's crop because it takes a long time for the root system to establish,» says study author Philip Benfey, a professor of biology at Duke University and director of Duke's Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy Center for Systems Biology.

David Bowman, a professor of environmental change biology at the University of Tasmania in Australia and lead author of the study, said he was motivated to map and analyze wildfires because his city, Hobart, Australia, was devastated by a megafire 50 years ago this month.

«Self - fumigation is important because there currently are no other methods to control this parasite,» blood - sucking maggots of the nest fly Philornis downsi, says University of Utah biology doctoral student Sarah Knutie, the study's first author.

«We think our study is important because it means the biology we have seen in lower organisms is germane to primates,» says Richard Weindruch, a professor of medicine at the School of Medicine and Public Health, and one of the founders of the UW study.

I hear it fairly often — that someone studied biology, or went to college at all, because the songs inspired them — and it's one of the most satisfying things.

«Defining the biology of naturally occurring protective mutations is quite important, because they define desired outcomes for potentially new therapies,» explained the study's co-author Judy H. Cho, MD, Director of the Sanford Grossman Center for Integrative Studies in Crohn's disease, and the Charles F. Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

«We saw this as an opportunity because we are going over there to study the unique animals and biology and ecology of Madagascar, which is unsurpassed in the world,» Krasnow said.

We decided to repeat the study with a larger data set and a better understanding of bird biology because other palaeontologists were starting to use the original results in Science in order to predict the incubation behaviour of other dinosaur species.

«This is an important study because we need to better understand the long - term effects of HIV infection to ensure that patients are equitably treated in a way that respects their medical regimens and the biology of their HIV infection,» he said.

An effort to replicate dozens of cancer biology studies that were widely cited (bold numbers) has reported its first results: two confirmations, one failure, and two that were inconclusive because of technical problems.

Because metastasis is a complex process that has been difficult to study, Chicago's Ludwig Center will bring together researchers from various areas of expertise, including molecular biology, cell biology, genetics, bioinformatics, chemistry, imaging and medicine.

Alberts is skeptical of drawing any evolutionary implications from the study, because human biology and social dynamics are so different from that of baboons.

I didn't groan at this idea unlike most other Star Wars fans — many of whom were outraged by the perceived reduction of the Force from a grand, almost magical power to a function of biology — because I'm a biologist who studies bioenergetics: How organisms convert various molecules (food) into chemical energy (adenosine triphosphate or ATP, a compound that enables energy transfer between cells) that can be used to power life.

In a commentary published in the September 18, 2014 of Nature, he wrote, «Non-European populations are harmed because they are not studied as intensely, and clues that could reveal new aspects of disease biology are missed.

Synthetic biology poses few risks because it is still in its early stages and there is no need to impose new restrictions on, or temporarily halt, this type of research, says a report being released Thursday by the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.

Noise has traditionally been difficult to study in biology, because most biological techniques, such as measurement of gene activity, average the output of many cells, erasing individual variability.

«Although we first became aware of prions because they cause several bizarre neurological diseases, the discovery that something so awesomely similar happens in organisms as different as humans and yeast makes us suspect that there is a fundamental, common biochemical process at work here,» said study director Susan Lindquist, PhD, professor of molecular genetics and cell biology and an investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Chicago.

I mention the importance of cooperation in biology because you might think that scientists who study cooperation ought show signs of being good at it themselves.

«We originally thought the bed bugs might prefer red because blood is red and that's what they feed on,» said study co-author Corraine McNeill, assistant professor of biology at Union College in Nebraska, in a statement.

«It really helps to have a genuine interest in biology because you have to do quite a bit of additional studying for the test.

The biology of laryngeal diseases is difficult to study from human patients because access to the organ is difficult, and biopsy is inherently detrimental.

The skills gained from the dive master course will be very useful for me because I will soon be studying tropical marine biology and fine tuned diving skills will be a great help when carrying out research dives.