Sentences with phrase «by biologists»

Although they have been studied by biologists for over a century, the molecular mechanisms which control their development are only now starting to be uncovered.

Indeed, because eggs are large cells that are relatively easy to manipulate, they are one of the favored cell types used by biologists to express foreign genes and to test gene function.

But this nice example of adaptive radiation — a single ancestor giving rise to an array of species all exploiting slightly different environmental niches — has been largely overlooked by biologists before now.

The complaints are tempered by her biologist's curiosity, and the mix of memoir and scientific observation works.

They turned to six genes that have been well - studied by biologists seeking to understand links between spiders.

Factor 2's unique formula was created by biologists to help you build strength and power.

Two recent studies led by biologists at the University of California San Diego have set the research groundwork for new avenues to treat influenza and anthrax poisoning.

The first quantitative analysis of its kind, led by biologists at the University of California San Diego, is published Jan. 10 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

This new finding by Biologists from Project Domino of a group of over 270 Whale Sharks between Isla Mujeres and Contoy Island makes Isla Mujeres the Whale Shark Capital of the World.

The study was conducted by biologists in Lund together with a colleague from Denmark.

This is shown by a study by biologists from the University of Bonn.

Gastrulation was described by biologist Professor Lewis Wolpert as being «truly the most important event in your life» because it creates the blueprint of an organism

No doubt other implications of bioferroelectricity will emerge as it is studied further, perhaps by biologists as well as physicists and biomechanical engineers.

A new team led by biologist Andrew Casper will expand Shedd Aquarium's research of animals that live in local waterways — and how to protect them.

CRISPR, originally discovered by biologists studying the bacterial immune system, involves a set of proteins that bacteria use to defend themselves against bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria).

The team was led by the biologists Professor Ralf Reski from the University of Freiburg / Germany and Professor David J. Beerling from the University of Sheffield / UK.

And because it's so short, I'm including the complete May 2 Veterinary Record item written by the biologists who identified the fungus last month:

While demographers were struggling to understand sex ratio anomalies in the context of culture, evolutionary biologists had largely embraced an idea put forth in 1973 by biologist Robert Trivers and mathematician Dan Willard.

Effects like these contribute to the philosophy of biophilia, popularized by biologist Edward O. Wilson in his 1984 book of the same title.

Food chain relationships are infinitely complex, and crudely understood even by biologists.

All the examples I have given of self - organization in biology are explained by biologists in strictly mechanistic terms, complex though these mechanisms usually are.

The reorganization has its roots in a 2015 review of the funding councils by biologist Paul Nurse, now head of The Francis Crick Institute in London, who argued that a unified organization with a high - profile leader could help win greater government support for science.

Their work has been avidly followed by biologists in the field of organ transplantation: If a donor's heart or kidney could be frozen and stored without damage, physicians could dramatically increase the number of transplants they perform.

Obama called for the study in May after a team led by biologist J. Craig Venter reported that it had inserted a synthetic genome into a self - replicating cell.

The smart money is on innovative efforts by biologists to genetically hijack photosynthesis, the processes that plants and other organisms use to turn solar rays into molecular energy.

This is the conclusion reached by biologists of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), following an expedition to this specific region of the Arctic Ocean, which used to be dominated by the Polar cod.

Sea Quest pioneered orca whale watching kayak tours in the San Juan Islands over 25 years ago and our San Juan Island kayak trips are guided by biologists and environmental scientists that can tell you about the lives of these amazing animals.

A pair of look - alike lichens may have outed a creature that escaped detection by biologists for centuries

Three major competing hypotheses for the habitat of early snakes — burrowing i.e. worm - like, aquatic, or terrestrial — have been debated for more than a century by biologists and palaeontologists.

«The limit adopted by biologists is 200 to 250 nanometers on the basis that [the structures] must be large enough to contain a DNA or RNA strand, and have the ribosomes, etc., necessary to carry on metabolism,» says Folk.

Reasoning that the secretions play a defensive role that could explain the bug's competitive edge, a team led by biologist Thomas Eisner of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, analyzed the fluid.

Work by biologists from the University of Miami shows that crabs with dark coloration choose dark sand while crabs with light coloration choose light sand.

While documenting that new species, a second new species of pillbug originally collected 142 years ago by biologists on a wooden sailing ship in Alaska was discovered in a collection room at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM) by researchers Adam Wall and Dr. Regina Wetzer.

Among the new organisms newly identified by biologists over the last decade was the first new anaconda identified in over 70 years, a previously unknown species of pink dolphin, and a colorful new bald parrot.

According to a study of 367 college students conducted by biologist Christoph Randler, early risers perform better on the job, attain greater career success, and reap higher wages than people who start their day later.

If anybody disagrees, they should read the God Delusion by biologist Richard Dawkins.

It does not present itself for observation by the biologist or the psychologist says Cobb (1972):

I vividly recall the great importance he attached to a genuine recognition of chance and accident by his response to one of the clearest statements on the subject ever made by a biologist.

In the last twenty years or so, mathematicians and engineers have attempted to replace the rather undefined term «specificity,» which had been much used by biologists earlier, with a more precisely defined notion of «information.»

It goes without saying that this idea of a salvation of the Species sought, not in the direction of any temporo - spatial consolidation or expansion but by way of spiritual escape through the excess of consciousness, is not yet seriously considered by the biologists.

This «feed forwards» concept applied by biologists is a claim that «evolution» is a god that plans things out, in essense making the claim that the god of evolution is smart and can plan... but it isn't a god at all... evolution does nothing.

The Whiteheadian perspective appears to be counter to an emphasis by some biologists, notably that of Stephen J. Gould, in their interpretation of biological evolution.

Most research on the inner functioning of the cell has been carried out by biologists chiefly influenced by the mechanical model, but what has been learned appears to fit the ecological model better.