Sentences with phrase «by biologists seeking»

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To avoid that muddle, Steve Brown and Xue - Zhong Liu, molecular biologists at the Medical Research Council's Mouse Genome Center in Harwell, England, sought families in remote areas of the world, where the families» deafness is more likely to be caused by a single mutated gene.

Black bears in Yosemite National Park that don't seek out human foods subsist primarily on plants and nuts, according to a study conducted by biologists at UC San Diego who also found that ants and other sources of animal protein, such as mule deer, make up only a small fraction of the bears» annual diet.

They turned to six genes that have been well - studied by spider biologists seeking to understand relationships between species.

Evolutionary biologists Emma Teeling and Mark Springer from the University of California, Riverside, and their colleagues sought to resolve this controversy by studying a broad range of bats and examining more genes in each than did previous studies.

By seeking out unexplored territory in our understanding of the cells that make bread rise, yeast biologists provided a map for understanding ourselves.

Logline: Seeking answers to her husband's tragic disappearance, a biologist journeys into an area sealed off by the government for the last 30 years as an environmental disaster zone with the help of a secret agency known as the Southern Reach has sent many expeditions over the years to discover the truth about «Area X».

As John puts it: «It turns out that profit - seeking fishermen should want to catch even fewer fish than the «sustainable» number calculated by biologists, because leaving more fish in the ocean leads to bigger populations that make for easier and more lucrative fishing in the long run.»