Sentences with phrase «detect signals from the environment»

«Regulatory RNA modules are attractive for applications in synthetic biology, because they detect signals from the environment directly and instantly switch the subsequent genes on or off,» explains Johanna Roßmanith.

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Once focused mainly on detecting radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations, the institute now employs scientists studying many factors important for the existence of alien life — from Kepler team members who are detecting and characterizing exoplanetary systems, to astrobiologists searching for life in the most extreme environments on Earth and in the solar system's exotic nooks and crannies.

Whereas technically the potential threats detected by the system in the past were not false positives — they did accurately pick up tiny, background amounts of DNA from organisms naturally present in the environment — in effect, they were false alarms because they signaled the potential occurrence of a terrorist attack when none had occurred.

Some other urbanisation signals may also manifest themselves as step changes related to specific changes in a site environment (e.g. the 1996 construction of a new building across the street from the Melbourne site) and are detected and adjusted for as part of the normal ACORN - SAT homogenisation process.