Sentences with phrase «discovered by biologists»

When two new species of titi monkey, a cat - size Brazilian group, were discovered by biologists, one, Callicebus stephennashi, was named for him.

CRISPR, originally discovered by biologists studying the bacterial immune system, consists of a DNA - cutting enzyme called Cas9 and short RNA guide strands that target specific sequences of the genome, telling Cas9 where to make its cuts.

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Mecp2 had been discovered nine years earlier by molecular biologist Adrian Bird of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.

Meanwhile a team led by Yihong Ye, a cell biologist at the National Institutes of Health, discovered another pathway that uses different protein workhorses to accomplish a similar off - load.

Computational biologist Peer Bork from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, discovered the enterotypes by sequencing bacterial DNA in stool from Japanese, European, and American volunteers.

After 40 years of debate, evolutionary biologists have used 10,000 twins and siblings in an attempt to discover whether it arose to give women a reproductive boost, or simply as a by - product of evolution of the male orgasm.

In collaboration with researchers from the Friedrich Miescher Institute of Basel and the Vanderbilt University Medical Center of Nashville (United States), the biologists discovered that Rif1 regulates the timing of DNA replication by acting directly at the level of the origins of replication.

«We discovered that three particular proteins involved in the Wnt signaling pathway aren't just involved in the development of severe illnesses, but also in the qualitative refinement of highly developed tissue,» says co-first author Claudio Cantù from the molecular biologist research group lead by Prof. Konrad Basler.

Last year biologist Anne Wignall from Australia's Macquarie University discovered that the bug lures food by strumming webs with its legs, mimicking the vibrations of a trapped fly.

Researchers led by biologist Gabriele Gentile of the University of Rome Tor Vergata have discovered a new species of land iguana living in the Galápagos that Darwin missed but may shed light on evolution.

In the barely three years since biologists discovered how to create these «brain organoids,» the lentil - sized structures have taken neuroscience by storm.

Biologists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have now discovered that the phases of quiescence in the Drosophila fruit fly central nervous system are controlled by the Hippo signaling pathway.

The South Hills crossbill, potentially a newly discovered species of finch, has evolved over the past 6,000 years with a unique dependence on its food source, the Rocky Mountain lodgepole pine, in a coevolutionary arms race that also changed the tree, according to a genomic study led by Tom Parchman, a biologist at the University of Nevada, Reno.

A March 2009 study by biologist Paul Ehrlich of Stanford University and biologist Gerardo Ceballos of the National Autonomous University of Mexico found that 81 percent of the 408 new mammal species discovered in the last 15 years are yoked to local ecosystems and likely to become extinct.

One application of the optical tweezers, discovered by Dziedzic and Ashkin, has captured the imagination of biologists.

In the marsh by the woodland, the biologists discovered that the successful males had more than twice as many mates as those in the agricultural marsh.

In a previous study, Duke University biologist Xinnian Dong and colleagues discovered that plants fend off potential fungal infections by boosting their defenses in the morning, when many fungi are likely to release their spores and launch an attack.

The biologist who discovered this last fact, Joseph Spagna, currently at the University of Illinois, teamed up with engineers at the University of California at Berkeley to build a robot inspired by nature.

Scientists have been fascinated by giant viruses since 2003, when a group of French biologists led by Didier Raoult discovered the Mimiviruses.

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.

«We discovered this phenomenon by chance, but it shows that it's certainly possible to transmit information about the environment down the generations,» study lead author Ben Lehner, a biologist at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, said in a statement.

Most of the drugs discovered so far by circadian biologists that reduce jet lag in mice, require injection of the drug into a specific region of the brain, which is not very practical.

Biologists recently discovered skin proteins shared by humans and turtles which developed in a common ancestor roughly 310 million years ago.

Then, in 2015, a team led by biologist Thijs Ettema of Uppsala University in Sweden discovered a new type of microbe a mile and a half beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean.

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».

A Fox Searchlight pickup for worldwide distribution, which scored the Sundance Institute's Alfred P. Sloan Prize this year, «I Origins» turns on a molecular biologist, played by Michael Pitt, who along with his lab partner (Brit Marling) discover startling evidence that could unhinge humanity.

The sapphire - hued blue hole was discovered by marine biologist and underwater photographer, Johnny Gaskell.

During her study at the St. Joost Academy in Breda she discovered a book by 17th - century biologist Jon Jonston.

The image above was taken by award - winning science photographer Mark R. Smith, who is helping molecular and cell biologists at the University of Connecticut discover how the squid's immune system can recognize V. fischeri and grant it exclusive entrance into the light organ.