Sentences with phrase «done on biology»

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«The idea of being able to use biology to design and engineer living things that can do things like cure disease or eliminate organ waiting lists, or even revert climate change, or help us live on other planets — that's more what was exciting about it,» he says.

I know you didn't click on the headline to get a biology lesson, but it's important to understand that leadership is not really about traits or habits.

Ms. Zeng, who has a master's degree in fish biology, does much of her work on WeChat, a Chinese mobile app, where she sells its wares.

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.

Looking at sixty - seven recent drug discovery projects based on preclinical cancer biology research, they found that in more than 75 percent of cases the published data did not match up with their in - house attempts to replicate.

Probably you've moved on from this post, and I will too — but I don't think by «been there, done that» you meant «read about and understood many things about evolutionary biology and paleontology».

«Redemption23», do the world a favor, take on some personal responsibility, dump your foolish, unsupportable god myth, and take an intro biology course.

Instead, why don't you teach your children to study hard and get a good education at a «real» college where they can learn «real» subjects like biology and astrophysics, instead of relying on a priest or a minister to teach them that mythical being created man and the universe?

Why insist on denying religion any truth at all just because you don't understand??? Although many of you sound ignorant I'm willing to guess you made it through your biology class.

If you don't have a background in genetics or molecular biology, perhaps the best book for you on the subject is the following.

He can not distinguish questions regarding the existence of the universe from questions regarding its physical origin; he does not grasp how assertions regarding the absolute must logically differ from assertions regarding contingent beings; he does not know the differences between truths of reason and empirical facts; he has no concept of ontology, in contradistinction to, say, physics or evolutionary biology; he does not understand how assertions regarding transcendental perfections differ from assertions regarding maximum magnitude; he clumsily imagines that the idea of God is susceptible to the same argument from infinite regress traditionally advanced against materialism; he does not understand what the metaphysical concept of simplicity entails; and on and on.

It seems the different responses have something to do with what is going on in a person's biology.

But please do go on tell me more about how evolution is in fact «false», disprove genetic evidence, paleontological evidence, anatomical evidence, evidence from cell biology, virology, zoology, mycology, should I keep going?

As we read this history, the furor over stem cells was fueled by numerous factors: the near - universal human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now do anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn human life.

Jack: You asked my opinion about arguing for biology to determine roles, and I said I didn't think that was on the table anymore.

A process model is a relational model, drawing on the data of physics and biology, maintaining that we do indeed live in an interconnected universe where everything relates to everything else.

But REASON, COMMON SENSE, LOGIC, BIOLOGY, DECENCY, HEALTH, a SOUND MIND, all of that is what you DO N'T HAVE on your side.

RS: What I can say is that a holistic tradition has been a great influence on me and the kind of biology I have been doing.

It doesn't matter what I believe about the antibiotic the doctor prescribes for me when I get sick — the fact that it makes me feel better is rooted in the chemistry and biology on which it is based.

That is, I believe, bad philosophy — and incompatible with the basic principles of our civilization and polity; but at least it does not rely on denying basic facts known to anyone who has taken the trouble to acquaint himself or herself with modern human embryology and developmental biology.

We all know that the gluten in wheat flour is what helps give bread it's characteristics, but on the other hand, I realise now first - hand that the alchemy and biology of baking dictates that if you give the yeast something to feed on, they're going to do the work of making something lighter.

Avoid avoiding her so that your biology can do its thing; try putting her in a baby carrier with her against your chest, put on your headphones, crank them up, and walk around the neighborhood.

Lori's activities, personal stories, and grid analysis on four different styles of «openness» led to greater awareness and clarity as to what the adults truly need to do in relationships with children to both acknowledge and «heal the split between biology and biography.»

I don't want to delve deeply into the realms of human biology again but it's similar to exercise: your body will automatically respond with an increased heart rate and blood pressure before you start exercising once you do it on a regular basis and this can be applied to sleep.

Studies done by the Touch Research Institute in Miami, the first scientific center to study the biology of touch and its effects on health and development, have shown that premature infants who are massaged for 15 minutes three times a day gain more weight and are able to be released from the hospital sooner than those who are not massaged.

Thirdly, most scientists now agree that socialization does impact on biology — as suggested by theories of epigenetic and brain plasticity.

Cox obtained a biology degree at the University of Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom and went on to do a biochemical engineering Ph.D. at the University of Birmingham where he measured the growth of filamentous fungi in solid pastes using image analysis and fluorescence microscopy.

Zhou, who is the director of virology and molecular biology for Microbac Laboratories, headquartered in Pittsburgh, Penn., said the study did not yet look at the survivability of Zika on hard non-porous surfaces beyond eight hours.

He didn't close the case on all claims of spontaneous generation, but his work was a major first step toward eliminating received dogma in biology and replacing it with experiment and reason.

«What we really want to do in this workshop is think about the future,» said John Priscu of Montana State University, an expert on the biology of cold climates who is co-chairing the workshop.

I graduated from York University in 1998 with a PhD in biology and went on to do a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).

• On Tuesday on ScienceInsider, Jocelyn Kaiser wrote about bioRxiv, a new preprint server launched by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory that hopes to do for biology what arXiv did for physics and related fieldOn Tuesday on ScienceInsider, Jocelyn Kaiser wrote about bioRxiv, a new preprint server launched by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory that hopes to do for biology what arXiv did for physics and related fieldon ScienceInsider, Jocelyn Kaiser wrote about bioRxiv, a new preprint server launched by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory that hopes to do for biology what arXiv did for physics and related fields.

To make their discovery, Rust and his colleagues had to separate metabolism from light exposure, and they did this by using a synthetic biology approach to make photosynthetic bacteria capable of living on sugar rather than sunlight.

New tests based on human biology can predict many adverse reactions that animal tests fail to do, and could, for example, have detected the risk signals produced by Vioxx, which in animal studies appeared to be safe, and even beneficial to the heart.

• In News Focus, Robert Service writes about a relatively new scientific discipline (or, if you prefer, a new science career path): lone investigators, like Stanford University's Atul Butte, who do «dry lab» biology working on big - data problems with publically available data.

«Not that it hadn't been done before, but it has become an even sharper focus,» says Sninsky, who also serves on the advisory board for Purdue University's department of biology.

«There are a lot of disparate theories about what could have a profound impact on aging and age - related processes, but at this point, we simply do not have evidence - based strategies to significantly change our life expectancy that come in the form of a pill,» says Ronald DePinho, professor of cancer biology and president of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

But then as we looked at it more we realized it was such a big opportunity, a larger, much larger well to mine of what endings mean for us in various areas that Scientific American covers and obviously we do cover biology, and so there's an article on why, you know why can [«t] we live forever for instance?

«This is a reflection of the impact of genomics on the way we do basic biology,» Vincent says.

«There's dogma in the literature — which is more oriented toward the cell biology of aging — that wild animals don't actually senesce,» says Daniel Nussey, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Edinburgh who studies aging in Soay sheep on a remote Scottish island.

After some upgrades, VALKYRIE will come back to Matanuska next year to do another test run with an on - board biology experiment and 3D radar mapper.

Young scientists «might spend much of graduate school optimizing computer code for a large physics experiment, or extracting samples in a biology lab, or doing the statistical analyses on other people's data,» Walsh and Lee write in their email.

«When we did the study, we thought polyploidy would be bad for asexuals, but we didn't find any evidence of that,» says Maurine Neiman, associate professor of biology at the UI and corresponding author on the paper, published in the journal Ecology and Evolution.

Organizer Fred Wells, curator of aquatic biology at the Western Australian Museum in Perth, got the idea for the strike force from Sydney's Australian Museum, which did a similar inventory on Queensland's Lizard Island in 1975.

I realize that your «Working Group On Review Of Bioengineering And Technology And Instrumentation Development Research», defined «bioengineering and technology» as encompassing areas such as biotechnology, functional genomics, informatics, chemistry and physics, nevertheless they did not discuss the problems experienced by physicists engaged in basic research on the frontier of physics and biology from the present system of study sectionOn Review Of Bioengineering And Technology And Instrumentation Development Research», defined «bioengineering and technology» as encompassing areas such as biotechnology, functional genomics, informatics, chemistry and physics, nevertheless they did not discuss the problems experienced by physicists engaged in basic research on the frontier of physics and biology from the present system of study sectionon the frontier of physics and biology from the present system of study sections.

«This 21st century approach, shaped by the actual biology of the nontarget organisms, is the best safeguard against inadequately informed approval of the next new class of pesticides (and that's something an outright ban on one class of pesticides can't do),» she adds in her e-mail.

A broad focus on marine biology in general, including places around the world at which you can study and / or do fieldwork.

«In a given week I'll do cell culture, protein chemistry, molecular biology, microscopy, and structural biology on the computer,» adds Luhrs.

As he did, monitors on one wall in the room flickered with images from the tiniest level of animal biology.

But for men who don't want to alter their sex hormones over the long haul, researchers are exploring a variety of nonhormonal options based on sperm biology.