Sentences with phrase «driven by biology»

Inherited mood disorders and developmental diseases show us that personality is driven by biology.

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«We've known for some time that invadopodia are driven by protein filaments called actin,» said study leader Louis Hodgson, Ph.D., assistant professor of anatomy and structural biology at Einstein.

Twenty - first century science is driven, in large part, by challenges at interfaces, including those between the environmental and life sciences — public health, ecology, genomics, cell biology, epidemiology, immunology, neurobiology, physiology, evolutionary biology... and the mathematical sciences.

The recent sharp, decade - long rise in biology majors, for example, was preceded by an even longer but more gradual decline, whereas mathematics and computer science have been on a roller - coaster ride that features a PC - driven peak in the mid-1980s and a recent resurgence.

«This remodeling process of the cell proteome by autophagy is an important immune - suppressive survival mechanism for Ras - driven cancers, and inhibiting autophagy can provide a means to target these aggressive cancers,» notes White, who is also a distinguished professor of molecular biology and biochemistry at Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences.

Their research was never driven by curiosity about biology, Vogelstein says, but by «an overwhelming desire to empty the cancer clinics across the street.»

And while previous extinctions have been driven by natural planetary transformations or catastrophic asteroid strikes, the current die - off can be associated to human activity, a situation that the lead author Rodolfo Dirzo, a professor of biology at Stanford, designates an era of «Anthropocene defaunation.»

V: A lot of biology that was not known before, including the biology of the upper oceans, seems to be driven by capturing energy directly from the sun.

If you share my view that technology drives history more than any other factor, then you will probably agree that the 21st century is going to be significantly shaped by the outcome of a single question: Will synthetic biology achieve radical success or not?

Lin says the primary driving force in creating the network, however, was a forward - thinking vision among U researchers led originally by Jim Ehleringer, Diane Pataki and Dave Bowling in the biology department.

To achieve such integration, Tara Oceans is driven by researchers with expertise in biological and physical oceanography, ecology, microbiology, systematics, molecular, cellular and systems biology, bioinformatics, data management, and modeling.

«The biology is driven by a proper biology lab, but the technology is driven here,» says Carragher.

Much impetus for biophysical investigation following World War II came from the desire of physicists to move away from physics and into biology; this drive was strengthened by the publication in 1944 of Erwin Schrödinger's book What Is Life?

«I originally trained as a developmental biologist, then, during my postdoc in stem cell biology, I became interested in research showing that the growth of brain tumours might be driven by cells similar to neural stem cells.

Although this natural gene drive is unpredictable and scattershot, Burt showed that certain tricks of molecular biology could achieve the same results: causing a gene to be inherited by many more organisms through many generations than standard genetics and natural selection allow.

Bioinformatics has been driven by the great acceleration in data - generation processes in biology.

Scientists today have a growing understanding of the biology of a vast array of cancers driven by various mutations and across many body sites.

But mainly it's an idea carried through all of Refn's films that the actions in which we engage are driven by ritual, carried along on strange currents through our biology.

Michael, you claim expertise in this matter, and say that «biology and ecology may not be [my] cup of tea»... leaving the insult aside, where are all these putative species which have been driven extinct by the ~ 1 - 2Â ° temperature rise of the last few centuries?

LeonD - I expect you're doing a «drive - by», rather than actually engaging in conversation, but I would ask you to consider just what proportion of peer - reviewed biology papers make explicit statements for or against the validity of evolution in their abstracts?

As team leader Martyn Tranter, a biogeochemist at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom, explains, «We're driven by curiosity, but also the fear that all this new biology may accelerate global sea level rise.»