Sentences with phrase «engineered by humans is»

But it isn't often that a device engineered by humans is later found to also exist in nature.
In any case, all our information is still stored and monitored by algorithms engineered by human beings.

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Some are intrigued by the concept (such as Frank Vasquez, a recording engineer with Snoop Dogg's Doggy Style Records) while others view the claim that software can approximate human mastering as downright offensive.
Susan J. Fowler, an ex-Uber engineer, says she was propositioned by her manager and that human resources refused to act on her complaint, saying that it was a «first offense» and that they didn't want to damage the career of a «high performer.»
Trojans are typically spread by social engineering - for example, by tricking people into clicking a link, installing an app, or running some email attachment - and, as such, unlike viruses and worms, Trojans typically do not self - propagate - instead, they rely on human involvement.
Technology by Cellectis allows cellular engineering, and a human trial of the company's work in editing blood cells will be presented at the upcoming American Society of Hematology.
Well before modern genetic engineering technology was around, humans found ways to tweak the DNA of plants by zapping it with chemicals or radiation — resulting in crops that are not considered GMOs.
Other issues raised by the committee included why Facebook does not provide an overall control or opt - out for political advertising; why it does not offer a separate feed for ads but chooses to embed them into the Newsfeed; how and why it gathers data on non-users; the addictiveness engineered into its product; what it does about fake accounts; why it hasn't recruited more humans to help with the «challenges» of managing content on a platform that's scaled so large; and aspects of its approach to GDPR compliance.
«The role of active investors is to find value, but when all asset classes are overvalued, the only way to survive is by using financial engineering to short volatility in some form... In world of ultra-low interest rates shorting volatility has become an alternative to fixed income... The global demand for yield is now unmatched in human history.
Not for the communist atrocities those were caused by attempts to engineer society, based on a flawed understanding of innate human nature and a fallacious belief in humans beings as blank slates.
Having found myself surrounded by engineers throughout most of my days, whether through friends, co - workers or marriage, I can assure you that they would be more likely to possess those skills than the majoity of the human race.
That computer physics and engineering have direct relevance to human nature and development is demonstrated by the rise of programmed instruction.
Then man - lower - than - man explained by the human sciences — man reified — can by the instructions of these sciences be controlled (even «engineered») and thus used....
How were the firstborns to die — tangible murder, or a disease brought about by poor birthing conditions engineered by the medical community of the time, or by a pulse from the Anananunki planet that could be attributed to a weak, ineffectual god assigned to this sector of the universe and passed off as omnipotent because He thought he was, or knew he had to pretend to be, to give humans Any Hope AT ALL?
It is for this reason that utopian thinking led some of its modern promoters, such as Arthur Koestler and Carl Sagan, to propose ways of «improving» human beings by biological manipulation such as surgical removal of certain centers in the brain or by genetic engineering to remove «bad» genes.
However under the current evolution theory you would not be able to prove (or even consider) this goat was in fact engineered by an intelligence (humans).
Mr Alfred Agbesi Woyome applied to the court arguing that his human rights were being trampled upon by Ghana in relation to the case in which he sued Ghana for abrogating a financial engineering services contract and was paid Gh?
The current head of Human Security Department of the National Security Office, Brig. General Nunoo - Mensah and the Navy commander at the time (who he did not name) were also set for the hit allegedly engineered by elements within the government of the time.
The Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility was established in 1976 by AAAS and advises on issues related to human rights, freedom of scientific inquiry, and the professional responsibilities of scientists and engineers.
A panel of ethicists convened by the U.S. National Academies of Medicine and Science also staked out that position in February, ruling that human germline engineering might someday be permissible for correcting diseases, but only if there are no alternatives and not for enhancements.
Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility (CSFR) The Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility was established in 1976 by AAAS and advises on issues related to human rights, freedom of scientific inquiry, and the professional responsibilities of scientists and engineers.
The projects, undertaken by students of all levels, were among examples that stand at the intersection of an emerging approach to teaching that integrates the fundamental tenets of human rights into science, technology, engineering and mathematics education.
This trial of OX513A mosquitoes, genetically engineered by the British company Oxitec, «would be unlikely to result in adverse effects on the environment or human health,» the FDA ruled.
However, some mice experienced dangerous levels of brain swelling, a side effect of the immune response triggered by the engineered cells, the researchers said, adding that extreme caution will be needed to introduce the approach in human clinical trials.
A dust storm that blanketed seven nations in the Middle East in late summer 2015 was caused by climate factors and unusual weather, not human conflict in Syria, concluded researchers including Elie Bou - Zeid, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Princeton.
An engineer and computer scientist by training, Casals is developing software to make these robotic exoskeletons «intelligent enough to interact with humans and try to complement the humans» abilities,» she says.
«One of the broader goals of our research is to make regenerative treatments more accessible and clinically relevant by developing easy, efficient and cost - effective ways to engineer human cells and tissues,» said Shyni Varghese, a bioengineering professor at UC San Diego and senior author of the study.
China is a developing country undergoing an energy transformation unprecedented in human history, but fired by an engineering optimism reminiscent of the U.S. in the 1950s.
He was fascinated by a talk one of his engineering professors gave about high - performance computing in the Human Genome Project, and he began to see other connections between biology and engineering.
«U.S. schools show steady improvement in math and science, the U.S. is not at any particular disadvantage compared to most nations, and the supply of S&E [science and engineering] graduates is large and ranks among the best internationally,» continues Eye, which was co-authored by two labor force experts, B. Lindsay Lowell, director of Policy Studies for the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and Harold Salzman of UI's Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population.
Around the U.S., engineers are finishing one - year crash projects to create robots able to dash 200 miles through the Mojave Desert in a day, unaided by humans.
Such scaremongering is especially painful to me because even though I do not think that government - approved GMO foods pose meaningful health risks to consumers, and even though I believe strategic genetic engineering can be an important tool to ease human suffering on our warming and resource - constrained planet, I share the concerns of many environmentalists about the homogenization and consolidation of the global food system — trends that are accelerated by the spread of industrially produced GMOs.
A team of KAIST researchers headed by Byung Jin Cho, a professor of electrical engineering, proposed a solution to this problem by developing a glass fabric - based thermoelectric (TE) generator that is extremely light and flexible and produces electricity from the heat of the human body.
The company now has an array of fully human antibodies in its pipeline created with its proprietary VelocImmune mouse, which has been engineered to express human antibody genes while still mounting a robust immune response by making antibodies with fully human variable regions and mouse constant regions.
Synthetic versions of the human growth hormone produced by genetically - engineered bacteria are marketed in the US by Genentech and Eli Lilly.
By applying engineering principles and computer modeling, we can investigate how the human body functions, whether it is on computational mechanism of the brain, object recognition, or motor control.
At the same time, Trump refused to be pinned down on the scientific consensus that humans are warming the planet, invoking debunked information about emails stolen from climate scientists in 2009, American factories burdened by regulations and his engineer uncle.
In an effort to overcome these limitations, a team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering led by its Founding Director, Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., had previously engineered a microfluidic «Organ - on - a-Chip» (Organ Chip) culture device in which cells from a human intestinal cell line originally isolated from a tumor were cultured in one of two parallel running channels, separated by a porous matrix - coated membrane from human blood vessel - derived endothelial cells in the adjacent channel.
Igor Aleksander, professor of neural systems engineering at Imperial College, London, belongs to the school which wants to develop intelligent machines by mimicking the way the human brain is built.
«As in the mouse,» he continues, «the human elements can be used in biotechnological applications to target mRNA encoding different proteins, by simply engineering the antisense part.
In general, such robots are effective at carrying out low - level tasks, specifically assigned to them by human engineers — a tedious and time - consuming process for the engineers.
By contrast, the Jupiter rocket proposed by the DIRECT team, which includes some moonlighting NASA engineers, is powerful enough for human moon missions, Metschan sayBy contrast, the Jupiter rocket proposed by the DIRECT team, which includes some moonlighting NASA engineers, is powerful enough for human moon missions, Metschan sayby the DIRECT team, which includes some moonlighting NASA engineers, is powerful enough for human moon missions, Metschan says.
If the engineered human T cells do produce a robust cancer attack — and don't generate toxicity by also attacking healthy cells — the next step would be clinical trials, He says.
Anand hopes his brain model could be incorporated into the Microphysiological Systems program, a platform the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is developing by using engineered human tissue to mimic human physiological systems.
To get to the bottom of this question, researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania engineered mice in which the damage caused by a mutant human TDP - 43 protein could be reversed by one type of brain immune cell.
Inspired by examples like this, engineers are producing ensembles of small, insect - like robots that cooperatively perform jobs that might be difficult, dangerous or tedious for humans to carry out.
INGESTEM, the national infrastructure in biology and health certified by the «Investissements d'Avenir» program and the Ile - de-France Region (DIM Biothérapies), is the first French network of therapeutic innovations based on pluripotent stem cells, human tissue engineering and their biomedical applications.
This is a derivative of the TZM - bl cell line, engineered by lentiviral transduction to stably express human FcγRIIb on the surface.
This is a derivative of the TZM - bl cell line, engineered by lentiviral transduction to stably express human FcγRI on the surface.
This is a derivative of the TZM - bl cell line, engineered by lentiviral transduction to stably express human FcγRIIIa on the surface.
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