Sentences with phrase «for human colonies»

The idea of growing food for human colonies in space could be a reality very soon.»

As of now, the reason for the deposits is unknown, but the presence of oxygen in the lunar rock would make those sites attractive for future moon missions, even for human colonies, which could use the oxygen for breathing and as a rocket - fuel component.

In his look at hopes for a human colony on Mars, Nigel Henbest writes that «mission planners have even considered...

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The world's largest cockroach farm is breeding 6 billion adult cockroaches a year and using artificial intelligence to manage a colony larger than the world's human population — all for medicinal use.

A new World Human Order, after all the blood and tears of war, was dawning, with colonies liberated, technology trained and tamed to make the pursuit of happiness a universally accessible opportunity and tranquil environs, with peace and security, a blessing for development and crimson unfoldment of total personality.

Bees can prolong their lives for the preservation of their colony 5 to 6 times, which remains a mystery for us humans until now.

Now, a study published online April 27th, in the Journal of Immunology, confirms that the cytokine GM - CSF (Granulocyte macrophage colony - stimulating factor) likely plays an important role in human disease and offers a new explanation for why the MS treatment interferon - Beta (INF - β) is often effective at reducing MS attacks.

Then there are the bees: Regardless of whether honeybees become extinct as a species as a result of colony collapse disorder, climate change and other threats, the local extinction of various honeybee populations and the pollination they provide could spell disaster for human agriculture.

Coffin described how lab workers there had transplanted human prostate tumor cells into an immune - deficient lab mouse, a common procedure for procuring a colony of cells, or a human cell line, for further study.

These colonies adhere to surfaces and can have beneficial metabolic functions in, for example, environmental remediation; or detrimental functions, such as in human disease.

He and the Vereide Group grow precursors of human arterial cells, build colonies of dendritic cells (cells which can alert the rest of the immune system to the presence of a tumor), and use chick embryos to study the formation of early tissue layers for a possible future in which complex tissues, or even organs, can be grown to replace diseased, wounded, or malfunctioning ones.

The United Kingdom's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has issued a license that will allow researchers to create colonies of human stem cells for the purposes of reseHuman Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has issued a license that will allow researchers to create colonies of human stem cells for the purposes of resehuman stem cells for the purposes of research.

T - VEC, recently approved for the treatment of advanced melanoma, is an oncolytic herpes simplex virus type 1 engineered to replicate selectively in tumor cells and express human granulocyte - macrophage colony - stimulating factor.

Qualley will be Sam Walden, one of the last surviving people on the planet, who is racing to find a cure for her stricken home world before the last shuttle leaving for a distant human colony takes off and she's stranded.

Said Schwartzberg, «For me, the joy of doing this film is to be able to explore worlds that humans can't easily experience — bats sipping nectar in the middle of the desert at night, orchid bees expertly manipulated by a bucket orchid, exotic hummingbirds flying like airborne dancers, and a clustering monarch colony with millions of butterflies.

The need for education in responsible pet ownership (the human component of feral cat management) was also discussed to prevent additional cats from being abandoned to the streets and starting new feral colonies.

In most cases, feral cats still depend on people for their food source, whether it's a human who takes care of a feral colony or dumpsters / garbage cans etc..

A well maintained community cat colony is beneficial both for humans and the cats.

The numerical cut - off for normality of 1 x 105 colony forming units per milliliter (cfu / mL) total bacterial numbers or 1 x 104 cfu / mL anaerobes was based inappropriately on the numbers found in the human small intestine.

Just as cats 10,000 years ago were attracted to the easy, consistent food source that the first human settlements provided (see The Natural History of the Cat), feral cats today scavenge on the scraps that all human habitats inevitably produce.1 A study of a feral cat colony in Brooklyn found that the cats depended more on local garbage for food than on either prey or food provided by caregivers, and that the neighborhood produced enough garbage to feed three times more cats than actually lived in that area.2

They defined «unowned» as farm cats living in barns, strays living outdoors that may be fed by humans, and feral cats that fend for themselves — all of which might live alone or in colonies.

«Managed feral cat colonies bring together all the elements necessary to create a perfect storm of risk: concentrated numbers of unvaccinated cats, wildlife vector species attracted to food sources provided for the cats, proximity to humans, and contact among all three of these groups.

Jetty Cats (32:00) Sheila O'Rourke's sweeping overview of cats throughout human history, looks at a long - surviving feral cat colony on a seaside jetty in Southern California and explores the debate about Trap - Neuter - Return as the best management for community cats.

Stray cats often rely on humans for food, whereas colonies of feral cats will typically feed on garbage, rodents and other small animals.

Feral colony caretakers are usually cat - loving, concerned humans who want to help ferals survive.They provide nourishment for the colony and often keep track of the members» health.

Abandoned by their human families or simply lost, house cats eventually band together for safety in groups called colonies.

Without positive human contact for a prolonged period, the cats in these colonies become feral (wild).

The microbiome — colonies of various microbes that reside in the gut and elsewhere in and on the body — is an essential component of wellness for both animals and humans.

Recombinant human granulocyte colony stimulating factor for treatment of puppies with neutropenia secondary to canine parvovirus infection.

While feral cats may live solitary lives, outdoor cats in general are very social, frequently living with human beings, being cared for as community cats and interacting with other felines in extended cat colonies.

You can also create feeding stations for your cat colony, and your interactions with them may help them grow to trust humans and become more tame naturally.

We work with feral cat colonies, neutering and returning colonies that are in safe locations and well fed, bringing into our care those that are threatened by humans, suffering due to lack of regular food or were living in an unsuitable place, such as a site due for demolition and redevelopment.

The un-owned cat group includes semi-feral cats that are sometimes considered pets (for example, farm / barn cats and strays that are fed by humans but not granted access to habitations), cats in subsidized (including TNR) colonies, and cats that are completely feral (that is, completely independent and rarely interacting with humans).

At the same time, for > 20 years, the Catalina Island Humane Society has practiced TNR at designated cat colonies in Avalon and Two Harbors, the 2 largest human settlements on the island.

Laughing Bird Caye got its name from the Laughing Gulls — the birds that once used to breed on the Caye, however due to a growing human presence, the colonies moved to a nearby undisturbed Caye for breeding.

Natural Language Understanding (NLU) is technical jargon for computer understanding of human language (English in the case of Bot Colony).

The well - paced but forgettable narrative takes you through the story of false accusations, megalomania and a human - colonised Mars under threat from a dormant colony of violent native aliens, but it's the unrivalled potential for demolition that will keep players coming back.

On Saturday, November 5, at 12 pm Maartje Korstanje, resident at ISCP, will be present at Olive Street Garden (corner of Olive and Powers Streets, Brooklyn) to discuss her work commissioned for The Animal Mirror: An organic site - specific sculpture related to the recent disappearance of a large number of North American honeybee colonies, it is meant as much to serve as a home for solitary bees as for the enjoyment of its human visitors.

With angst around colony collapse disorder and the plight of the honeybees causing some to explore the idea of «human bee pollinators» (seriously, many farmers in China do now pollinate fruit trees by hand due to lack of bees), it might be a comforting thought that there are also other pollinators out there who can pick up the slack for the disappearing bees.

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Liberty - loving humans may not like the idea of mass surveillance, but for the embattled bees, technology that monitors their numbers may help in the epic fight against colony collapse disorder.

One ominous point about human interference made towards the end was that industrial fishing for silverfish and krill will also affect the colonies and make the whole food web more susceptible to climate change.