Sentences with phrase «for modern biology»

The news that we may be able to produce these compounds at a commercial scale from crops is therefore really exciting, and demonstrates the potential for modern biology to address the challenges of providing us with healthy nutrition.»

But it has remained for modern biology and biochemistry to disclose this contrast, which lay observation could do no more than perceive, in all its persistence and sharpness.

Not exact matches

In other words modern biology has no use for «teleological» explanations.

Those who still cling to pre-scientific religious fictions, ignoring the truths discovered through modern science, should at least take notice when the biology department at the world's most prominent Baptist university, where a statement of faith is a prerequisite for teaching, unequivocally support evolution through the following statement, which you can look up on their web site:

Third, there is so much evidence for Evolution that it is the paradigm for all of biology and modern medicine.

It appears, though, that orthodox biology has not yet torn itself away from the old cosmography, nor for that matter has modern physics succeeded totally in doing so either.

Many of these writers will go a step further and claim that in our modern world, with our Darwinian understanding of biology, there is, in fact, no need for religious belief at all.

From modern molecular biology comes additional evidence for evolution by descent.

I'd bet that 90 % of those who know enough basic biology to write a short essay on cell mitosis and DNA replication would also say «evolution is obvious and is the basis for of all of modern biology».

Organisation as life is a view remarkably close to modern biology: for Leroi, biology is all about mapping the body's regular material transformations.

After solving the puzzle of DNA (for which he won a Nobel Prize in 1962 with Watson and their professor, Maurice Wilkins, who died in October), he tackled RNA, leading a successful effort to crack the genetic code and laying the groundwork for modern molecular biology.

«Understanding how the genome encodes for complex characteristics like lifespan is one of the biggest challenges of modern biology,» Dr. Brunet notes.

Rennie: Or for that matter, any number of theologians who are obviously devoted in their various faiths and also accept that evolution actually happened and that the mechanisms of natural selection and the further extensions of that, that modern biology has developed, all are there.

Like Medieval alchemists who searched for an elixir that could turn base metals into gold, biology's modern alchemists have learned how to use oocytes to turn normal skin cells into valuable stem cells, and even whole animals.

While Novartis is still recruiting traditional veterinary pathologists trained in toxicology, it is also looking for toxicologists with a background in biochemistry, molecular biology, and modern biology techniques who are interested in molecular - based risk assessment.

In short, it appears that our technology has created ways of accelerating change (genetic engineering, for instance) and new habitats (like the modern city), essentially fracturing our biology and transforming our future as a species.

Modern tools of genetics and molecular biology are revealing the hidden specializations required for blood feeding and helping make sense of lifestyles that go to different extremes, even mouth - to - mouth blood donation.

In this course we will learn how algorithms, databases and popular software tools are used to answer these and many other questions in modern clinical genomic biology as well as applying them to real world whole human genomes experimental datasets for understanding and interpretation.

He wanted to create a modern NMR software suite for structural biology.

«Much of modern developmental biology has a bias for grand visions of form and structure.»

Making sense of the «big data» that is now ubiquitous in biology requires the development of innovative new quantitative tools and techniques, grounded in classical theory yet adapted for powerful modern technologies.

With a Ph.D. in bacteriology and immunology, Dr. Guyer said he couldn't pass up the opportunity to work for James D. Watson, Ph.D., an icon of modern biology and the office's first director.

For his work on these four instruments — cornerstones of modern molecular biology — Dr. Hood was awarded the American and Japanese equivalents of the Nobel Prize: the Lasker Award and Kyoto Prize.

He was one of the founders of modern molecular biology and his contribution enabled patients affected by genetic disease to gain an understanding of their condition and begin to hope for the possibility of a cure.

Modern facilities are generously equipped with a full range of instrumentation required for research in cellular, molecular, developmental, and endocrine biology.

The main reasons for this, however, can be found not so much in biology as in our modern sedentary lifestyle — as we age, we tend to be less and less physically active and spend more time sitting on a couch or working at a desk.

Their art collective staged numerous incendiary performances such as an orgy in a biology museum to parody then - President Dmitry Medvedev's plans to boost the birth rate, and a giant penis painted on a drawbridge in St Petersburg.Three members of the punk band were each sentenced to two years in jail for performing an anti-Putin song in Moscow's Christ the Saviour Cathedral in a «feminist attempt to take Russia from the Middle Ages to the modern era».

Physical chemistry is a combination of chemistry and physics, it is fine that you derived the equation, but it relates to thermodynamics just the same; chemists make those lasers work, those DVD's play, and I have taken calculus physics, modern physics, (multi variable calculus physics) which means technically I too have a degree in physics, but my focus has been chemistry, biology, and I took a few graduate courses dealing with meteorology, ocean dynamics, geology, atmospheric science and my undergraduate courses were filled with earth science related material and after all the math needed for Pchem engineering mathematics is not difficult nor is graduate physics:) so the derivation you just made is discussed in math classes before, even calculus one, so I am not sure what you are trying to prove.

He combines the disciplines of anthropology, biology, architecture, engineering, agriculture, and ecology to address modern challenges of providing for human needs while maintaining ecosystem health.

The man - made nature of climate disruption is based on so many well established, basic physical principles that it can't be rationally disputed without shattering large portions of modern science (physics, chemistry, biology, and geology just for starters) and ignoring most of the modern technology (GPS, IR cameras, heat - seeking missiles, weather satellites, etc.) that was successfully designed and built using that science.