Sentences with phrase «for other biologists»

They make specific and refutable predictions based on these principles and call for other biologists to test them theoretically and experimentally.

Of course, for any other biologist this was just a simple change of model species, but I was struck by the bemused response from everyone else.

Not exact matches

Richard Dawkins, in his celebrated book, The Selfish Gene, exemplifies the same position.3 And a similar reduction of biology to a molecular science may be found in the writings of E.O. Wilson, Ernst Mayr, Jacques Monod and numerous other highly respected scientific writers.4 In Chance and Necessity, for example, Monod gives one of the most forceful renditions of the view that biochemical analysis is «obviously» the sole avenue to understanding the secret of life.5 Decades ago Jacques Loeb had already set forth the program of inquiry still emulated today by many biologists:

And we must not forget that a quantum - mechanical calculation even on one particular bacterial cell would be incorrect for every other cell, even of the same species — a point clearly made by Elsasser in his conclusions about the heterogeneity of the material with which the biologist has to deal.

But, as Bohm points out, such a position can not stand up to critical analysis, for the molecules studied by biologists in living organisms are constituted of electrons, protons and other such particles, from which it must follow that they too are capable of behaving in ways that can not be described in terms of mechanical concepts.

Whitehead in this respect as in others provides a rigorous ontological grounding at the microcosmic level for the macrocosmic phenomena studied by biologists.

Other announced candidates for agriculture commissioner, Republican Mike McCalister and Democrat David Walker, a marine biologist from Fort Lauderdale, did not respond to requests for comment before a Monday deadline about disaster - related issues.

For many evolutionary biologists, nothing gets their dander up faster than suggesting evolution is anything other than the process of natural selection, acting on random mutations.

Although DARPA didn't pay much attention to the life sciences at first, since 1990, when it hired its first biologist, «it made up for lost time, and in June 2014 DARPA put the life sciences on an equal footing with other disciplines by creating the Biology Technologies Office,» Mervis noted in a sidebar.

«At face value, it looks very interesting,» says Rudolf Jaenisch, a stem cell biologist at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who hopes that other teams will soon repeat the experiments.

To get ready for field collection work, he asked several biologists in other departments at Jagiellonian for guidance.

The new study offers «yet another piece of information» that selecting for changes in behavior can trigger a host of other changes in domesticated animals, says Greger Larson, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, who was not involved with the work.

If the same holds true for other species, Hunt says, conservation biologists may want to take sexual dimorphism into account when assessing species» vulnerability to current environmental threats.

To him there is a real need for mathematicians who are able to communicate in such a way that both mathematicians and biologists understand each other, respect each others» needs, and get something in return.

Almost 40 percent of self - identifying DIY biologists (most of whom are unaffiliated with a conventional research institutions) work in community labs — more than any other setting, including hackerspaces, professional labs and homes — according to a forthcoming study I coauthored at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

For those of you who are physicists, geologists, or other scientists who hate molecular biology — though those who hate it most are usually molecular biologists — I'll simply say that I needed to pick some random letters, and the letters I happened to pick turned out to be bad letters.

The U.S. attorney's office in Indianapolis had alleged that Guoqing Cao and Shuyu Li, both naturalized U.S. citizens and senior biologists at Eli Lilly, passed research on tailored therapies for cancer and drugs to treat diabetes, obesity, and other metabolic disorders to Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine, a company in Lianyungang, China.

«The Base in not well surveyed for most animal groups and given its location on Cuba, the extent of rare habitat, [and] the number of rare plants, there are bound to be many more discoveries to be made and we are promoting it to other biologists as a research destination,» Droege says.

For example, researchers can now see if body odor reflects other conditions, says Craig Roberts, a biologist at the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom: «It's important because it might help with noninvasive diagnosis of disease and potentially for biometric technology using genetically unique and distinct odors.&raqFor example, researchers can now see if body odor reflects other conditions, says Craig Roberts, a biologist at the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom: «It's important because it might help with noninvasive diagnosis of disease and potentially for biometric technology using genetically unique and distinct odors.&raqfor biometric technology using genetically unique and distinct odors.»

It could also let biologists and other nonspecialists easily create short - lived compounds on demand for their research, including fluorescently labeled compounds.

To complete this and other ongoing projects, the biologist, who belongs to Professor Alexander Bürkle's Molecular Toxicology Group at the University of Konstanz, will move back to Houston, Texas, for another six months.

UCLA chemists and molecular biologists have for the first time used a «structure - based» approach to drug design to identify compounds with the potential to delay or treat Alzheimer's disease, and possibly Parkinson's, Lou Gehrig's disease and other degenerative disorders.

Since birds vocalize to alert each other to predators and food sources, biologists John Swaddle and Ghazi Mahjoub and acoustician Mark Hinders of the College of William & Mary hypothesized that interrupting the conversations would increase birds» vigilance, leaving less time for loitering and dining.

I went out there with marine biologists from all over the world in a Scripps Oceanographic Institution expedition trying to look at, you know, what would the baseline be for a truly healthy ocean that had not been overfished and overflushed with chemicals and all the other things that we dump into the ocean — and from those examples, I started to get an idea of what the world might look like without us, but then it occurred to me to really understand, I would also have to get a baseline for what was the world like before us.

The molecular index developed by the biologists from UNIGE could easily be adapted to other groups of unicellular bioindicators: a major asset for monitoring various types of aquatic ecosystems.

For more than half a century, biologists have been driven a little crazy trying to figure out why honeybees, unlike other bee species, perform an elaborate dance to tell their cohorts where the best flowers are.

While the search goes on, Pruitt hopes other biologists will hunt for evidence of the phenomenon in plants, animals and even humans.

In Denial, biologists Varki and Brower (Brower died in 2007) propose a novel explanation for why humans surpassed all other species in mental prowess.

Washington State University molecular biologist Michael Skinner had previously shown that sperm abnormalities induced by vinclozolin, a toxic fungicide used on wine grapes, strawberries, and other fruits, can pass from father to son for four generations in rats.

By pairing a receptor that targets neurons with a molecule that degrades the main component of Alzheimer's plaques, the biologists were able to substantially dissolve these plaques in mice brains and human brain tissue, offering a potential mechanism for treating the debilitating disease, as well as other conditions that involve either the brain or the eyes.

For years, evolutionary biologists have believed that the sedentary sponge — that mushy aquatic creature so rudimentary it doesn't even have tissues or nerves — branched off the animal family tree before any other lineage, making it a relic of the very first animal on earth.

Lydia Villa - Komaroff, a molecular and cellular biologist and co-founding member of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos / Hispanics and Native Americans in Science, underscored the value of basic research, noting that her work studying strains of infection - resistant bacteria led to a discovery that «made it possible to make insulin and other treatments in bacteria.

Now, a new group of biologists, geoscientists and other experts in past landscapes have banded together in a project called PoLAR - FIT, for Pliocene Landscape and Arctic Remains — Frozen in Time.

In other words, they change their behaviour, which is something very exciting to confirm for us biologists.»

* The number of women faculty members is a bigger issue for biologists (0.23) than for those in any other discipline.

In his talk, Wieland Huttner, a molecular cell biologist and developmental neurobiologist at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI - CBG) in Dresden, Germany, explained how his team searched databases for proteins and other gene products expressed in the human brain in these earliest phases of development.

But recent research by University of Cincinnati Biologist Denis Conover, working alongside Tim Sisson, president of the Western Wildlife Corridor, reveal their approach for safely killing and removing invasive plants, thus leading to a natural resurgence of native species at Bender Mountain Preserve and other natural wooded areas in southwestern Ohio.

And to date, biologists studying other species have seen venom genes evolve at a breakneck pace: The conotoxins employed by cone snails, for example, are known to mutate rapidly.

Jeff Smith, a first - year postdoc at OISB who studies cell signaling using proteomics, notes that with no specific categories for systems biology on research - grant applications, he has no choice but to place himself in direct competition with biochemists and biologists in other fields.

At the conference, biologists who work mostly in the field observing the behaviors of bees, ants, wolves, slime molds and other creatures tended to look for the mechanics of natural selection at the behavioral level by examining how individual organisms self - organize into hives, nests, packs, conglomerates or families.

«I think it's a very clever idea,» says Dean Rosenthal, a molecular biologist at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Van der Schans and Rosenthal say they can also conceive of skin tests for other chemical agents, such as phosgene, or industrial pollutants such as ethylene oxide — anything that has a way of getting under the skin.

«This is done a lot within a traditional department at other universities, but in our case it's done across what would normally be different departments, where you would have a chemist, a biologist and a mathematician pitching in for one piece of equipment,» says Holdway.

The answer I give now is this: What's easier than either of these alternatives is for both the biologist and the mathematician to learn enough of each other's language to be able to talk to one another.

Others, however, think it's time for evolutionary biologists to move on.

The invasivore biologists have graduated and dispersed to other research labs, but their zest for «eating our enemies,» as Deines puts it, lives on.

The need for biologists with additional qualifications in business administration (whether via MBA or distance learning or other courses) will increase as biotech companies, banks, and consultants look for people who understand both — the technology and the business.

Like about two dozen other manakins, the male uses its wings in a way that biologists don't yet understand to «sing» for its mate — producing clicking, rattling, and humming noises as it prances around during group courtship displays.

The results make it clear, says stem - cell biologist Amy Wagers, who headed the study, that these hematopoietic stem cells can do a lot for blood diseases but not for diseases affecting other kinds of cells.

Traditionally, biologists have searched for the animals themselves, or for burrows, nests, footprints, droppings, and other traces — and all that searching can be time - consuming and costly.

«These two stories [Dynasty and the Soros Foundation] are very symptomatic and replicate each other,» says Mikhail Gelfand of the the Russian Academy of Sciences» (RAS») Institute for Information Transmission Problems in Moscow and one of Russia's top biologists.