Sentences with phrase «from flies to humans»

These patterns are seen in virtually all animals from flies to humans, and it is estimated that 10 % of a given organism's genes show circadian changes.

«It's a bit [of a] jump from flies to humans, but it's possible that something like this happens in mammals and humans,» Bath says.

«85 % of these genes are required for nephrocyte function, suggesting that a majority of human genes known to be associated with NS play conserved roles in renal function from flies to humans,» said Zhe Han, Ph.D., senior author of the paper and Associate Professor at the Centre for Cancer and Immunology Research at Children's National.

«For the first time, we realized that the functions of essential kidney genes could be so similar from the flies to humans.»

Despite the fact that brain structure and complexity vary greatly from flies to humans, Lef1 appears to mediate anxiety across species.

«Our studies are the first, to our knowledge, to identify a gene that plays a conserved role in aggression all the way from flies to humans,» explains Anderson, who is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.

Not exact matches

Current rules do not let people fly drones beyond the line of sight of human operators and over people's heads in public places, which limits companies like Amazon (amzn) and Google (goog) from using drones to deliver goods, among other business uses, beyond testing.

For one, current Federal Aviation Administration regulations prohibit drones from flying beyond the site of their human operators, thus limiting the ability for drones to deliver goods in far - off places.

In retrospect, the new Tesla seems rather pedestrian coming from a man who muses about flying cars and the day when robots replace humans, but at least he possesses a superhuman ability to generate publicity.

The other day on some discovery channel show said that the evolutionary jump in Humans, to our present form in the short amount of time that evolutionary theorist have declared, would be like a tornado ripping through a junk yard and in from the flying derbies and wind a fully assembled operational 747 be sitting in the tornado's wake.

When the wheels hit the runway, everyone applauded and it occurred to me in that moment that maybe human beings just weren't meant to fly; maybe we're pushing the limits of what God designed us to do; maybe it's not a good idea to live in such a way that not falling from the sky to your death is an occasion for celebration.

«But though by the end of the battle the men felt all the horror of their actions,» he writes, «though they would have been glad to stop, some incomprehensible, mysterious power still went on governing them, and the artillery men, covered with powder and blood, reduced to one in three, though stumbling and gasping from fatigue, kept bringing charges, loaded, aimed, applied the slow match; and the cannonballs, with the same speed and cruelty, flew from both sides and crushed human bodies flat, and the terrible thing continued to be accomplished, which was accomplished not by the will of men, but by the will of Him who governs people and worlds.»

So I hope that as he flies home on September 27, the Holy Father will understand that American Catholics share every ounce of his passion for Christian service and human dignity — beginning with the unborn child, but not ending there; including the poor and the immigrant, but reaching from conception to natural death... and confirming that the «joy of the Gospel» comes from a Gospel of Life.

If King's conception of the Deity or deities that inhabit our solar system is that possessed by a primitive tribe of hunter - gatherers or by one of the earliest of civilizations, one of half - human gods (chimeras) or monsters, little concerned with the fate of humanity, both capricious and threatening («As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport»), that is interesting from an anthropological perspective, but what does it have to do with «first things»?

«It looks like clock neurons are able to get the temperature information from external thermoreceptors, and that information is being used to time sleep in the fly in a way that's fundamentally the same as it is in humans,» Shafer said.

These four genes and their proteins constitute the heart of the biological clock in flies, and with some modifications they appear to form a mechanism governing circadian rhythms throughout the animal kingdom, from fish to frogs, mice to humans.

«Since these proteins are evolutionarily conserved from fruit flies to humans, experiments of this type tell us a lot about how their human versions normally work or can go wrong.»

They downloaded sequences of more than 700 genes from organisms ranging from fruit flies to humans and compared genes from closely related species.

It can also be controlled by a human from up to a kilometre away, has an endurance of up to 25 minutes, can hover for a stable view, and fly both indoors and out.

Some populations migrate 2,500 km each autumn from Svalbard to Scotland, yet in the run up to migration they fly for only a few minutes each day — short bursts of flight that perhaps mirror the modern high - intensity training (HIT) regimes human athletes use to boost maximal aerobic capacity.

Slumber is known to improve recall in creatures from fruit flies to humans, and the reigning theory among neuroscientists has been that the waves of brain activity during deep sleep reactivate neurons that were triggered during the day, strengthening neuronal connections and cementing them into solid memories.

This means that its components and functions are similar in diverse species from simple organisms like fruit flies to mice and even humans.

Lacin and Truman believe the insights from their study will now make it possible to investigate how molecular events, which occur from embryonic to adult stages, control the formation and function of the nervous system in fruit flies, with possible translation to humans.

Before humans appeared, an oriole could fly from the Mississippi to the Atlantic and never alight on anything other than a treetop.

They used synapses from the fruit fly drosophila, which compares remarkably closely to synapses in humans.

Historically, animal models — from fruit flies to mice — have been the go - to technique to study the biological consequences of aging, especially in tissues that can't be easily sampled from living humans, like the brain.

Understanding postcopulatory sexual selection has traditionally been difficult, due to the challenge of observing events within the reproductive tracts of internally fertilizing species — from those in organisms as small as a Drosophila fly to as large as a human.

Too much of the essential element is as dangerous as too little, either case adversely affecting health in animals from humans to mice to fruit flies.

The big thing then (as now), Ruvkun says, was for researchers to demonstrate that a gene of interest exists in a spectrum of different species — from roundworms and fruit flies to humans.

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Adult organisms ranging from fruit flies to humans harbor adult stem cells, some of which renew themselves through cell division while others differentiate into the specialized cells needed to replace worn - out or damaged organs and tissues.

Every organism previously studied — from humans to hamsters to fruit flies to bacteria — more or less follow the 24 - hour day / night cycle.

But faced with looming costs to keep the space shuttle flying and to send humans back to the moon, NASA revealed it would need to siphon funds away from space science — $ 3 billion over the next five years.

Researchers know that the cells of species such as yeast, flies and humans make far more RNA molecules — copied from DNA — than they seem to need.

Although no vertebrates (humans included) are known to carry Wolbachia, it is rampant in the invertebrate world, showing up in everything from fruit flies to shrimp, spiders, and even parasitic worms and turning the study of Wolbachia into a cottage industry among evolutionary biologists.

This year, computers repeatedly proved they could learn and excel at tasks previously considered to be uniquely human (see «From Pluto fly - by to head transplants — the best stories of 2015 «-RRB-.

In another set of experiments using the fly and human stem cells, the scientists added antisense oligonucleotides, bits of RNA designed to bind to the repetitive RNA strands, blocking them from interacting with the RanGAP protein.

In this study scientists used cells from the fruit fly Drosophila to screen for small molecules that suppress the signalling pathway central to the development of MPNs in humans.

Now, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have discovered a mechanism that causes long - term memory loss due to age in Drosophila, the common fruit fly, a widely recognized substitute for human memory studies.

«The key breakthrough came from using a fruit fly model of human ALS and FTD that allowed us to screen these 400 candidates for ones that block brain cell death in a living organism,» says Lloyd.

Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have discovered a mechanism that causes long - term memory loss due to age in Drosophila, the common fruit fly, a widely recognized substitute for human memory studies.

University of Dayton biologist Amit Singh is studying early eye development in fruit flies to understand the molecular basis of retinal disease and birth defects in the human eye under a new $ 439,499 grant from the National Institutes of Health.

«If a DNA sequence has been conserved throughout evolution — from worm to fly to human — it is very likely that the sequence is functionally relevant.»

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University]-- A new study on the mechanics of aging and longevity finds that fruit flies inhibited from producing the protein Sirt4 — which is also found in humans — are short - lived, while flies modified to make extra Sirt4 are long - lived.

«This is a case where scientists went from a fly mutation to a fly gene to a human mutation that causes congenital heart defects,» said Stainier.

Studies have shown that even «learned» experiences, which do not alter the underlying genetic material, can be passed on from one generation to the next — in mice, fruit flies, and possibly even humans.

In one fell swoop, scientists have increased from dozens to hundreds the number of known genes that control crucial steps in the development of many organisms from fruit flies to humans.

«You have to take a leap of faith from the developmental biology knowledge we have from worms and flies and think about how we can apply that really important biological information to the human context.»

To accomplish this, we will conduct genome scale capture experiments on chromatin samples from flies, mice and humans.

Although it would be unwise to generalize directly from these fruit fly experiments to humans, they do demonstrate proof of the principle that dietary stearate can, under certain conditions, support the unique roles of stearate that are essential to mitochondrial function.