Sentences with phrase «from human biology»

From human biology to the temperature of the earth to a car's cruise control to the thermostat in your house, homeostasis is a fact of life that governs nearly every aspect of your existence.

But snake biology is very different from human biology, and it wasn't clear that any lessons from pythons would translate.

Not exact matches

A former health care investment analyst with a degree in biology from Yale University and current CEO of the company, Wojcicki is fascinated by the mysteries of the genome and what it can reveal about the human body.

By the way, from the look of your dialogues, you seemed to be quite knowledgeable about human biology.

All of the plea.ures we get in life come from our biology as humans — the pleasure of $ ex and love, of eating, of success in business or sport (intra-species compet.ition).

Thus Original Sin (and its consequences) is not just the fact of a fall from grace and destination in God, it is also a fact of human biology, a fall from proper union and harmony in the flesh and in the psyche of Man.

The absence of strict determinism that recent physics has discovered at the most basic levels of matter, the chance mutations that biology finds at the level of life's evolution, and the freedom that comes forth with human existence — all of these are the expected features of any world we might claim to be distinct from the being of its creator.

As we read this history, the furor over stem cells was fueled by numerous factors: the near - universal human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now do anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn human life.

Your telling me, that given these FACTS that we know are true, a magic being called God chose to suspend the laws of physics and human biology about 2000 years ago to let us know he's here and never hear from him again or find any signs of his existance in the know Universe exept that book that you keep pulling nonsense quotes from?

Finding Your Own Passenger Pigeon - Center for Humans & Nature - January 2015 10 best Chicago museums: Top institutions to visit in Chicago - TimeOut Chicago - December 10, 2014 From prairie and river ecosystems to the biology of Ice Age — mammals, nature and its conservation, the focus at this Lincoln Park museum situated alongside a lagoon is vast and varied.

Professor McKenna advises «from an evolutionary and biological perspective, proximity to parental sounds, smells, gases, heat and movement during the night is precisely what the human infant «expects», and in our push for infant independence, we are forgetting that an infant's biology can not change quite as quickly as cultural child - care patterns.»

Modern mothers were discouraged from breastfeeding, and given the impression bottle feeding represented the next stage in human evolution in which they would no longer be controlled by biology.

Research into the biology of human lactation has been seriously impeded by the impracticality and ethical concerns of obtaining systematic samples of mammary tissue from lactating woman.

Cultural innovations and child care practices and, importantly, the dynamic social values and ideologies that legitimize them, shift quite rapidly relative to evolutionary - based changes in fundamental infant biology.1 This raises the possibility that widely recommended infant care practices can be at odds with the human infant's biological, psychological and emotional needs and expectations, at least as inferred from the human infant's evolutionary past.

The Cell Lab at the Science Museum of Minnesota allows kids from kindergarten to 12th grade to play science detectives while introducing them to human physiology, genetics and cell biology.

With an M.A. in human genetics and molecular biology from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a B.S. in biochemistry from New Mexico State University,...

«If climate were causing this, we would expect to see these extinction events either sometimes (diverging from) human migration across the globe or always lining up with clear climate events in the record,» said Lyons, assistant professor of biology at Nebraska.

Holding a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Baroda in India, he thought that his research on the «regression of feathers» in birds could add to the understanding of hair growth and loss in humans.

A research team led by scientists from Brigham and Women's Hospital has developed a novel technology platform that enables the continuous and automated monitoring of so - called «organs - on - chips» — tiny devices that incorporate living cells to mimic the biology of bona fide human organs.

«Finding these similarities and studying the aspects of mouse biology that may reflect human biology, allows us to approach the study of human illnesses in a better way,» affirms Bing Ren, one of the principal authors from the ENCODE Consortium and a lecturer in molecular and cellular medicine at the University of California — San Diego.

Jonathan Losos's book Improbable Destinies tackles a controversy in biology - and finds that humans aren't all that different from the platypus

«Before O'Rahilly began publishing his findings, a lot of scientists considered humans exempt from biology,» says Rudolph Leibel, head of the division of molecular genetics at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons.

When he graduated from Beijing's Peking University in 2004, he chose to go to graduate school to study biology, believing that studying fundamental biological mechanisms would allow him to have the greatest possible impact on human health.

From the standpoint of human biology, the oral spider myth also seems ridiculous.

In 2011, he and his colleagues created rOpenSci, a platform and repository that boasts dozens of open - source data - and - analysis packages serving fields ranging from climate science to vertebrate biology via human genetics.

The study of our human nature encompasses a variety of fields ranging from anthropology, primatology, cognitive science and psychology to paleontology, archaeology, evolutionary biology and genetics.

«We hope that the results from this study will enable investigators to test the relevance of the maresin pathway in human disease,» said Charles N. Serhan, Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work from the Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Mass. «Moreover, we hope to better understand resolution biology and its potential pharmacology so that we can enhance our ability to control unwanted inflammation and improve the quality of life.»

That's something you can't get from studies of rodents, which have different biology than humans do.

She earned her Bachelor's Degree in biology from GoucherCollege and her Master's Degree in environmental science and natural resource policy from YaleUniversity, where she was a Dodge Fellow in Human - Animal Ecology.

With an M.A. in human genetics and molecular biology from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a B.S. in biochemistry from New Mexico State University, Cordova has held research internships at those institutions as well as at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and at the University of Texas - Houston.

«Humans are crazy for Facebook, but our research suggests that primates have been relying on the face to tell friends from competitors for the last 50 million years and that social pressures have guided the evolution of the enormous diversity of faces we see across the group today,» said Michael Alfaro, an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in the UCLA College of Letters and Science and senior author of the study.

Dr. VanHook studied biology as an undergraduate at Kenyon College and received her Ph.D. from the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Utah.

Alternative cell lines, such as induced pluripotent stem cells generated from patient skin cells, offer a more accurate window on human biology, he says.

For Nanibaa Garrison, born and raised on a Navajo reservation, MARC provided the opening for a biology degree this spring from the University of Arizona in Tucson and a chance to head off this fall to a doctoral program in human genetics at Stanford University.

The letter — signed by chimpanzee researchers from the most renowned universities in the country — asserts that «human - chimpanzee comparisons are essential for understanding the unique characteristics of human biology.»

The special issue brings together researchers in biology, anthropology, archaeology, economics, psychology, computer science and more to explore the cultural forces affecting human evolution from a wider perspective than is usually taken.

Renowned molecular biologist and scholar of science and religion, Denis Alexander, described recent advances in developmental biology, genomics, epigenetics and behavioral genetics, including the flurry of publications describing results from the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) consortium, and discussed their implications for notions of human freedom and responsibility.

Though Martinsen and Schall are quick to note that they anticipate little danger to people from this newly discovered deer malaria, it does underline the fact that many human health concerns are connected to wider ecological systems — and that understanding the biology of other species is a foundation to both conservation and public health management.

«Liver cancer is on the rise worldwide, and in human studies we've now seen that patients can progress from fatty liver disease to liver cancer without any middle steps such as cirrhosis,» says David Moore, a professor of molecular and cellular biology, who led the study with Associate Professor Loning Fu, both at Baylor.

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence has always looked for an anomaly in the persistent cosmic background chatter — a change perhaps in the intensity of a signal that can be taken as a sign that a transmission might be a message to us earthlings from other intelligent beings.Each year, medical researchers who gather at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference search for something similar as they weigh reports of the complex biology of the human brain for some sign that a drug might actually change the relentless course of the disease.

After receiving his bachelor's degree in biology from Duke University, he studied human transposable elements in the laboratories of Dr. Mark Batzer (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge) and Prescott Deininger (Tulane University, New Orleans).

On Capitol Hill last week, Weinberg, an expert in the molecular biology of cancer, pointed out to the Congressional Biomedical Research Caucus that the major advances in understanding human cancer genetics had come, not from studying breast tissue, but from studying cow warts, worm vulvas, fruitfly retinas, and a chicken virus.

Alberts is skeptical of drawing any evolutionary implications from the study, because human biology and social dynamics are so different from that of baboons.

Short for «evolutionary developmental biology,» Evo Devo posits that the same set of master genes, with differing on - off switches, controls the development of basic body structures in animals ranging from flatworms to humans.

To develop protocols for production of transplantable mesDA and striatal GABAergic progenitors from human ES and NS cell lines, building on recent developments in stem cell biology;

February 2010 - Italian stem cell scientists challenge goverment EuroSyStem scientist Elena Cattaneo challenges Italian government - the story continues In the summer of 2009, three Italian stem celli scientists unsuccessfully challenged their government in the courts over its decision to exclude human embryonic stem cell research from a ministerial funding call for projects on stem cell biology.

My goal is to contribute to the resolution of this important problem by bringing to bear recent advances in human genetics and integrative genomics and translating them in a mechanistic, systems - level understanding of disease that is rooted in human biology but also actionable from a drug development perspective.

From axolotls to zebrafish, this story explores some of science's classic models, others more unusual, but all with potential for increasing our understanding of biology to improve human health.

For understanding the biology of gene - gene, gene - drug and gene - microenvironment interactions, a considerably broader range of in vitro and in vivo model systems is required — we are generating 1,000 organoid cultures from human cancers, characterising their genomes, functional dependencies and drug response, and we are expanding our in vivo models to study the interface between cancer and the immune system and microenvironment.

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