Sentences with phrase «geneticists in»

This places Geneticists in the 34th percentile of salary satisfaction.

The idea that skeptical climate scientists are being treated like Soviet geneticists in the Stalinist period has no basis in fact.

I also criticized their suggestion that climate - change skeptics are suffering under a reign of terror similar to that of Soviet geneticists in the Lysenko era; they dismiss my criticism as a «rhetorical flourish.»

«At the time I was actually a little bit awestruck because Elaine is one of the preeminent geneticists in the world, and Leonid is without question one of the top genetics statisticians anywhere,» Weissman said.

Following up GWAS hits has been a major focus of complex disease geneticists in recent years.

ASHG was founded in 1948 as the primary professional membership organization for human geneticists in the Americas.

And there are only eleven hundred medical geneticists in the entire United States.

At the least, geneticists in the United States do not have the option of making a more accurate screening test because doing so would infringe on Myriad's patent.

For several years, geneticists in Oxford, led by Julian Hopkin of the Churchill Hospital, have been studying DNA from a large number of families to see how the allergic tendency, known as atopy, is passed down.

And a session on Organic Farming explained the role of chemists, molecular biologists, and plant and animal geneticists in this form of agriculture.

But in 2013, ultramodern DNA extraction and sequencing techniques enabled researchers to access ancient genetic codes and translate their evolutionary tales: Researchers in Denmark reconstructed a record - breaking 700,000 - year - old horse genome, and geneticists in Germany began parsing the DNA of 400,000 - year - old hominids.

Poinar is one of several geneticists in a neck - to - neck race to find out.

► According to an Education Focus in this week's STM, despite the «tremendous investment in the genomic sciences over the last two decades» and the biomedical community's eagerness «to apply new genomic knowledge to patient care,» there are fewer than 2000 board - certified medical geneticists in the United States.

Now geneticists in Britain have hit upon a method of targeting these ultra-resistant cells.

It is continually proven by geneticists in their work and in medical research and in fossil recovery and geological findings, etc, etc..

I initially took interest in copy number variation because of a medical diagnosis that was terminal and genetically caused, or so it was claimed by a leading geneticist in my city.

... and by the way, the fact that Francis Collins is an esteemed geneticist in no way means that his position on ID isn't just plain nutty.

Bartke had indicated his interest in genetics on his grad school application, and John Weir, a geneticist in the zoology department, was willing to take him on.

This is Dr. Yutao Liu, vision scientist and human geneticist in the Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University.

And the research and development team at Telekinesys includes a biologist / geneticist in addition to two mathematicians and a handful of computer engineers.

«If we know the pathways involved, maybe we can reverse this, find better targets and design better drugs,» says Dr. Yutao Liu, vision scientist and human geneticist in the Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University.

«We can generate cerebral organoids with integrated endothelial tissue, this tissue forms tubes, and we can induce these tubes to sprout» into the nutrient broth that the cerebral organoids grow in, said John Aach, a geneticist in Church's lab.

Scientists have found a variation of the miR - 182 gene in patients with primary open - angle glaucoma that results in this overexpression, said Dr. Yutao Liu, vision scientist and human geneticist in the Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University.

Kathryn Hall, a molecular geneticist in Kaptchuk's research group at Harvard, and her colleagues think they've caught the scent of an answer to both questions.

A geneticist in his 20s with a family history of Huntington's disease — a fatal condition with a simple genetic basis and symptoms which typically manifest in middle age — decides to test himself for the disease gene.

The lab's director is Yuri Melekhovets, who trained as a geneticist in Moscow, Russia.

Edward Louis, the zoo conservation geneticist in Omaha, Nebraska, responsible for the finds, says this is just the beginning: «Lemurs, especially the nocturnal ones, haven't gotten the attention they've deserved.

In the summer of 1997, he took a break from the lab bench to try his hand at journalism, writing a short article for The Economist about the findings of Svante Pääbo, a geneticist in Leipzig, Germany, at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Amid all the hoopla, one prominent human geneticist in the audience offered a cautionary note.

Karaca's work with families of this rare disorder began many years ago during his residency training as a clinical geneticist in Turkey.

The research could lead to at least tripling the provitamin A levels [the precursor to vitamin A] in Africa's maize, said senior author Edward Buckler, a U.S. Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Station research geneticist in Cornell's Institute for Genomic Diversity and Cornell adjunct associate professor of plant breeding and genetics.

Dr. Rocio Moran, Medical Geneticist in GMI's Center for Personalized Genetic Healthcare, delivered a genetics primer and facilitated the day - long symposium, which was attended by over 100 people that included physicians, nurses, advance practice nurses, genetic counselors, researchers, social workers, trainees and students.

There, he joins forces with Dr. Kate Caldwell (Naomie Harris), a disgraced geneticist in need of redemption with access to an antidote.

Anyway, I was sitting in Mrs. Townsend's office, making sure that I hadn't missed any deadlines because Mom and I had to go to the geneticist in Minnesota two times in the past month.

Not exact matches

That's the vision of Harvard geneticist George Church, who has been experimenting with recreating an actual Wooly Mammoth by combining DNA from one of the long dead creatures found frozen in Siberia with material from modern elephants.

Craig Venter, the geneticist who mapped the first human genome in 2000, believes his company Human Longevity can uncover the diseases lurking within healthy individuals and help people live to triple digits.

«Genetics plays a very big role in your risk of getting these diseases,» Elinor Karlsson, a geneticist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University, told Business Insider.

J. Craig Venter, the superstar geneticist who mapped the first human genome in 2000, has a new challenge: decoding death.

According to the Independent, it used wheat for this experiment that geneticists at Tel Aviv University say is the strain that was used to make beer in that same region about two thousand years ago.

The genome prize was conceived by geneticist J. Craig Venter, a kindred spirit who left the National Institutes of Health (NIH), frustrated by its bureaucracy, and then set up a company to challenge it in a race to decode the genome.

Yaniv Erlich, a geneticist at Columbia University, was far from surprised at last week's news that police may have found a serial murderer and rapist, California's long - sought Golden State Killer, by tapping a public DNA database to match crime scene DNA: Erlich had cautioned in a June 2014 article about genetic privacy, published in Nature Reviews Genetics, that GEDmatch, the website that was reportedly used, could allow for such «genealogical triangulation.»

J. Craig Venter, the geneticist who decoded the human genome, has been absorbed in the study of virii for a number of years.

As an added layer of concealment, the zoo became a Nazi hangout and test grounds for Lutz Heck, a pre-war associate of the Zabinskis turned Nazi geneticist, serving a cause that wanted to «purify» stock like horses and cattle in the same way the fascist movement sought to create a master Aryan race.

And secondly, Stephen Barr's point seems to be a real solution: that theologians need to learn the language of science - not just absorbing the factual evidence of recent discoveries, but also the methodologies and modes of thought that scientists, whether quantum physicists or population geneticists, employ in their day - to - day grappling with problems in their fields.

Geneticist Svante Paabo told Science, in an article entitled «Relative Differences: The Myth of the 1 Percent,» «I don't think there's any way to calculate a number,» or at least a precise percentage, of differences between chimpanzees and humans.

A bioengineer and geneticist at Harvard's Wyss Inst.itute have successfully stored 5.5 petabits of data — around 700 terabytes — in a single gram of DNA.

This date was forced on anthropoligists studying fossils by the geneticists whose work beginning in the 90's completely threw all the previous work into disarray.

Richard Lewontin, a Harvard geneticist: «The problem is to get [people] to reject irrational and supernatural explanations of the world, the demons that exist only in their imaginations, and to accept a social and intellectual apparatus, Science, as the only begetter of truth.»

So it is objectionable that in our schools the origin of species (as distinct from intra-species evolution) is taught dogmatically as a «fact» that Darwin and modern geneticists have firmly established beyond dispute.

As one geneticist, Michael R. Rose, has tellingly put it, if we could gain for the elderly the health of those between the ages of ten and fifteen in developed countries, most Americans would have a life expectancy of 1200 years, and some would live 2000 years.