Sentences with phrase «how whole organisms»

Studies with Zebrafish embryos help scientists understand how whole organisms develop from the single - celled embryo.

Though we have genomic information about various organisms, we still have to synthesize it to understand how the whole organism or system functions, she explains in this YouTube video (below).

Not exact matches

Whitehead's educational theory is grounded in his philosophy of organism, or an organic understanding of how every part fits with the whole.

It suggests that the whole of nature is part of the divine self; it shows how the exploitation of nature impoverishes the very richness of divine experience; it encourages a respect for the intrinsic value of individual organisms; and, in saying that God loves the world as a self loves a body, it suggests that embodiedness itself is a good to be cherished rather than an evil to be avoided (McFague, 74).

Read loses sight of Buber's concept of dialogue, however, when he suggests that Buber's teaching shows how to replace the inter-individual tensions of the classroom by «an organic mode of adaptation to the social organism as a whole» and when he reinterprets the teacher's concentration of an effective world as a selective screen in which what is kept in and what is left out is determined by the organic social pattern through the medium of the teacher's «sense of a total organism's feeling - behaviour.»

And just as man turns away from Being, so entire large social organisms turn away from it... For this reason we may observe how social, political and state systems, and whole societies, are inevitably becoming alienated from themselves.

To clarify this issue it will be helpful to note how Whitehead understands the whole person (man as a living organism).

Only in recent years have advances in genomics — and understanding how genetics play out in whole organisms — made it realistic for crop breeders to be able to identify traits in wild plants and selectively breed them into domestic stock.

While these results suggest that boosting autophagy in the gut is generally beneficial, Hansen cautions that further research is needed: «Before we can consider regulating autophagy to manage disease, we need to learn a lot more about how the process works both in a single cell as well as in the whole organism.»

A central question now confronting virtually all fields of biology is whether scientists can deduce from this torrent of molecular data how systems and whole organisms work.

«The problem with whole - organism vaccines is how to make them safe,» Kappe says.

The new Cambridge research continues to show just how accurate Darwin was when he wrote in On the Origin of Species: «The whole organism is so tied together that when slight variations in one part occur, and are accumulated through natural selection, other parts become modified.»

Darwin wrote about how evolution shapes the destiny of whole organisms, but its principles apply to individual cells, too.

Manipulating biological processes with minimal interference, from the cellular level to the behavior of whole organisms, is a burgeoning scientific effort to better understand how living things work and to develop more effective treatments for a range of medical disorders.

It is now essential to find out how these fundamentally novel observations translate to whole tissue or organisms, to make us better equipped to influence them in complex organisms for future medical and agricultural purposes.»

«Cell death has been widely studied but much less is known about death of whole organisms, how it happens, what triggers it, and when it begins and ends.

«It's really interesting to be embedded within the context of the Thomson lab and in the whole stem cell milieu, and understanding how this axolotl might be employing the same pathways that are present in other organisms — and possibly people,» Nelson says.

By studying the planarian we hope to understand how stem cells are regulated to produce missing tissues and organs in the context of a whole organism.

Basic research involves figuring out how living organisms, from the cellular level up to the whole animal or person, work and also what can go wrong in disease or injury.

We are investigating how age - related changes in neuropeptide levels in specific neurons can influence whole organism healthspan and longevity.

Now, the team is going back a step further in the pathway leading to DESAT1 degradation, trying to understand how temperature changes are sensed inside the cell to lead to changes in fatty acid composition and consequent effects on the whole organism.

How does a group work not simply in unison but as a whole — a sum that isn't greater than its parts but that creates another organism?