Sentences with phrase «human biology as»

This shift has been fueled by changes in our understanding of human biology as a result of the genomic revolution and the recognition that genes are not the dominant cause of disease.

This shift has been fueled by changes in our understanding of human biology as a...

The interactive database is aimed for researchers interested in human biology as well as researchers working in the field of translational medicine.

«The fruit fly is a well - known model organism used to understand human biology as it, like all other living organisms, has to fend off various viral infections.

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By treating biology as software and reprogramming cells to treat diseases and other ailments, humans have already made tremendous progress in medicine, Kurzweil said Sunday.

Because, as Belmonte rightly explains, the new «precisely targeted» tools can help us «study species evolution, biology and disease, and may lead ultimately to the ability to grow human organs for transplant.»

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).

A degree of kinship between human beings and the rest of physical creation has always been clear to an extent, but the depth and detail of our interrelationship with the rest of life on the planet is being confirmed over and over again in breathtaking detail by new scientific advances such as genetic studies and molecular biology.

Further, while some contend that the soul sanctifies biology, thus delineating the uniqueness of human life, the simple presence of the soul fails to engender life as the Christian faith understands it.

It's there and, as long human biology allows for natural pregnancy, it will always be there.

The reality of human sexuality is a patent fact; and it would seem to be intimately tied in with man's total organic movement, which as we have seen includes his physiology, biology, and psychology, as well as his appreciative (and hence his aesthetic), valuational, and feeling qualities.

And where custom dictates that for the sake of convenience we keep to the traditional academic structure, the philosophical question still remains as to whether biology (or psychology or any other human science) has a genuine right to autonomous existence.

But taken as a whole and in its essentials the phenomenon can only be interpreted as a basic transformation, that is to say a change of major dimensions in the human state, of which comparative biology suggests the cause.

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.

Modern scientific disciplines such as biology, psychology and medical science have started to study the effects of empathy on the human mind and body, on our health and relationships.

As Provine summarized the matter, «The destructive implications of evolutionary biology extend far beyond the assumptions of organized religion to a much deeper and more pervasive belief, held by the vast majority of people, that non-mechanistic organizing designs or forces are somehow responsible for the visible order of the physical universe, biological organisms, and human moral order.»

12 Even on the assumption of a Vitalism of essentially higher principles of that kind, which raise the organic, as an intrinsically higher level of reality, above merely inorganic matter, and constitute biology as an independent science, and even if we regard the entelechy factor as simple and indivisible, there would only be an eductio e potentia materiae when a new living being came into existence, if we excluded creation in this case in the way it is exemplified in the human soul, though that is not very easy to prove, and at the same time rejected the not at all absurd supposition that in the generation of new life below the human level what happens is only the extension of the entelechial function of one and the same vital principle to a new position in space and time within inorganic matter.

Obviously it is that, since as a matter of human biology men do and must die.

The ethical principles which hitherto we have regarded as an appendage, superimposed more or less by our own free will upon the laws of biology, are now showing themselves — not metaphorically but literally — to be a condition of survival for the human race.

At Home in the Universe covers much the same ground as The Origins of Order, but in a less technical manner, and it extends arguments based in biology to questions of wider interest, such as the place of humans in the cosmos.

But have not those cosmologies that describe the universe as mostly blind, dead, loveless matter and those biologies that conceive all animal life as ruthless power struggles vehemently denied the possibility and relevance of love for human life?

Try as you might, you can never reconcile fundamental human biology and the abstract ideals created by the human imagination.

There is a determined attempt to impose gender theories in many countries — with attempts to change language or to castigate parents for bringing up children as male or female, as if the structures of language and grammar bore no necessary relation to human biology and were just a social construct of a patriarchal or «straight» society — and forgetting that «non-binary» language is itself a construct and an attempt to ideologically cleanse language to suit a particular theory.

As for biology, if God is the creator of all (as Christianity contends), I believe He would understand the human body somewhat better than you or I. Based on the technology of the time, imparting knowledge about DNA, genetics, etc. would be pointless, nAs for biology, if God is the creator of all (as Christianity contends), I believe He would understand the human body somewhat better than you or I. Based on the technology of the time, imparting knowledge about DNA, genetics, etc. would be pointless, nas Christianity contends), I believe He would understand the human body somewhat better than you or I. Based on the technology of the time, imparting knowledge about DNA, genetics, etc. would be pointless, no?

In terms of scientific policy these figures seem to reflect a disproportionate emphasis on applied work and on the physical sciences, to the neglect of pure research and biology, as well as of the social fields whose growth is essential if technology is to contribute to human welfare.

My focus is the human biology of bonding as it concerns man and woman and as it concerns mother and child.

If human behavior, for example, is conceived as made up of a network of pre-programmed responses (psychology), these can be reduced, say, to conditional reflexes (biology), which are in turn nothing but complicated physical chemistry.

None of them are perfect, some may even be deeply flawed... but if they are coupled with a number of other factors, such as sociology, human history, biology, and more... a picture begins to emerge.

I think it boils down to a truly uninformed, ignorant understanding o lactation and human biology / infant needs rather than any hatred / disdain of women as females.

In addition to helping parents make the best and most appropriate decision for themselves, the information provided here should also be of use to educators, health professionals, public health officials, the media, sleep researchers, child protective services, coroners, forensic pathologists, anthropologists, psychiatrists, psychologists and other social scientists, as well as researchers in a variety the developmental fields including human biology.

Their education is not limited to basic breastfeeding help, but also includes the health sciences such as biology, human anatomy and physiology, infant / child growth and development, nutrition, clinical research, intensive lactation studies, and basic life support (among many others).

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.»

As has been pointed out so many times here, it takes an immense amount of privilege and whitewashing of human history and biology to get to the place where you think atmosphere or idealized is the main priority.

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.

In 1859, Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory reinforced the conception that animals could serve as models for humans in the study of biology and physiology.

Sharon used molecular biology methods to express and purify the virus peptide and NMR spectroscopy to analyze its structure as it is bound to neutralizing human antibodies.

Synthetic biology, she writes, has been addressing «humanity's needs» — limitless fuel, for example — rather than «our needs as individual, diverse and complex humans».

This book is perfect for biology students and teachers, as well as anybody interested in the inner workings of humans and other animals.

The agency supports network science through individual institutes (for example, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences funds nine National Centers for Systems Biology, academic centers that emphasize network biology) and through agencywide initiatives (such as the National Technology Centers for Networks and Pathways, funded by the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research and the recently announced Human Connectome Project, which aims to map the connections among the human brain's 100 billion neurHuman Connectome Project, which aims to map the connections among the human brain's 100 billion neurhuman brain's 100 billion neurons).

The process of integrating naturally occurring cancers in dogs into the general studies of human cancer biology and therapy is known as comparative oncology.

A whole set of data has come out of this — which is now to available to the scientific community — which will be significant for research into mammalian biology as well as the study of human illness mechanisms.

One standout chapter discusses how scientists might unravel the evolution of language — linguists turn out to be almost as disputatious as paleontologists — and another speculates on how natural selection might have shaped human biology in modern times.

Those ideas crystallized and became part of the so - called biolinguistic framework, which looks at language as an element of human biology, rather like, say, the visual system.

Others say that a made - to - order human genome is inevitable anyway, hoping to seize the publicity and controversy it creates as an opportunity to educate the public about synthetic biology.

«If you put humans as the target, even though you are not going to make a human baby, it will be provocative, it will be misinterpreted, but people will engage,» says Andrew Hessel, a self - described futurist and biotechnology catalyst at Autodesk in San Francisco, California, a successful software company that specializes in 3D design programs for architecture and other fields that has been exploring synthetic biology applications in recent years.

We're so intertwined with microbes that biology writer Ed Yong describes himself as «trillions of microbes in a human - shaped sack.»

Amazingly, while the fundamental discoveries in science in the 17th century — gravity, light waves, planetary rotation around stars and the incredible abstraction of science in mathematics — spurred huge explosions of discoveries in physics and chemistry, fundamental discoveries in biology largely lagged behind and were important only as they related to human health.

My class may be one of few opportunities they have in their lives to learn about such vital topics as global climate change, sustainability, and human biology.

«In complex organisms, such as fruit flies, mice, and humans, scientists have only been able to infer how these enzymes mechanistically accomplish their tasks,» said Daniel McKay, PhD, assistant professor of genetics and biology and first author of the paper.

«We've been trying to track down the genetic and molecular basis of naturally occurring traits — such as hair and skin pigmentation — in fish and humans to get insight into the general principles by which traits evolve,» said David Kingsley, PhD, professor of developmental biology.