A mash - up of World War Z and steampunk, They Are Billions has the player building and managing
human colonies in a real - time strategy setting, all the while defending against the hordes of zombies that almost destroyed mankind.
The idea of growing food for
human colonies in space could be a reality very soon.»
But space entrepreneurs are now attempting to capitalize on NASA's rekindled interest in lunar travel, coughing up a handful of proposals all leading to the commence of
human colonies in our nearest neighbor in space.
Not exact matches
Well,
in case you missed it, there is a race right now to put
human colonies on the moon and on Mars.
Thus different races, which Europeans were now encountering
in areas the subjugated into
colonies, may be more or less
human or more or less valuable and more or less spiritual, and more or less a slave race or a master race.
Transforming growth factor (TGF)-- alpha, TGF - beta, and granulocyte
colony - stimulating factor (G - CSF) are also identified
in human milk.
Life
in simulated zero gravity turns bacteria into reproductive powerhouses and may help them form tough
colonies that could pose a risk to
humans in space
A cylindrical
colony,
in which a twenty - mile long tube was lined with
human habitations, also made the cut, as did toroid
colonies, shaped like immense hula hoops.
Now, a study published online April 27th,
in the Journal of Immunology, confirms that the cytokine GM - CSF (Granulocyte macrophage
colony - stimulating factor) likely plays an important role
in human disease and offers a new explanation for why the MS treatment interferon - Beta (INF - β) is often effective at reducing MS attacks.
The scientists will have to demonstrate that a vaccine can block UTI - causing E. coli
in humans while sparing another
colony of E. coli: the beneficial intestinal flora that prevent disease - producing bugs from proliferating
in the gut.
But at least one researcher, Greg Westergaard, who runs a monkey
colony at LABS of Virginia
in Yemassee, South Carolina, believes the findings raise the opposite question: «Given the relatively recent split between
humans and apes, why are
humans so much different?»
In his look at hopes for a
human colony on Mars, Nigel Henbest writes that «mission planners have even considered...
Working with volunteers, the researchers identified 15 feral
colonies, living
in trees or buildings without
human management, and 24
colonies managed by beekeepers
in urban, suburban, and rural areas within an hour's drive of Raleigh, N.C..
But if the idea is to construct a self - sustaining environment where
humans can persist indefinitely with only modest help from Earth — the working definition of a «
colony,» according to the various European
colonies outside of Europe — then I'd say this is very far
in the future, if it's possible at all.
He also estimated that of the eight billion
humans that will be living on Earth by the time the
colony is possible, perhaps one
in 100,000 would be prepared to go.
By using molecular genetic tools to reduce the amount of PC
in human lung cancer cells, the team observed decreased cell growth, a compromised ability to form
colonies in soft agar (a gelatinous material specifically used to grow bacteria and other cells), and a reduced rate of tumor growth
in mice.
While some research seeks a «magic bullet» solution to honeybee maladies such as
Colony Collapse Disorder, «many of the problems are caused by
human action and can only be mitigated by changes
in human behavior,» Owen says.
«The role of inappropriate
human action
in the spread of pathogens and the resulting high numbers of
colony losses needs to be brought into the fore of management and policy decisions if we are to reduce
colony losses to acceptable levels.»
As of now, the reason for the deposits is unknown, but the presence of oxygen
in the lunar rock would make those sites attractive for future moon missions, even for
human colonies, which could use the oxygen for breathing and as a rocket - fuel component.
«Florida's monkey river: Anthropologists studied
human interaction with a
colony of feral rhesus macaques living on the Silver River
in central Florida.»
When it was completed, the facility became a controversial and broad experiment
in hermetically sealed, self - sustained living with the aim of revealing how
humans might fare on space
colonies.
In a study out this week in mSphere, they report that breastfeeding babies who received a three - week course of a probiotic that consumes human milk still had colonies of those beneficial gut microbes 30 days after the end of probiotic treatmen
In a study out this week
in mSphere, they report that breastfeeding babies who received a three - week course of a probiotic that consumes human milk still had colonies of those beneficial gut microbes 30 days after the end of probiotic treatmen
in mSphere, they report that breastfeeding babies who received a three - week course of a probiotic that consumes
human milk still had
colonies of those beneficial gut microbes 30 days after the end of probiotic treatment.
Human clones, a
colony on Mars, alien contact... what world - changing breakthroughs will come
in the next decade?
Now, researchers have discovered that something similar may happen
in chimp
colonies plagued by
human respiratory diseases.
We used the Virochip, a microarray designed to detect all viruses, to identify a new species of adenovirus (TMAdV, or titi monkey adenovirus) that caused a deadly outbreak
in a
colony of New World titi monkeys at the California National Primate Research Center (CNPRC), and also infected a
human researcher.
These
colonies adhere to surfaces and can have beneficial metabolic functions
in, for example, environmental remediation; or detrimental functions, such as
in human disease.
Humans may find new homes among the asteroid belt, the outer planets,
in artificial
colonies, or perhaps beyond this star system.
Human Granulocyte monocyte
colony growth factor produced
in E.coli and purified via sequential chromatography.
Colter DC, Sekiya I, and Prockop DJ Identification of a subpopulation of rapidly self - renewing and multipotential adult stem cells
in colonies of
human marrow stromal cells.
Human embryonic stem cells, shown growing
in a «
colony»
in the middle of the picture above, have been an essential addition to the ever - growing stem cell family.
He and the Vereide Group grow precursors of
human arterial cells, build
colonies of dendritic cells (cells which can alert the rest of the immune system to the presence of a tumor), and use chick embryos to study the formation of early tissue layers for a possible future
in which complex tissues, or even organs, can be grown to replace diseased, wounded, or malfunctioning ones.
Microscopic view of a
colony of undifferentiated
human embryonic stem cells being studied
in developmental biologist James Thomson's research lab at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
While this manuscript was
in preparation, a similar episomal strategy was used to reprogram
human primary fibroblasts using a distinct pluripotent cocktail of factors, validating our methods, but with significant lower efficiency (only 3 to 6
colonies / 106 input cells)[42].
These images show
human embryonic stem cell
colonies, as grown
in 1998 by researchers at the University of Wisconsin — Madison,
in different stages of development.
T - VEC, recently approved for the treatment of advanced melanoma, is an oncolytic herpes simplex virus type 1 engineered to replicate selectively
in tumor cells and express
human granulocyte - macrophage
colony - stimulating factor.
In Evolve, nature is wiping out the
human colonies on a -LSB-...]
The movie follows Gardner Elliot, the first
human born at a secret experimental
colony on Mars, who begins an online romance with a girl living
in Colorado and hatches a plan to travel across the universe to meet her.
Ten years after the events of the previous movie, a spaceship filled with slumbering
humans and frozen
human embryos is taking a long trek to a distant world
in order to establish a
colony there.
Said Schwartzberg, «For me, the joy of doing this film is to be able to explore worlds that
humans can't easily experience — bats sipping nectar
in the middle of the desert at night, orchid bees expertly manipulated by a bucket orchid, exotic hummingbirds flying like airborne dancers, and a clustering monarch
colony with millions of butterflies.
He leads the apes to the front gate of the
human San Francisco
colony in a show of force to deliver a message.
In addition to the
human traits she gives her bug protagonists, Paull vividly and accurately lays out the hierarchy of the honeybee
colonies — their dangers, joys, devotion to the queen.
The need for education
in responsible pet ownership (the
human component of feral cat management) was also discussed to prevent additional cats from being abandoned to the streets and starting new feral
colonies.
Some adult cats born and raised
in feral
colonies can not be domesticated and will never be happy living with
humans.
however it is understandable that the airport is a unique situation as opposed to other feral cat
colony locations - the safety of the airplanes needs to be strictly maintained because
human lives could be
in jeopardy.
In most cases, feral cats still depend on people for their food source, whether it's a
human who takes care of a feral
colony or dumpsters / garbage cans etc..
Gerhold and Jessup argue that the feeding stations commonly used by
colony caregivers attract raccoons, which «harbour an intestinal nematode parasite, Baylisascaris procyonis (i.e., raccoon roundworm), that has caused morbidity and mortality
in humans, especially children.»
Feeding and TNR go hand
in hand when managing a feral
colony; also consider pests, predators, food quality, and
human neighbors.
The numerical cut - off for normality of 1 x 105
colony forming units per milliliter (cfu / mL) total bacterial numbers or 1 x 104 cfu / mL anaerobes was based inappropriately on the numbers found
in the
human small intestine.
Just as cats 10,000 years ago were attracted to the easy, consistent food source that the first
human settlements provided (see The Natural History of the Cat), feral cats today scavenge on the scraps that all
human habitats inevitably produce.1 A study of a feral cat
colony in Brooklyn found that the cats depended more on local garbage for food than on either prey or food provided by caregivers, and that the neighborhood produced enough garbage to feed three times more cats than actually lived
in that area.2
Regular daily contact with
human can make a cat friendlier, and
in some situations, a caretaker bringing cats food once or twice a day can decrease and control the population of a feral cat
colony.