Sentences with phrase «in general biology»

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«Beyond giving us so much data to explore, being able to show that depression is a brain disease, that there is biology associated with it, I think that's really critical,» Roy Perlis, the director of the Center for Experimental Drugs and Diagnostics at Massachusetts General Hospital, told Business Insider in 2016.

On any given day, Canada's leading researchers unravel the mysteries of biology in state - of - the - art labs throughout the Toronto Medical Discovery Tower and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research; early - stage science and technology companies put business plans into action in the MaRS Incubator; organizations across the innovation spectrum grow their businesses in the Heritage Building — the original brick façade of the old Toronto General Hospital.

General systems theory sees autonomy in biology but also recognizes discontinuity in prebiotic patterns of organization.

The claims and predictions in this polemic are jaw - dropping in their utter disregard for history, biology, physics, and rational thought in general.

In general, to understand evolutionary biology, one must understand the concepts of genetic inheritance, population genetics, and have a grasp on the concept of speciation.

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.

At the other extreme, in a general - education biology course one might give rather frequent attention to what Conant calls «the strategy and tactics of science.

It is a problem that holistic approaches to biology such as general systems theory have been most interested in, and it is the problem that prompted C. Lloyd Morgan to speculate about forms of relatedness.

(c) When Darwinism destroyed the old teleology (which never was a good form of psychicalism, since it implied that the divine psyche was the only one that decided anything), biology seemed to confirm the prejudice against attributing purpose or other psychical factors to nature in general.

Not only science in general, but the rise of the specialized disciplines of sexology, Darwinist biology, medical psychology and psychoanalysis, have contributed to the development of the homosexual identity.

I've known that in a general sort of way for a long time, but the concept really hit me earlier in the semester when I started taking biology and learning more about cells and nutrition.

General News of Sunday, 13 May 2018 Source: ghananewsagency.org The students were trained in physics, chemistry and biology Tullow Oil Ghana has provided 129 eligible Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates with practical training in Science in the Sekondi - Takoradi Metropolis (STMA) as part of its investment in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education.

Jobs's reference to a «hormone imbalance» in the letter alone is too vague and general to diagnose, agrees Bruce White, a cell biology professor at the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington.

He claimed, «It challenged me to present a molecular biology concept that even a general audience can understand and in a format that is educationally applicable.»

It was there that I first developed my fascination with biology, thanks to a high school biology teacher who made the subject — and the sciences in general — very interesting.

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

This foundational course provides a broad overview of approaches in applied mathematics, covering both deterministic and stochastic methods, with an emphasis on ecological questions, and is taken by general mathematics students who wish to obtain an introduction to graduate - level applied math, as well as by our students who are specifically interested in mathematical biology.

Al - Bassam said the results open up new ways of thinking about tubulin, tubulin - related disorders and molecular biology in general.

The radiation exposure of the general population «is too small to give a statistically significant increase in stochastic effects such as cancer,» argues Ohtsura Niwa, professor emeritus of radiation biology at Kyoto University.

«I chose biology as a general topic because I have always been very interested in nature and the environment,» she says.

Unni worked in a neurology residency at Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's hospitals while Weissman - Unni did a postdoc in the lab of Jeff Lichtman, a Harvard professor of molecular and cellular biology.

«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.

A broad focus on marine biology in general, including places around the world at which you can study and / or do fieldwork.

I have always been fascinated by biology in general, but more specifically ancient animals and plants.

«My main goal is for [the students] to have an appreciation and better understanding of plants and of biology in general,» says Moctezuma, who joined the Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics at the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2003 as an instructor.

This team award recognizes the contributions of four Monsanto researchers — Robert Fraley, co-President of the Agricultural Sector; Robert Horsch, co-President of the Sustainable Development Sector and General Manager of the Agracetus Research Campus; Ernest Jaworski, retired Director of the Biological Sciences Program; and Stephen Rogers, Director of Biotechnology Projects at Monsanto's European Center for Crop Research in Brussels, Belgium — for their pioneering achievements in plant biology and agricultural biotechnology, and for global leadership in the development and commercialization of genetically modified crops to enhance agricultural productivity and sustainability.

Simulations — and computational modeling in general — have become an integral part of modern research in biology, according to Gorfe.

«This is a major step forward» in determining how proteins fold, says Peter Preusch, who heads cell biology and biophysics research at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland.

Petris says that understanding the roles of copper in biology may have far - reaching health implications for the general population because copper underpins many facets of biology, including the growth of cancer tumors and the formation of toxic proteins in Alzheimer's disease.

The team from the Massachusetts General Hospital plans to use the microfluidic devices in synergy with some more sophisticated molecular biology tools and identify the control factors of cell migration speed.

Doing so could lead not only to new antiviral drugs, but also to a better understanding of viral biology in general.

You may know you are interviewing for a research scientist position in a cell biology group, but that's too general.

«Having a group of distantly related species, representing markedly different ecologies and biology, is as important, or more important, than just having more species in general,» said Brian R. Silliman, Rachel Carson associate professor of marine conservation biology at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

«This review paper tells the story of gene flow's rise to respect among plant evolutionary biologists,» he concludes, «a fact that hasn't yet penetrated biology in general that is still mired in selection / adaptation - only thinking.»

Additional authors of the study are Owen T. Bennion, B.S., research assistant in Aldridge's lab, Murat Cokol, Ph.D., associate professor at Sabanci University, Istanbul, and visiting scientist at Tufts University School of Medicine, Shumin Tan, Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular biology and microbiology at Tufts University School of Medicine and member of the Molecular Microbiology program faculty at the Sackler School, and Anh Hoang, Ph.D., of Massachusetts General Hospital.

«In sequencing these particular nematodes we hoped to learn something about parasite biology and the evolution of nematodes in general,» said Adler R. Dillman, the lead researcher and an assistant professor of parasitology in the Department of NematologIn sequencing these particular nematodes we hoped to learn something about parasite biology and the evolution of nematodes in general,» said Adler R. Dillman, the lead researcher and an assistant professor of parasitology in the Department of Nematologin general,» said Adler R. Dillman, the lead researcher and an assistant professor of parasitology in the Department of Nematologin the Department of Nematology.

As for practical applications, Wingreen says that the general sensing strategy might build into the artificial cells researchers are trying to create in synthetic biology.

Update: In an e-mail, a spokesman for Veridex said the collaboration with Mass General is «is just beginning,» so there are «no details about what this future system will look like,» except that it will be small enough to sit on a lab bench and will be able to zero in on the biology of rare cellIn an e-mail, a spokesman for Veridex said the collaboration with Mass General is «is just beginning,» so there are «no details about what this future system will look like,» except that it will be small enough to sit on a lab bench and will be able to zero in on the biology of rare cellin on the biology of rare cells.

In the article «Host Biology in Light of the Microbiome: Ten Principles of Holobionts and Hologenomes» published online Aug. 18 in the open access journal PLOS Biology, Bordenstein and his colleague Kevin Theis from the University of Michigan take the general concepts involved in this new paradigm and break them down into underlying principles that apply to the entire field of biologIn the article «Host Biology in Light of the Microbiome: Ten Principles of Holobionts and Hologenomes» published online Aug. 18 in the open access journal PLOS Biology, Bordenstein and his colleague Kevin Theis from the University of Michigan take the general concepts involved in this new paradigm and break them down into underlying principles that apply to the entire field of biologin Light of the Microbiome: Ten Principles of Holobionts and Hologenomes» published online Aug. 18 in the open access journal PLOS Biology, Bordenstein and his colleague Kevin Theis from the University of Michigan take the general concepts involved in this new paradigm and break them down into underlying principles that apply to the entire field of biologin the open access journal PLOS Biology, Bordenstein and his colleague Kevin Theis from the University of Michigan take the general concepts involved in this new paradigm and break them down into underlying principles that apply to the entire field of biologin this new paradigm and break them down into underlying principles that apply to the entire field of biology.

Edited manuscripts in the scientific areas of agriculture, genetics, pathology and general biology.

Strong candidates will be proficient in the Perl programming language; modern biology in general and bioinformatics in particular; show a demonstrated ability to quickly pick up new biology and computer science concepts; be comfortable using relational databases; and possess core Unix skills to do these tasks efficiently.

Even today, the general public, and many scientists, are not aware of decades of research in evolutionary science, molecular biology and genome sequencing which provide alternative answers to how novel organisms have originated in the long history of life on earth.

The mission of CBCS is to provide a state - of - the - art platform and expertise for the generation of high - quality bioactive chemical tools (small organic molecules) for applications within life science research in general and with the ultimate goal to explore complex biology.

The information provided in the article on CRISPR with mechanisms, advantages and set backs is precious and documented well for the understanding of general biology student.

The American Society of Plant Biologists was founded in 1924 to promote the growth and development of plant biology, to encourage and publish research in plant biology, and to promote the interests and growth of plant scientists in general.

Academic requirements include coursework in subjects such as chemistry, biology, math, general physics, thermodynamics and fluid mechanics.

In one stroke he realised that the molecules were involved in membrane trafficking in cell biology in general,» says Charles Stevens of the Salk Institute, a member of the Kavli Neuroscience CommitteIn one stroke he realised that the molecules were involved in membrane trafficking in cell biology in general,» says Charles Stevens of the Salk Institute, a member of the Kavli Neuroscience Committein membrane trafficking in cell biology in general,» says Charles Stevens of the Salk Institute, a member of the Kavli Neuroscience Committein cell biology in general,» says Charles Stevens of the Salk Institute, a member of the Kavli Neuroscience Committein general,» says Charles Stevens of the Salk Institute, a member of the Kavli Neuroscience Committee.

Current Biology publishes papers reporting findings in any area of biology that have sufficient claim to be of general interest — this could be, for example, because the advance is important for a specific field, or because it is intrinsically of wide interest to biologists generally.

Rothman came from a different background in cell biology to discover first serendipitously, and then with extensive follow - up work, that the same molecules identified by Scheller and Südhof also regulate the transfer of material between compartments in cells, as well as secretion by the process of exocytosis, thus showing the much broader significance of these proteins to biology in general.

Soroush Niknamian is a general biology student at IAUCTB University in Teheran, Iran.