Sentences with phrase «in the human organism for»

The central question is how, in the human organism for example, 100 000 genes have been orchestrated to yield about 250 different cell types, which then become assembled as the human body.

Not exact matches

Each — in addition to happening right now (or very recently)-- is a reminder of how frail the human organism can be compared with the microorganisms that compete with us for earthly dominance.

These organisms are vital food sources for fish and walruses, which in turn are vital to humans.

In a special way, so Christian faith holds, the divine Spirit came to concrete human expression in Jesus, but God needs for his existence no psychophysical organisIn a special way, so Christian faith holds, the divine Spirit came to concrete human expression in Jesus, but God needs for his existence no psychophysical organisin Jesus, but God needs for his existence no psychophysical organism.

The same is true for the fetus, for the living organism in relation to its environment, for the human «I» in relation to the «Thou.»

A medical school, for instance, is a research and often also a healing center, directly concerned with the increase of knowledge about the human organism and with its health; but it is also a training center where men are prepared to work in many other institutions of the society, from private practice to public health offices.

Whitehead's well - known notion of the Stage of Romance in education gets its power from the fundamental aesthetic need of the human organism for novelty and zest in experience.

Which amounts to saying that the complexification of Matter, at the point it has now reached in the human social organism, is physically incapable of advancing further if the Mind does not play a part, not only with its capacity for technical organization, but with its purposive and affective powers of arrangement and inner tension.

If God possesses even emotional attributes that humans possess, it all of a sudden would mean that God had biological needs, since emotions are important for the performance and life of the organism they exist in.

While it is evident to science that there is a functional «teleonomy» or machine - like purposiveness in individual organisms (for example, the fish's eye is constructed so as to enable it to see under water, the heart toward pumping blood, the human brain toward problem - solving, etc.), still there is no hard evidence that life itself, terrestrial evolution or the universe as a whole has any overarching meaning.

Theologians like James Packer and Clark Pinnock are correct in arguing that the Bible must be read as a whole, coherent organism, for it is not only human words but also God's Word.

He emphasized the active, integrating self (rather than the frail, victimized ego); held to a «soft» (rather than a «hard») determinism; had a strong interest in future, goal - directed strivings (rather than origins); emphasized the organism as a whole centered in the self (rather than a conflict view of personality); regarded the striving for worth and power (rather than sexual striving) as the central dynamic in mental health and illness; emphasized the possibilities for continuing change in the later years (rather than regarding the early years as utterly decisive)(2) It is clear from these motifs in Adler's thought that his vision of human beings was positive and growth - centered.

The reaction of any person who begins to leaf through this illustrated chronicle of human gestation will surely be extraordinary as well, and the book should be helpful in promoting «bonding» of all readers with all unborn babies, as it graphically documents the contention (made, for example, in this issue by William Saunders) that from zygote to embryo to fetus to birth, each human organism is nothing but human.

Studies comparing human milk from preterm mothers with that from term mothers suggest that these immunologic benefits may be even greater for preterm infants because secretory immunoglobulin A (IgA), lysozyme, lactoferrin, and interferon are found in greater concentrations in preterm human milk compared with term milk.2 — 4 Very low birth weight (VLBW) infants do not benefit from the transplacental transfer of maternal immunoglobulins that occurs primarily after 34 weeks of gestation.5 These infants are exposed to abundant pathogenic organisms during neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) hospitalization and may benefit from the host defense factors present in preterm human milk.6 — 9

Traditional genetic approaches together with the new wealth of genomic information for both human and model organisms open up strategies by which drugs can be profiled for their ability to selectively kill cells in a molecular context that matches those found in tumors.

Many events that humans call disaster rarely are for plants, animals and other organisms, at least in the long term.

Selfish elements live in a wide variety of organisms (including humans), and have devised a variety of methods for getting themselves passed on.

«Once we can build that sort of database for the human organism, it helps us much better understand disease, how to diagnose disease, how better to treat disease,» says Richard Wilson, the director of the Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University in St. Louis.

It's «entirely possible» that the new finding has implications for female mate perception in other organisms, including humans, says neurobiologist Harold Zakon of the University of Texas, Austin.

In the last decade, however, complete genome - sequence information and increasingly powerful bioinformatic tools have allowed us to generate and analyse draft interactome maps both for humans and for other model organisms.

This new technology has major implications not just for plant biology, but also for cellular biology research in every type of organism, including humans.

That's why researchers are engineering plants to produce key parts of viruses and bacteria, in the hope that the human body will take them for invaders and start producing antibodies against the organisms.

In humans, it holds the promise of curing genetic disease, while in other organisms it provides methods to reshape the biosphere for the benefit of the environment and human societieIn humans, it holds the promise of curing genetic disease, while in other organisms it provides methods to reshape the biosphere for the benefit of the environment and human societiein other organisms it provides methods to reshape the biosphere for the benefit of the environment and human societies.

Their end goal is to identify specific populations of neurons in the fruit fly brain that are necessary for emotion primitives — and whether these functions are conserved in higher organisms, such as mice or even humans.

For example, if you want to transpose the function of a protein in a model organism to the corresponding human protein, you can make use of orthology to detect the right protein.

The budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, is a prime organism for studying fundamental cellular processes, with the functions of many proteins important in the cell cycle and signaling networks found in human biology having first been discovered in yeast.

Given the obvious concerns for human ecological health — in terms of climate change, heavy metal toxification, indoor air quality, air pollution, plastics in the oceans, and things like that — there will be a large - scale trend to buildings that start to act like organisms.

Indy codes for a protein that resembles a membrane protein found in many organisms, from bacteria to mammals, including humans.

This finding represents one of the first examples of a genome - wide significant genetic factor to be identified for binge eating in model organisms or humans.

For more than a decade, the husband - and - wife team has been investigating how a large protein complex called SAGA, which helps control gene activity in organisms from yeast to humans, influences developmental processes.

Now we have to see whether what we observed in these two organisms also holds true for humans.

«By means of basic research on model organisms, we are trying to understand human genome instability to identify elements, which, in the future, might be able to be explored as targets of new anti-tumour medicines,» explains the researcher responsible for the project and director of Cabimer, Andrés Aguilera.

Many of the organisms that wound up living on the panels are known as fouling species — microorganisms, algae, and invertebrates that anchor to boat hulls, jetties, and aquaculture facilities and wreak havoc for both humans and local marine communities — so lighting up marinas and harbors may not be in our best interest.

Given the rapid succession of generations in yeast, we can use it as a model organism — and study the mechanisms of aneuploidy in much greater detail to find out whether we can derive from it new approaches for diagnosing and treating human diseases.»

«A protein that first made sex possible — and is still used for sexual reproduction in many of Earth's organisms — is identical to the protein used by dengue and Zika viruses to enter human cells,» Snell said.

In Britain, the regulations governing genetically modified organisms came into force in 1992, before the implications for gene therapy were appreciated, and in practice the law has not been applied strictly to humanIn Britain, the regulations governing genetically modified organisms came into force in 1992, before the implications for gene therapy were appreciated, and in practice the law has not been applied strictly to humanin 1992, before the implications for gene therapy were appreciated, and in practice the law has not been applied strictly to humanin practice the law has not been applied strictly to humans.

The reason for the disparity may be that the standard computer annotation method was largely developed for the genomes of simple (prokaryotic) organisms, not for the more complex sequences found in the genomes of humans and other eukaryotes.

He says HGS was getting «diminishing returns» from its investment in TIGR since Venter had steered his outfit into sequencing organisms of little medical importance, and into human genome sequencing, also of limited value for a company like HGS that is interested in genes as drug targets (not untranslated DNA that makes up most of the genome).

«This is how genetics has been understood for over a century in diverse organisms including humans, most animals we are familiar with, and many plants.»

Fruit flies are small insects that are often used for genetic research as they reproduce quickly, are easy to breed in laboratory conditions and share many of the same fundamental mechanisms and pathways found in more complex organisms such as humans.

«The key breakthrough came from using a fruit fly model of human ALS and FTD that allowed us to screen these 400 candidates for ones that block brain cell death in a living organism,» says Lloyd.

«Our study reveals a spectrum of methods that nature uses to allow organisms to adapt to different environments,» said senior author Kerstin Lindblad - Toh, Scientific Director of Vertebrate Genome Biology at the Broad Institute: «These mechanisms are likely to be also at work in humans and other vertebrates, and by focusing on the remarkably diverse cichlid fishes, we were able to study this process on a broad scale for the first time.»

A full realisation of the medical potential of stem cells for human health will likely depend on a reinforcement of, and development of a whole continuum of studies ranging from those in vivo using model organisms, to cell - based therapies in the clinic.

Studies in organisms such as mice, meanwhile, can be used to examine more complex functions or perfect novel approaches for use in humans.

Still, he said, the new data, «has important implications for understanding the genesis of cancer and the interaction between human cells and other microbial or viral organisms in or around us.»

Identifying a full list of imprinted genes for humans and model organisms will give scientists a springboard to characterize the mechanisms and functions of imprinting, says Ian Morison of the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.

If the model organism genome projects are to be maximally useful in assigning functions to human DNA sequences, they will need to utilize the powerful tools for determining gene function that are available to them so that not only the sequences of the genes, but also their biological functions, are determined.

Graber will work in the institution's Kathryn W. Davis Center for Regenerative Biology and Medicine, where scientists are working to identify the molecular pathways responsible for regeneration in organisms that have retained the ability to regenerate lost and damaged tissues and organs, then screening for drugs with the potential to reawaken these dormant regeneration pathways in humans.

ONE - PARENT SAMPLE SET PARENTAL GUIDANCE RULES: Maternally methylated (red dots) and paternally methylated (blue dots) regions across the human autosomal chromosomes, based on studies of uniparental disomy samplesGENOME RES, 24:554 - 69, 2014 RESEARCHERS Kazuhiko Nakabayashi, Division Chief, Department of Maternal - Fetal Biology, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan; David Monk, Principal Investigator, Epigenetics and Cancer Biology Program, Bellvitge Institute for Biomedical Research ORGANISM Human METHODS Bisulfite - seq; bisulfite - chip Methylation is typically associated with the silencing of the nonexpressed allele, making it a convenient marker for imprinted genes, though it's possible for patterns of differential methylation to exist in tissues where both alleles are exprehuman autosomal chromosomes, based on studies of uniparental disomy samplesGENOME RES, 24:554 - 69, 2014 RESEARCHERS Kazuhiko Nakabayashi, Division Chief, Department of Maternal - Fetal Biology, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan; David Monk, Principal Investigator, Epigenetics and Cancer Biology Program, Bellvitge Institute for Biomedical Research ORGANISM Human METHODS Bisulfite - seq; bisulfite - chip Methylation is typically associated with the silencing of the nonexpressed allele, making it a convenient marker for imprinted genes, though it's possible for patterns of differential methylation to exist in tissues where both alleles are expreHuman METHODS Bisulfite - seq; bisulfite - chip Methylation is typically associated with the silencing of the nonexpressed allele, making it a convenient marker for imprinted genes, though it's possible for patterns of differential methylation to exist in tissues where both alleles are expressed.

D melanogaster represents a useful experimental system for analyzing the functions of neuronal circuits the results from which can translate to neuronal function in other organisms, perhaps even including humans.