Sentences with phrase «large populations»

For instance, researchers often use so - called «gene guns» to fire particles coated with strands of DNA known as plasmids at large populations of cells.

They observed that after allergic sensitization, some mouse strains generated large populations of MMC9 cells while other strains did not.

Genetic diversity indicates the past abundance of a species because large populations tend to accumulate diversity through random DNA mutations and breeding, while small populations lose it through inbreeding.

But the patchy nature of the water intrusion and the large populations of these groups meant there were plenty of opportunities for recolonization.

Most theorists assume that such a complex concept would have to be supported by large populations of cells, each of which corresponds to one component of the object (the bun, the bifocals, the leather miniskirt).

So when you're got large populations of them, they can be very important in this respect.»

Like all living museums in the sea, the Kidd shipwreck protects biological resources — most notably, relatively large populations of elkhorn and staghorn coral — as well as archaeological resources.

But in large populations, dropout rates can exceed 90 percent of the genes.

The model revealed that deployment of universal vaccines across large populations could reduce flu transmission more efficiently than conventional vaccines.

On other islands with large populations of birds, those birds might help to keep their islands crab - free by eating juvenile coconut crabs, preventing them from colonizing there.

Numbers vary, but Dellavalle and colleagues point to analyses of large populations of people showing that skin cancer risk is about 16 percent more likely in people who report ever having used a tanning bed.

It's probably clinical trials in large populations, such as testing to see if a reduced - salt diet reduces blood pressure.

Unique yellow is particularly interesting to scientists as it is stable across large populations — everyone agrees what unique yellow looks like despite the fact that people's eyes are often very different.

Two new studies, published this week in Science, address this question by studying large populations of bees in multiple locations for months on end.

Game theorists noticed, though, that in large populations, your vote matters only when there's an exact tie.

Instead of trolling an individual's entire genome, they limited their search to dna regions where variations are most often seen across large populations.

However, the MIT team adapted it to randomly turn on or off distinct gene sets across large populations of cells, allowing the researchers to identify genes that protect cells from a protein associated with Parkinson's disease.

In contrast, some languages with large populations of speakers, such as Mandarin, Hindi, and Arabic, are relatively isolated in these networks.

Among the key states to watch are Lagos, Kano and Rivers - currently in APC hands - because of their large populations and economic power.

The different systems in the US is to balance the power of states with large populations and less populous states.

In cities like Syracuse with large populations of both college - age and low - income voters, Democrats are able to get their message across.

Around this time, «imagined communities,» as Benedict Anderson has argued, became increasingly possible through print media, providing some motivation on the part of large populations to think and act collectively.

I was convinced by Duncan Watts's models that bread - upon - the - waters is the right approach, at least for fairly large populations (tens of thousands).

This is particularly prevalent in the upstream, top - down policy approach that can affect large populations through the preventative mechanism that could affect a wider population.

«Future studies are needed to determine if the effect of this intervention is sustainable through the first 6 to 12 months of life, and if this intervention can significantly reduce the incidence of sleep - related death in large populations over time.»

Moreover, two analyses of large populations found that women with twin gestations had a similar likelihood of achieving VBAC as women with singleton gestations.

(The major exceptions are those areas with large populations of ultra-Orthodox Jews, whose birthrate of 29 per 1,000 is the city's highest.)

Emergencies jeopardize the health and survival of large populations, with infants being the most vulnerable.

In fact, the American Heart Association admits that screening by history - taking and physical examination alone (without non-invasive testing) is insufficient to guarantee detection of many critical cardiovascular abnormalities in large populations of young athletes.

The weed species and biomass were similar in the two systems; however, with timely removal they did not form large populations or affect the growth of the strawberries.

«We believe our proprietary rice bran products can provide a unique solution for those areas in the world where large populations suffer from malnutrition and related disease states.

A recent Harvard study that followed large populations and their disease rates linked potato eating with being overweight, blaming it on the blood glucose rise.

Through the 1950s, Maoist doctrine held large populations to be assets, with increased size corresponding to increased output.

States with large populations will require a level of governance not needed in smaller ones.

In my school we had off for Jewish holidays as well as Christian because of the large populations of both groups represented in the area.

This essentially calls for the violent, bloody mass murdering of large populations simply because they do not believe in the bible.

This reality, combined with their large populations, means that California and New York alone accounted for one - third of the value of all SALT deductions claimed in 2014 despite making up just 18 percent of the population.

Countries with rising oil production, such as Iraq and Libya, or large populations, including Egypt and Saudi Arabia, are attracting the interest of bankers seeking to support growth opportunities in the medium term.

The nations were unified by their more recent industrialization process, rapid growth, large populations and the hope that they represented the future stars of the global economy.

Latin America and Asia Pacific are also prominent for having large populations under the age of 30.

With their large populations and rapid growth, these countries, so the argument goes, will soon become some of the largest economies in the world — and, in the case of China, the largest of all by as early as 2020.

Both of these countries, especially India, have very large populations, and per capita incomes are still quite low.

O'Neill argued the countries» large populations would enable their combined GDP to eclipse the G7 economies by 2037.

Both have large populations and the growth to accompany it, lots of corporate offices, and do better than average by household income and number of high - earners.

Their experience overseas broadened their awareness of large populations of people who lack access to good medical care.

That's because no one country can take on the role, even though some have large populations, land, and natural resource deposits.

We're going to start localizing and prioritize Portuguese, Spanish and Mandarin, because of the large population, and also because we've had a great reception in Brazil, in particular, so we want to cater to that.

Its positions in Southern California, the Chicago region, the Northeast, as well as Florida place it within large population centers, which, according to the DEA, gives it access to «potential high density drug markets that TCOs will look to exploit through the street - level drug distribution activities of urban organized crime groups / street gangs.»

That last step is the most important, but also one of the most challenging because «when you try to sample a large population of people who you already know have a certain disease, like cancer, it's really difficult to pinpoint all the different biomarkers that will make you fairly sure of the person's illness is detected regardless of environmental conditions,» he says.

He says Saildrone's data can now show commercial fishermen where the largest populations of fish are swimming.