Sentences with phrase «led by biologists»

I first wrote on this research, led by biologists affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History, when the field work was in its early stages.

The project led by biologists... Continued

The team, led by biologists Jung - Joon Min and Joon Haeng Rhee, then set out to test the effects of the modified Salmonella on cancer.

Two recent studies led by biologists at the University of California San Diego have set the research groundwork for new avenues to treat influenza and anthrax poisoning.

A new team led by biologist Andrew Casper will expand Shedd Aquarium's research of animals that live in local waterways — and how to protect them.

There, a team led by biologist Johannes Fritz, recently awarded major funding by the European Commission, was reintroducing the northern bald ibis (Geronticus eremita), which had been extinct in Europe for about 400 years.

A new study led by biologist R. Thomas Zoeller of the University of Massachusetts Amherst provides «the strongest evidence to date» that endocrine disrupting chemicals such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) found in flame retardant cloth, paint, adhesives and electrical transformers, can interfere with thyroid hormone action in pregnant women and may travel across the placenta to affect the fetus.

A team led by biologist Rudolf Jaenisch of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Whitehead Institute in Cambridge did such an analysis with two types of cloned mice.

Reasoning that the secretions play a defensive role that could explain the bug's competitive edge, a team led by biologist Thomas Eisner of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, analyzed the fluid.

A team led by biologist Andrew Russell of the University of Sheffield, U.K., set out to evaluate the costs and benefits of cooperative breeding in the superb fairy - wren of southeastern Australia.

Researchers led by biologist Gabriele Gentile of the University of Rome Tor Vergata have discovered a new species of land iguana living in the Galápagos that Darwin missed but may shed light on evolution.

A Rockefeller University research team led by biologist Elaine Fuchs reported last September that they had coaxed adult stem cells to grow hair.

A team led by biologist Chris Darimont combed through data on dozens of species — predominantly fish but also bighorn sheep, caribou, marine invertebrates, and two plants.

In February a group led by biologist Stephen G. Willis of Durham University in the U.K. reported that they had introduced two butterfly species — known as the marbled white (shown here) and the small skipper — into new habitats about 40 miles and 22 miles, respectively, from their homes.

Obama called for the study in May after a team led by biologist J. Craig Venter reported that it had inserted a synthetic genome into a self - replicating cell.

A team led by biologist Tracy - Ann Read of the University of Bergen, Norway, found that rats with brain tumors who received the capsules in their brains survived 84 % longer than control rats.

Meanwhile, in a separate study published online today in Science, an overlapping team at Genentech led by biologist Frederic de Sauvage describes the mechanism by which the man's brain tumor developed resistance.

Because a protein in mammalian myelin called Nogo - A is known to inhibit central nervous system axon growth in mammals, a team of researchers led by biologist Claudia Stürmer at the University of Konstanz in Germany wondered if fish might be missing this protein.

Researchers at Penn State University led by biologist Gong Chen have developed an innovative technology to regenerate functional neurons after brain injury, and also in model systems used for research on Alzheimer's disease.

A research team led by a biologist and a mathematical biologist from Washington State University is using special statistical methods to study how traits of biological organisms change.

Then, in 2015, a team led by biologist Thijs Ettema of Uppsala University in Sweden discovered a new type of microbe a mile and a half beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean.

The science team, led by biologist Andrew Straw and his lab, documented the test results with video recordings, and published their findings in the journal Nature Methods.

Take the scene early on in which the film's heroes — an all - female government expedition, led by biologist Lena (Natalie Portman), tasked with exploring a quarantined zone known only as «Area X» — encounter a mutated alligator large enough to be mistaken for a small dinosaur, surreal enough to be a mass hallucination.

* In 2013 scientists at UCLA, led by biologist Dr. Robert Wayne, published an analysis strongly indicating that dogs are descendants of a European gray wolf, now extinct.

Not exact matches

There have been many such changes, 8 so significant, in fact, that one wonders if Darwin must not be regarded, even by the biologists themselves, more as a precursor of developments leading to present - day evolutionary thinking rather than as a continuing historical source of our scientific understanding of man.

«Since its completion, the book has been endorsed by prominent scientists including Philip Skell, a member of the National Academy of Sciences; Scott Turner, an evolutionary biologist at the State University of New York; and Professor Norman Nevin, one of Britain's leading geneticists.»

It emphasises that science and technology must be «at the service of the human person» (DV 2) and the language is quite strong: «Science without conscience can only lead to man's ruin» (DV 2); and «No biologist or doctor can reasonably claim, by virtue of his scientific competence, to be able to decide on people's rights and destiny» (DV 3).

Anyone who suggests anything else is dismissed by many leading biologists, such as Monod and Luria, as a Lamarckist if not a Lysenkoist.

In addition to confirmation by leading evolutionary biologists and anthropologists, the behavioral goal assumptions underpinning George's model are also surprisingly consistent with feminist social analysis.

All biologists agree that the behavior of organisms as a whole is directive, in the sense that in the course of evolution some at least of it has been modified by selection so as to lead with greater or less certainty towards states which favour the survival and reproduction of the individual.

Recent interdisciplinary research led by Morehouse in the Morehouse Research Lab and Nathan Clark, biologist in the Clark Research Lab at the University of Pittsburgh looked closer at the complex structures and mechanisms within male butterfly ejaculates and the adaptive responses in the female butterfly reproductive tract.

The project was led by three scientists: John Harley, MD, PhD, Director of the Center for Autoimmune Genomics and Etiology (CAGE) at Cincinnati Children's and a faculty member of the Cincinnati VA Medical Center; Leah Kottyan, PhD, an immunobiology expert with CAGE; and Matthew Weirauch, PhD, a computational biologist with the center.

So researchers led by Ullas Karanth, a tiger biologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York City, turned to poop.

The reserve is one of the largest in the world and has been heralded as a huge success, but this study, led by conservation biologist Leah Gerber of Arizona State University in Tempe, highlights one possible down - side to the reserve.

A new study published in the journal Nature, led by evolutionary biologist Dr Alistair Evans from Monash University, took a fresh look at the teeth of humans and fossil hominins.

Meanwhile a team led by Yihong Ye, a cell biologist at the National Institutes of Health, discovered another pathway that uses different protein workhorses to accomplish a similar off - load.

Using the fossil record as a guide, a research team led by Yale paleontologist and developmental biologist Bhart - Anjan S. Bhullar and Harvard developmental biologist Arhat Abzhanov conducted the first successful reversion of a bird's skull features.

Led by paleontologists, the AP3 team also comprises geologists, anatomists, ecologists and biologists.

«We posited that giant kelp fed herbivores in the system and provided structure and habitat for predators, and that it was fed upon by sea urchins and affected the understory communities of algae and sessile invertebrates in the kelp forest,» said lead author Robert Miller, a research biologist in UCSB's Marine Science Institute (MSI).

The first clue that digits and penises might be birds of a feather came in 1991, when a team led by developmental biologist Denis Duboule of the University of Geneva and Pierre Chambon of the Institute for Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology in Strasbourg, France, found that some mice with a mutated gene, called hoxd13, had abnormally small digits and malformed penises.

LMU biologists led by Professor Nicolas Gompel, in a collaboration with the groups of Dr. Benjamin Prud «homme (CNRS, France) and Professor Ilona Grunwald Kadow (Technical University, Munich), have begun to explore the genetic basis for this unusual egg - laying behavior.

In 2011, researchers led by David Baker, a computational biologist at the University of Washington in Seattle, created a designer protein that binds HA's stem, which prevented viral infection in cell cultures.

The Massachusetts team, led by Peng Yin, a systems biologist at Harvard University's Wyss Institute in Boston, modified the DNA brick approach, which they invented, to make larger, more complex structures.

Human evolution has been defined by conflict, says E. O. Wilson, one of the world's leading biologists.

The team of researchers, led by yeast cell biologist Susan Lindquist of the University of Chicago, had demonstrated last year that a metabolic trait in yeast called [PSI +] could be passed from one generation to the next without changes in the yeast's DNA.

While Jarvis and Genome 10K were deciding which avian genomes to sequence, with Jarvis making sure the list included vocal learners and species believed to be their close relatives, they learned about another collaboration in the works led by Guojie Zhang of Chinese sequencing giant BGI and University of Copenhagen evolutionary biologist Tom Gilbert.

The research group of LMU biologist Caroline Gutjahr, in collaboration with research groups led by Peter Dörmann (Bonn University), Wolfgang Eisenreich (Technical University of Munich) and her LMU colleague Martin Parniske, has now shown that the plant contributes more than just sugars to the relationship: It also delivers essential lipids to its fungal partner.

To test this hypothesis, an international team led by evolutionary biologist Philipp Khaitovich of the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences in China and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, set out to see how many brain - related genes implicated in schizophrenia underwent positive natural selection since humans and chimpanzees diverged from a common ancestor between 5 million and 7 million years ago.

To find out whether pesticides are taken up by amphibians even in relatively pristine areas, a team led by wildlife biologist Donald Sparling of the U.S. Geological Survey in Laurel, Maryland, tested Pacific treefrogs in several national parks.

«We discovered that three particular proteins involved in the Wnt signaling pathway aren't just involved in the development of severe illnesses, but also in the qualitative refinement of highly developed tissue,» says co-first author Claudio Cantù from the molecular biologist research group lead by Prof. Konrad Basler.