Sentences with phrase «life by the discovery»

Unlike Lara Croft, Al and Dirk aren't independently wealthy, and neither do they make a living by their discoveries; they're ion it mostly for the thrill.

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As we've all seen and heard, the technologies, platforms, and scientific discoveries that have emerged over the past several years — and that continue to emerge by the day and week — are changing life and the way we live.

Funded by the Government of Ontario, the fund helps innovative life sciences companies turn their discoveries into new products and services that meet patient needs.

• For biologists, 1995 was a banner year, marked by the first discovery in decades of a whole new kind of animal life.

Which is to say that the path which the individual life must take is one of growth from nothingness to being, by attempting first to understand that one's life situation is ambiguous; second, by opening oneself up to the creative God - power within oneself and waiting for its revelation, however gradually it may come; and third, by acting upon its discovery.

The Secret Garden by Frances Burnett — Another classic, this story of Mary Lennox and her discovery of a secret garden and her determination to bring it back to life with a couple of friends.

Who among us has not been affected, and perhaps somewhat troubled, by the dramatic new discoveries about the stars, atoms and life on earth that have taken place in this century?

If your belief is that our world is only 10,000 years old because God got bored and magically created all living things exactly as they are today over the course of a week, you are basically calling all the work and discoveries by archaeologists and anthropologists a bunch of baloney.

The description of this holiday (holy - day) is followed in the Book of Nehemiah by the discovery that God had intended this festival to last seven days and to include the building of booths for the people to live in temporarily while they celebrated.

All of us should enrich our spiritual lives by appropriating insights from various streams of religious discovery.

There remains a strong tension between the university as a place to form students» lives who then contribute to society and the university as a place of the highest research that contributes to society by discovery and advancement of knowledge.

Thus it is that our humanity, renewed in its love of living and spurred on in its aspirations by the discovery that there is a peak to the arrow - course of Time, comes logically to perfect itself in an attitude of self - abandonment and adoration.

Finally one must here bring in again the most important biological discovery of recent years, and this is the discovery that the processes of life are directed by programs — which, besides manifesting activity, also in some extraordinary way produce their own programs.

The BioLogos Foundation was founded by Francis Collins to address the central themes of science and religion and emphasizes the compatibility of Christian faith with scientific discoveries about the origins of the universe and life.

It is arguable that, had Einstein known a metaphysics more favorable to quantum physics than the Spinozism and other similar doctrines influencing him, he might not have spent the latter decades of his life vainly attempting to recover the absolute «incarnate reason» of classical causality which had been made irrelevant by twentieth - century discoveries, including his own.

The increasing number of scientific discoveries involving hyper - complex systems, even among the smallest of life forms, point away from the idea of these systems forming by simple «chance» and more toward an intelligent creator.

Is the discovery by the Marys of Jesus» resurrection a kind of metaphor of the life of faith?

Ella, You probably hear this a lot, but you are making a difference in many people's lives by sharing your discoveries with us.

I was intrigued by the particularities of their lives - the trunks of books carried by boat onto remote islands, the tiny incestuous circle of fellow anthropologists, the divorcing from «traditional» society, and the drive for notoriety and that one big discovery.

A video, produced by AAAS, aimed at elementary school students highlights ways in which scientific discoveries have improved our lives, from disease prevention to heating and air conditioning.

The new drug - like compounds discovered by Vogel and her co-authors offer hope that using a computer - generated P - gp model, explained here http://bit.ly/1LVmR7a, developed to accurately mimic the physical, chemical and biological functions of the protein in the human body, will speed up the drug discovery process and work in real life as well.

The discovery by a number of research teams did not grab headlines around the world as the Mars rock did, but it may prove more important in the quest to find life.

To make their discovery, Rust and his colleagues had to separate metabolism from light exposure, and they did this by using a synthetic biology approach to make photosynthetic bacteria capable of living on sugar rather than sunlight.

In the early 20th century, 11,000 - year - old cave paintings of woolly mammoths were found in France, suggesting, along with other discoveries of that time, that the creatures once lived side by side with humans.

In April, a team reported the discovery of another world snuggled up to a red sun, LHS 1140b, described by researchers at the European Southern Observatory as perhaps the best candidate in the search for signs of life.

Its discovery upended one of biology's core tenets: That all life essentially depends on the energy of the sun, either by using sunlight for photosynthesis or by munching photosynthesizing organisms.

Based on analyses of LB1 and some other, more fragmentary remains, the discovery team concluded that the specimens belonged to a previously unknown human species, Homo floresiensis, that lived as recently as 12,000 years ago [see «The Littlest Human,» by Kate Wong; Scientific American, February 2005].

«Recent reports of lapses in biosafety practices involving Federal laboratories» — the mistaken shipment of live anthrax samples by a lab at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta; the accidental contamination of benign poultry flu samples with the deadly H5N1 bird flu at the CDC; and the discovery of old vials of smallpox on the NIH campus in Maryland — «have served to remind us of the importance of constant vigilance over our implementation of biosafety standards,» the notice states.

Given the little that is known about flukes, the discovery means that complex social structures might actually be common in these animals — and that division of labour may have first evolved when life on Earth was dominated by worms.

The new discovery, reported Aug. 31 in the journal Cell by King's lab and the lab of Jon Clardy at Harvard Medical School, suggests that choanos «eavesdrop» on bacteria to make sense of their environment and regulate their life history.

Motivated by science and the desire to improve patients» lives, our employees create an invigorating work environment that leads to new discoveries and pharmaceutical product candidates.

Scientists are taking medical imaging research and drug discovery to a new level by developing a molecular imaging system that combines several advanced technologies for all - in - one imaging of both tissue models and live subjects, say presenters at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI).

Male - biased evolutionary scenarios — Man the Hunter, Man the Toolmaker, and so on — are being challenged by the discovery that females play a central, perhaps even dominant, role in the social life of one of our nearest relatives.

Planetary scientists long skeptical offinding extraterrestrial life are intrigued by the discovery of deepmicrobes.

Beyond inventions that revolutionized daily life, Bell Lab scientists made fundamental discoveries — such as the wave nature of matter and the microwave background radiation from the big bang — earning six Nobel Prizes including the one shared in 1997 by Secretary Chu for a method of trapping atoms with lasers.

In 1913 Davis and McCollum discovered a new substance in fats that was essential to life and they called it «fat - soluble A.» They distinguished it from another substance described by Dutch chemist Christiaan Eijkman, which they studied and called «water - soluble B.» The discovery of two vitamins spurred further research in nutrition.

During the webinar, our expert panel of researchers will discuss: • Strategies and technologies for successful cancer biomarker discovery through robust detection and analysis of miRNAs in biofluids • Research into analytic and biological variables that impact miRNA measurements in serum and plasma from the clinical pathologist's point of view • The novel application of miRNAs in serum as biomarkers of aging and chronic disease • The answers to questions submitted by the live, online viewers.

Despite making a discovery that would later save the lives of millions, Semmelweis was largely ignored by a hostile medical establishment.

A discovery of well - preserved fossil plants by paleontologists from the United States, China, Japan, Russia and Mongolia has allowed researchers to identify a distant relative of the living plant Ginkgo biloba.

In recent years, the study of human biology has been shaken up by discoveries of how the bacteria that live in the gut, the so - called microbiome, affect metabolism, the immune system, and disease progression.

He adds that as a result of the discoveries, «The traditional vision of some mass of hapless lemmings — scrounging for whatever they can pinch from the side of a street, or huddled around a bowl of gruel — needs to be replaced by a higher fare and standard of living, at least for the urbanites in Pompeii.

This discovery by the scientists at the CRG provides an insight into stem cell - forming molecular mechanisms, and is therefore of great interest for studies on the early stages of life, during embryonic development.

Researchers speculate that primitive life could eke out an existence there, subsisting on a bare minimum of dissolved organic carbon — a notion bolstered by the recent discovery of bacteria within refrozen ice in a core drilled to 100 meters above the lake under Vostok Station (ScienceNOW, 9 December 1999).

The idea, finally described in 1953 by James Watson and Francis Crick, that the ordering of chemical bases on DNA contains the instructions for life was not obvious, and the tale of its discovery takes many turns.

This makes our discovery promising, because even a small increase in the ATM activity induced by the SMRT drug can potentially translate to positive effects for patients, slowing disease progression and hopefully improving their quality of life.»

Tyson, the outspoken director of New York City's Hayden Planetarium, recounts the lives touched by Pluto and the wild correspondence it has inspired, from its discovery 79 years ago to its recent demotion to sub-planethood.

A century ago the educated world was shaken by the discoveries of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, and the evidence they presented for the evolution of life on this planet.

«Some people might take the results negatively, as if our potential in life is limited by our genetic code,» says Paul Thompson of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, who has previously reported the discovery of genes linked with IQ.

I feel particularly honored by this award because the Lasker Award recognizes long - lived advances of medical knowledge that produce true insights, rather than some short - lived intriguing «discovery» that appears on the front page of the New York Times.

All of them are making a difference (or on their way to) by improving our lives through research and new discoveries.