Sentences with phrase «life scientists faced»

In 1998, a distinguished committee led by Princeton University's Shirley Tilghman warned that too many early - career life scientists faced diminishing and discouraging professional prospects.

Not exact matches

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.

You might also be interested in the other direction of the same issue; I recall some Christian Scientists faced jail for not letting doctors treat children with life threatening issues where treatment was banned by the religion.

Life scientists, whether in academia or industry, now face the arguably new responsibility of ensuring that their research is not detrimental to society.

«When scientists face the choice of an academic career or industry, many of those choosing industry do so because they want to make a difference that will improve people's lives,» Gregory says.

Scientists face a double - edged sword between life and death.

In a sense, environmentalists and scientists face similar obstacles when it comes to finding partners: They are often uncompromising in their ideals, do not suffer fools gladly, and carve out lives for themselves that may take them to remote spots in which dating options are few.

As a research scientist living in Scotland, I face a conundrum with regard to the upcoming referendum on Scottish independence...

Species that live in the same habitat with other closely related species tend to have more complex facial patterns, suggesting that complex faces may also aid in species recognition, the life scientists found.

Whether his students end up being food scientists, fashion designers or engineers, Abts says they will be better prepared for their careers, and life in general, if they can apply the design process to solve the future problems our society is certain to face.

The life scientists then studied how the complexity scores of primate faces were related to primates» social systems.

But it will take years to reach full capacity, and in the meantime scientists who rely on neutrons will face a drought, unless the life span of some of the reactors can be extended.

At the same time, scientists face the challenge of keeping Earth and its many life - forms from contaminating whatever we bring back from Mars.

Such passion for knowledge requires support for science and its institutions, and continual public engagement with science, including interactions with scientists, whom, she said, devote their lives to discovery, evidence - based explanations and proposing solutions to the challenges facing society.

SCIEX helps to improve the world we live in by enabling scientists and laboratory analysts to find answers to the complex analytical challenges they face.

By carrying out a genome - wide association study that took into account whether or not a person has faced a major adversity in their life, the scientists were able to identify contributing molecular mechanisms that not previously been associated with depression.

Now, more than ever before, is it necessary for life scientists to be aware of research from a wide range of disciplines, especially in the face of the gathering momentum of global environmental change and destruction.

«While President Kennedy's life was tragically cut short, his vision lives on in the generations he inspired — volunteers who serve as ambassadors for peace in distant corners of the globe, scientists and engineers who reach for new heights in the face of impossible odds, innovators who set their sights on the new frontiers of our time.»

Five brave scientists are forced to face life forms more perplexing, more terrifying, more annoying than anything they've ever encountered: Pauly Shore and Stephen Baldwin.

Behave by Andromeda Romano - Lax This page - turning historical novel about a complicated relationship between two scientists in the early 20th century touches on themes that will resonate with modern readers — the enduring debate of nature vs. nurture, as well as the eternal struggle women face to balance family life and career opportunities.

My friend and sometime fishing partner Carl Safina, the marine scientist, conservationist and writer (who lives on Long Island), wrote a hard - edged piece for the CNN Web site calling out coastal communities and the nation for complacency in the face of climate change and rising seas.

In a culture too often dominated by expediency and self - interest, I came to view climate scientists as visionaries and altruists, flawed and flummoxed like all such people who are suddenly called by forces outside themselves to excel themselves, fighting not just their own reluctance to become publicly involved, and their own ill - adaption to public and activist lives, but, ultimately, fighting for the truth in the face of falsehood, not just because truth matters in some abstract or even in moral terms, but because the fate of the Earth itself, and all who live here, is ever more obviously at stake.

One famous and distinguished American scientist has commented that executives at TXU should immediately face trial for threatening the lives of hundreds of millions of people.

We are so quick as scientists, non experts, the lay public, some ill informed undergrads, ad infinitum, to argue in this blog, however, you as a first hand expert modeling paleoclimate and modern climate trends and obviously with a handle on chemistry and physics, also have a vested interest in our planet and though you do the modeling for a living, I do not doubt it has helped you gain inisghts and opened up your eyes to the complexity and current to future detriments and potentialities we all face as humanity.