Sentences with phrase «little about the biology»

There's little about biology that's efficient or optimized.

Another problem is that researchers know little about the biology of most disease - carrying critters, pests and invasive species, Burt says.

(I'll acknowledge that I know very little about biology, but I do have a master's degree in atmospheric science, for what it's worth...)

Not exact matches

Wow you obviously know little about physics, biology, genetics, biochemistry or you would not even need to ask those questions.

Kitchens are full of science, from the biology of yeast making pizza dough rise to growing salt crystals (sugar crystals are fun too, but a little tougher to make work) and learning about starch!

The biohacker movement is about non-scientists, quasi-scientists and a substantial number of moonlighting professional scientists who are taking molecular biology into their own hands with big and little «why not?»

«We know remarkably little about these camel crickets, such as their biology or how they interact with other species,» Menninger says.

However, little is known in humans about the biology of CD4 - CTL generation, their functional properties, and heterogeneity, especially in relation to other well - described CD4 + memory T cell subsets.

Though little is known about Loki, scientists hope that it will help to resolve one of biology's biggest mysteries: how life transformed from simple single - celled organisms to the menagerie of complex life known as eukaryotes — a category that includes everything from yeast to azaleas to elephants.

«Forty years ago, very little was known about breast cancer disease biology — such as subtypes, differences in radio - sensitivities, radio - resistances, local recurrence and in metastatic potential,» explains Bedrosian, the study's senior author.

«Gastrointestinal diseases are a major cause of mortality in wild and captive pandas but scientists understand very little about their digestive process,» says co-author Ashli Brown Johnson, state chemist and Mississippi State University associate professor of biochemistry, molecular biology, entomology and plant pathology.

At that time, little was known about the molecular biology of development — how what's going on in the development process itself influences what can happen to the evolutionary trajectory of cells and organisms.

«Mantis shrimp, or stomatopods, are well known for aggressive temperaments and complex visual systems, but until now we've known very little about whether and how they use color to communicate with other mantis shrimp,» said Amanda Franklin, a Ph.D. student in the biology department of Tufts University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the first and corresponding author on the paper.

A handful of studies have hinted that smell does play a role in bird behavior (ScienceNOW, 29 October 2004), but very little is known about the underlying biology.

However, scientists still know little about the natural history of this species, including its reproductive biology and feeding ecology.

Despite both species being recognised as of conservation concern under international, regional and national plans, very little is known about their populations or biology and hence vulnerability to anthropogenic threats.

There was little concern about the adverse consequences of neural engineering beyond the individual patient, unlike applications of synthetic biology, which participants feared could have much broader implications for society and the environment.

While the commission's report, released in December 2010, provides key recommendations for the oversight of synthetic biology that have led to actual regulations, it has little to say about the do - it - yourself biology (DIYbio) movement — the practice of self - taught or informally trained individuals running experiments in makeshift laboratories.

The most recent poll, conducted in 2013 by Hart Research Associates, found three out of four respondents had heard little or nothing at all about synthetic biology.

Nevertheless, despite the importance of carbohydrates in biology and the vast array of literature on functionalized nanomaterials, little is known about the effects of carbohydrates on the uptake and toxicity of nanoparticles by different type of cells.

«According to our polling, the majority of Americans have heard little to nothing about synthetic biology,» Kuiken adds.

«We still know so little about brain diseases that it will take a while before we can confidently develop analytic models of such complex biology,» she says.

Until recently there has been little scientific interest in these seals, and as a result scientists remain unsure about many aspects of their biology and behavior.

In fact, as Lise Eliot delineates in her new book, Pink Brain, Blue Brain, the way people interact with babies is based on assumptions about gender differences that have little basis in biology, but are part and parcel of our earliest socialization.

Dilloway's exquisite little novel, about a biology teacher who breeds roses so she won't have to think about her kidney disease, brims with all the heart - tugging appeal of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.»

Saying that my next child will almost certainly be between 5 ′ 6 ″ and 6 ′ 6 ″ tall when fully grown says very little about my claim to knowledge of growth hormones, or biology in general.

So little is known about the species that the discovery marks an important opportunity to compile missing data about its biology and ecology.

Having access to this carcass is incredibly exciting for us as so little is known about these animals, their diet and biology... this is a once - in - a-lifetime opportunity for us to collect detailed data and to add significantly to the scant knowledge of this species.