Sentences with phrase «made by a biologist»

I vividly recall the great importance he attached to a genuine recognition of chance and accident by his response to one of the clearest statements on the subject ever made by a biologist.

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NEW WAVE FOODS Cofounded by a marine biologist, New Wave is making an algae - based shrimp alternative that it started selling through the food service industry in July.

And by evolutionary biologists do you mean biologist and Orthodox Christian Theodosius Dobzhansky who wrote «Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution»?

As an algae biologist I was initially struck by the cover graphic: a stained glass window made of diatoms, the tiny planktonic creatures whose exquisite outer shells are visible only through the electron microscope.

The new datum in our time is the development by molecular biologists of procedures which make it possible to control this recombining process (so that it is not simply «random»), and to increase almost immeasurably the speed by which it takes place.

And we must not forget that a quantum - mechanical calculation even on one particular bacterial cell would be incorrect for every other cell, even of the same species — a point clearly made by Elsasser in his conclusions about the heterogeneity of the material with which the biologist has to deal.

Although DARPA didn't pay much attention to the life sciences at first, since 1990, when it hired its first biologist, «it made up for lost time, and in June 2014 DARPA put the life sciences on an equal footing with other disciplines by creating the Biology Technologies Office,» Mervis noted in a sidebar.

This substantiates the earlier finding made by molecular biologists in EURAC that Ötzi had a strong genetic predisposition to cardiovascular diseases and that this was probably also the main reason for his general arteriosclerosis.

Because of their importance in cells, fatty acids» functions and metabolism, or breakdown have been widely studied by biologists, but the standard techniques makes it difficult to visualize precisely where these molecules are located within the cells.

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.

It might not seem like a revolutionary concept, but marine biologists have just made a claim that could shake up the way dolphins are identified in scientific studies: We humans can reliably identify these marine mammals the same way we identify each another, by simply looking at their faces.

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.

It also makes use of statistical methods developed by IU Bloomington biologist Emilia Martins.

Climate - change studies by Boston University biologists show leaf - out times of trees and shrubs at Walden Pond are an average of 18 days earlier than when Henry David Thoreau made his observations there in the 1850s.

At the meeting, team member Koffi Konan, a plant molecular biologist, showed how the plants were made by inserting shortened or backward versions of each of the genes — Ara h1, Ara h2, and Ara h3 — into cultured cells from peanut plants.

Zoloth is especially intrigued by the kinds of internal moral choices synthetic biologists must make.

It challenges the claim made by the late biologist Stephen Jay Gould that replaying the evolutionary «tape of life» would produce different results.

Biologists traditionally accomplish this feat by pairing up the desired gene, or transgene, with another gene that makes the cell resistant to antibiotics.

Such observations give biologists richer insights into animal behavior, others say, and might help researchers learn more about the roots of human culture by clarifying what makes it distinctive.

Some biologists and social scientists now suggest that, quite unlike animals, humans can become dominant by making friends, building alliances, or deploying the gentle forces of compromise and persuasion.

Black bears in Yosemite National Park that don't seek out human foods subsist primarily on plants and nuts, according to a study conducted by biologists at UC San Diego who also found that ants and other sources of animal protein, such as mule deer, make up only a small fraction of the bears» annual diet.

But in the 20th century, otter hunting was banned, and by the time Jackson's coauthor, marine biologist Jim Estes of the U.S. Geological Survey in Santa Cruz, went to the Aleutians in 1970, the otters had made a spotty comeback: Some islands had them and some didn't.

Economists thought that people were only out to maximize their self - interest, political scientists believed that people voted entirely for their self - interest, and biologists told us that we were driven by selfish genes, which make us generous only when it will help our kin or our reputations.

Biologists and informatics experts are launching a quiet revolution aimed at building better genomes, one made possible by newer sequencing technologies, novel methods for locating sequences on chromosomes, and improved software for piecing DNA together.

A team of international researchers led by a Canadian biologist has found that infection with parasites makes it harder for seafish living in coral reefs to think.

Gilman, who came to the agency from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, has prided himself on setting up a peer - review system made up of scientists from outside Texas and led by Phillip Sharp, a fellow Nobelist and Massachusetts Institute of Technology biologist.

A Scientific Council, made up of volunteers and chaired by Imperial College London biologist Fotis Kafatos, sets the ERC's scientific agenda.

These lines are available for researchers funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) in San Francisco, says Jeremy Crook, a stem cell biologist at the University of Melbourne, Australia, who led the team that made the lines.

The Science Book Prize of # 10 000 has been won by Steven Rose, a biologist at the Open University, for his book The Making of Memory.

A new study by UC Santa Barbara marine biologists demonstrates that for females of the species (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus), exposure to stressful climate conditions such as low pH levels often makes for hardier, larger offspring.

Chemical biologists led by Dana - Farber's Nathanael Gray, PhD, designed and custom - made a compound called THZ1 that forms a particularly strong bond with CDK7, rendering the protein essentially nonfunctional.

13 Spider - goat, Spider - goat, does whatever a spider can: By manipulating genes, molecular biologists at the University of Wyoming have gotten goats to produce milk containing the protein that makes up spider silk (video).

That concern is one reason the research team, led by Christina Smolke, a synthetic biologist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, stopped short of making a yeast strain with the complete morphine pathway; medicinal drug makers also primarily use thebaine to make new compounds.

So the National Center for Science Education decided to put together a raft trip, there's only one each summer, which for a little bit, they'll discuss what the creationists see, how they interpret what they're seeing, and then there's a geologist on board, fellow by the name of Steve Newton, and there's an evolutionary biologist who makes the trip, Josh Rozanow, and they will talk about various things that we're looking at from the scientific perspective.

Biologists at the University of York have taken an important step in making it possible to clean millions of hectares of land contaminated by explosives.

CRISPR, originally discovered by biologists studying the bacterial immune system, consists of a DNA - cutting enzyme called Cas9 and short RNA guide strands that target specific sequences of the genome, telling Cas9 where to make its cuts.

By transferring the gene for melanopsin into human embryonic kidney cells, synthetic biologist Martin Fussenegger of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and colleagues made these cells light - sensitive as well.

He founded and produces iBiology, lectures by leading biologists which are made freely available on the web.

This is in line with field observations of hybrid birds made by study co-authors Peter and Rosemary Grant, evolutionary biologists at Princeton University in New Jersey who have worked in the Galapagos for decades.

For biologists in the laboratory, this is a way to probe a geneâ $ ™ s function by making an animal with its genes altered in a certain way.

By aligning both natural and man - made bases in the genetic code of single - celled bacteria, biologists at the Scripps Research Institute led by Floyd Romesberg developed the first ever stable semi-synthetic organisBy aligning both natural and man - made bases in the genetic code of single - celled bacteria, biologists at the Scripps Research Institute led by Floyd Romesberg developed the first ever stable semi-synthetic organisby Floyd Romesberg developed the first ever stable semi-synthetic organism.

By seeking out unexplored territory in our understanding of the cells that make bread rise, yeast biologists provided a map for understanding ourselves.

The most recent breakthrough was made by a team of British and American biologists who report they've successfully infused tobacco plants with bacterial genes — a first step towards engineering crops that grow faster, offer higher yields and use less fertilizers.

Within this crucial region, two specific mutations, made by molecular biologist Qing Ye, rendered the receptors completely unresponsive to alcohol or anesthetics, presumably by changing the way the proteins folded.

Weaver also said that the predictions made by jamming models resemble what biologists call extrusion, a process by which dead epithelial cells are squeezed out of crowded tissue — the disfunction of which has recently been implicated in certain types of cancer.

The biologist William D. Hamilton made an end run around this problem in 1964 by invoking a strategy that Maynard Smith had called kin selection.

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This workshop is designed to train biologists and conservation activists to advocate for wildlife in the decision making process by providing the best available scientific evidence in an effective manner.

According to TWS, the «workshop [was] designed to train biologists and conservation activists to advocate for wildlife in the decision making process by providing the best available scientific evidence in an effective manner.»

When the female turtles make their way onto the beach to lay their eggs, they are guarded from a distance by a marine biologist or hotel employees to make sure they are not disturbed.