Sentences with phrase «many biochemical»

There's biochemical research that shows the release of dopamine when we perceive novel stimuli starts to drop past the age of twenty, which makes time appear to go by more quickly.

The Chinese government financed nationwide studies into cockroaches» medical value that, after more than two decades of laboratory investigation and clinical trials, had discovered or confirmed dozens of disease - fighting proteins and biochemical compounds with huge potential value in medicine.

Renninger, who holds a PhD in biochemical engineering, began tinkering with the idea of plant - based alternative dairy products in late 2014.

The board was afraid that the study could potentially be used as a roadmap for biochemical terrorists seeking to create a deadly bird flu weapon.

These differences are called biochemical markers, and dogs can sniff them out in the parts - per - trillion range.

The startup brews small batches in its facilities, but is partnering with a leading biochemical company to brew the yeast at scale in industrial tanks.

The rover's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument that analyzes the soil and atmosphere around the rover using a mass spectrometer, a gas chromatograph and a tunable laser spectrometer to detect oxygen and carbon isotopes in carbon dioxide and methane samples to see if they are biochemical in origin.

That's called the spiral of science, but it's really those same biochemical reactions in the brain that cause cultural conformity.

It's expected that, at full capacity, the Enerkem plant will produce 38 million litres of clean fuels and biochemicals annually.

From 2011 to 2014, Mr. Bell served as a director and chairman of the Audit Committee of Virent Corporation, a pre-revenue biochemical company with proprietary technology for producing plastics and other products from plant sugars.

The University of Western Ontario was second, guaranteeing students a number of streams entirely dedicated to social and / or environmental impact management: green process engineering, environmental engineering, and biochemical and environmental engineering, among others.

In contrast, positive expectations of treatment doubled the natural physiological or biochemical effect of the opioid drug among the healthy volunteers in the study.

Why is it god, as opposed to simply a biochemical / hormonal phenomenon that bestows an evolutionary advantage in living beings, since it ensures protection of one's own genes?

The scientific way to refute the irreducible complexity thesis is to publish the papers detailing how the complex biochemical systems could have evolved, and the scientists already would have done that if they could.

Each biochemical system requires a stupefyingly complex set of components which affect each other in intricate ways.

Climbing Mount Improbable By Richard Dawkins Norton, 288 pages, $ 25 Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution By Michael Behe Free Press, 336 pages, $ 25

Schizophrenia is actually biochemical mis - firings of the brain, causing incomplete thoughts, delusions and hallucinations, thought to be caused by genetics, mostly.

The result of biochemical investigation of cellular mechanisms, according to Behe, «is a loud, clear, piercing cry of «Design!

Fervent statements of faith aren't science, however, and fact - free science doesn't (usually) get published in biochemical journals.

There is a fundamental distinction between the self as a philosophical reality and self - consciousness as describable by biochemical (and quantum) science.

Evidence for the common descent of all living things is clear from their biochemical similarities.

Even complex biochemical compounds, such as the red respiratory pigment hemoglobin, are found in simple single - celled animals and in some plants.

Two of the greatest discoveries of the twentieth century cast considerable doubt upon, and some would say refute, the contention that the mind of man can be explained as a mere biochemical machine.

In contrast to Antabuse, the method is psychological rather than biochemical.

It is not a «cure» for alcoholism, but it does provide a biochemical fence which holds back the addiction while other therapies have an opportunity to help the person learn to live without alcohol.

Through all of the waxing and waning of life forms, where even extinction events create the biochemical, ecological and perhaps the genetic possibility of another phase arising, there has been an evident ascent of life on earth.

But specification of these combinations says nothing about the possible organizing principles that «harness» biochemical processes and integrate them into hierarchically higher dimensions of being — life and mind.

But what we are trying to describe, by each of these abstract terms, is essentially dependent for its reality upon the continuous functioning of the total organism, with all its essential physical organs and biochemical processes.

Knowledge of biochemical processes is not coextensive with knowledge of life.

But to call predictable biochemical processes a necessary condition of successful thought or writing does not make them exhaustive explanations.

So the failure of the comprehensive whole does indeed follow upon the breakdown of prerequisite biochemical processes.

In many animal model systems, for example, the precise genes involved in sexual partner selection have been identified, and their neuro - biochemical pathways have been worked out in great detail.

When the 5 - year - old asks you to tell her about what love is you can crack open an anatomy book and explain about the biochemical hormonal changes that happen in the brain when you fall in love (fact).

Richard Dawkins, in his celebrated book, The Selfish Gene, exemplifies the same position.3 And a similar reduction of biology to a molecular science may be found in the writings of E.O. Wilson, Ernst Mayr, Jacques Monod and numerous other highly respected scientific writers.4 In Chance and Necessity, for example, Monod gives one of the most forceful renditions of the view that biochemical analysis is «obviously» the sole avenue to understanding the secret of life.5 Decades ago Jacques Loeb had already set forth the program of inquiry still emulated today by many biologists:

They will be momentarily awakened by the next attack, and may be wide awake if they are not among the victims of a nuclear or biochemical attack in a major metropolitan area.

And, there is the biochemical challenge to evolution.

This means that if any one of dozens of key elements of a biochemical process would be missing, the entire process would simply shut down.

Evolution is based on over 150 years of observable facts, and experiments with DNA being the biochemical mechanism for evolution.

biochemical evidence such as Cytochrome - cyto - C is just one of the thousands of sequences and is not proof of common ancestry, as there are more variations than similarities in the genetic code, on the other hand a study of the amino acid make - up reveals that man is closer to lamprey than are fish.

Blankenhorn believes, for example, that he has found the «biochemical foundations» of the social form of marriage for humans in the female's lack of estrus, her «forward - tilting» vagina and her capacity for orgasm, and in the «unusually large» (by comparison with a gorilla) male penis — all destined to make heterosexual intercourse a more enticing project for humans.

A woman with no medical or biochemical education making dangerous claims about something she knows practically nothing about.

We always find a sequence of biochemical and physical processes, including changes between kinetic and potential energy.

I would object that in death and sleep the biochemical compounds may be identical, but not the type of electric potentials and fields which is necessary for the stream of consciousness.

Males that fought for top place suffered symptoms of stress, including biochemical changes.

That way i can make sure I just wasn't just feeling some biochemical reaction rather then something supernatural.

The consortium describes the Templeton Foundation as having «made up to $ 3 million available for research grants to stimulate and sponsor new research insights directly pertinent to the «great debate» over purpose in the context of the emergence of increasing biological complexity, ranging from the biochemical level to the evolution of life andthe emergence of society and culture.»

Things like Prozac, Alzheimer's disease and taking a few stiff drinks all remind us that biochemical changes in the body can radically affect the way we think and feel.

The biochemical catechism treats depression and anxiety as pathogens that obscure our spiritual vision and make us strangers to ourselves.

However, the fact that parts of the brain light up or fail to light up in depressed people is hardly proof that biochemical processes alone are responsible for depression.

Following Hume, it might be useful to ask, «What are the spiritual effects of believing that psychological problems are fundamentally biochemical in nature?»