Sentences with phrase «modern molecular biology»

Whereas the dichotomy of subject and object has been challenged by experiments in modern physics, a Cartesian dualism still provides the philosophical background of modern molecular biology and, more recently, sociobiology.

This discovery may convert these esoteric proteins into one of the most valuable tools in modern molecular biology.

Instead of monitoring the onset of disease or cancer, toxicologists are beginning to use modern molecular biology tools to identify the critical early precursors to illness.

He tells us that Darwin's theory, brought up to date by modern molecular biology, provides the only sensible answer to this question.

Interestingly, even though biologists long favored the view that viruses were mere boxes of chemicals, they took advantage of viral activity in host cells to determine how nucleic acids code for proteins: indeed, modern molecular biology rests on a foundation of information gained through viruses.

After solving the puzzle of DNA (for which he won a Nobel Prize in 1962 with Watson and their professor, Maurice Wilkins, who died in October), he tackled RNA, leading a successful effort to crack the genetic code and laying the groundwork for modern molecular biology.

Fortunately, there were several professors in Heidelberg, who did postdocs in the US and after their return to Germany started to build up labs that used most modern molecular biology methodologies.

«This paper takes advantage of modern molecular biology and genetic approaches to test some of those hypotheses,» said University of Nebraska - Lincoln biologist Kristi L. Montooth, a fruit fly expert who co-authored the new study.

Beyond the reading of complete genomes, the precise manipulation of the encoded information is becoming more important in modern molecular biology.

It is not entirely out of the question that modern molecular biology is but one of several recent scientific developments that have made it possible for us to rehabilitate this intuition in a fresh way.

The MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) is one of the birthplaces of modern molecular biology and it continues to be a prolific source of new ideas, discoveries and inventions.

Modern molecular biology and biotechnology tools let scientists analyze whole genomes and study the activity of all the genes in cells — and their role in human health — at one time, says Xihong Lin, a statistical geneticist and genomicist at Harvard University School of Public Health.

Instead, we should harness the power of modern molecular biology to establish whether BPA at everyday exposure levels is biologically active in humans.

For his work on these four instruments — cornerstones of modern molecular biology — Dr. Hood was awarded the American and Japanese equivalents of the Nobel Prize: the Lasker Award and Kyoto Prize.

He was one of the founders of modern molecular biology and his contribution enabled patients affected by genetic disease to gain an understanding of their condition and begin to hope for the possibility of a cure.