Sentences with phrase «molecular basis of life»

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Nevertheless, basing their position on developments in molecular, organismic, and population ecology, Cobb and Birch characterize life as an increasingly complex special form of the organization of molecules and atoms that also involves a temporary and local decrease in entropy; there is no absolute, dualistic distinction between the living and non-living, animate and inanimate.

Since 1960, molecular biologists have been drawing up their own evolutionary trees, and these match those based on fossils and museum specimens of living plants and animals.

It seems redundant that the perplexities of molecular mechanisms are made via a cellular blueprint followed in conjunctions of and by intelligent designers all living amid and within each and every molecular mechanisms while the base roots residencies of such super small yet very intelligent beings could very well be each and every cell's DNA.

The fields within biology are further divided based on the scale at which organisms are studied and the methods used to study them: biochemistry examines the fundamental chemistry of life; molecular biology studies the complex interactions of systems of biological molecules; cellular biology examines the basic building block of all life, the cell; physiology examines the physical and chemical functions of the tissues and organ systems of an organism; and ecology examines how various organisms interrelate.

Although some of my research focuses on the development of nanoelectronic devices for life science applications (as well as for telecommunications and radio astronomy), most of my research efforts are based on the use of microfluidic chips (MFCs) with molecular biology.

«Increasingly in the life sciences, developments are based on an understanding of processes at the molecular level, even where the molecules are large and in complex systems,» says Ashmore, «so an increased hiring of folk with a thorough understanding of the fundamentals is taking place.»

«The medical device and diagnostics business is one of the best kept secrets of the life sciences industry,» says Tom Ippolito, Ph.D., vice president of regulatory affairs and quality assurance at Chembio, a Medford, New York — based medical device and molecular diagnostics manufacturer.

Research published Oct. 1 provides a molecular basis for why 80 percent of patients with longstanding Type 1 diabetes have chronic gastrointestinal symptoms including gastroparesis (delayed emptying of food), irritable bowel syndrome, abdominal distension and fecal incontinence, significantly reducing their quality of life.

«In nature, polymerase, the molecular machinery that copies DNA within living cells, can sequence hundreds of millions of base pairs of DNA.

The basic lines of his current work are three: in the first place, the study of evolutionary relations within aphids as well as the evolution of their life cycles; in the second place, the molecular bases that control the seasonal and circadian rhythms in aphids (and in insects in general) and their relation to vital cycles; and finally, myrmecophily in aphids, recently included.

With four molecular wheels and a carbon - based frame, the mini-roadster is a step toward devices that mimic the machinery of molecular life.

«Almost all life on Earth is based on plants — animals eat plants and we eat animals or plants,» says Wolfgang Busch, an associate professor in Salk's Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory and senior author of the new paper.

«Many mechanisms of resistance to Bt proteins have been proposed and studied in the lab, but this is the first analysis of the molecular genetic basis of severe pest resistance to a Bt crop in the field,» said Bruce Tabashnik, one of the paper's authors and the head of the Department of Entomology in the UA College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Based on their research from the Chorora, Kadabba and Ardi finds, the team says the common ancestor of chimps and humans lived earlier than had been evidenced by genetic and molecular studies, which placed the split about 5 million years ago.

Co-authors of the paper, including Paul Davies, an astrobiologist at Arizona State University in Tempe, have countered that the arsenate bonds could be reinforced by specialized molecules, or that arsenic - based life simply has a higher turnover for molecular disintegration and assembly than does conventional life.

The Broad Institute seeks to describe all the molecular components of life and their connections; discover the molecular basis of major human diseases; develop effective new approaches to diagnostics and therapeutics; and disseminate discoveries, tools, methods, and data openly to the entire scientific community.

In an apparent ironic twist to this year's prize, the quarry claimed by countless hours of sleepless toil is itself fundamental to a good night's sleep: the molecular basis of circadian rhythms — those genes and proteins whose interactions underlie the ability of us living organisms to keep our internal body clocks entrained to a 24 - hour cycle.

SEATTLE, Feb. 05, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)-- NanoString Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: NSTG), a provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostic products, today announced the publication of a landmark study in which Danish researchers used the Prosigna ® Breast Cancer Assay risk of recurrence (ROR) score to accurately predict rates of 10 - year distant recurrence (DR) of cancer in a comprehensive and population - based cohort including all postmenopausal women in Denmark with early - stage hormone receptor (HR)- positive, Her - 2 negative breast cancer who received 5 years of adjuvant endocrine therapy according to nationwide guidelines between 2000 and 2003.

(Inside Science)-- This year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to a trio of American researchers who discovered the molecular basis behind the ability of living organisms to keep their internal body clocks entrained to a 24 - hour cycle.

By applying biophysical techniques to elucidate the overall shape of ALC1 and combining these approaches with cell - based and live - cell imaging experiments, the authors of the article in Molecular Cell dissect the molecular mechanisms how the remodeling activity of ALC1 is controlled by its macrMolecular Cell dissect the molecular mechanisms how the remodeling activity of ALC1 is controlled by its macrmolecular mechanisms how the remodeling activity of ALC1 is controlled by its macro domain.

But to a chemist such as Benner, of the Florida - based Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, the map of life actually is an alphabet with four letters, each representing a chemical base: adenine (represented by the letter A), guanine (G), cytosine (C), and thymine (T).

This vision was inspired by analogy with the biological molecular machines that form the basis of life, with the added insight that biology points «to the development of general capabilities for molecular manipulation», initially termed molecular engineering.

His current efforts are aimed at elucidating the molecular basis of regeneration using the free - living flatworm Schmidtea mediterranea.

Agile Mind Biology helps ensure that students gain an essential understanding of challenging concepts and processes from all six major National Science Education Standards content strands: the cell; the molecular basis of heredity; biological evolution; the interdependence of organisms; matter, energy, and organization in living systems; and the behavior of organisms.

With clear explanations of complex biological processes, this is a fascinating tour of the molecular basis of human life and the power of genetic disposition.

Life history and systematics of the aquatic discomycetes Mitrula (Helotiales, Ascomycota) based on cultural, morphological, and molecular studies.

His approach is based on the rigorous application of state - of - the - art isotopic and organic mass spectrometry to study molecular fossils (biomarkers) derived from organisms across the three Domains of life, accumulated in modern and ancient natural archives from both the marine and terrestrial realm.