Sentences with phrase «molecular biology studies»

The other half of the samples was used for molecular biology studies.
The organization funds postdoctoral research that «promotes molecular biology studies in Europe,» and prefers that fellows move between member countries.
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.

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So I'm at MIT as an undergrad, and I'm studying molecular biology as premed.
And he ran down SoHe who was only 22 and a Toronto university studying molecular biology and he aimed the steering wheel at Betty and accelerated — Betty whose mother had long ago named her Mary Elizabeth — and who was revelling in one of the first warm April days in her 95th — and last — spring on this spinning orb.
A degree of kinship between human beings and the rest of physical creation has always been clear to an extent, but the depth and detail of our interrelationship with the rest of life on the planet is being confirmed over and over again in breathtaking detail by new scientific advances such as genetic studies and molecular biology.
I am studying molecular biology at BYU.
Boivin had studied cellular, molecular, and microbial biology for her Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Calgary in her native Canada, but, she says, «I always had an interest in archaeology.»
Mangahas studied plant biology and botany during his undergraduate years at the University of Washington, Seattle, as well as molecular biology.
«It requires student initiative to connect with the right role model / adviser,» says Todd Evans, a professor of developmental and molecular biology and Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies and Director of the Graduate Program at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in Bronx, New York.
I was studying the molecular biology and biochemistry of these organisms because their proteins had to be very stable to withstand very high temperatures and salt concentrations.
He knew right away that studying molecular biology «was what I wanted to do,» he recalls.
«Between them, I heard a lot about chemistry and biology, and in the end decided to study molecular biology,» Ban says.
But T. auensis is particularly hard to culture in Petri dishes and study with the normal tools of molecular biology.
She earned her Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where she studied the nerve cells that compel a fruit fly to perform a dazzling mating dance.
Molecular biology is the study of molecular underpinnings of the process of replication, transcription and translation of the genetic Molecular biology is the study of molecular underpinnings of the process of replication, transcription and translation of the genetic molecular underpinnings of the process of replication, transcription and translation of the genetic material.
As of the early 2000s, the study of gene structure and function, molecular genetics, has been amongst the most prominent sub-field of molecular biology.
Zhou, who is the director of virology and molecular biology for Microbac Laboratories, headquartered in Pittsburgh, Penn., said the study did not yet look at the survivability of Zika on hard non-porous surfaces beyond eight hours.
When it came time to move on to graduate work in 1994, Skop knew she wanted to stay with «the worm people» and study molecular biology.
I first became aware of bioinformatics while in graduate school at the University of Colorado, Boulder, studying molecular, cellular, and developmental biology.
In addition to Jorgensen, who holds a doctorate in molecular biology, founding members include science writer Daniel Grushkin; Sung Won Lim, a physics undergraduate; and Russell Durrett, who studies biotechnology and entrepreneurship at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University.
«Finding these similarities and studying the aspects of mouse biology that may reflect human biology, allows us to approach the study of human illnesses in a better way,» affirms Bing Ren, one of the principal authors from the ENCODE Consortium and a lecturer in molecular and cellular medicine at the University of California — San Diego.
Reasoning that boosting the clock may be beneficial, Zheng «Jake» Chen, Ph.D., the study's senior author and assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at John P. and Kathrine G. McGovern Medical School at UTHealth, launched a search for a clock amplitude - enhancing small molecule.
After finishing her Ph.D. studies in molecular biology at the Hellenic Pasteur Institute in Athens in 1998, Alexopoulou headed for the United States.
And once I got into brain biology, it became clear you needed to study the brain on the cellular level, and once you began to understand aspects of behavior in the cellular level, you wanted to understand the molecular level.
The newest comer into this wild and speculative debate is Philip Bell, who studies yeast molecular biology at Macquarie University in Australia.
Dmitry Royhman, currently studying to get his PSM in cell and molecular biology at IIT, says, «The reason I chose to do the PSM instead of the traditional Master's degree was because the M.S. would have restricted me more toward research, and I was not sure that was the path for me.»
As a researcher, Hockfield was among the first scientists to apply molecular biology to neuroscience, using monoclonal antibodies to study the brain.
This new technology offers two main advantages based on the use of molecular tools to manipulate the genome: firstly, working models that had not existed up until now for the study of tumour biology and, secondly, their application will eventually allow for the study of new therapeutic targets and therapies.
Earlier, for his Ph.D., he used his physics training to study biological interactions at the molecular resolution — but for his postdoc he changed approaches dramatically, turning to cell biology and applying his skills to the development of high - resolution functional imaging of DNA transcription in living cells.
«A very hungry caterpillar: Researchers sequence genome of «gluttonous» tobacco hornworm: The genome for this important model insect marks a major milestone in the study of insect biochemistry, molecular biology
«I came with the intent to study molecular biology techniques,» says Khanna, a D.V.M - Ph.
I've always been interested in healthcare, so while I was an undergraduate studying molecular biology I attended seminars on public health, human rights, and infectious disease management, which led directly to my current career path.
«The completion of this project marks a major milestone in the study of insect biochemistry and molecular biology, as Manduca sexta is an important model insect: one that has been studied for its physiology and biochemistry for many decades,» said Blissard.
She started studying molecular biology in 1989 with a 5 - year degree at the Autonomous University of Madrid, «the only university in Spain which had this speciality,» she explains.
This study is a modern validation of 18th - century parabiosis science using 21st century molecular biology, says cardiologist Gerald Dorn of Washington University in St. Louis.
In this scenario, Bethany Huot, MSU cell and molecular biology graduate program alumna and the study's lead author, wanted to find out if plants» defense system was compromised or was pathogens» virulence enhanced?
The HumGen site appears to be a good source of information for anyone interested in genetic policy or ethics — which should be anyone studying molecular biology today.
The study of ancient proteins, paleoproteomics is an emerging interdisciplinary field that draws from chemistry and molecular biology as much as paleontology, paleoanthropology and archaeology.
said Ehrenreich, assistant professor of molecular biology at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and corresponding author of a paper on the study that was published by PLOS Genetics on May 1.
«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.
Having been involved, peripherally, in setting up the molecular biology labs at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, during his postgrad studies, he had the skills that RBGE were looking to acquire.
During this time he pursued studies of the small bacteriophage fC, which was to play an important part in the unfolding story of molecular biology.
In 2006, I flew across the ocean to study molecular biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Hwang said the study would provide data about the best candidates for active surveillance, and create a repository of imaging and cell samples to advance knowledge into the molecular biology of DCIS and what fuels or deters its growth.
The research draws from previous findings by molecular biology and genetics professor and study co-author Mariana Wolfner on how Drosophila females» gene expression, behavior and physiology are changed by mating.
When that lab closed she went back to university, working in a biochemistry and molecular biology lab to study gene expression during wine making, but this contract, too, came to an end.
«Until now, no studies have separated how resistance to these two different drug actions might work,» says Roepe, also a professor of biochemistry and cell and molecular biology and co-founder of Georgetown's Center for Infectious Disease at Georgetown University Medical Center.
«It really reinforces the idea that evolution of the code itself was a progressive process,» said Paul Schimmel, a professor of molecular and cell biology at the Scripps Research Institute, who was not involved in the study.
«This is the first study to offer an unbiased profile of novel imprinted genes in a mammal other than mice,» said lead author Xu Wang, a postdoctoral associate in the laboratory of Andrew Clark, professor of molecular biology and genetics and the study's senior author.
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