Sentences with phrase «more on biology»

More on biology and theology: Animals Blessed in Madrid for Holiday of Patron SaintEnvironmentalism: Movement, Philosophy, Ethic, or What?

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«The idea of being able to use biology to design and engineer living things that can do things like cure disease or eliminate organ waiting lists, or even revert climate change, or help us live on other planets — that's more what was exciting about it,» he says.

Would I buy the $ 400 television within my budget or would I splurge on the $ 500 deluxe model that somehow helped me understand plant biology in a new, more intimate way?

Beyond his quinoa projects, Friedberg is exploring other ways to make protein more efficiently — all focused on the intersection of software, biology, and chemistry.

Looking at sixty - seven recent drug discovery projects based on preclinical cancer biology research, they found that in more than 75 percent of cases the published data did not match up with their in - house attempts to replicate.

Du Nouy (who died in 1947, long before molecular biology's influence on evolution) was more of a theistic evolutionist.

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archaeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archaeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archaeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

Creationists» tactics also have a more profound impact on science education which goes beyond biology because they communicate the idea that there is something lacking or something wrong with evolutionary theory, an idea which is not actually true from a scientific standpoint.

Unfortunately, efforts to push forward a careful alliance of theology with evolutionary biology are often obscured by the more sensational spats going on between IDT defenders and creationists on the one side, and evolutionary materialists on the other.

On the other hand, every correlation between physiological functioning and subjective experience (and I assume that far more such correlation will be discovered in the future) is hailed as proof that eventually the reduction of psychology to physiology and biology will be achieved.

But please do go on tell me more about how evolution is in fact «false», disprove genetic evidence, paleontological evidence, anatomical evidence, evidence from cell biology, virology, zoology, mycology, should I keep going?

Hartshorne had more than a passing acquaintance with science, and with biology and evolutionary theory in particular — I have already mentioned his work in the psychology of sensation and on the aesthetics of bird song.

However, molecular biology, which is more accurately called molecular ecology, has shown that the way the DNA molecules develop, which can be in a wide variety of ways, is contingent on the environment of the cell and molecule.

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

Waddington's paper in Towards a Theoretical Biology follows on from one by Brian Goodwin («A Statistical Mechanics of Temporal Organization in Cells») in which Goodwin looks at the question of how ordered systems like cells, and still more macro-organisms, supervene on the movements of their constituent molecules, and how one is to close the gap between molecular biology and cell physiology.

The reason is also partly our ignorance of the details of nature on its behavioristic side, the superficiality of even our physics and, much more, of our biology and physiology.

Some kids naturally sleep more — there's definitely a large continuum — and that's great, but if you are interested in reading more on infant biology and sleep, I recommend Dr. Helen Ball — I have a piece of hers on here as well which might be of interest: http://evolutionaryparenting.com/bed-sharing-and-co-sleeping-research-overview/

«Building on a well - established knowledge base more than half a century in the making, recent advances in the science of early childhood development and its underlying biology provide a deeper understanding that can inform and improve existing policy and practice, as well as help generate new ways of thinking about solutions.

Studies done by the Touch Research Institute in Miami, the first scientific center to study the biology of touch and its effects on health and development, have shown that premature infants who are massaged for 15 minutes three times a day gain more weight and are able to be released from the hospital sooner than those who are not massaged.

We are excited to announce more Rock Stars of Lactation ™, a world - class line - up of presenters for our 9th online breastfeeding conference on the theme Breastfeeding: passion and biology.

On the wider scientific canvas, however, the advances in biology and medicine have began to draw a more sophisticated, many - layered picture where heredity is characterised with a notable degree of flexibility and openness to the effects of personal or collective experience and the influence of the environment.

That first year, though, it was a dinner conversation with a Latina biology professor that really turned Eroy - Reveles on to research and, more importantly, demystified the path there.

There have been more than 900 publications related to the topic since 1984, with the vast majority of them published since 2005, according to Owen D. Jones, director of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience and a professor of both law and biology at Vanderbilt University.

The 6.5 acres of tiny gibraltar island on lake erie's south edge are crammed with reasons to visit, including Stone Laboratory, the oldest freshwater biology research station in the U. S. Tour the island, soak up the science and then rent a kayak to explore more of this scenic slice of the Great Lakes region.

Modern biology depends more and more on ideas from the physical sciences, but are today's middle school students learning what they need to succeed?

Donovan, who has been a middle school teacher for more than 20 years, explained that other science curriculum materials are often subject - specific, focusing lessons on individual scientific fields like biology and excluding disciplines like chemistry that can provide an essential foundation for students.

Brooklyn to Big Bioscience: Fuhgeddaboudit As the president of Genspace, a community laboratory in downtown Brooklyn, New York, Ellen Jorgensen is helping to democratize biology — making it less the purview of academics and Big Pharma and more an enterprise accessible to anyone who wants a hands - on scientific experience.

«Understanding the fundamental biology of how our immune system works will lead to the development of more effective drugs and vaccines,» said Kanneganti, corresponding author on the paper.

DARPA itself has been one of the largest public funders of synthetic biology research in the U.S. in recent years, upping its spending on synthetic biology projects to more than $ 100 million in 2014 from nothing in 2010, according to one analysis.

Synthetic biology enables researchers to tackle a huge and diverse range of applied problems: building a cell with the smallest possible genome; synthesizing proteins with extra amino acids — more than the 20 found in nature; using bacteria to produce medicines previously too complex to synthesize; even decomposing living organisms into standard, off - the - shelf «biobricks» that can be assembled on demand.

Understanding these similarities will allow us to carry out more accurate studies on human biology,» explains Roderic Guigó, one of the main researchers involved in the work and coordinator of the Bioinformatics and Genomics programme at the CRG.

«The next phases are a lot more soil biology, measuring changes below ground in fungal and microbial communities to get a handle on how they are responding to the warming.»

Since the program's inception more than 10 years ago, on average 30 % of scholarships have been awarded to young researchers working in medical research, biotechnology, and environmental biology and chemistry, among other scientific fields.

A three - year investigation into a University of Connecticut biology laboratory has found its chief guilty of falsifying and fabricating data on more than two dozen papers and grant applications.

But then as we looked at it more we realized it was such a big opportunity, a larger, much larger well to mine of what endings mean for us in various areas that Scientific American covers and obviously we do cover biology, and so there's an article on why, you know why can [«t] we live forever for instance?

We're now looking at the world of biology and asking how to use our tools to make a more sustainable world with a focus on biofuels and renewable materials, for example.»

«There's dogma in the literature — which is more oriented toward the cell biology of aging — that wild animals don't actually senesce,» says Daniel Nussey, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Edinburgh who studies aging in Soay sheep on a remote Scottish island.

The researchers — led by Brett Sandercock, professor of biology — discovered that wind turbines have little effect on greater prairie chickens, and that these grassland birds are more affected by rangeland management practices and by the availability of native prairie and vegetation cover at nest sites.

Its proponents seek to make biology more quantitative by relying on mathematics, engineering, and computer science to build a more rigid framework for linking disparate findings.

«More social marmots are less likely to survive over the winter, and they live shorter lives, on average,» said lead author Daniel Blumstein, UCLA professor of ecology and evolutionary biology.

«If we understand how these selfish elements are exploiting the mechanics of meiosis, then we'll understand more deeply how that process works in the first place,» said Michael Lampson, associate professor of biology in Penn's School of Arts and Sciences and senior author on the study.

The work, which was propelled by technologies that enable the detailed analysis of even a handful of cells, opens a critical window on the biology of the disease and suggests a strategy for the development of more precise, powerful treatments.

The recent sharp, decade - long rise in biology majors, for example, was preceded by an even longer but more gradual decline, whereas mathematics and computer science have been on a roller - coaster ride that features a PC - driven peak in the mid-1980s and a recent resurgence.

Many young scientists at the basic research end of the spectrum will admit that they were initially attracted more by the desire to investigate fundamental questions in biology than to work specifically on cancer.

«The octopus genome makes studies of cephalopod traits much more tractable, and now represents an important point on the tree of life for comparative evolutionary studies,» said Ragsdale, an associate professor in neurobiology and organismal biology and anatomy at the University of Chicago.

«If you can get a better handle on the biology of the primary tumor, and the elements of the tumor that may be more or less dangerous, then you don't need to worry about testing every single metastasis for treatment decisions.»

In the day and a half of open meeting, the council heard a variety of other recommendations, including a moratorium on releasing synthetic organisms into the environment, a call for a White House — level office to oversee synthetic biology, and a plea for more funding for the field.

On a positive note: «Our research indicates that if a student can structure a consistent schedule in which class days resemble non-class days, they are more likely to achieve academic success,» said study co-lead author Aaron Schirmer, an associate professor of biology at Northeastern Illinois University.

«We chose to attack the problem using machine learning implemented on a D - Wave quantum annealer, in order to test our ability to translate complicated real - life biology problems to the setting of quantum machine learning, and to look for any advantages this approach might offer over more conventional, yet state - of - the - art classical machine learning techniques,» Lidar added.

At a recent meeting, doctors, clinical trial experts, and statisticians made the case for a new type of experiment: pragmatic clinical trials, which focus less on basic biology and more on what doctors need to make decisions.