Sentences with phrase «new organisms»

If a jellyfish is cut in two, the pieces of the jellyfish can regenerate and create two new organisms.

Among the new organisms newly identified by biologists over the last decade was the first new anaconda identified in over 70 years, a previously unknown species of pink dolphin, and a colorful new bald parrot.

Over the last ten years, scientists have identified 1,200 remarkable new organisms in just this region alone.

This technology is as capable of creating — without sexual reproduction — new organisms, as it is of curing illnesses.

The study, led by McGill University evolutionary biologist Ben Haller in collaboration with IIASA Evolution and Ecology Program Leader Ulf Dieckmann and IIASA researcher Rupert Mazzucco, suggests that a varied environment spurs the evolution of new species and promotes biodiversity by creating places of refuge — «refugia» — for new organisms to evolve.

But while a child uses plastic blocks to construct elaborate creations, synthetic biologists use genes and DNA to build new organisms and bacteria that create vaccines and biofuels and cure diseases...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - When cut, a planarian flatworm can use a population of stem cells called neoblasts to regenerate new heads, new tails or even entire new organisms from a tiny fragment of its body.

In its Thursday - issued report, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues has given the go - ahead to research in the field of synthetic biology — technology which involves the creation of new organisms via the synthesis and manipulation of DNA.

The experiment and others like it inspired efforts to grow new organisms from the genetic material of an adult cell, and put the word «clone» into the popular vocabulary.

The border between existing agricultural biotechnology and new organisms seems hard to define.

When you look at the DNA signatures from these environments, there are all these new organisms, new proteins, and new functions that we have never really seen before.

Neither of you is a big fan of the way a lot of new organisms are developed.

Thijs Ettema at Uppsala University, Sweden, and his team discovered the new organisms when they analysed DNA extracted from underwater sediment near Loki's Castle, a region of hydrothermal vents along the Arctic mid-ocean ridge (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature14447).

And, in the future, the potential to insert barcodes in genes and the development of in - line ID kits, that recognize specific strains of cell lines, could make it easier to verify new organisms and their protein products, and track products through supply chains.

The ultimate goal of the instructions in DNA is to make new organisms that contain the same genetic instructions.

What is more, harvesting the microbes and sucking out the stored fats requires environmentally unfriendly solvents, and new organisms have to be grown to replace the harvested ones.

He also stressed that researchers have been putting genes in and out of organisms with no safety problems for almost 40 years and that he and others are able to build new organisms that can't survive outside a special environment and thus would not be a threat in nature.

Perhaps most importantly, these studies demonstrate the general utility of active genetics as a platform for engineering new organisms with novel traits.

Caves elsewhere around the country were also revealing new organisms, Reboleira reported.

The goal is ultimately to design new organisms that fulfill specified functions, such as manufacturing new fuels to replace oil and gas or capturing carbon dioxide, without evolving so that these capabilities are locked in over time.

CRISPR's ability to edit DNA has helped scientists create a menagerie of genetically new organisms.

In the mid-1700s, for instance, Swiss researcher Abraham Trembley noted that when chopped into pieces, hydra — tubelike creatures with tentacles that live in fresh water — could grow back into complete, new organisms.

The methods open the door for new organisms — such as squid and octopuses — to join scientists» basic toolkits.

So far it is just a prototype, but if its proponents are to be believed, future versions could revolutionise biology, allowing us to evolve new organisms or rewrite whole genomes with ease.

Today, new technologies are being used to artificially develop other traits in plants, such as resistance to browning in apples, and creating new organisms using synthetic biology.

This technology thus makes it possible to produce not only the recombinant DNA, but also unlimited quantities of new organisms created in the laboratory.

Only the most otherworldly of Christians will imagine that they have no stake in this new instrument to manipulate the genetic code and to manufacture new organisms whose properties are not completely predictable and whose effects on all of us may turn out to be quite uncontrollable.

If that sort of situation developed from such an apparently unambiguous procedure as the deployment of pesticides, what potential disaster may be lurking in the laboratories of those who are creating new organisms whose pathogenic effects can not possibly be predicted with accuracy?

The bacteria growing on the antibiotic containing dish are a new organism - and antibiotic resistant bateria.

So, if it had taken a longer or shorter time to produce a new organism, it would have been a rather different organism.

But the new organism's forty - six chromosomes are in a different combination from those of either parent; the new organism is unique.

In Paul's eyes the new organism given to the Christian, of whose resurrection Christ's was the prototype, (I Thessalonians 4:14; I Corinthians 15:12 ff) would be utterly different from this present flesh.

In this sense every step in the evolution of a new organism (be it an increase or decrease in complexity) is in Whitehead's terminology «a creative advance into novelty» (PR 222).

Eggs are also incredibly nutritious since they have everything needed to make a new organism in them.

The existing vaccine will not protect at all against the new organism, therefore vaccination will be totally ineffective as a means of prevention.

The film depicts several sperm attempting to fertilize the egg, «zooms in» on one sperm's tail to show how the dynein proteins move in sync to cause the tail to bend and flex, and ends with the sperm's successful journey into the egg and the initiation of cell division that will ultimately create a new organism.

Fertilisation, also spelt fertilization (also known as conception, fecundation and syngamy), is fusion of gametes to form a new organism of the same species.

Each new organism's life is essentially a rigorous testing process.

Furthermore, when the researchers introduced C. botulinum - derived prions into the lab - made form of the bacterium E. coli, the prions were, once again, capable of propagating inside the new organism.

The idea is also to engineer the new organism, deleting key metabolic pathways, such that it would never survive in the wild in order to prevent escapes with unintended environmental impacts, among other dangers.

«It's always been hard to work with a new organism,» says Jarvis, «CRISPR is awesome because suddenly, you don't have to spend decades developing a model.»

This maneuver «froze» the cells in a quiescent phase of their division cycle and may have made their chromosomes more susceptible to being reprogrammed to initiate the growth of a new organism after the nuclei were transferred into an egg.

With a total of 531,000 bases, the new organism's genome isn't much smaller than that of M. genitalium, with 600,000 bases.

This process is not without risks: demethylation can cause lesions in the DNA that can be fatal for the new organism.

The development of a new organism from the joining of two single cells is a carefully orchestrated endeavor.

The mechanisms underlying totipotency remain poorly understood but are essential for generating a new organism from a fertilized egg.

Instead, chunks of its code are swapped with the copy of another new organism.

This new organism has needs and a metabolism like any other animal.

Scientists have experimented with animal cloning, but have never been able to stimulate a specialized (differentiated) cell to produce a new organism directly.

Understanding the workings of the totipotent cell, defined as «a single cell that can give rise to a new organism given appropriate maternal support,» is key to fulfilling the promise of regenerative medicine as well as advancing understanding of the details of mammalian development.