Sentences with phrase «now know the mechanisms»

Thanks to Pentland's work, we now know the mechanisms of human connection can, in fact, be boiled down to a set of mathematical equations.
«Dietary history has a long lasting effect on health, and now we know a mechanism behind this.

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Plus now they know that I'm not easily classifiable, so they are at a loss for a mechanism to simply say, «Nice to meet you» and move on.)
After 20 years healing and recovering from traumatic early childhood abuse and the resulting maladaptive coping mechanisms, I am now settled supported and secure, knowing God loves me and cares for me.
As every schoolchild who has been instructed in the rudiments of science now knows, or should know, modern genetics has provided a completely different account of the mechanism of inheritance, making untenable the blood theory upon which traditional race lore rested.
The point of central importance in these developments for a philosophy of man is that man - made physical mechanisms are no longer limited to rigid patterns of mechanical action, but are now admitted to the domain of sensitive response, memory, and even of decision - making — activities that traditionally have been thought the exclusive province of minded organisms.
Now at a superficial glance all primitive religions are no more than a natural defense mechanism against man's ignorance, fear and insecurity.
Now, if one combines this simple fact with a well - known but rather more unexpected one, namely that developmental processes are difficult to alter, one finishes up with a very powerful evolutionary mechanism.
Unfortunately, our descent was interrupted unexpectedly by — and the party involved shall remain nameless for perpetuity, though by now everyone we know knows all — the wedging of a Croc, which this party was wearing, into the mechanism of the escalator about two - thirds of the way down.
God used to be put in here, now that we know the real mechanism you stick god somewhere else.
Their fight or flight mechanisms, and one might add their «fright» reactions, which we now know are built into their very DNA, do indeed seem to imply that a certain degree and type of suffering seems also to be built in.
Firstly, aesthetically the navy material faded so it looks old and work when it's not, this happened within a couple of months, the green dot where you know to push the brake release forward rubbed off within seconds so now when others try to help me out when pushing the buggy they push the release the wrong way, needless to say the brake mechanism is now half broken, the canopy struts are awkward and don't flip up or down evenly and often pull out of their sockets, this is super annoying, the seat has a flimsy strap underneath supporting the legs, on occasion this has undone and I've found my infant in the storage section underneath hanging on by a tether, bad bad design, the viewing window on the canopy is only good on a non windy day.
It is further bolstered by contemporary neuroscience showing that emotions are fundamentally material and the neurochemicals responsible for these observed states can now be specified and described with a high degree of sophistication, although much more will be known in the future about their nature, diversity and mechanisms of action.
Although numerous studies have been devoted to this topic since then, until now researchers did not know the mechanism behind thermal rectification.
Now, they knew that the molecular mechanism was a «mirror» as well.
Importantly, knowing the mechanism by which retinoids reduce CK5 activation now leads the team to a hypothesis that could stop this activation.
That's exactly what Peter Higgs and François Englert were doing 50 years ago when they came up with what's now known as the Higgs mechanism, which imparts mass to fundamental particles.
«Now that we know the mechanism, we can think about treatments, such as injecting CHF into the bloodstream.»
Thanks to its appearances on Japanese TV shows, it's now most popularly known for its shape - shifting defense mechanism.
«The question we now want to know is if this is the mechanism that is being used when an animal is actually moving.
Until now, little was known in preclinical models about the mechanisms that allow breast cancer cells to leave the latent state and even less is known in patients,» explains Roger Gomis, head of the Growth Control and Cancer Metastasis Lab.
Adds Tsvetkov: «We know a mechanism of resistance now.
Now we know that epigenetic mechanisms also regulate many other important processes in malaria parasite biology, including sexual differentiation.»
And we now know that it is the same epigenetic mechanisms that occur in brain as occur in liver, just involving, only the specifics differ — brain genes in brain, liver genes in liver.
And we now know in detail that exactly how, through epigenetic mechanisms, that differentiation occurs.
Until now it was not known how quiescent and actively dividing cells could co-exist so closely and which mechanisms are at the basis of the quiescent character.
«Now, because we know the resistance mechanism, we can design elements to minimize the emergence of resistance as these promising new drug candidates are developed,» said Ben Shen, a TSRI professor who led the study, which was published February 20, 2014 online ahead of print by the Cell Press journal Chemistry & Biology.
In another paper in the same issue, a team led by molecular biologist Ronald Plasterk, now at the Hubrecht Laboratory in Utrecht, the Netherlands, reports an intriguing twist: The same genes appear to be responsible for both RNAi and another gene - silencing mechanism known as cosuppression, in which adding extra copies of a gene cause both the new and the existing copies of that gene to be shut down.
The plant hormone, auxin has been known to take part in the development of leaf teeth, but the exact mechanism of their formation has been a mystery up till now.
While much has been known about the initiation and maintenance mechanisms of activity for some time now, with regard to the stopping of activity there was only the assumption that the result of the termination of activity was from brainstem neurons.
Now, two research groups from Dana - Farber Cancer Institute have independently discovered a genetic mechanism in cancer cells that influences whether they resist or respond to immunotherapy drugs known as checkpoint inhibitors.
«Knowing this mechanism that underlies IL - 37's effect on the immune system now allows us to study IL - 37 function and perhaps dysfunction in a wide range of diseases,» says Mayumi Fujita, MD, PhD, investigator at the University of Colorado Cancer Center, associate professor in the CU School of Medicine Department of Dermatology, and the paper's senior author.
Right now, its causes are unknown although various self - immune mechanisms are known to be involved.
The condition is caused by mutations in a gene dubbed NF1, but the precise mechanism that lead to learning disabilities was not known until now.
Scientists now know that scrapie is caused by misfolding proteins in the brain called prions, the same mechanism that causes Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease in humans.
«But we still didn't know the molecular mechanisms behind this,» says True, a former postdoctoral researcher in the Lindquist lab, and now an assistant professor at Washington University, St. Louis.
«We know very well now that the brain is plastic and changes over time, but we didn't know if this could happen as a repairing mechanism or a compensatory mechanism in schizophrenia,» says Antonio Vita, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Brescia in Italy.
During the last century they have been spotted by scientists, but now we know which are the underlying mechanisms, and it is here that we must focus on for future research.
Such perfect division depends on the position of the mitotic spindle (chromosomes, microtubules, and spindle poles) within the cell, and it's now clear that human cells employ two specific mechanisms during the portion of division known as anaphase to correct mitotic spindle positioning.
They know that too much of a protein called mucin causes the lungs» airways to close, triggering an asthma attack, but until now, the mechanism behind this was unknown.
«We know very little about how A. tumefaciens causes disease in humans, but the mechanism of disease does not appear to be the same in animals and plants,» says Goodner, now of Hiram College in Ohio.
«We now know that, in eczema, the mechanisms we found in mice are also operative in human disease,» says Kawakami.
TGF -(beta) signaling mechanisms are now known to be crucial in embryonic development, and their disruption contributes to tumor formation and metastasis.
Mechanisms have been sought to explain this process of regeneration polarity for over 100 years, but until now, little was known about how planaria can regenerate heads and tails at their proper sites.
«These odd diseases have focused attention on what appears to be an entirely new, gene - free mechanism of heredity that increasingly appears to be extraordinarily widespread,» she added, «now that we know how and where to look.»
«Now more than ever we need to understand the details of how these receptors work so that when a mutation appears in the clinic, we can know what it means from our knowledge of mechanism and structure,» he says.
One of the factors now implicated in glaucoma - associated neurodegeneration is the endothelin (EDN) system, but the mechanisms are not yet known.
This obscure terminology is a hold - over from an early 20th century model of stellar evolution, which supposed that stars were powered by gravitational contraction via the Kelvin — Helmholtz mechanism, which is now known to not apply to main sequence stars.
In fact, now that the positive feedback has been «kick started», the initial mechanism which began the whole positive feedback is no longer of prime importance.
It is now also known that diabetics have a 65 percent increased risk of also being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, and there appears to be a potent link between the two diseases, even though the exact mechanisms have yet to be determined.
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