Sentences with phrase «of general biology»

The information provided in the article on CRISPR with mechanisms, advantages and set backs is precious and documented well for the understanding of general biology student.

Equally remarkable is the fact that this discovery was made by undergraduates during the course of a general biology class.

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«Beyond giving us so much data to explore, being able to show that depression is a brain disease, that there is biology associated with it, I think that's really critical,» Roy Perlis, the director of the Center for Experimental Drugs and Diagnostics at Massachusetts General Hospital, told Business Insider in 2016.

Vijay Pande, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, leads investments at the cross section of biology and computer science.

On any given day, Canada's leading researchers unravel the mysteries of biology in state - of - the - art labs throughout the Toronto Medical Discovery Tower and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research; early - stage science and technology companies put business plans into action in the MaRS Incubator; organizations across the innovation spectrum grow their businesses in the Heritage Building — the original brick façade of the old Toronto General Hospital.

It might not be immediately obvious, though, how our discussion of the question of biology's independence relates to the general theme of this book.

General systems theory sees autonomy in biology but also recognizes discontinuity in prebiotic patterns of organization.

In general, to understand evolutionary biology, one must understand the concepts of genetic inheritance, population genetics, and have a grasp on the concept of speciation.

As we read this history, the furor over stem cells was fueled by numerous factors: the near - universal human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now do anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn human life.

At the other extreme, in a general - education biology course one might give rather frequent attention to what Conant calls «the strategy and tactics of science.

So any general theory of biology (which must include the concept of hierarchy) must thereby explain the origin, operation, reliability and persistence of these constraints which harness matter to perform coherent functions according to a hierarchical plan.

It is a problem that holistic approaches to biology such as general systems theory have been most interested in, and it is the problem that prompted C. Lloyd Morgan to speculate about forms of relatedness.

«The forms of a living being are not but rather come to be,» says Ludwig von Bertalanffy (BW 120), and his «organismic» biology and later general system - theory for overcoming the opposition between mechanism and vitalism has given central insights of Whitehead a new formulation on the basis of science, 8 Something similar holds for all the directions of research which Jean Piaget has brought to the [264] concept of genetic structuralism.9 The genetic epistemology founded by Piaget has proved through empirical research on the problem of knowledge the fruitfulness both of genetic analysis and of Whitehead's principle of process.

His own applications were limited primarily to «the most general notions of physics and biology» (PR vi).

(c) When Darwinism destroyed the old teleology (which never was a good form of psychicalism, since it implied that the divine psyche was the only one that decided anything), biology seemed to confirm the prejudice against attributing purpose or other psychical factors to nature in general.

Not only science in general, but the rise of the specialized disciplines of sexology, Darwinist biology, medical psychology and psychoanalysis, have contributed to the development of the homosexual identity.

I've known that in a general sort of way for a long time, but the concept really hit me earlier in the semester when I started taking biology and learning more about cells and nutrition.

This unnatural and forced movement of water changes vaginal cell shape and biology for the worse and can lead to tissue damage, irritation, and general disruptions to the vaginal ecosystem.

General News of Sunday, 13 May 2018 Source: ghananewsagency.org The students were trained in physics, chemistry and biology Tullow Oil Ghana has provided 129 eligible Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates with practical training in Science in the Sekondi - Takoradi Metropolis (STMA) as part of its investment in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education.

Jobs's reference to a «hormone imbalance» in the letter alone is too vague and general to diagnose, agrees Bruce White, a cell biology professor at the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington.

The agency supports network science through individual institutes (for example, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences funds nine National Centers for Systems Biology, academic centers that emphasize network biology) and through agencywide initiatives (such as the National Technology Centers for Networks and Pathways, funded by the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research and the recently announced Human Connectome Project, which aims to map the connections among the human brain's 100 billion neurons).

The process of integrating naturally occurring cancers in dogs into the general studies of human cancer biology and therapy is known as comparative oncology.

This foundational course provides a broad overview of approaches in applied mathematics, covering both deterministic and stochastic methods, with an emphasis on ecological questions, and is taken by general mathematics students who wish to obtain an introduction to graduate - level applied math, as well as by our students who are specifically interested in mathematical biology.

Al - Bassam said the results open up new ways of thinking about tubulin, tubulin - related disorders and molecular biology in general.

The radiation exposure of the general population «is too small to give a statistically significant increase in stochastic effects such as cancer,» argues Ohtsura Niwa, professor emeritus of radiation biology at Kyoto University.

Unni worked in a neurology residency at Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's hospitals while Weissman - Unni did a postdoc in the lab of Jeff Lichtman, a Harvard professor of molecular and cellular biology.

«We've been trying to track down the genetic and molecular basis of naturally occurring traits — such as hair and skin pigmentation — in fish and humans to get insight into the general principles by which traits evolve,» said David Kingsley, PhD, professor of developmental biology.

For example, among the latest EMBL selection for the international Ph.D. program, there are quite a few students of biology who financed their studies by working as system managers or software developers, i.e., with the right kind of general background.

This general approach, known as lineage - tracing, has been a mainstay of classical developmental biology research and has greatly clarified knowledge of tissue stem cells during the last decade.

«We're talking about an incredible synergy between technology and biology, about very simple improvements — pasteurization, a general reduction of pollutants, cleaning up our water supply — producing heritable effects across populations faster than ever before.

«My main goal is for [the students] to have an appreciation and better understanding of plants and of biology in general,» says Moctezuma, who joined the Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics at the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2003 as an instructor.

This team award recognizes the contributions of four Monsanto researchers — Robert Fraley, co-President of the Agricultural Sector; Robert Horsch, co-President of the Sustainable Development Sector and General Manager of the Agracetus Research Campus; Ernest Jaworski, retired Director of the Biological Sciences Program; and Stephen Rogers, Director of Biotechnology Projects at Monsanto's European Center for Crop Research in Brussels, Belgium — for their pioneering achievements in plant biology and agricultural biotechnology, and for global leadership in the development and commercialization of genetically modified crops to enhance agricultural productivity and sustainability.

Simulations — and computational modeling in general — have become an integral part of modern research in biology, according to Gorfe.

«This is a major step forward» in determining how proteins fold, says Peter Preusch, who heads cell biology and biophysics research at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland.

Petris says that understanding the roles of copper in biology may have far - reaching health implications for the general population because copper underpins many facets of biology, including the growth of cancer tumors and the formation of toxic proteins in Alzheimer's disease.

The team from the Massachusetts General Hospital plans to use the microfluidic devices in synergy with some more sophisticated molecular biology tools and identify the control factors of cell migration speed.

Doing so could lead not only to new antiviral drugs, but also to a better understanding of viral biology in general.

«Having a group of distantly related species, representing markedly different ecologies and biology, is as important, or more important, than just having more species in general,» said Brian R. Silliman, Rachel Carson associate professor of marine conservation biology at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

An expert panel has urged the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) to scrap an 11 - year, $ 368 million foray into big biology.

«This review paper tells the story of gene flow's rise to respect among plant evolutionary biologists,» he concludes, «a fact that hasn't yet penetrated biology in general that is still mired in selection / adaptation - only thinking.»

Additional authors of the study are Owen T. Bennion, B.S., research assistant in Aldridge's lab, Murat Cokol, Ph.D., associate professor at Sabanci University, Istanbul, and visiting scientist at Tufts University School of Medicine, Shumin Tan, Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular biology and microbiology at Tufts University School of Medicine and member of the Molecular Microbiology program faculty at the Sackler School, and Anh Hoang, Ph.D., of Massachusetts General Hospital.

«In sequencing these particular nematodes we hoped to learn something about parasite biology and the evolution of nematodes in general,» said Adler R. Dillman, the lead researcher and an assistant professor of parasitology in the Department of Nematology.

Right now, it is unclear whether combinatorial evolution is a quirk of yeast biology or a more general fact of life, but researchers are hopeful that the latter is true.

Update: In an e-mail, a spokesman for Veridex said the collaboration with Mass General is «is just beginning,» so there are «no details about what this future system will look like,» except that it will be small enough to sit on a lab bench and will be able to zero in on the biology of rare cells.

In the article «Host Biology in Light of the Microbiome: Ten Principles of Holobionts and Hologenomes» published online Aug. 18 in the open access journal PLOS Biology, Bordenstein and his colleague Kevin Theis from the University of Michigan take the general concepts involved in this new paradigm and break them down into underlying principles that apply to the entire field of biology.

Edited manuscripts in the scientific areas of agriculture, genetics, pathology and general biology.

Since 1995, ASPB members have been awarded this grant for developing education and outreach projects that advance youth, student, or general public knowledge and appreciation of plant biology.

Plant BLOOME — Managed by the ASPB Education Committee, the Plant Biology Learning Objectives, Outreach Materials & Education (BLOOME) Grant funds projects to advance youth, student, and general public knowledge and appreciation of plant biology.

Teisha J. Rowland, the author of All Things Stem Cell, recently started a general biology column with The Santa Barbara Independent.

Even today, the general public, and many scientists, are not aware of decades of research in evolutionary science, molecular biology and genome sequencing which provide alternative answers to how novel organisms have originated in the long history of life on earth.