Sentences with phrase «of other biological systems»

Glyphosate can also disrupt a number of other biological systems aside from your reproductive system.

Not exact matches

The togetherness - fusion force, which is deeply rooted in the biological survival needs of human beings, is the cohesive force that makes for the bonding of family systems (and other close relationships).

His comments on «scientific» views of consciousness are also timely because populist evolutionary biologists and «physicalist» philosophers of mind often portray the conscious mind, indeed the «self», as nothing other than the sum total of the chemical and biological parts of the brain and central nervous system.

The question at issue is whether we can account for everything — e.g., all biological processes, including behaviour (and some people would include, others exclude, mind and / or conscious self - awareness)-- in terms of those entities, as reductionists and mechanists claimed, or do we have to invoke something else, which might be organizing relations» or «system properties,» as anti-reductionists and organicists argued.

Especially after surgery, your body needs a variety of vitamins, minerals and other substances to support the healthy function of your various biological systems.

Decides that, in order to begin to comply with its disarmament obligations, in addition to submitting the required biannual declarations, the Government of Iraq shall provide to UNMOVIC, the IAEA, and the Council, not later than 30 days from the date of this resolution, a currently accurate, full, and complete declaration of all aspects of its programmes to develop chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, and other delivery systems such as unmanned aerial vehicles and dispersal systems designed for use on aircraft, including any holdings and precise locations of such weapons, components, subcomponents, stocks of agents, and related material and equipment, the locations and work of its research, development and production facilities, as well as all other chemical, biological, and nuclear programmes, including any which it claims are for purposes not related to weapon production or material;

Future probes like NASA»S James Webb Space Telescope will scrutinise the atmospheres of planets in other solar systems for possible signs of biological activity.

«It's also possible that the broader discussion of nonlinear oscillations could be helpful to scientists examining other biological systems that exhibit comparable dynamic responses.»

Now, in this week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Thomas Albright and Ricardo Gil - da - Costa of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies describe a model system that completes the bridge between cellular and human studies of schizophrenia, an advance that should help speed the development of therapeutics for schizophrenia and other neurological disorders.

«Our study reveals a new mechanism that could be harnessed for biological therapies for lupus and other autoimmune diseases, where the immune system mistakenly targets the body's own cells,» says senior study author Boris Reizis, PhD, professor of Pathology and Medicine at NYU Langone.

The team is also testing the resolution of the microfluidic system with other reagents and materials, bringing researchers one step closer to viewing live biological mechanisms in action at the highest levels of resolution possible.

Taking into account other recent studies, such as the finding that newly hatched domestic chicks show a preference for consonant intervals, this report lends support to the idea that some features of human musical systems may be based, at least in part, on biological principles that are shared with other animals such as songbirds.

Jordi Mestres, coordinator of the IMIM and UPF research group on Systems Pharmacology at the Biomedical Informatics Program (GRIB) states «With this study we have contributed to complementing the detection of these quite unstable fragments, with information on the mechanism of action of the drug, based on three aspects: similarity to other medicines, prediction of their pharmacological profile, and interference with specific biological pathways.

BVT plans to provide its dispensing system to a number of companies that have developed biological controls for other pests such as fireblight, which affects apples and pears.

One of the key frontier areas of materials science is the study of materials derived from, inspired by, or used to repair human and other biological systems.

«The flexibility of this system means it can be adapted to explore other cellular processes while minimally interfering with other physiological or biological functions.»

Others were more complex, such as borrowing concepts from biological circulatory systems to make the layout of pipes and wires in a semiconductor assembly room more energy - efficient.

«When you start to do systematic studies of biological systems and you gather information from different angles — meaning genomics, proteomics, and other approaches — and combine this information, you end up being able to do discoveries which would not be possible under each individual set of information,» says Figeys.

«Because our hydrogel system is easily modified, we can just alter other parameters to create the mechanical and biological properties desired to support many types of cells or organoids,» said García, who holds the Rae S. and Frank H. Neely Chair.

«It's been postulated that close encounters by other stars could disturb this cloud and throw a lot of comets into the inner solar system, with possible collisional results with the inner planets and possible biological consequences.»

In addition, the treatment process appeared to convert a less harmful form of estrogen into one with greater potential for disrupting the function of animals» endocrine systems, which produce hormones that regulate growth, reproduction and other biological functions.

«Studies of many other biological processes could benefit from the use of this system,» says Mooney, who in addition to his role at Harvard SEAS is also a Core Faculty Member at the Wyss Institute.

«There's a close correspondence between the behavior of networks of computers or other devices like mobile phones and that of biological systems,» Lynch says.

Others have previously speculated that the biological basis of psychiatric disorders such as PTSD includes a shift in the balance between different signalling systems in the brain but none has yet proved it.

Depression is associated with a multitude of pathological processes, including inflammation of the peripheral immune system, a set of biological structures and processes in the lymph nodes and other tissues that protect against disease and abnormalities involving synapses, the structures that permit neurons to pass an electrical or chemical signal to other neurons.

As impact glass is a ubiquitous substrate on rocky bodies throughout the Solar System and likely common on the early Earth, the preservation of biological activity in impact glass has significant astrobiological implications for life on early Earth as well as for the search for life on other planets.

Contact: 508-685-3525; [email protected] Woods Hole, Mass. — Many of the genes involved in natural repair of the injured spinal cord of the lamprey are also active in the repair of the peripheral nervous system in mammals, according to a study by a collaborative group of scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) and other institutions.

This suggests biological systems encode limited precision and efficiency, and that phenotypes are not independent of each other, but co ‐ determined by the same genomic sequences.

«We don't have other choices,» said Chen, a professor of biological systems engineering.

This points to a new kind of growth mechanism in mineralization, and because the theory is independent of absolute scale, it may be adapted to other geometrically constrained growth phenomena in physical and biological systems.»

Additionally, it explains how biological systems and the processes of organisms relate to each other with regard to timing.

The study authors said the same approach is being applied to a search for biomarkers across a wide range of biological systems, from other infectious agents such as Salmonella to soil microbes of interest in cleaning up toxic waste.

Approaches successful in other systems, such as modeling signal transduction and synthetic biology methodologies [32] could improve future generations of detector plants by enhancing signal transmission and providing means to deal with biological «noise».

Large - scale and effective studies of biological molecules with a different structural basis such as proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, lipids and numerous metabolites (including e.g. fatty acids, amino acids, purines, pyrimidines or steroids) is currently highly attractive because of the availability of modern instruments and tools for both separation and analysis (2 - D chromatographs, capillary electrophoresis systems, microfluidics, mass spectrometers, powerful NMR spectrometers, DNA / RNA arrays and others).

In the decade since, advances in genomics and the chemical synthesis of DNA, among other fields, have created new tools for investigating and understanding the behavior of biological systems.

The Human Emulation System creates an environment where cells exhibit an unprecedented level of biological function, and gives researchers the ability to control complex human biology and disease mechanisms that is not possible with other techniques.

It is clear that further refinements of the Brainbow technique will provide important insights into the complicated physical organization of the brain and other biological systems.

The innate immune system is particularly amenable to characterization with expression - based methodology such as RNA - seq, as one of the key biological consequences of pathogenic infections is the rapid induction of several classes of effector proteins, along with up - regulation of a number of other pathway components.

However, the counteracting effects of climate change on the reef calcification, on other biological processes and the carbonate system need to be investigated in more detail.

Because of this property, silicon nanoparticles may one day serve as easily detectable «tags» for tracking nanosized substances in biological, environmental or other dynamic systems.

The collection was created to help investigators achieve a complete understanding of the genetic control of development and function of the mammalian pigmentation system and its diseases, including interacting functions that affect other biological systems by pleiotropic effects.

Review biological implications of hormone imbalance (thyroid, gonadal, adrenal, and other hormone systems).

As others said, it is caused by growth of biological bacteria / fungal and turning off early helps dry the system and assists in prevention as it reduces the moisture retained in the system.

Other factors would include: — albedo shifts (both from ice > water, and from increased biological activity, and from edge melt revealing more land, and from more old dust coming to the surface...); — direct effect of CO2 on ice (the former weakens the latter); — increasing, and increasingly warm, rain fall on ice; — «stuck» weather systems bringing more and more warm tropical air ever further toward the poles; — melting of sea ice shelf increasing mobility of glaciers; — sea water getting under parts of the ice sheets where the base is below sea level; — melt water lubricating the ice sheet base; — changes in ocean currents -LRB-?)

Other nonradiative forcings modify the biological components of the climate system by changing the fluxes of trace gases and heat between vegetation, soils, and the atmosphere and by modifying the amount and types of vegetation.

In other words, they fail the most basic type of test imaginable; and in the words of Li et al., this finding suggests that «global climate models should better integrate the biological, chemical, and physical components of the earth system.»

Embedded within the mean flow is a variety of eddy structures that not only put kinetic energy into circulation but also carry heat and other important properties, such as nutrients for biological systems.

• biological aerosol seeding of clouds (phytoplankton and forests releasing isoprenes, Lovelock, Makarieva / Gorshkov), • and the «biotic pump hypothesis» (Makarieva / Gorshkov) •... among others... In addition, AGW - theory advocates systematically downplay the number and contribution of damping / stabilizing (or «negative») feedbacks (both of heat and CO2) in the global climate system — most implicated directly or indirectly with the activities of life, as illustrated in point # 3.

In recent years, a number of integrative disciplines — systems science, resilience science, ecosystem health, ethnoecology, deep ecology, Gaia Theory, and others — have sought ways to advance our understanding of the relationships between people and nature, incorporating insights from both the biological and social sciences as well as Indigenous knowledge.

Degradation of the environment / network of interdependent physical and biological systems A disturbance (e.g., deforestation) in one part of the system (Earth) must result in adjustment in other parts (e.g., global warming / Public awareness and environmental regulations Applied and Critical Thinking Topics Do you think the Earth is a /