Sentences with phrase «of polar bodies»

In the new study, Sunney Xie of Peking University and Harvard University teamed up with Qiao and Fuchou Tang of Peking University to develop a method for sequencing the entire genomes of polar bodies — cells that arise as a byproduct of egg cell division and often die later on.

There are no observed cases of polar body twins and no method to identify or confirm or polar body twinning.

Not exact matches

In any event, an awareness that certain polar contrasts (such as subjective - objective, public - private, body - mind, organism - machine, feeling - thought, and perhaps nature - culture) are indissoluble, yet fundamental, is one of the most important aspects of Whitehead's philosophic thought.

Indeed, according to Aristotle, who formulated the theory of hylomorphism ¯ the theory whereby the soul is the form of the body, the polar opposite of mind / body dualism ¯ body and soul are so closely intertwined that they can not be understood without one another.

Soliciting feedback and being open to change is something the sanctioning body has made considerable strides in, polar opposite of the iron fist mentality it had for years and years.

Nestor the nounours is an unique handmade bear plush, designed by me.Nestor's body is made of soft polar fleece and his eyes of wool felt.

The sea is just 5 ° north of the Martian equator and would be the first discovery of a large body of water beyond the planet's polar ice caps.

Female polar bears prowling springtime sea ice have extreme weight swings, some losing more than 10 percent of their body mass in just over a week.

They made these clones by a process called automatic parthenogenesis: The egg is formed normally (with half the species» usual number of chromosomes), then fertilized by the «polar body,» a cell that is created during oogenesis and contains the same gene copies as the egg, resulting in the shark having half the genetic variation of its mother.

A. angustidens called South America home about a million years ago and weighed an estimated 1,500 pounds — that's almost twice the body mass of the average polar bear.

Sea ice - associated decline in body condition leads to increased concentrations of lipophilic pollutants in polar bears (Ursus maritimus) from Svalbard, Norway.

The researchers believe the hammerhead shark reproduced by a type of asexual reproduction called automictic parthenogenesis, whereby an unfertilised egg is activated to behave as a normal fertilised egg by a small, nearly genetically identical cell known as the sister polar body.

In the case of the Komodos, though, polar bodies evidently acted as sperm and turned ova into embryos.

Oogenesis, the biological process of making an egg cell, typically also yields a polar body — a mini ovum of sorts, containing a duplicate copy of egg DNA.

Marine mammals, sharks and rays, polar bears, and some birds are among the 31 species that will get greater protection under a deal reached earlier this week by more than 100 countries at a meeting of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), a U.N. body.

Each egg randomly discarded all but one of the copies by pushing the extras out in two blobs, called polar bodies.

Instead of discarding the polar body, the researchers placed it alongside an egg donated by another individual that had its DNA - containing nucleus removed.

Previous analysis of Cassini data suggested the presence of a lens - shaped body of water, or sea, underlying the moon's south polar region.

Although the probability is very low, the take home message is that for clinical purposes, we should focus on the transfer of single spindle or a polar body, which would carry less mitochondria than the standard transfer of two pronuclei after fertilization.

Following in vitro maturation, oocytes at metaphase II with the presence of a first polar body were activated using 10 µM calcium ionophore A23187 (Sigma - Aldrich) for 5 min followed by 2 mM DMAP (Sigma - Aldrich) for 4 h at 37 °C in 6 % CO2, 5 % O2 and 89 % N2.

This study is the latest in a growing body of research that suggests dwindling sea ice and snow cover in the polar regions may be altering the weather over the continents of the Northern Hemisphere.

Oocytes with a first polar body were enucleated manually in the presence of 7.5 µg / ml of cytochalasin B.

The polar constituents dissolved into water during the distillation process, hydrosols contain minuscule amounts of essential oils and are very safe to consume and work wonderfully as spritzers, perfumes, and in body care products.

Even I had a short stint as a body builder, which is kind of like the polar opposite of training for a triathlon, but back in college, I did some body building.

In hatha yoga, for example, the sun and the moon represent the two polar energies of the human body.

While I was saving myself from cold by wearing tons of body warmer I ended up looking like a plump polar beer.

We also mentioned there that the major masses under the body - the engine, the battery, the fuel tank - have been moved closer to the center of the car to minimize the polar moment of inertia and to achieve a nearly balanced weight distribution.

SKYACTIV - Body and SKYACTIV - Chassis describe the massive reduction of body weight through extensive use of high - tensile strength steel and the industry's first use of 1800MPa in the bumpers (which also reduces polar moment front and reBody and SKYACTIV - Chassis describe the massive reduction of body weight through extensive use of high - tensile strength steel and the industry's first use of 1800MPa in the bumpers (which also reduces polar moment front and rebody weight through extensive use of high - tensile strength steel and the industry's first use of 1800MPa in the bumpers (which also reduces polar moment front and rear).

It's the polar opposite of the Encore, which is let down by numb steering that aggressively springs back to center, a ride that floats and bounces, and body roll exaggerated by the high seating position.

Edition 1 model includes Night package, red accents on the radiator grille and exterior mirrors, and AMG sports stripes in matt graphite grey above the side sill panels; optional Intelligent Light System includes red accents on the headlamps, AMG multi-spoke alloy wheels in matt black with special AMG hub caps featuring a centre - locking look, red brake callipers, 8 x 19 alloy wheels with 235/35 R 19 tyres, spoiler lip in high - gloss black on the boot lid, choice of 2 standard (cirrus white, night black) and 4 optional (cosmos black metallic, mountain grey metallic, polar silver metallic, designo polar silver magno) body colours.

Available in CLA 180, CLA 200, CLA 250, CLA 220 CDI, they are versions of the respective CLA - class vehicles with choice of 5 body colours (mountain grey, cosmos black, night black, cirrus white or designo polar silver magno (expected to be available from the third quarter of 2013)-RRB-, AMG front and rear aprons, AMG side sill panels, black painted multi-spoke AMG light - alloy wheels, diamond radiator grille with black fin and chrome inserts, bi-xenon headlamps, lowered sports suspension, exclusive NEON ART interior, sports seats upholstered in leather and black microfibre DINAMICA with yellow stitching, instrument panel and the beltlines upholstered in ARTICO man - made leather with yellow stitching, trim elements in aluminium with a light longitudinal grain, a 3 - spoke multifunction sports steering wheel with a flattened bottom section and perforations in the grip area.

The polar of fear is intimacy, and the polar of love is that «Hey baby, come over here» kind of lust, and I think I understand that much, but then he goes on to talk about pain bodies and empaths and all these cosmic words I've never heard before.

Bad idea is part of an iconic body of work composed by colorful polar bears that are inspired by the artists» time in Alaska, where Paola Pivi has been based for years.

With this body of work, Kurland presents a reality where utopia and dystopia are not polar opposites, but rather fold together in an uneasy coexistence.

This is particularly germane this week, as a couple thousand scientists and others focused on polar change have gathered in Montreal for a large conference (Twitter feed here) reviewing the enormous body of work produced under the recent International Polar Year initiative.

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In contrast during the most recent decade with more open water, the number of ringed seal pups in the western Hudson Bay tripled relative to the 1990s.4 With more seal pups the polar bears» body condition also improved.

Where consumption of terrestrial foods has been documented, polar bear body condition and survival rates have declined even as land use has increased.

The Himalayan glaciers form the world's largest ice body outside of the polar caps.

You [and many more] really think you've found the holy grail with this one don't you BilB, the rational to tax and command every human for the original sin of living on the planet, especially all those neo fascist luddite racist sexist misogynist bodgy capitalists who do all those things and give you all that stuff only to expect payment for it when the government should take it and give them to you free; you can finally bring the commanding heights of the world's industry and agriculture and lifestyle under the infallible control of an inter government body and everyone who is permitted will be in his permitted place doing his permitted thing and all will be as it should be and the planet will be safe for the polar bears and the spirogyra.

Polar bears are one of the most sensitive Arctic marine mammals to climate warming because they spend most of their lives on sea ice.35 Declining sea ice in northern Alaska is associated with smaller bears, probably because of less successful hunting of seals, which are themselves ice - dependent and so are projected to decline with diminishing ice and snow cover.36, 37,38,39 Although bears can give birth to cubs on sea ice, increasing numbers of female bears now come ashore in Alaska in the summer and fall40 and den on land.41 In Hudson Bay, Canada, the most studied population in the Arctic, sea ice is now absent for three weeks longer than just a few decades ago, resulting in less body fat, reduced survival of both the youngest and oldest bears, 42 and a population now estimated to be in decline43 and projected to be in jeopardy.44 Similar polar bear population declines are projected for the Beaufort Sea region.45

The unpublished improvements of polar bear body condition during the 2000s corresponds well with published reports that since the heavy ice years of the early 1990s reduced ringed seal body condition and reproduction, ringed seal pups tripled during subsequent lighter ice years of the 2000s.

Nearly every alarmist publication that asserts less sea ice causes polar bears to suffer from nutritional stress references as «proof» a 1999 paper by Ian Stirling showing body condition of bears in the western Hudson Bay declined from the 1980s to 1997.

97 percent of the water on Earth is salt water, contained in the planet's oceans, seas, and inland salt water bodies, 2 percent of it (fresh water) is locked in the polar ice caps, and the remaining 1 percent is the fresh water we use everyday.