Sentences with phrase «of the human colony in»

But space entrepreneurs are now attempting to capitalize on NASA's rekindled interest in lunar travel, coughing up a handful of proposals all leading to the commence of human colonies in our nearest neighbor in space.

Not exact matches

Now, a study published online April 27th, in the Journal of Immunology, confirms that the cytokine GM - CSF (Granulocyte macrophage colony - stimulating factor) likely plays an important role in human disease and offers a new explanation for why the MS treatment interferon - Beta (INF - β) is often effective at reducing MS attacks.

The scientists will have to demonstrate that a vaccine can block UTI - causing E. coli in humans while sparing another colony of E. coli: the beneficial intestinal flora that prevent disease - producing bugs from proliferating in the gut.

But at least one researcher, Greg Westergaard, who runs a monkey colony at LABS of Virginia in Yemassee, South Carolina, believes the findings raise the opposite question: «Given the relatively recent split between humans and apes, why are humans so much different?»

Working with volunteers, the researchers identified 15 feral colonies, living in trees or buildings without human management, and 24 colonies managed by beekeepers in urban, suburban, and rural areas within an hour's drive of Raleigh, N.C..

But if the idea is to construct a self - sustaining environment where humans can persist indefinitely with only modest help from Earth — the working definition of a «colony,» according to the various European colonies outside of Europe — then I'd say this is very far in the future, if it's possible at all.

He also estimated that of the eight billion humans that will be living on Earth by the time the colony is possible, perhaps one in 100,000 would be prepared to go.

By using molecular genetic tools to reduce the amount of PC in human lung cancer cells, the team observed decreased cell growth, a compromised ability to form colonies in soft agar (a gelatinous material specifically used to grow bacteria and other cells), and a reduced rate of tumor growth in mice.

While some research seeks a «magic bullet» solution to honeybee maladies such as Colony Collapse Disorder, «many of the problems are caused by human action and can only be mitigated by changes in human behavior,» Owen says.

«The role of inappropriate human action in the spread of pathogens and the resulting high numbers of colony losses needs to be brought into the fore of management and policy decisions if we are to reduce colony losses to acceptable levels.»

As of now, the reason for the deposits is unknown, but the presence of oxygen in the lunar rock would make those sites attractive for future moon missions, even for human colonies, which could use the oxygen for breathing and as a rocket - fuel component.

«Florida's monkey river: Anthropologists studied human interaction with a colony of feral rhesus macaques living on the Silver River in central Florida.»

When it was completed, the facility became a controversial and broad experiment in hermetically sealed, self - sustained living with the aim of revealing how humans might fare on space colonies.

In a study out this week in mSphere, they report that breastfeeding babies who received a three - week course of a probiotic that consumes human milk still had colonies of those beneficial gut microbes 30 days after the end of probiotic treatmenIn a study out this week in mSphere, they report that breastfeeding babies who received a three - week course of a probiotic that consumes human milk still had colonies of those beneficial gut microbes 30 days after the end of probiotic treatmenin mSphere, they report that breastfeeding babies who received a three - week course of a probiotic that consumes human milk still had colonies of those beneficial gut microbes 30 days after the end of probiotic treatment.

The idea of growing food for human colonies in space could be a reality very soon.»

We used the Virochip, a microarray designed to detect all viruses, to identify a new species of adenovirus (TMAdV, or titi monkey adenovirus) that caused a deadly outbreak in a colony of New World titi monkeys at the California National Primate Research Center (CNPRC), and also infected a human researcher.

Colter DC, Sekiya I, and Prockop DJ Identification of a subpopulation of rapidly self - renewing and multipotential adult stem cells in colonies of human marrow stromal cells.

Human embryonic stem cells, shown growing in a «colony» in the middle of the picture above, have been an essential addition to the ever - growing stem cell family.

He and the Vereide Group grow precursors of human arterial cells, build colonies of dendritic cells (cells which can alert the rest of the immune system to the presence of a tumor), and use chick embryos to study the formation of early tissue layers for a possible future in which complex tissues, or even organs, can be grown to replace diseased, wounded, or malfunctioning ones.

Microscopic view of a colony of undifferentiated human embryonic stem cells being studied in developmental biologist James Thomson's research lab at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

While this manuscript was in preparation, a similar episomal strategy was used to reprogram human primary fibroblasts using a distinct pluripotent cocktail of factors, validating our methods, but with significant lower efficiency (only 3 to 6 colonies / 106 input cells)[42].

These images show human embryonic stem cell colonies, as grown in 1998 by researchers at the University of Wisconsin — Madison, in different stages of development.

T - VEC, recently approved for the treatment of advanced melanoma, is an oncolytic herpes simplex virus type 1 engineered to replicate selectively in tumor cells and express human granulocyte - macrophage colony - stimulating factor.

Ten years after the events of the previous movie, a spaceship filled with slumbering humans and frozen human embryos is taking a long trek to a distant world in order to establish a colony there.

Said Schwartzberg, «For me, the joy of doing this film is to be able to explore worlds that humans can't easily experience — bats sipping nectar in the middle of the desert at night, orchid bees expertly manipulated by a bucket orchid, exotic hummingbirds flying like airborne dancers, and a clustering monarch colony with millions of butterflies.

He leads the apes to the front gate of the human San Francisco colony in a show of force to deliver a message.

In addition to the human traits she gives her bug protagonists, Paull vividly and accurately lays out the hierarchy of the honeybee colonies — their dangers, joys, devotion to the queen.

The need for education in responsible pet ownership (the human component of feral cat management) was also discussed to prevent additional cats from being abandoned to the streets and starting new feral colonies.

however it is understandable that the airport is a unique situation as opposed to other feral cat colony locations - the safety of the airplanes needs to be strictly maintained because human lives could be in jeopardy.

In most cases, feral cats still depend on people for their food source, whether it's a human who takes care of a feral colony or dumpsters / garbage cans etc..

The numerical cut - off for normality of 1 x 105 colony forming units per milliliter (cfu / mL) total bacterial numbers or 1 x 104 cfu / mL anaerobes was based inappropriately on the numbers found in the human small intestine.

Just as cats 10,000 years ago were attracted to the easy, consistent food source that the first human settlements provided (see The Natural History of the Cat), feral cats today scavenge on the scraps that all human habitats inevitably produce.1 A study of a feral cat colony in Brooklyn found that the cats depended more on local garbage for food than on either prey or food provided by caregivers, and that the neighborhood produced enough garbage to feed three times more cats than actually lived in that area.2

Regular daily contact with human can make a cat friendlier, and in some situations, a caretaker bringing cats food once or twice a day can decrease and control the population of a feral cat colony.

They defined «unowned» as farm cats living in barns, strays living outdoors that may be fed by humans, and feral cats that fend for themselves — all of which might live alone or in colonies.

Jetty Cats (32:00) Sheila O'Rourke's sweeping overview of cats throughout human history, looks at a long - surviving feral cat colony on a seaside jetty in Southern California and explores the debate about Trap - Neuter - Return as the best management for community cats.

The microbiome — colonies of various microbes that reside in the gut and elsewhere in and on the body — is an essential component of wellness for both animals and humans.

We work with feral cat colonies, neutering and returning colonies that are in safe locations and well fed, bringing into our care those that are threatened by humans, suffering due to lack of regular food or were living in an unsuitable place, such as a site due for demolition and redevelopment.

Kittens that do not have any contact with humans after they are born will be feral, regardless of whether their mother is a lost house cat or a feral cat living in a colony.

In addition, human subsidized colonies of un-owned cats are maintained without widespread public knowledge.

Volunteers will receive training in humane trapping techniques, identify locations of feral cat colonies, and other support to ensure the both human and feline safety and maximize the effectiveness of this program.

Without keeping track of how the cats are doing and what changes are occurring in the colony, the cat population can easily grow out of control again or a sick cat can infect the community creating both human and animal health risks.

Emryss was born into an outdoor cat colony in Brooklyn, NY, where he was raised in the company of humans who worked in the construction yard where the colony lived.

Circles denote distances of 5 and 10 km from TNR colonies in Avalon and Two Harbors, b) Long - distance movements of 7 radiocollared cats from the wildland interior into human areas.

Do you have what it takes to run a colony of human beings as they try and survive a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away?

The basis of this table and its mini-games are setting up a colony so humans can move in and make themselves feel at home.

Highlights of the update include the addition of multiplayer, which enables players to establish the first human colony on Mars in co-op, plus the update implements the first survival gameplay elements.

A mash - up of World War Z and steampunk, They Are Billions has the player building and managing human colonies in a real - time strategy setting, all the while defending against the hordes of zombies that almost destroyed mankind.

Natural Language Understanding (NLU) is technical jargon for computer understanding of human language (English in the case of Bot Colony).

With angst around colony collapse disorder and the plight of the honeybees causing some to explore the idea of «human bee pollinators» (seriously, many farmers in China do now pollinate fruit trees by hand due to lack of bees), it might be a comforting thought that there are also other pollinators out there who can pick up the slack for the disappearing bees.

Liberty - loving humans may not like the idea of mass surveillance, but for the embattled bees, technology that monitors their numbers may help in the epic fight against colony collapse disorder.