Sentences with phrase «once considered»

It was once considered absurd that smoking could be unhealthy, and there were even campaigns claiming that more doctors preferred one brand of cigarettes to another.

Coffee was once considered bad for us, and now I see a new article each week about its health - promoting benefits.

Did you know that light stretching was once considered a powerful habit on it's own?

Once considered more valuable than gold, this earthy, woody aroma has often beenused in religious rituals and offerings.

alga (plural: algae) A single - celled organism, once considered a plant (it isn't).

algae These are simple organisms that were once considered plants (they aren't).

Once considered an unlikely target for immunotherapy, recent experience with PD - 1 checkpoint inhibitors, of which Opdivo is one, have radically changed doctors» views on the subject.

Stem cell transplant (also known as bone marrow transplant or BMT) is an established treatment for many cancers and blood diseases once considered incurable.

When New Horizons sent back pictures of Pluto earlier in 2016, it was the first time scientists got a close - up look at the dwarf planet, once considered the ninth planet in our planetary system.

Once considered mere substitutes for embryonic cells, re-engineered adult cells are making breakthroughs of their own.

algae Single - celled organisms, once considered plants, that grow in water and depend on sunlight to make their food.

«There are now a number of potential therapeutic strategies that could conceivably achieve this goal, once considered aspirational,» researchers, including Barré - Sinoussi, wrote in the Nature Medicine article.

And that's where saccharin — ironically, once considered a possible carcinogen — comes in.

algae Single - celled organisms, once considered plants (they aren't).

Once considered biologically inert, the body's most abundant sugar can permanently alter some proteins.

If Macciò's model proves to be right, then dark energy, once considered the most «out there» idea in science, an ethereal abstraction of little relevance, will bump a little closer down to earth.

What I once considered an ugly collection of random paint splatters now spoke to me as a joyous celebration of movement and energy, the bright yellow and blue bringing to mind a carefree laugh.

That paper, though thoroughly discredited, started a public panic (with celebrity backing) and resulted in tragic outcomes: record low vaccination rates among children, outbreaks of measles in theme parks, resurgences of diseases once considered rare.

Once considered a rare disease, IPF now affects more than 200,000 people in the United States, where about 30,000 people die from IPF every year.

Plant scientists once considered liverwort the most primitive existing plant because it lacks roots and pores for gas and water exchange, but a few recent studies had suggested that liverwortlike plants were not the earliest land plants.

Personality — consistent patterns of individual behavior — was once considered a uniquely human trait.

Once considered a disease of developing countries in African and Asia, chikungunya got a burst of scientific attention when it popped up on the French island of La Reunion in 2007.

Platinum and its congeners, while certainly not being the «inert and noble» metals they were once considered, are left standing by the range of chemical properties and reactions of iron.

Now, a new study of young women in New York state shows that the same guttural vibration — once considered a speech disorder — has become a language fad.

FDA officials says tomatoes, once considered prime suspects in the outbreak, are safe to eat but caution that those grown on a second Mexican farm may have played an early role.

Piaba was once considered almost a derogatory term, like pipsqueak.

The research also suggests that the gas — whose supply on Earth has been decreasing — may be found in the Earth's mantle, a place once considered unlikely since there was no known chemistry to keep helium there.

Yet that practice, once considered the best way to protect a hospital's most vulnerable patients, is now being challenged.

I once considered founding a society for the abolition of Schrödinger's cat from the teaching of physics, but then, how would we ever know whether we had succeeded or not?

This theory is gaining traction among psychiatrists, especially as a potential explanation for schizophrenia, a disease once considered a result of bad parenting.

For example, California green sturgeon, once considered homebodies, actually gather each year at Vancouver Island in British Columbia before swimming another 1,500 miles to winter in Alaska.

Infertility treatments once considered revolutionary are now commonplace: If a man has a low sperm count, sperm cells can be retrieved from a testicle for direct injection into an egg's cytoplasm.

What was once considered a sure - fire sign of life on distant planets may not be so sure - fire after all, a new study suggests.

What was once considered a sharp line separating humans from all other animals is becoming a blurry gray area, with various animals possessing certain parts of the skill set considered to be advanced cognition.

In vitro fertilization was once considered by some to be a threat to our very humanity.

Epigenetics: The Ultimate Mystery of Inheritance By Richard C. Francis (W. W. Norton) Researchers once considered DNA to be the exclusive carrier of heredity, but recently they have discovered that certain life experiences — smoking before puberty, say, or a high - stress pregnancy — can trigger cellular changes that get passed along to future generations.

Once considered a very odd behavior, fish - catching by spiders occurs in eight families spread across the globe.

Once considered remote and inaccessible, commercial interest to exploit the deep sea (1) is rising due to economic drivers and technology developments.

Astronomers once considered the death of middling - size stars like our sun almost too boring to bother with.

Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), once considered an effective yet risky alternative to drug therapy for blood cancer, has become more accessible and successful in a wide range of patients as a result of major advances in transplant strategies and technologies.

In those few fleeting moments, he had a distinct feeling of déjà vu, a sensation that psychologists once considered too unpredictable and ephemeral to be studied in any systematic way.

Once considered remote and disconnected, now we know that changes within the Arctic can have a direct impact on the rest of the world, affecting physical and biological systems near and far at regional and global scales.

In the Arctic the boom and bust cycles of lemmings have been evolving as the climate warms, so predators such as hawks and owls that once considered red knots calories of last resort now find them increasingly appetizing as the lemmings grow scarce.

Once considered beyond the reach of science, insights into the love lives of these extinct giants are emerging

In the past few years, scads of extremophile organisms have been discovered thriving under conditions once considered inhospitable.

India, once considered polio's most intractable redoubt, has had no new cases since January 2011.

Once considered somewhat mystical and beyond the realms of real science, emergence is now seen everywhere in both the physical and biological worlds.

Newton also made it his life's work to torment English scientist Robert Hooke, destroying the legacy of a man once considered London's Leonardo da Vinci.

The remains of the wall found at the Timna site, once considered a barrier used to contain slave laborers, apparently played a different role as well.

Carmona - Mora concentrated on the space between genes — part of the genome once considered «junk DNA» because it doesn't encode proteins.