Sentences with phrase «other biological processes»

Some bacteria generate methane, while other biological processes yield ammonia.
Thus, by making digestion more efficient, it allows other biological processes to run more efficiently.
Protein is an essential nutrient for building muscle and supporting other biological processes.
The human body tightly regulates salt concentration because it is crucial to chemical reactions that support enzyme function, energy and hormone production, protein transport and several other biological processes.
Recent studies demonstrated that NO plays a role in a variety of other biological processes including, immune defense, regulation of cell motility and cell life cycle.
Raine suspects the metabolic costs associated with the detoxification required from pesticide exposure results in a reduced amount of nutrients available for other biological processes such as egg development.
In addition, such RNAs may also function in other biological processes because of their wide presence in genomes,» said Dr. Liu, who is the Louise W. Kahn Scholar in Biomedical Research.
Dopamine is also involved in many other biological processes, including an array of diseases.
Perhaps other biological processes are also controlled, in part, by having specific types of ribosomes build particular proteins, Barna said.
Modulators of genetic regulation, prevent cancer, act as carriers of fat soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K and mineral absorption as well as numerous other biological processes
«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.
The extra energy needed for calcification will be lacking for other biological processes, such as growth or reproduction.
«This [concept] has been previously described in other biological processes, such as circadian rhythmicity, the cell cycle, and even stem cell pluripotency, but is shown here through a systematic analysis of a data - driven computational model.»
Even if they have a basis in genetic and other biological processes, temperamental traits are shaped by a combination of genetic and environmental factors both early in development and across the childhood years.
This «push - pull» mechanism appears to work in a manner similar to other biological processes that maintain homeostasis, such as the regulation of heart rate or body temperature, but the researchers are the first to show this kind of regulatory network for epilepsy.
This suggests that unlike all the other tastes we've cracked so far, salt perception has two parts: some receptor that's involved in making salt attractive, and a second receptor, or other biological process, that makes it unattractive at high concentrations.
Circadian rhythms are daily cycles of hormones, gene activity and other biological processes that govern sleep, body temperature and metabolism.
Specifically, it relies on studies that describe how light, caffeine and food affect the internal clocks which control the rhythms of our sleep, body temperature and other biological processes.
Behaviors that are influenced by hormones and other biological processes can still be changed by the environment.»
We have long known this in relation to other biological processes, and now we see that it is at play even for the tiny molecules that carry oxygen in our blood,» said Prof. Kaempfer.
Additionally, the researchers found a strong correlation between higher concentrations of myo - inositol, a metabolite involved in insulin signaling and in many other biological processes, and progression to ESRD.
Also during this era, dozens of applications of NGS to study gene expression, DNA methylation, protein - DNA binding, and other biological processes were developed.
Why It Matters: The ability to examine strokes and other biological processes, through the use of computer simulations rather than after the fact on actual organisms, may significantly accelerate how quickly discoveries can be made in fighting diseases.
Despite the importance of hormonal signaling in aging and other biological processes, surprisingly little is known about how dense - core vesicles are formed and how hormones are packaged into these vesicles.
The MC1R gene is linked to other biological processes, including repair of DNA damage, Gunn pointed out.
Nutrition pioneer Weston Price considered the fat soluble vitamins, especially vitamin A, to be the catalysts on which all other biological processes depend.
Saturated fats act as carriers for important fat - soluble vitamins A, D, E and K. Dietary fats are also needed for the conversion of carotene to vitamin A, for mineral absorption, and for literally dozens of other biological processes.
Man, and other biological processes, take advantage of the carbon oxidation by controlling it and extracting work.
Calcification takes energy, so increased biological energy needed to form and maintain deep sea coral structures may diminish the corals» other biological processes, including reproduction.
The only way that I see for «clean» hydrogen to be viable is if we produce it using bacteria or other biological processes that don't need anything else than biomass and solar input.
Even if they have a basis in genetic and other biological processes, temperamental traits are shaped by a combination of genetic and environmental factors both early in development and across the childhood years.
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