Sentences with phrase «other biologists as»

«The Base in not well surveyed for most animal groups and given its location on Cuba, the extent of rare habitat, [and] the number of rare plants, there are bound to be many more discoveries to be made and we are promoting it to other biologists as a research destination,» Droege says.

Not exact matches

As I point out in Darwin on Trial, molecular biologists even now use the language of intelligent communication (information, libraries, translation) because there is no other way to depict what they are seeing.

Nonetheless, as Phillip Johnson and many others have noted, most evolutionary biologists appear to have accepted uncritically the worldview of naturalism.

However, the first workers in this field, such as Haldane and Fisher from the theoretical point of view, and biologists such as Timofeef - Ressovsky, Dubinin and others, in practical field investigations, were still thinking mainly in terms of individual genes.

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.

But, as Bohm points out, such a position can not stand up to critical analysis, for the molecules studied by biologists in living organisms are constituted of electrons, protons and other such particles, from which it must follow that they too are capable of behaving in ways that can not be described in terms of mechanical concepts.

Whitehead in this respect as in others provides a rigorous ontological grounding at the microcosmic level for the macrocosmic phenomena studied by biologists.

Stacey Baker, public engagement program associate at AAAS and a trained biologist, spoke with a teenager who wants to study biology about the many paths open to scientists and the other elements beyond your field of study — such as they type of work environment a candidate might be seeking — to keep in mind when selecting a career.

But to which any long - time reader of Science News would have responded «yes, yes, yes, yes and yes» (as would any knowledgeable scientist, as biologist Jerry Coyne, among others, has pointed out).

Scientists knew that fruit flies, cockroaches, and other simple organisms have sensory processors that resemble a cortex, but these were «always interpreted as a striking example of convergent evolution of unrelated structures,» says molecular biologist Raju Tomer, who led the study at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Germany.

Even as scientists in other fields struggle to find jobs, computational biologists are being snapped up as soon as they graduate with lucrative salary offers, says Russ Altman, a professor of bioengineering, genetics, and medicine and director of the biomedical informatics training program at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.

Portuguese cellular biologist Mónica Bettencourt - Dias sees communicating science — and helping others do so — as an essential part of her job.

Hortense Dodo, a food molecular biologist on the team, says other attempts to solve the problem, such as immune therapy or vaccines, have failed so far (but see ScienceNOW, 10 March).

In recent years, biologists have argued that the best way to save species that need large territories, such as the endangered jaguar, is to connect existing parks and other large environmental reserves with protected corridors that would allow the animals to move back and forth.

«The nakedness of humans is a glaring difference between humans and other mammals,» says evolutionary biologist Mark Pagel of the University of Reading, U.K.. Although humans have about as many follicles as other primates, the hairs are fine, exposing the skin and creating an evolutionary enigma.

By pairing a receptor that targets neurons with a molecule that degrades the main component of Alzheimer's plaques, the biologists were able to substantially dissolve these plaques in mice brains and human brain tissue, offering a potential mechanism for treating the debilitating disease, as well as other conditions that involve either the brain or the eyes.

They enable molecular biologists and geneticists to selectively chop DNA into pieces, which can then be assembled into new versions of the gene, inserted into the genomes of other organisms, or sequenced as part of an effort to map an organism's genetic material.

The mystery of this bizarre flower only deepened over the decades that followed, as a succession of biologists was drawn to it but unable to classify it, or the dozen or so other species of the family Rafflesiaceae they discovered in the forests of Southeast Asia, all lurid and stinking of decay.

In other words, given the high level of know - how needed to use disease as a weapon to cause mass casualties, the United States should be less concerned that terrorists will become biologists and far more concerned that biologists will become terrorists.

Black bears in Yosemite National Park that don't seek out human foods subsist primarily on plants and nuts, according to a study conducted by biologists at UC San Diego who also found that ants and other sources of animal protein, such as mule deer, make up only a small fraction of the bears» annual diet.

Moreover, as genomes of other animals are sequenced, «there will be a lot of biology that will be clarified,» says Tom Pollard, a cell biologist at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

He and other biologists wonder whether electricity might trigger the development of other organs as well.

These evolutionary changes, which are known as «sequential» or «cascading» events, may provide additional information to help biologists explain why certain organisms like plants and insects are more diverse and species - rich than other groups are.

Still others, such as conservation biologist Michael Soulé, believe that top - down versus bottom - up, like all dualisms, is false, because the natural world is complex and bottom - up forces (nutrient flow) interact with top - down forces (the effects of predation).

«I think it's a very clever idea,» says Dean Rosenthal, a molecular biologist at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Van der Schans and Rosenthal say they can also conceive of skin tests for other chemical agents, such as phosgene, or industrial pollutants such as ethylene oxide — anything that has a way of getting under the skin.

Boris Worm, a marine biologist at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who two years ago predicted the collapse of seafood as a food source by 2048, says Costello's work is noteworthy but adds that catch shares will work better when combined with other tools, such as banning fishing in sensitive areas.

On the other hand, molecular biologist Matthew Kaeberlein of the University of Washington, Seattle, thinks the gap as it stands now is still compelling.

But others, such as famed evolutionary biologist Francisco Ayala of the University of California, Irvine, argue that P. reichenowi jumped the species barrier from chimps to humans quite recently and then became P. falciparum.

The invasivore biologists have graduated and dispersed to other research labs, but their zest for «eating our enemies,» as Deines puts it, lives on.

The need for biologists with additional qualifications in business administration (whether via MBA or distance learning or other courses) will increase as biotech companies, banks, and consultants look for people who understand both — the technology and the business.

Russell Burke, a biologist at Hoftstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., who has studied Italian wall lizards in the U.S., says the species would be «at least as good as, and possibly better than» other bio-indicators, such as mice and plants.

Like about two dozen other manakins, the male uses its wings in a way that biologists don't yet understand to «sing» for its mate — producing clicking, rattling, and humming noises as it prances around during group courtship displays.

This discovery may help biologists better understand how cattle and other mammals evolved, as well as help animal breeders and farmers better maintain and enhance fertility in the cattle industry, said Wansheng Liu, associate professor of animal genomics, Penn State.

The interplay between fly and microbes has come to fascinate evolutionary biologists, as genes in both bacterium and host change across generations, sometimes breaking down or taking on odd functions, depending on what the other partner is doing.

Phillip Clapham, a cetacean biologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Marine Mammal Laboratory who has worked extensively with Monnett, says that he and others «never had any reason to question his scientific judgment as anything other than excellent.

When biologists discovered that other desert mammals, such as camels, also conserve water in this way, they concluded that maxilloturbinals had evolved specifically as an adaptation to life in dry places.

Its 3.8 million bases include the complete mitochondrial genomes of three green algae and one moss, as well as genes from other plants, evolutionary biologist Jeffrey Palmer of Indiana University, Bloomington, and his colleagues report today in another paper in Science.

Yano's team, for example, includes researchers in fields that might otherwise never talk to each other, from biologists to physicists, as well as chemists, engineers and computer scientists.

Evolutionary biologists aren't sure why breasts evolved as they did — chimpanzees and other mammals develop them only when lactating — and no one knows what keeps them from sagging.

In plant biology as in other disciplines, a profusion of professional opportunities is available to the well - informed, well - prepared, and well - networked plant biologist.

The findings could help explain group behavior of other animals, such as schooling fish, says evolutionary biologist Iain Couzin of Princeton University.

A. Right now, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey and other institutions are engaged in an approach known as precision / personalized medicine, where systems biologists and other specialists collaborate with scientists and clinicians to identify the molecular alterations associated with cancer, and then tailor regimens of targeted agents to those specific alterations or mutations.

I have a journalism degree technically, but I have three times as many science credits in environmental biology, physical science, and work as an endangered species biologist for the US Forest Service and others.

That «something» turned out to be neuroscience, which Francis Crick and other well - known biologists were touting as the wave of the future.

Biologists need to conduct more tests looking at how the urchins respond to other environmental conditions — such as warmer water — in addition to higher acidity, she says.

«As our understanding of the impacts of ocean acidification was building up, we were able to broaden our focus from marine organisms to communities and ecosystems, addressing ocean acidification in combination with other environmental factors», says Professor Ulf Riebesell, marine biologist at GEOMAR and coordinator of BIOACID.

Axel Brunger joined SBGrid in the early days, in 2006, but he may be best known among structural biologists as the man behind CNS (the Crystallography & NMR System), which he contributes to SBGrid, among other tools.

By deliberately introducing defined sequences of dsRNA into living organisms, biologists can observe the physiological consequences of «silencing» virtually any gene in C. elegans, as well as other plants and animals.

One of his key skills as a biologist is the patient, constant nurturing of cells that other labs have found difficult to master.

Humans seem to have the same problem as any other animal, said lead author Corsin Müller, a cognitive biologist at the Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna.