Sentences with phrase «pioneers in human»

It functions as a thought leadership platform and networking hub for policymakers, experts, and pioneers in human development.

The company is a pioneer in the human microbiome, which is essentially the bacteria that inhabits the gut and skin

«The distal gut of a human is one of the densest microbial ecosystems on the planet,» says Stanford University microbiologist David Relman, a pioneer in human microbiome research.

«Dr. Leonid Kruglyak has been a pioneer in human genetics for over 15 years....

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We've known that air pollution is linked to human health since Lester Lave and Eugene Seskin published their pioneering quantitative work in Science in 1970.

«Beyond practical uses for training, virtual reality offers us a compelling method to share the work we've been doing to design sustainable human missions and to inspire the next generation of pioneers in space,» Crusan says.

Yet surely the Church's role in any possibly humane Chinese future will be built around its steadfastness under persecution and its forthright defense of the human rights of all (including Uighurs, Tibetans, and Falun Gong devotees), not by reaching agreements with those who may well have harvested organs from Catholic dissidents, pioneering a new form of martyrdom.

In her pioneering study of cosmologies of different peoples, she shows that the human body is our most accessible metaphor for figuring what we really suspect about our group's and the world's makeup.

Around the world, and throughout the literature, Montesino is known as «the pioneer defender of human rights in Hispanic America.»

I am now learning what I suppose ecumenical pioneers have known for decades — that religious integration is both the simplest and the most complicated of human endeavors: simple in design, complicated in detail.

«Representative of these various types were men like Roger L. Shinn, who succeeded Niebuhr at Union in the chair of Applied Christianity; George William Webber, founder of the East Harlem Protestant Parish and later president of New York Biblical Seminary; Truman Douglass, leading spirit in the affairs of the National Council of Churches and pioneer in church involvement in human issues; and Martin Luther King, Jr. «73 Niebuhr was at the apex of his influence in the early 1950s and was to remain there for over a decade longer.

Hyping the Holocaust is edited by Franklin Littell, president of the Center on the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights in Philadelphia and one of the early pioneers of Jewish - Christian dialogue.

Yet from all sides today modern knowledge of the human creature and his world is forcing us to face up to the finiteness of human existence, to which, in so many ways, Israel pioneered the road.

Although I have become increasingly aware of the limitations of these methods for facilitating growth and of the gaps and inaccuracies in Freud's vast conceptual system, I retain a profound appreciation for the way his pioneering discoveries illuminate the depths and darkness of the human psyche.

The Church's responsibility to God for human societies doubtless varies with its own and the nations» changing positions, but it may be described in a general fashion by reference to the apostolic, the pastoral and the pioneering functions of the Christian community.

It was that part of the human race which pioneered in understanding the vanity of idol worship and in obeying the law of brother - love.

It was a pioneering feat of simply outstanding quality, testimony for which is seen in the fact that it served as the basic text - book of early human history for more than two and a half thousand years.

Our trust is directed toward God as well — trust that in Jesus has been truly disclosed the truth about human life and the truth about God, so that if we entrust ourselves to God through Jesus God has truly shown us the «way and the truth and the life» (John 14:6), that in Jesus we truly perceive the «pioneer and perfecter of faith» (Heb.

The age - related successional mechanisms involved in the differentiation of the human microbiota across body habitats are only beginning to be understood (6), and defining the pioneer colonizers is a first step toward elucidating the initial stages of microbiota development.

However, in 2007 Professor Wilmut announced that he had decided to change to an alternative method of research pioneered in Japan, known as direct reprogramming or «de-differentiation», which could create human embryonic cells without using human eggs or cloning human embryos.

«Richard Thaler has pioneered the analysis of ways in which human decisions systematically deviate from traditional economic models,» says cognitive scientist Peter Gӓrdenfors of Lund University, Sweden, a member of the Economic Sciences Prize Committee.

Drawing increasingly on support from foundations and federal agencies, the Association has built pioneering programs for bringing underrepresented groups into science; applying science to human rights; supporting the growth of science in the developing world; exploring issues of science, ethics, and law; tracking federal spending for R&D; and in bringing scientists and engineers to work in Congress and executive agencies of government.

But the drive to create virtual characters that are indistinguishable from human characters has also given rise to complex forensic and legal issues, such as the need to distinguish between computer - generated and photographic images of child pornography, says senior author Hany Farid, a professor of computer science and a pioneering researcher in digital forensics at Dartmouth.

In this study, the group partnered with József Topál, a Hungarian pioneer of canine research who specialises in dog - human interaction and the social intelligence of dogIn this study, the group partnered with József Topál, a Hungarian pioneer of canine research who specialises in dog - human interaction and the social intelligence of dogin dog - human interaction and the social intelligence of dogs.

Next, the team tested the GD2 CAR - T cells in mice whose brainstem was implanted with human DIPG tumors, an experimental system that Monje's lab pioneered.

Their commitment to wilderness is as fervent as any I have come across, but it pays tribute to the historical presence of human beings, from the original residents, whom the pioneers called Sheep Eaters, to the gold miners of the late 19th century, to the ranchers who strung telephone wire along the creeks in the 20th century, to big - game hunters who used Taylor Ranch as a base before the university acquired it and turned it into a biological field station.

In recognition of its pioneering work in science and human rights, the program received the first annual Human Rights Award from the American Psychiatric Association in May 199In recognition of its pioneering work in science and human rights, the program received the first annual Human Rights Award from the American Psychiatric Association in May 199in science and human rights, the program received the first annual Human Rights Award from the American Psychiatric Association in May human rights, the program received the first annual Human Rights Award from the American Psychiatric Association in May Human Rights Award from the American Psychiatric Association in May 199in May 1992.

A few pioneering researchers, Damiano among them, finally began testing prototype artificial pancreases in humans in 2008.

He fell for more than 4 minutes before landing safely in the desert of New Mexico, proving that people could survive the hostility of space, and pioneering technology to protect human life in that environment.

And so, exactly 50 years after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to fly into space, there has never been a less exciting time to be an official, capital - A Astronaut, in the pioneering mold of an Alan Shepard or a Neil Armstrong.

The technique, called low - intensity focused ultrasound pulsation, was pioneered by Alexander Bystritsky, a UCLA professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences in the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior and a co-author of the study.

What I especially like about working for UKHTB is that it offers a new challenge and is pioneering in an area that has the potential to benefit human health through the enhanced development of new drugs and diagnostic tools.

Czeisler is a pioneer in the study of daily rhythms in humans.

2010 Elizabeth Loftus is honored for the profound impact that her pioneering research on human memory has had on the administration of justice in the United States and abroad.

Klimley became a pioneer in both, setting up stations for detecting ultrasonic acoustic tags that emitted signals at frequencies far beyond what the human ear could sense.

The test, devised in 1950 by pioneering computer scientist Alan Turing, assesses a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour indistinguishable from that of a human.

In one experiment this year, a team led by another CRISPR pioneer, Feng Zhang of the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, targeted the 20,000 or so known human genes, turning them on one by one in groups of cells to identify those involved in resistance to a melanoma druIn one experiment this year, a team led by another CRISPR pioneer, Feng Zhang of the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, targeted the 20,000 or so known human genes, turning them on one by one in groups of cells to identify those involved in resistance to a melanoma druin Cambridge, Massachusetts, targeted the 20,000 or so known human genes, turning them on one by one in groups of cells to identify those involved in resistance to a melanoma druin groups of cells to identify those involved in resistance to a melanoma druin resistance to a melanoma drug.

The Judgement - or J - value, a new method pioneered by Professor Thomas that assesses how much should be spent to protect human life and the environment that has recently been validated against pan-national data, would value life about four times higher, closer to the value used by the US Department of Transportation ($ 9.1 million in 2012).

In a statement sent to Nature, reproductive biologist Shoukhrat Mitalipov at the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, who pioneered spindle transfer in primates and is currently seeking approval to perform human trials, said that the strict US regulations are forcing researchers to move trials into other countrieIn a statement sent to Nature, reproductive biologist Shoukhrat Mitalipov at the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, who pioneered spindle transfer in primates and is currently seeking approval to perform human trials, said that the strict US regulations are forcing researchers to move trials into other countriein Portland, who pioneered spindle transfer in primates and is currently seeking approval to perform human trials, said that the strict US regulations are forcing researchers to move trials into other countriein primates and is currently seeking approval to perform human trials, said that the strict US regulations are forcing researchers to move trials into other countries.

«This is such a diverse organization, we want people who bring a different perspective and understanding, so we can expand globally,» explains Susan Bunz, human resources and corporate services vice president at Pioneer Hi - Bred, a Dupont business, the plant genetics company that ranked # 4 this year (a big leap from # 19 in 2010).

Dr. Erlich joined Cetus Corporation and served as director of the department of human genetics where he pioneered the development and application of PCR (polymerase chain reaction) and carried out the first forensic DNA test in the United States in 1986.

In 2011, Peter Walter and David Ron, pioneer in the field of human UPR, had formulated that the relationship between membrane lipids and the UPR remained a central unresolved question in the fielIn 2011, Peter Walter and David Ron, pioneer in the field of human UPR, had formulated that the relationship between membrane lipids and the UPR remained a central unresolved question in the fielin the field of human UPR, had formulated that the relationship between membrane lipids and the UPR remained a central unresolved question in the fielin the field.

They have made possible wholesale scans that turn up new gene modifications and variations, and the same should prove true for the new human gene arrays, says Joseph Ecker, a plant scientist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, who has helped pioneer whole - genome chips for Arabidopsis.

Less than a decade after a powerful gene - silencing method — RNA interference, or just RNAi — was discovered, the field's pioneers have not only won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine but have also helped launch an entirely new class of drugs into human clinical trials.

In Snakes, Sunrises, and Shakespeare, evolutionary psychology pioneer Gordon H. Orians traces the roots of today's human quirks in the minds of our ancestoIn Snakes, Sunrises, and Shakespeare, evolutionary psychology pioneer Gordon H. Orians traces the roots of today's human quirks in the minds of our ancestoin the minds of our ancestors

Warinner is pioneering the study of ancient human microbiomes, and in 2014 she published the first detailed metagenomics and metaproteomic characterization of the ancient oral microbiome in the journal Nature Genetics.

The invitation - only Pioneering Space National Summit, held in February in Washington, D.C., yielded a declaration that «the long - term goal of the human spaceflight and exploration program of the United States is to expand permanent human presence beyond low - Earth orbit and to do so in a way that will enable human settlement and a thriving space economy.»

So MPG in 2014 refashioned it into the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, which has since done pioneering work on the history of plague.

I haven't changed my genetic makeup when I exercise,» says Mario Capecchi, co-chair of the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Utah School of Medicine and a pioneer in working with knockout mice.

I hope we will begin to show some of the greater boldness that we showed in the 1960s and 1970s, with missions more like Voyager, Pioneer, and Apollo, using robotic spacecraft where appropriate, where the risk to life can be prevented, and confining our human missions to areas where we can make a special contribution.