Sentences with phrase «reconstructing ancient»

Reconstructing ancient carbon cycles is really hard to do and once again climate models using the best available proxy data are our best bet.

(3) Reconstructing ancient PDO.

Ongoing projects examine the paleoenvironmental context for human evolution and cultural development, reconstructing ancient rivers and lakes, dating geological formations, and attempting to understand the role that climate change had in producing new species and stone - tool cultures.

Researchers reconstructing ancient climates delve into the mineral for a record of temperature and atmospheric composition, environmental conditions and the state of the ocean at the time those minerals formed.

By sequencing whatever DNA emerges (called eDNA) from even a thimbleful of ancient soil, researchers are reconstructing ancient ecosystems as far back as 700,000 years ago with astonishing clarity.

He and the dozen senior scientists he has assembled for this expedition are reconstructing the ancient ecosystem of the Hell Creek Formation.

«Reconstructing an ancient lethal weapon.»

Reconstructing ancient dispersal routes is a complex exercise.

Reconstructing ancient history is not easy to do.

3 - D printers can create models and prototypes, replicas of your head, even living tissues — and at Lehman College, they reproduce and reconstruct ancient fossils

As researchers struggled to reconstruct ancient genomes, the world's first de-extinction had already, surreptitiously, taken place.

So when Horner was casting about for a potentially fruitful location to reconstruct an ancient ecosystem, he recognized that Hell Creek offered the opportunity to pursue a number of related lines of inquiry, including reexamining the factors that led to mass extinction.»

Researchers often reconstruct ancient climate from clues in sediment cores.

For those staying on Earth, geologists reconstructed the ancient topography of the American West from an unexpected resource: the signatures of rain that fell millions of years ago.

The study reconstructs the ancient food web of Abaco where these two mega-reptiles, the endangered Cuban Crocodile (Crocodylus rhombifer) and the now - extinct Albury's Tortoise (Chelonoidis alburyorum), once flourished.

Researchers at Massachusetts Eye and Ear / Schepens Eye Research Institute have reconstructed an ancient virus that is highly effective at delivering gene therapies to the liver, muscle, and retina.

They then used this knowledge to reconstruct the ancient migrations of women by comparing variation in mtDNA among populations throughout the world.

To reconstruct the ancient version of the F promoter — a DNA sequence of 200 base - pairs — the group compared 30 F type sequences found in mouse L1 genes.

The comparison of these reconstructed ancient protein networks yielded a surprisingly clear result: the present - day networks can be explained almost exclusively through the mechanism of duplication and divergence.

Just as biologists reconstruct extinct species, and archaeologists reconstruct ancient societies, linguists can reconstruct the pronunciation of ancient from modern words and show which languages have developed from the same ancestor.

To put the pieces of the puzzle together, they combined three approaches previously not used together to reconstruct the ancient magma plumbing system by looking for chemical signatures in lava rock collected from flows on the surface.

In the Molecular Ecology special issue, various research teams worked out the diet of a leopard by sequencing DNA in its faeces; tracked earthworm communities in soil4; and reconstructed ancient Siberian habitats from DNA preserved in permafrost.

Rangi «PSVR» - Solve complex puzzles, explore hidden temples, reconstruct ancient statues, escape deadly platforms, and revel in the joy of flight.

The team measured trace elements and stable isotopes in stalagmites from the Indonesian island of Flores and used them to reconstruct ancient rainfall, comparing them to records from East Asia and the central - eastern equatorial Pacific.

Being able to reconstruct ancient climate change is a critical part of understanding why the climate behaves the way it does.

The finding stems from more than a decade of effort to virtually reconstruct ancient ocean basins to understand how their size and depth have changed since the Cretaceous, which lasted from 145.5 to 65.5 million years ago.

Not exact matches

April 25, 2018 • Researchers are exhuming ancient dung from toilets of yore to reconstruct snapshots of food and lifestyle in bygone centuries.

a former NASA scientist took these plans & built a scale replica in an attempt to debunk the ancient alien theory & after years of research & reconstructing the craft from the specs in the bible, he became a believer.

Christian churches (at least the fundamental ones I've attended) have been quite adept at deconstructing the ancient jots and tittles of Scripture only to reconstruct vague mottos that everyone repeats and claims to live by but no one can explain to those who ask.

Apr. 23, 2013 — Ancient DNA recovered from a series of skeletons in central Germany up to 7,500 years old has been used to reconstruct the first detailed genetic history of modern Europe.

Some of it utilizes historical - critical and sociological biblical scholarship, since it attempts to recover and reconstruct the historical reality of women's lives in ancient Israel and in the Greco - Roman world of early Christianity and early Judaism.

If there remained no other inscriptions or written material concerning Egypt, it would be possible to reconstruct, to a very considerable degree, the life and thought of ancient Egypt from this important book, for in the process of preparing for death and immortality, almost everything that is important in life itself is considered in one way or another.

He and his colleagues had reconstructed the partial genome of a woolly mammoth found frozen in Siberia, and he was convinced that researchers like himself would soon be able to take bits of degraded tissue samples, extract ancient DNA and use them to piece together whole genomes of extinct animals.

It then connects simulated DNA fragments with overlapping sequences to reconstruct longer stretches of ancient DNA and, eventually, sections of the genome.

There's a good reason for the resemblance to armadillos, according to researchers who have reconstructed the family tree of these ancient beasts based on their mitochondrial genome, reconstructed from small fragments of DNA extracted from bits of a protective, bony carapace.

Micro-sites often contain remains from a variety of organisms, and paleontologists use them to reconstruct a slice of everyday ancient life.

For years, Alter and her colleagues have meticulously reconstructed the history of the species using subfossils — ancient bones that, unlike true fossils, are not yet fully mineralized and still contain minute traces of DNA.

But in 2013, ultramodern DNA extraction and sequencing techniques enabled researchers to access ancient genetic codes and translate their evolutionary tales: Researchers in Denmark reconstructed a record - breaking 700,000 - year - old horse genome, and geneticists in Germany began parsing the DNA of 400,000 - year - old hominids.

He took Rhaetic [a language spoken in the eastern Alps in pre-Roman and Roman times] and reconstructed it back to some ancient form.

The researchers were also able to fit the genomic data of modern and ancient humans into a simplified genetic model to reconstruct the deep population history of modern humans outside Africa in the last 50,000 years.

But no detectable intermediates between ancient, single - celled life and early eukaryotes exist, making it nearly impossible to reconstruct the order of evolutionary events.

They reconstructed and analyzed the genomes of 15 ancient samples of maize, comparing these data to a global collection of more than 2,500 modern lines.

With DNA analyses of enough ancient people, Lazaridis says, «I think it will be possible to reconstruct the whole timeline of what happened in Lebanon and other parts of the world.»

Now, using a novel technique based on analyzing ancient proteins, archaeologists have reconstructed the contents of these vessels to conclude that the individual likely died from Crimean - Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV), a severe tick - borne disease that still kills people across the world today.

Roberts said that «the presence of bone - borings provides a CSI - like opportunity to study the skeleton and reconstruct the timing of death and burial, and offers rare evidence of ancient insects and complex food webs during the age of the dinosaurs.»

Recent advances in ancient DNA research have opened the door for reconstructing the genomes of ancient individuals.

They reconstructed the genome of a major periodontal pathogen and produced possibly the first genetic evidence of dietary biomolecules to be recovered from ancient dental calculus.

Scientists once could reconstruct humanity's distant past only from the mute testimony of ancient settlements, bones, and artifacts.

Analyzing this wealth of data required overcoming the formidable bioinformatics challenge of sorting and identifying millions of genetic sequences like puzzle pieces in order to reconstruct the complex biology of the ancient oral microbiome.

HOT AND COLD Scientists reconstructed three billion years of genetic history for the adenylate kinase enzyme (shown here bound to another molecule) to see how ancient enzymes might have adapted to a cooler Earth.