Sentences with phrase «scientists decipher»

When Mount Pinatubo erupted in 1991 it left a trail of evidence in the skies that is helping scientists decipher the workings of the global climate

The work could help scientists decipher the dynamics of animal herds and other «materials» made up of active agents.

A step forward came in 1995, when scientists deciphered the genetic sequence for a potassium channel from the bacteria Streptomyces lividans.

As keen observers from outside NASA wrote in, questioning the source of these lights, scientists deciphered the tiny cause to the big reflections: high - altitude, horizontally oriented ice crystals.

It was a major feat when more than a decade ago, scientists deciphered the first human genome, containing 22,000 or...

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He no longer seeks the mystery, the divine, but is convinced that science will at one point decipher everything... The other side is that precisely science itself is now regaining an insight as to its limits, that many scientists today are saying: «Doesn't everything have to come from somewhere?»

Many thoughtful citizens, including eminent scientists, oppose the deciphering and altering of the human gene structure, and are appalled by the proposed commercial uses of knowledge gained from such activities.

«The Book of Abraham»: Before scientists were able to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics, Joseph Smith claimed that he could read hieroglyphics and said that a collection of them were actually «The Book of Abraham».

The scientists and professionals who spend their lives attempting to decipher the natural world do not believe in any gods — most of them, anyway.

«Scientists build better way to decode the genome: New computer algorithm deciphers DNA's most well - kept secrets; may help find the links between genes and disease.»

For the first time, scientists have deciphered the complete genetic instruction manuals of Canaanites.

Scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health have achieved a landmark of psychiatric neuropharmacology: deciphering the molecular structure of a widely prescribed antipsychotic docked in its key receptor.

Scientists from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have developed an algorithm that functions like a Rosetta Stone to help decipher how the immune system recognizes and binds antigens.

Artificial Life In the mid-1990s, Craig Venter rose to fame by claiming that he and his colleagues would decipher the human genome long before a huge team of government scientists would.

The findings could help scientists better decipher the history of how the dwarf planet formed, he added.

I am a cadet in the Old Weather Navy, a joint U.S.-U.K. web - based project that recruits citizen scientists to decipher the climate data recorded in old ship logs.

Just when scientists thought they had deciphered the roles played by the cell's leading actors, a familiar performer has turned up in a stunning variety of guises.

Over the past decade, however, scientists have begun to decipher how neurogenesis occurs and the anatomical location where neural stem cells are born and maintained inside the brain.

Nadia Roan, a research scientist who works with Greene at UCSF and was also not involved in the new work, noted that «it would be very interesting to further decipher what conditions favor one mechanism over the other.»

More than three decades later, planetary scientists are still deciphering this enigmatic world.

Strength in Numbers Druker and a growing number of scientists believe that amassing and deciphering this torrent of data requires the same open - source ethos that computer programmers have embraced to revolutionize software development.

Scientists have only just begun to decipher what this messaging means for health.

Since the genetic code was deciphered in the 1960s, scientists have assumed that it was used exclusively to write information about proteins.

An international team of scientists from the Leibniz Institute on Aging — Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI)-- especially Kathrin Reichwald, Alessandro Cellerino, Christoph Englert and Matthias Platzer — alongside cooperating institutes, have now succeeded in deciphering and analyzing N. furzeri's genome.

As the chimpanzee genome is roughly three - gigabases in length, the volume of this sequence data was unprecedented, enabling the scientists to decipher precise mutation trajectories occuring within one generation.

Scientists have begun to leverage new methods to decipher how mutations in these disparate genes might converge to exert their effects in the developing brain.

«Rather striking» climate link to Australian heat waves Because temperature extremes are easier to decipher, scientists are fairly confident that global warming increased the severity and likelihood of extreme heat events in 2013 in Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan, China and Europe.

Storms also a question mark The attribution studies also looked into storms and rainfall extremes, but the complexity of atmospheric processes during such events made it difficult for scientists to decipher the role of climate change.

Scientists are trying to decipher early signs that may indicate risk of psychosis later on, and they are testing ways to reduce that risk.

This information can be used by scientists to decipher one aspect of the complicated acceleration processes that are responsible for the creation of highly energetic and fast solar particles.

Scientists need to examine such events using many different models to decipher the role of climate change, he said.

Unfortunately, nature is not always willing to easily part with its secrets, forcing scientists to rely on sophisticated imaging technology — nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy or mass spectrometry, for example — to decipher the molecular formula of newly discovered organic compounds so they can be replicated in the lab.

In their quest to decipher the complex code of autism, which can run in families, most scientists have focused on genes.

To decipher the large - scale behavior of the cosmos, scientists need to determine the rate at which galaxies at various distances are moving away from us.

That is how he became more famous for deciphering the human genome than the international army of scientists who shared the achievement, how he hopes to understand every microbe in the ocean (through his Global Ocean Sampling Expedition), and how he plans to create artificial life.

Deciphering this so - called neural code — think of it as the brain's software — is the ultimate goal of many scientists tinkering with brain - machine interfaces.

Ever since the ivory - trading ban took effect, scientists have labored to decipher the tales tusks might tell.

Weathers has brought together scientists from different disciplines to decipher this natural system.

Knowing the origin of each cell and which genes control their normal function are the foundations for scientists to decipher the disease process and eventually to find out how to guide the cells to self - repair or even to build up a brand new organ using amended cells from the patients.»

Changing that direction and colliding different combinations of these spin - polarized proton beams gives scientists a way to decipher how the protons» internal building blocks — quarks and gluons — contribute to their overall spin.

The team has succeeded not only in deciphering what is happening in the cell interior but also, using a revolutionary live - cell microscopy technique, the scientists have observed for the first time individual receptors at work in intact cells.

For the first time, scientists of the German Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center, Goethe University and the University of Lund in Sweden have deciphered the complete genome of the blue whale and three other rorquals.

«Walter and Eliza Hall Institute scientists have spent three decades deciphering how «survival proteins» including BCL - XL keep cells alive, and how this can be exploited to treat cancer.

Mamontov is the lead instrument scientist for BASIS, the backscattering, crystal - analyzer spectrometer at the SNS that is particularly good at deciphering the dynamics of water in various systems.

«Taken together, the work represents a large step towards deciphering the code that controls gene expression, and provides an invaluable resource to scientists all over the world to further understand the function of the whole human genome», says Professor Taipale.

Smell is perhaps the most exquisitely sensitive and complex of all the senses, and it has also been the most perplexing for scientists to decipher.

In the March 10 issue of Science, a group of American, British and Italian scientists present the deciphered genetic sequence of Neisseria meningitidis — the bacterium responsible for life - threatening infections like meningitis and septicemia.

2012: Physician - scientist Phuoc Tran, M.D., Ph.D., deciphered the relationship between a cancer growth - promoting gene called c - myc and the ability of cholesterol - lowering drugs called statins to decrease the risk of advanced prostate cancer.

PHENOMIN's scientists have collaborated with 17 different centers over the world to identify and decipher the function of genes that are essential for mammalian life.

The new discovery, the scientists say, will allow them to decipher further details about magnetars and their outbursts.