Sentences with phrase «scientists pinpoint»

These surface height data can help scientists pinpoint changes in the location of the grounding line.

In so doing, it should help climate scientists pinpoint causes of drought and extreme rainfall in the past and identify patterns that could lead to better climate model projections for the future.

But this still did not help scientists pinpoint their source — no known nearby object could have been producing the FRBs.

Once scientists pinpoint the genes necessary for virus transmission and survival in the whitefly genome, they can develop new varieties of crops that will produce RNA molecules that block the expression of those necessary genes, killing the whitefly or preventing it from spreading the virus.

The immediate application of the research, Sinha explains, is in helping scientists pinpoint important changes in cell behavior.

«Scientists pinpoint a new line of defense used by cancer cells.»

The completed genome could help scientists pinpoint how and when the tomato was first domesticated, and it may even lead breeders to that holy grail: an even better tomato.

These surface height data can help scientists pinpoint changes in the location of the grounding line.

«Emoji fans take heart: Scientists pinpoint 27 states of emotion: New study challenges assumption that most human emotions fall within the categories of happiness, sadness, anger, surprise, fear and disgust.»

«Scientists pinpoint surprising origin of melanoma.»

«One snake's prey is another's poison: Scientists pinpoint genetics of extreme resistance.»

In their paper, published in August 2016 in the journal Nature Genetics, a team of scientists pinpointed 17 genetic tweaks, or SNPs (pronounced «snips»), that appear to be tied to MDD.

Scientists pinpointed the region in the sky where the two black holes violently melded and kicked up swirls of the spacetime ripples, locating their stomping grounds more precisely than ever before.

Combining high resolution images and infrared spectra collected during the probe's approach, a team of nearly two dozen scientists pinpointed three patches of water ice on the surface of the comet's «upper» half.

Story number 4: Scientists pinpointed the area of the brain responsible for why you know that it was a -LSB-(«we are with you») Music] i.e., why you know all the words to old TV theme songs.

According to a new study recently published in the online edition of the journal Cancer Research, scientists pinpointed a novel interaction between the genes AEG - 1 and Akt2 that regulates the malignant characteristics of GBM.

It was the first time scientists pinpointed a short gamma - ray burst (lasting less than a second), which probably occurs during a collision of dense neutron stars.

Saint: Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Since scientists pinpointed the gene responsible for cystic fibrosis in 1989, the nonprofit group has recruited study participants and donated millions of dollars to develop gene - based treatments.

Scientists pinpointed the pesticide DDT flowing from mainland sewers into the sea as the cause.

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Scientists have already begun to pinpoint the genes involved in Huntington's chorea and muscular dystrophy.

Scientists have pinpointed a gene that enables rice plants to produce around 20 % more grain by increasing uptake of phosphorus.

This is where scientists can actually pinpoint the source of positive and negative emotions.

Epidemiological studies done by MAFF scientists had pinpointed this cannibalism as being the only plausible cause of BSE.

Scientists for the first time have assembled a «disease in a dish» model that pinpoints how a defect in the blood - brain barrier can produce an incurable psychomotor disorder, Allan - Herndon - Dudley syndrome.

However, because they occur in short bursts and originate in distant galaxies — sometimes even billions of light years from Earth — scientists have not been able to exactly pinpoint what causes them.

For similar reasons, scientists have found it difficult to pinpoint when and where other animals were first domesticated, too (SN: 7/8/17, p. 20).

Genes keep working for a while after a person dies, and scientists have used that activity in the lab to pinpoint time of death to within about nine minutes.

In the 1970s, scientists using radioisotope dating could pinpoint the age of a 100 million - year - old rock to within a few million years.

When scientists from the University of Chicago asked a group of women to sniff T - shirts worn for two consecutive nights by different men, the women pinpointed their closest genetic matches — even though there could be millions of unique combinations of MHC genotypes.

At the request of lawmakers, scientists are struggling to pinpoint 90 percent of all seriously life - threatening asteroids by 2020 in order to assure at least some warning.

However, until recently, scientists were unable to pinpoint why this is the case.

By doing so, members of Gould's laboratory pinpointed brain cells and regions important to anxiety regulation that may help scientists better understand and treat human anxiety disorders, she said.

That targeted genotype was also sequenced by the Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, which will eventually give scientists the molecular information needed to pinpoint the mechanisms regulating BNF.

If that is the case, she says, the gorge's crocodile population may not ever recover, even if scientists can pinpoint the cause of the die - off.

Now, scientists at the University of Chicago and Princeton University have pinpointed a mechanism by which cyclical tidal stresses exerted by Saturn can drive Enceladus's long - lived eruptions.

Really scientists have no clue, I mean they really just have the point of pinpointing real patterns that you can link to intelligence; then the challenge becomes to say, «Well how does A cause B?»

The setting gave scientists the rare opportunity to look at the impact of pollution on atmospheric processes in a largely pre-industrial environment and pinpoint the effects of the particles apart from other factors such as temperature and humidity.

Alexandra Witze introduced her readers to the seismologists who work around the clock to pinpoint major earthquakes around the globe; to a brother and sister who have spent their lives studying Pluto; and to scientists and engineers involved in the removal of two dams on the Elwha River in Washington's Olympic Penninsula and the restoration of the environment behind the dams.

ALTHOUGH SCIENTISTS HAVE not pinpointed exactly what goes on in the brain when a person experiences dj vu, they can make good guesses based on models of memory.

However, until now, scientists had not pinpointed how long ago the river dried up, and had assumed that it flowed while the Indus urban centres grew, playing an active role in their development.

And where scientists do closely track seismic activity, they can't pinpoint exactly when an earthquake will happen.

Scientists are employing improved monitors in efforts to pinpoint air pollutants that cause childhood disease

The detailed, real - time wind measurements could help scientists to better understand how hurricanes form and provide information that meteorologists can use to pinpoint landfall earlier, giving people more time to prepare and evacuate.

From a bat's wings to an elephant's cancer resistance, an interdisciplinary team of scientists at University of Utah Health are using animals» unique traits to pinpoint regions of the human genome that might affect health.

He noted that the equipment to track the seismic signals from calving glaciers is expensive, and it's necessary to have a number of sensors in place — as the Alaska network does — because to pinpoint the location of a calving, glacier scientists have to triangulate data from several sensors.

Volunteer pilots also run flights for the WCS to pinpoint fires and airstrips, and scientists relay that data to law enforcement.

These changes in gene expression can help explain instances in which the yield is unaffected, but a slight reduction has taken place in the plant which scientists can not pinpoint.

By identifying the genes in any given taste cell, scientists can pinpoint the unique molecular components needed for that cell to carry out its particular function.

Now scientists have begun to pinpoint the genetic changes that drove this remarkable transformation.

A team of scientists has developed an algorithm that can accurately pinpoint, in large regions of the human genome, mutations favored by natural selection.