Sentences with phrase «small number of human»

There may have also been some very small number of human studies that also showed a negative effect of soy, but then again — those were done with isolated soy protein, not traditional soy foods like: edamame, tofu, tempeh, and soy milk.

Here's a biggie uncovered by scientists led by Samuel L. Pfaff of the Salk Institute: A small number of human...

A small number of humans left Africa around 100,000 years ago and settled in Asia and Europe.

... Is it, however, possible that a small number of humans may be able to survive the next couple of thousand years, given adequate preparations in certain geographical pockets, until the overall global climate becomes more conducive to humans?»

Not exact matches

The «microbiome,» or the collection of organisms that reside within the human body (especially the gut), has become a big new interest area for a number of major pharma companies like Merck and smaller biotechs alike.

«Horrific mass killings receive the most media attention, but as can be seen by the numbers, they only represent a small portion of the total costs - human and medical - of gun injuries in the United States,» said David Hemenway, director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center in Boston, who was not involved with the study.

Last week, GM filed a petition with NHTSA requesting an exemption to have a small number of autonomous vehicles operate in a ride - share program without steering wheels or human drivers.

No matter who is chosen to play the role of a character, someone will always resemble that actor, as there are a small number of genotype human appearance factors

Thus in dealing with the real human problems, such as the relief of suffering, the adjustment of personality, the release from fear and ignorance, the care of the physically or mentally defective or of the aged and infirm, there is nearly always a desperate shortage of living agents, and among their small number the cozily non-committed agnostic is very rarely to be found.

The telling point that Galileo presented ironically was that if you really wanted to start from a small number of entities, you could always consider the letters of the alphabet as the fundamental entities, since you could construct the whole of human knowledge out of them.

The part of God that finds itself in the second half of the «Am / Am not» equation explodes into an infinite number of units smaller than the whole — what Walsh calls «spirits» — and these spirits (what human beings are) have the same power to create that God has.

He saw human beings as tending to create a number of small and hospitable polities» the household and the city, especially» whose proportions allow a sane balance between collective duty and individual prudence, universal truth and local idiom, society and the citizen.

How small indeed seem individual distinctions when we look back on these overwhelming numbers of human beings panting and straining under the pressure of that vital want!

According to evolutionary psychology, the emergence of the human species was accompanied by a change in reproductive strategy, a switch to producing a smaller numbers of offspring whose parents made a correspondingly greater investment in seeing them reach adulthood.

Whether you're a young mom struggling to fit in with your kid - free peers, or you're one of a growing number of stay - at - home dads, or you're a working mom figuring out how to balance work and kids, you know that no matter your circumstances, this business of being responsible for a small (and disastrously naive) human (or humans, bless your heart) is going to test your patience, your limits, and your soul.

While there are a very small number of females in every mammal species unable to get pregnant, the United States has the highest infertility rate in the world among humans.

Breastfeeding is contraindicated in infants with classic galactosemia (galactose 1 - phosphate uridyltransferase deficiency) 103; mothers who have active untreated tuberculosis disease or are human T - cell lymphotropic virus type I — or II — positive104, 105; mothers who are receiving diagnostic or therapeutic radioactive isotopes or have had exposure to radioactive materials (for as long as there is radioactivity in the milk) 106 — 108; mothers who are receiving antimetabolites or chemotherapeutic agents or a small number of other medications until they clear the milk109, 110; mothers who are using drugs of abuse («street drugs»); and mothers who have herpes simplex lesions on a breast (infant may feed from other breast if clear of lesions).

Garlic mustard produces large numbers of small seeds that are spread by wind, water, wildlife, and humans.

But in March, Lichun Tang of China's Beijing Proteome Research Center and colleagues reported using CRISPR / Cas9 to correct disease - causing mutations in a small number of viable human embryos.

Taste, however, operates with a much smaller number: The combination of only three members of the taste receptor type 1 (T1r) family can detect a wide range of sweet and savory flavours in humans.

That summer, President George W. Bush had approved federal funding for human ES - cell research, but only for a small number of cell lines that had already been created.

With between 80,000 and 150,000 different synthetic chemicals manufactured regularly, it might be too much to expect that a small number of laboratory tests could be used to judge their effect on humans.

The Duke researchers who made this discovery say it may help explain how a relatively small number of genes can create the dazzling array of different cell types found in human brains and the nervous systems in other animals.

«The human brain is phenomenally complex, so it is quite surprising that a small number of patterns can explain most of the gene variability across the brain,» says Christof Koch, Ph.D., President and Chief Scientific Officer at the Allen Institute for Brain Science.

A small number of people, mostly mathematicians or scientists, have developed the skills to create deep simulations — meaning those that can change the underlying thinking that motivated the simulation in the first place — with enough ease and speed to give a precocious peek at some of the wonderful qualities human communication might encompass in the future.

Critics have long argued that transplanting animal tissue into even a small number of immune - suppressed patients could allow obscure pathogens to jump from animals to humans.

As you said it is an extremely small number of differences that you find genetically between humans and chimps, but it is an extremely important one, and what seems to make it so important is that a lot o these differences seem to affect what are in effect regulatory sequences.

«Under geological aspects, the small number of so few large animal species presents an anomaly,» explains Professor Dr. Hervé Bocherens of the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, and he continues, «The most prominent example of prehistoric giants is, of course, the dinosaurs.»

When the worms were healthy, they housed a large population of Bacteroides — a group of helpful, supportive, symbiotic bacteria — and a smaller population of Proteobacteria — a group that contains a number of dangerous human pathogens.

One of the puzzling and fascinating things about humans is that we have the ability to form enormous groups — the United States, with 290 million people, or Britain, with 60 million people — that are led by very small numbers of individuals.

The small number of genetic differences suggest the lice transferred between gorilla and early humans as recently as 3.3 million years ago.

Neanderthal genetic material is found in only small amounts in the genomes of modern humans because, after interbreeding, natural selection removed large numbers of weakly deleterious Neanderthal gene variants, according to a study by Ivan Juric and colleagues at the University of California, Davis, published November 8th, 2016 in PLOS Genetics.

The new small, affordable sensors, like the $ 100 Fitbit, can wirelessly log all sorts of human metrics: brainwave patterns during sleep, heart rates during exercise, leg power exerted on bike rides, number of steps taken, places visited, sounds heard.

Unlike in humans, a small number of loci explain a large proportion of characteristics.

CNTs are much smaller than the width of a human hair and naturally form «forests» when they are created in large numbers.

Of the three strains of HIV known to infect humans, we know that two — the one causing the global AIDS epidemic and another that has infected a small number of people in Cameroon — came from a chimpanzee virus called SIOf the three strains of HIV known to infect humans, we know that two — the one causing the global AIDS epidemic and another that has infected a small number of people in Cameroon — came from a chimpanzee virus called SIof HIV known to infect humans, we know that two — the one causing the global AIDS epidemic and another that has infected a small number of people in Cameroon — came from a chimpanzee virus called SIof people in Cameroon — came from a chimpanzee virus called SIV.

If the migration from Indonesia to Madagascar was «a limited event» which brought only a small number of colonizers in a few voyages, then why does the human population of the island have such a high diversity of maternal and paternal lineages with Indonesian origin?

The humans that left Africa probably carried only a limited number of HLA alleles as they likely travelled in small groups.

One study, to be published online September 11 in Nature Communications, found that a much smaller number of genes than previously believed serve as the ignition switch for human embryo development.

The present study shows that Gächter's previous conclusion that punishment was detrimental «was an experimental artifact generated by a relatively small number of interactions,» says anthropologist Rob Boyd of the University of California, Los Angeles, who studies the mechanisms that shape human culture.

The program tries to find shortcuts to store an image in the smallest number of bits — the more complex the piece, the longer the string of digits used to store the painting on the hard drive, offering a more objective measure that human judgement.

Instead, human bias seems to have led a small number of counties to become far more likely than others to follow through on a death sentence.

Such familiarity would have been crucial in designing the forgery, which catered to geologists» desire for confirmation of ideas about human evolution based on a small number of fossil remains, and would have validated Dawson's well - known scientific aspirations.

This is likely true for two reasons; 1) there would not have been much time for a large number of chromosomal rearrangements to occur between these early ancestral human and mouse genomes, 2) and that since divergence with the boreoeutherian ancestor the human genome has undergone only a small number of chromosomal rearrangements meaning that many human telomeric regions are ancestral [58, 73].

Secondly, the mouse genome is significantly smaller than the human genome, making it possible to detect a large number of lineage - specific deletion events [17, 19].

«It is important for us as a species to realize that our skin color is determined by only a small number of minute changes in our DNA — changes that have nothing to do with the value of human beings.»

The authors of the new study claim: «We anticipate, along with a small but growing number of scholars, that ecological grief will become an increasingly common human response to the losses encountered in the anthropocene.»

The fact that introduction of a small number of proteins into adult human cells could produce cells that are equivalent to embryo stem cells takes us into an entirely new era of stem cell biology.

This knowledge, which will only be rapidly obtainable in the model organisms, will allow the reduction of most of the approximately 70,000 individual genes encoded by the human genome into a much smaller number of multicomponent, core processes of known biochemical function.

As outlined below, we used a microfluidic quantitative PCR (qPCR) system to elucidate the gene expression profiles of individual human oocytes and small numbers of cumulus cells using a combination of a large number of samples and targets [12], and then extended our studies via the use of parthenogenesis, in conjunction with gene expression profiling, as a functional assay of cytoplasmic maturation of oocytes.