Sentences with phrase «study on their biology»

The twenty six wild species lack extensive study on their biology and seeds are much harder to come by as they are often subject to restricted seed distribution.

This lecture recognizes the senior author of the most impactful study on the biology of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related conditions published during the two calendar years preceding the AAIC meeting.

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Kudrow graduated from Vassar College with a degree in biology, and after graduation began working with her father — a world - renowned headache specialist — on a study concerning hemispheric dominance and headache types.

Shen studied biology in college but, after being rejected by Google and other companies, went on to land a job as product manager at Etsy.

This field of research which marries economics with biology and psychology studies certain types of investing decisions — including those made on emotional or speculative grounds, often made hastily without all the facts or because of what others are doing.

Instead, why don't you teach your children to study hard and get a good education at a «real» college where they can learn «real» subjects like biology and astrophysics, instead of relying on a priest or a minister to teach them that mythical being created man and the universe?

And he ran down SoHe who was only 22 and a Toronto university studying molecular biology and he aimed the steering wheel at Betty and accelerated — Betty whose mother had long ago named her Mary Elizabeth — and who was revelling in one of the first warm April days in her 95th — and last — spring on this spinning orb.

A degree of kinship between human beings and the rest of physical creation has always been clear to an extent, but the depth and detail of our interrelationship with the rest of life on the planet is being confirmed over and over again in breathtaking detail by new scientific advances such as genetic studies and molecular biology.

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archaeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archaeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archaeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

Modern scientific disciplines such as biology, psychology and medical science have started to study the effects of empathy on the human mind and body, on our health and relationships.

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

I have a doctorate in astronomy, biology, genetics, neuroscience, sociology, religious studies and anything else that's every come up on this board.

In an accompanying editorial, Theodore Slotkin, a professor of pharmacology and cancer biology at the Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, North Carolina, writes that it's undeniable that smoking while pregnant contributes to later behavior problems in children, based on the new study and past research.

Studies done by the Touch Research Institute in Miami, the first scientific center to study the biology of touch and its effects on health and development, have shown that premature infants who are massaged for 15 minutes three times a day gain more weight and are able to be released from the hospital sooner than those who are not massaged.

In February, the United Kingdom approved using the method on human embryos at the Francis Crick Institute in London, but only within a narrow capacity: Researchers can edit genes in non-viable human embryos for a limited period and only to study developmental biology related to in vitro fertilization.

This study focused on professors teaching biology in Arizona, which is listed in a 2013 Gallup poll as being in the lower one - third of religious states in the U.S..

The fields within biology are further divided based on the scale at which organisms are studied and the methods used to study them: biochemistry examines the fundamental chemistry of life; molecular biology studies the complex interactions of systems of biological molecules; cellular biology examines the basic building block of all life, the cell; physiology examines the physical and chemical functions of the tissues and organ systems of an organism; and ecology examines how various organisms interrelate.

Mike Webster from the University of St Andrews, UK, says that this study provides information about the basic biology and ecology of an underexplored ecosystem and will hopefully allow us to monitor and perhaps slow the impacts we have on this ecosystem.

As some biology textbooks and studies continue to sidestep the details of the amoeba and other microbes in favor of focusing on larger organisms, Spiegel sees a tragic irony: Amoebas and their ilk can best position budding researchers to explore the costs of sex, its evolution and alternatives to problems it may or may not solve.

Zhou, who is the director of virology and molecular biology for Microbac Laboratories, headquartered in Pittsburgh, Penn., said the study did not yet look at the survivability of Zika on hard non-porous surfaces beyond eight hours.

This report is the first in a two - phase study that is examining the changing nature of biodefense threats in the age of synthetic biology, focusing on the degree to which it can be used to create a weapon.

His work focuses on applying principles of evolutionary biology and ecology to the study of cancer.

When it came time to move on to graduate work in 1994, Skop knew she wanted to stay with «the worm people» and study molecular biology.

Her interest was in the sciences — first biology, then biochemistry and finally pharmacology, the study of how chemicals act on the human body.

«The tumor cells are smart,» said Wei Guo, co-corresponding author on the study and a professor of biology in Penn's School of Arts and Sciences.

On her way to a bachelor's degree in biology, Bry was considering graduate school to study plant genetics and soil microbes.

«A potted plant may look tranquil, but there are actually a lot of conversations going on in that pot,» said study co-author Joff Silberg, associate professor of biochemistry and cell biology and of bioengineering at Rice.

When he graduated from Beijing's Peking University in 2004, he chose to go to graduate school to study biology, believing that studying fundamental biological mechanisms would allow him to have the greatest possible impact on human health.

Commenting on the results for ESMO, Dr Evandro de Azambuja, Head of the Medical Support Team, Academic Promoting Team, Jules Bordet Institute, Brussels, Belgium, said: «This study shows that it's not only tumour size that is important for breast cancer patients but also tumour biology.

During my studies of biology at the University of Cologne in Germany, I realized that humans are less than unimportant life - forms on Earth, and that insects rule in each and every sense of the meaning.

And once I got into brain biology, it became clear you needed to study the brain on the cellular level, and once you began to understand aspects of behavior in the cellular level, you wanted to understand the molecular level.

New tests based on human biology can predict many adverse reactions that animal tests fail to do, and could, for example, have detected the risk signals produced by Vioxx, which in animal studies appeared to be safe, and even beneficial to the heart.

Understanding these similarities will allow us to carry out more accurate studies on human biology,» explains Roderic Guigó, one of the main researchers involved in the work and coordinator of the Bioinformatics and Genomics programme at the CRG.

The UW study focused on six of the largest science and engineering fields with the most undergraduate degrees: biology, chemistry and math, which have the highest proportions of female participation, and computer science, engineering and physics, which have bigger gender gaps.

This new technology offers two main advantages based on the use of molecular tools to manipulate the genome: firstly, working models that had not existed up until now for the study of tumour biology and, secondly, their application will eventually allow for the study of new therapeutic targets and therapies.

The study published in the Biology Letters journal is part of a research project on human evolutionary biology led by Academy Professor Virpi Lummaa.

As assistant director of the Institute of Healthy Aging at University College London, Gems regularly runs experiments on Caenorhabditis elegans, a roundworm that is often used to study the biology of aging.

The study «highlights the importance of temperature on evolution — particularly mammal evolution,» says Felisa Smith, a professor of biology at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, who wrote an essay on the findings in the same issue of Science.

«There's dogma in the literature — which is more oriented toward the cell biology of aging — that wild animals don't actually senesce,» says Daniel Nussey, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Edinburgh who studies aging in Soay sheep on a remote Scottish island.

I've always been interested in healthcare, so while I was an undergraduate studying molecular biology I attended seminars on public health, human rights, and infectious disease management, which led directly to my current career path.

«When we did the study, we thought polyploidy would be bad for asexuals, but we didn't find any evidence of that,» says Maurine Neiman, associate professor of biology at the UI and corresponding author on the paper, published in the journal Ecology and Evolution.

Light microscopes based on scattering, reflection and absorption, or a combination of these, have been a key enabling technology for the study of objects invisible to our eyes, especially in the field of biology.

«This paper is a great example of how chemistry can help make step changes in biology,» says Matthew Dalby, a professor of cell engineering at the University of Glasgow and co-senior author on the study with Ulijn.

As the lead computational scientist on the paper, Dr John Marioni at EMBL - EBI, said: «Making sense of the data generated in studies like this is only possible thanks to ongoing advances in computational biology.

Mainstream biology has followed in Morgan's wake, focusing on animals suitable for studying genetic and embryonic development.

The physician - scientist may study the same properties of the same molecule but for a different reason: because he or she believes that those studies will provide information on the fundamental pathology of a disease or insight into human biology that will provide a better understanding of healthy versus diseased states.

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«If we understand how these selfish elements are exploiting the mechanics of meiosis, then we'll understand more deeply how that process works in the first place,» said Michael Lampson, associate professor of biology in Penn's School of Arts and Sciences and senior author on the study.

said Ehrenreich, assistant professor of molecular biology at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and corresponding author of a paper on the study that was published by PLOS Genetics on May 1.

In a new study on the Pacific Coast, Nyssa Silbiger, former UCI postdoctoral researcher, and Cascade Sorte, assistant professor of ecology & evolutionary biology, determined that marine plants and seaweeds decrease the acidity of their surroundings through photosynthesis.