Sentences with phrase «survival advantage»

Only the group that started out eating nuts, and continued to eat at least the same amount of nuts, had the significant survival advantage.

Most of the life expectancy gender gap was due to a female survival advantage in infancy rather than adulthood, the researchers found.

What survival advantage would a conscious human have over a zombie?

Such shifts represent places where one version provides a better survival advantage than another, enabling the insects with that version to reproduce.

When the researchers broke the results down by age group, they found that most of the female survival advantage comes from differences in infant mortality.

A definite survival advantage was seen in patients whose treatment protocols included surgery.

«The challenge now is to maximize the effectiveness of cancer vaccines such as Provenge by incorporating all we have learned in recent years about the immune response to cancer and cancer vaccine development, converting the four - month survival advantage of Provenge - vaccinated patients into prolonged — even lifelong — control of the disease.»

A multicenter team of researchers reports that a full genomic analysis of tumor samples from a small number of people who died of pancreatic cancer suggests that chemical changes to DNA that do not affect the DNA sequence itself yet control how it operates confer survival advantages on subsets of pancreatic cancer cells.

It represents a real advance in the second - line treatment of advanced bladder cancer because pembrolizumab is the first therapy to show a significant survival advantage over chemotherapy for these patients.

Also altruism has a distinct survival advantage for a species as a whole (a species that helps its own survive to reproduce is likely much more successful than an individualistic species that focuses only on a single «family» unit).

The money back plan comes with the most effective death benefit and maturity benefits, just like different life insurance plans, but it additionally has the predominant gain of survival advantages as well as non-compulsory benefits.

There is significant evidence to suggest that at least some complex features of organisms result from what biologists call exadaptation, a phenomenon in which one genetic mutation confers a certain kind of survival advantage on an organism, and later, after subsequent mutations have occurred, the original mutation combines with the subsequent ones to confer a wholly different advantage.

It is integral to evolution as cooperating organisms gain survival advantage by a quid pro quo between them.

Epidemiological evidence also suggests that the female survival advantage actually begins in utero.

«Like women, female dogs in our study had a distinct survival advantage over males,» according to project leader Dr. David Waters, Ph.D., a veterinarian, director of the Gerald P. Murphy Cancer Foundation and associate director of Purdue University's Center on Aging and the Life Course.

Some of these «precursor outcomes» (e.g., heightened vigilance and preparedness for threats; enhanced inflammatory and humoral responses to infectious microorganisms) appear to be aimed at protection from immediate dangers; they may reflect «adaptive trade - offs» that balance short - term survival advantages under harsh rearing conditions against disadvantages manifested later in development.

First - class passengers on the Titanic had huge survival advantages non-existent on the Lusitania.

My moral sense is nothing but a biological construct, a primitive survival advantage I have outgrown... much as I have outgrown the need for God.

Darwinian evolution, on the other hand, proceeded stepwise, in very small increments, each successive step conferring slightly more survival advantage and thus increasing the chances of survival and reproduction for the organism, ensuring that the advantage is passed on and further increased by future increments.

Naturally fermented vegetables, combining the cabbage - mustard family and the onion family (sauerkraut, Kim chi) which have not been pasteurized, are hard to find unless you make them yourself, but they have four unique survival advantages:

VA Hospital in Illinois found that patients who received stimulation via an implanted device had a modest survival advantage compared with those treated with medication only.

«For its own survival advantage, HIV induces these genes in order to survive and spread throughout the body,» Dr Nasr explained.

He explains that the ability to digest milk would give a massive survival advantage to people living thousands of years ago: milk from cows is uncontaminated by parasites, making it safer to drink than stream water.

«There was a great survival advantage to regenerating these elements,» he says, that was worth the metabolic cost.

In the current Science, Hal Whitehead of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, claims that an unusual pattern of genetic markers in sperm whales, pilot whales, and killer whales implies that matriarchs of those species teach their offspring as - yet - unidentified behaviors that give them a substantial survival advantage, a situation thus far documented only in humans.

«The data and survival analysis provide support for the hypothesis that the genetic makeup of extreme longevity is based on a combination of common and rare variants, with common variants that create the background to survive to relatively common old ages (e.g. into the 80s and 90s), and specific combinations of uncommon and rare variants that add an additional survival advantage to even older ages,» the authors wrote.

wo - year data show a continued survival advantage for self - expanding transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) over standard surgery in high - risk patients with severe aortic stenosis, according to research presented at the American College of Cardiology's 64th Annual Scientific Session.

This provides a major survival advantage — but for nearly everyone reading this, having insufficient calories is not an issue, so this protective mechanism actually sabotages your health.

Maybe there's other reasons we don't understand and the cholesterol is just something we can measure and there's some other cellular function that gives them a slight survival advantage that is unrelated specifically to cholesterol but they seem to have perfectly fine sexual hormone function, vitamin D function.

A heightened awareness of situational factors may have granted survival advantage in human males during hunting expeditions or conflict between males and clans.

Does the ability to communicate with humans provide a clear survival advantage so that good communicators / manipulators survive longer and produce more offspring than poor communicators?

(iii) they misunderstood the median survival advantage figure of 9.4 months, and erroneously appeared to apply to a double discount for the 60 % partial response rate and the 15 % full response rate;

Money Back Plans by LIC are life insurance policies that provide life cover during the policy term and payment of maturity benefit is made in instalments via survival advantages every 5 years.

Spiegel's study, published in 1989 in The Lancet, showed that women with terminal breast cancer who were enrolled in supportive therapy had a significant survival advantage over women who were not enrolled in support groups.

Significant survival advantages for the abatacept group were demonstrated at one year post-transplant.

For example, the famous Galápagos Islands finches named for Charles Darwin picked up survival advantages by interbreeding with other finch species (SN: 3/7/15, p. 7).

Patients in a trial who received the new treatment, IMM - 101 with chemotherapy, showed a significant survival advantage over those receiving chemotherapy alone.

«Although, to date, overall survival and prostate cancer - specific survival do not appear to differ between the two groups, existing trends favour LDR - PB and an overall survival advantage is likely to emerge with longer follow - up.»