But adding more details is not likely to change the way
we think about biology.
As a child, Zhang moved with his family from China to Des Moines, where he worked in a gene therapy lab as a high school student; the experience taught him to
think about biology from an engineering point of view.
Many say science is now woven together with ethics and religion in their minds; they can't
think about biology without thinking about its meaning in the greater context.
Above all, synthetic biology «requires a new way of
thinking about biology: the idea that cells are machines and they can be rebuilt the way that electrical engineers now design circuits [and] instruments,» Glass says.
«Planarians have really challenged the way
I thought about biology,» says Whitehead's Peter Reddien.
«Using the sensitivity enhancement technique allows you to look at the protein at the correct levels, which is really important when you're
thinking about its biology.»
«I think it's going to provide a lot of new ways of
thinking about biology.»
Articulate, provocative, and never complacent, he has ushered in a new way of
thinking about biology.
This is a new way of
thinking about the biology of PCOS.»
Not exact matches
Think about that for a moment: Are we so delicate that we can not address even the idea that
biology may play a role in the types of careers we have?
Probably you've moved on from this post, and I will too — but I don't
think by «been there, done that» you meant «read
about and understood many things
about evolutionary
biology and paleontology».
At the very least, substantial interaction between Christian theology and evolutionary
biology is prompting new metaphors and new ways of
thinking about God.
You don't have to go very far down that road before you start
thinking about creation science or scientific creationism, or get involved in school board squabbles
about whether Genesis should be taught alongside of evolution in high school
biology courses.
I don't
think you know much
about science,
biology in particular.
I
think given equal opportunities there will be a natural inclination for many towards traditional roles and that this is healthy, has nothing to do with any artificial social construct but is natural and comes out of
biology and now might be the time to be having open discussions
about this kind of thing without having to face the fear of being labelled misogynistic for doing so or with feeling fearful of any threat to equality.
Jack: Why would you
think NOW is the time to have conversations
about how traditional roles might be good to return to and should be determined by our
biology?
Jack: You asked my opinion
about arguing for
biology to determine roles, and I said I didn't
think that was on the table anymore.
This is most evident in how physics and
biology have profoundly changed the way in which man
thinks about the universe and
about life within it.
Think about the concept of omnipotence for a moment... time, control of physics, complete understanding of
biology, chemistry, math..
As
biology, for example, moves forward on its frontier at the molecular level, religion has a new way opened up for it also, just as evolutionary
biology opened up a whole new province for religious
thinking about creation.
I had for a year or two been
thinking that it might be useful to write a book
about Whitehead and the relevance of his
thought to some of our present controversies, particularly in relation to
biology, and the «anti-science» movement.
«Creationists may prefer not to
think to much
about the conspiratorial implications of what they're arguing, but creationism just won't work without the actual existence of such a «fraud so complex and extensive it involved every field from archaeology, paleontology, geology and genetics to
biology, chemistry and physics.»
I just felt like I needed to pause time last week after
thinking about that plus chemistry coursework plus
biology coursework plus my deadline for my art coursework.
You can tell us
about how you are «informed» all you want, but if what you say is steeped in ignorance, your assertions will be greeted as kindly as the «I have a 4.0 gpa in
biology so I know what I am talking
about» claim that was accompanied by a lack of critical
thinking.
«Building on a well - established knowledge base more than half a century in the making, recent advances in the science of early childhood development and its underlying
biology provide a deeper understanding that can inform and improve existing policy and practice, as well as help generate new ways of
thinking about solutions.
The nap schedule shouldn't be
about what mom or dad wants or
thinks is right, but should be dictated by the child's
biology.
CHRISTINE STEWART FITZGERALD: So it sounds like you're looking at it from the biological standpoint and I
think incorporating what we talked
about earlier, some of those different cycles on looking at their individual needs and you can kind of customize that because I
think you know, kind of what Jen said earlier is that there's a lot of different books out there that will talk
about the new onesies of each of these but as a parent, I
think you just have to find what works for you and their
biology is going to be different and their temperaments are different and it's not a one size fits all approach.
Slightly out - of place when talking
about military, but
think k - strategy vs. r - strategy in reproductive
biology
(i have all A's in my basic sciences: environmental
biology, botany, and astronomy but I know these are not «hard» sciences) I am
thinking about grad school and would really hope I would not have to take two years of course work again.
«What we really want to do in this workshop is
think about the future,» said John Priscu of Montana State University, an expert on the
biology of cold climates who is co-chairing the workshop.
«People have
thought about how forest loss matters for an ecosystem, and maybe for local temperatures, but they haven't
thought about how that interacts with the global climate,» said co-author Abigail Swann, a UW assistant professor of atmospheric sciences and of
biology.
«If there is a rule in
biology, I can
think about how it does not apply to fungi.
Al - Bassam said the results open up new ways of
thinking about tubulin, tubulin - related disorders and molecular
biology in general.
«Every once in a while, you get a student who has never really taken
biology and hasn't really
thought about it,» says Amy Rice Doetsch.
Mark Pagel, a professor of evolutionary
biology at the University of Reading in England, doesn't consider himself a scientist, just a person
thinking about the world.
«It made me
think about my own
biology and ecology.
They discussed developmental
biology as an area ripe for discovery, but Finch recalls Woese suggesting, «Why not
think about aging?
I recently challenged my laboratory staff to
think of animal models that could teach us
about the
biology of joyfulness.
That represents a radical change in
thinking about life's origins: Viruses, long
thought to be
biology's hitchhikers, turn out to have been
biology's formative force.
Courses like these can help young scientists gain the basic toolset they need to start
thinking about engineering
biology in useful ways.
As an undergraduate
biology major at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, Niyogi focused on molecular and cell
biology and
thought about immunology or transcription factors as a potential field of study.
«If you
think about the worst invasive species, ants frequently show up on those lists, and big - headed ants are among the most problematic,» said University of Illinois entomology professor and animal
biology department head Andrew Suarez, who led the new study with postdoctoral researcher Bill Wills.
He is «an unusual character» who's distinctive for «bringing epidemiological
thinking and methodology into dialogue with molecular and cell
biology» to answer important questions
about aging, says gerontologist Thomas Kirkwood of the University of Newcastle in Newcastle - upon - Tyne, U.K.
So it could be RNA or DNA like we have in modern
biology or it could be some related kind of material; and we are also
thinking about some kind of cell envelope or cell membrane — not that that's necessarily the very first way Darwinian systems began, but at some point they had to transition into a system more related to modern
biology where cells are all bounded by membranes — so we're
thinking about how to assemble these two components and get them to interact with each other.
THINK about what it takes to learn
biology.
«Understanding the
biology and commonalities between trusting social relationships and the opioid system can change the way we
think about treatment,» Young says, noting that neither the punitive approach of the criminal justice system nor harsh treatment tactics are likely to increase connectedness.
Jack and I have a certain network, and then there are nanoscience researchers who are
thinking about the intersection between their work and
biology.
«That was really a fun way to expand our
thinking about RNA structural
biology in the world of proteins,» she says.
The ASPB public engagement activities Katie directs focus on encouraging plant
biology as a career choice as well as «eradicating plant blindness» with resources and programs that trigger
thinking critically
about the ways plants are integral to everyone's daily life and a sustainable future.
Neuroscience, arguably more than any other aspect of
biology, is a science that requires intense computation, because understanding the brain is
about understanding how billions and billions of neurons function in orchestras to regulate our
thoughts and behavior.