Sentences with phrase «unknown about their biology»

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Taubenberger, who with his colleagues at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology first fished the 1918 H1N1 pandemic strain out of preserved samples of victims» tissue in 1996, says too much is still unknown about the basic biology and ecology of flu viruses.

The discouraging news about TC - 5214 «just shows that there are some unknowns in the biology here», says Carr, who cautions that it is too soon to write off the drug class.

«There's so much unknown about [stem cells], you permanently change the boundaries of biology by working in such a field,» Hochedlinger says.

There is a lot still unknown about the role of food in human biology (as this program demonstrates) and I become skeptical of anyone who can make strong pronouncements that they believe apply to everyone.

Dr. Peter Warshall (great ecologist, birder, desert denizen, Bio-neer, Northern Jaguar Alliance, author working on a book about color and vision in nature, etc) was telling me (and I wish I had taken proper notes and references) that he had read an article in a technical biology journal of some sort showing that the DNA of a ancient bacterium had been absorbed into the DNA of the host creature, and that on further looking we may find that creatures are constantly acquiring whole sections of DNA by some unknown process.