Sentences with phrase «well as any biologist»

Prof Hui says while the current article took an invasive moth species as case study, the new theorem is applicable to the financial world, ecologists working on regional scale invasions or threatened species, as well as any biologist working with time - series data.

The journal strives to be essential reading for structural biologists, as well as biologists and biochemists that are interested in macromolecular structure and function.

Wanting to tap into the power of crowdsourcing, a team of researchers at the UK's University of Surrey have built the Wildsense Tigers app for iPad that pulls tourist photos from Flickr and Instagram as well as biologist's camera trap feeds and uses facial recognition and location data to compile a more complete census of tigers in the wild.

Not exact matches

Craig Venter, a biologist and entrepreneur as well as one of the first people to map the human genome, wants to make 100 the new 60.

«Pop thought organic was the same thing as health food, which in those days didn't necessarily taste very good,» said Nell, a biologist and environmentalist who now runs her own charitable foundation.

Nils Lonberg, a Harvard - trained molecular biologist who worked at Medarex, had figured out not only how to engineer a mouse with human immune genes but also how to make antibodies from these genes that were fully human as well.

(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.

I am well aware of the many reasons for skepticism, which as a geo - biologist I have pondered as much as anyone.

Biologists spend a lot of time as undergraduates and graduate students and post-grads and post docs before they could really be considered well educated in the field.

Like Francisco J. Ayala, who is a renowned biologist and philosopher, a staunch defender of evolution, as well as a critic of creationism and ID, but since he is the 2010 Templeton Prize winner, they ridicule him just like they would ridicule any creationist freak.

In the light of man's unrelenting attack on disease, some biologists believe that development of deadly germs is a betrayal of the human race as well as of the ideals of science; one - hundredth of an ounce of botulism toxin could kill a million people, and its production seems to further neither scientific knowledge nor any peacetime applications.

Some biologists try to preserve a modified form of scriptural inerrancy by quoting the verse «a day is as a thousand years,» and then showing that after all Genesis agrees fairly well with evolution.

However, in his reply to the invitation he wrote to me, «I shall preserve your letter among my most treasured possessions as the most cordial expression of good will I have ever received from my fellow biologists.»

(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.

3At present, for example, the well - entrenched neo-Darwinian hypothesis of «gradualism» (biological evolution occurs slowly, and more or less continuously as the constant interplay of random variations and natural selection over vast periods of time) is confronted with a somewhat more radical and neo-Lamarckian theory of «punctuated equilibrium» favored by Harvard biologists Stephen Jay Gould and Peter Williamson, collaborated by fossil discoveries of paleontologist and cultural anthropologist Richard Leakey in Africa.

(ii) Stephen Barr seems to take a similar position and to demur from the proposed «gap» concerning the presence of formality as well as the suggestion that biologists are, in their work, in any sense reductionist.

Cerys Parker is a marine biologist and teacher as well as a Mum to 2, she is the founder of Rainy Day Mum, sharing Creative Family Fun, come rain or shine inspiring ideas for art, play and activities that the whole family can enjoy together.

Titled «The Ark and Beyond: The Evolution of Zoo and Aquarium Conservation,» the book — published in March 2018 — is written by a collection of authors from zoos and aquariums, including Shedd Aquarium's Vice President of Conservation Research Dr. Chuck Knapp, as well as an impressive roster of university - based historians, biologists, ethicists and social scientists.

The reviewer wrote, «[i] t would probably... be beneficial to find one or two male biologists to work with (or at least obtain internal peer review from, but better yet as active co-authors)» to prevent the manuscript from «drifting too far away from empirical evidence into ideologically biased assumptions.»

Dr Evans led an international team of anthropologists and developmental biologists from Finland, USA, UK and Germany, using a new extensive database on fossil hominins and modern humans collected over several decades, as well as high resolution 3D imaging to see inside the fossil teeth.

But as biologists wander into these realms, they need guidance — hypotheses to test and refine, well - thought - out concepts and questions that point the way toward useful experiments.

Just as today's engineers design integrated circuits based on the known physical properties of materials and use them to create electronic devices with amazing capabilities, tomorrow's synthetic biologists are poised to design and build biological systems that are custom - tailored to make a better world.

A possible surprise to most physicians, and perhaps to most evolutionary biologists as well, is that most known viruses are persistent and innocuous, not pathogenic.

Biologists could use an infusion of mathematics as well, says Iya Khalil, vice president of R&D at Gene Network Sciences Inc. in Ithaca, New York.

The answer may come with better GPS technology that can measure the birds» vertical positions as well as their horizontal ones, says biologist Ty Hedrick of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Susan Hockfield is well known for her role in launching the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the MIT Energy Initiative, while she served as the research university's first female and first biologist president.

«The Base in not well surveyed for most animal groups and given its location on Cuba, the extent of rare habitat, [and] the number of rare plants, there are bound to be many more discoveries to be made and we are promoting it to other biologists as a research destination,» Droege says.

But today's active mathematical biologists must participate in — in addition to their traditional conferences — annual meetings of major biological professional societies, specialty conferences, as well as in focus groups (see Next Wave's article by Fred Roberts, and specialty workshops.

Nevertheless, wildlife biologists keep reporting tales of bird intelligence outside of the lab as well.

In The Universe Within, evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin shares the findings of some of the great scientific specialists — as well as those of a few unsung heroes.

Their survival strategy, evolutionary biologists now realize, differs from that of a disease like syphilis but works just as well.

For three years, Stanford biologist Jose Fragoso and his collaborators worked with these people to collect extensive information on local plant and animal species, as well as demographic information on the nearly 10,000 residents of the Rupununi region.

The good news for our species is that self - deception can play a key role in what evolutionary biologists refer to as «reproductive success» — what the rest of us refer to as courtship and sex.

It is good to see that biologists are beginning to recognise that, as there is more to the nervous system...

So he joined GSK Vaccines in 2010, as a molecular biologist in the company's Antigen - Specific Cancer Immunotherapeutic program, which aims to harness the immune system for the development of well - tolerated cancer therapies.

However, a lack of agreement between conservation biologists and space agencies on a definitive set of variables to track, as well as how to translate such information into useful data for conservation, has meant that so far this game - changing resource has remained untapped.

In recent years, biologists have argued that the best way to save species that need large territories, such as the endangered jaguar, is to connect existing parks and other large environmental reserves with protected corridors that would allow the animals to move back and forth.

Although BRCA1's role in tumor initiation is well known, the fact that it also seems to be involved in tumor progression comes as a surprise, says Eliot Rosen, a molecular biologist at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

Evolutionary biologists and animal behavior researchers are searching out the genetic basis and molecular drivers of cooperative behaviors, as well as the physiological, environmental, and behavioral impetus for sociality.

The Well - Dressed Ape by Hannah Holmes (Random House) Holmes ignores our self - congratulatory tendencies and gives a witty, detailed look at Homo sapiens through the eyes of an evolutionary biologist, exposing us as a thin - skinned, dull - toothed, small - clawed, and pitiable species.

By pairing a receptor that targets neurons with a molecule that degrades the main component of Alzheimer's plaques, the biologists were able to substantially dissolve these plaques in mice brains and human brain tissue, offering a potential mechanism for treating the debilitating disease, as well as other conditions that involve either the brain or the eyes.

Also, most DIY biologists are interested in building genetic circuits in bacteria or yeast, and they can generally do this using well - established techniques, such as SLiCE (seamless ligation cloning extract), and with genes that have been synthesized by commercial suppliers or that can be obtained from the iGEM registry.

I might as well hire someone who demonstrated the interest and tenacity to stay in science,» says Bob van de Water, a molecular cell biologist at Leiden University.

Speaking as a biologist, the best thing would be to have nothing out there, but that's not realistic.»

«A lot of the attacks are unsuccessful, but our research indicates that killer whales almost always test humpbacks,» says John Calambokidis, a research biologist at the Cascadia Research Collective, which does marine mammal studies in Puget Sound, as well as in the eastern and North Pacific.

That «flip - flop» probably cost him both moderate as well as conservative votes, says Brown University biologist Kenneth Miller.

Biologists knew that wild pollinators matter to wild plants as well as to certain crops such as blueberries, but not to commercial agriculture as a whole.

«[It's] a truly novel paper from many different perspectives, and perhaps not surprisingly, a novel result as well,» says Greger Larson, an evolutionary biologist and dog domestication expert at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, who was not involved with the work.

In developing the report, various applications were used to stimulate discussion among synthetic biologists, ecologists, environmental scientists and social scientists, as well as representatives from government, the private sector, academia, environmental organizations and think tanks.

The U.S. National Institutes of Health sees promise in cave fish as well, having agreed to fund the work of several cave fish biologists.