Sentences with phrase «which leads biologists»

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The postulation of extraneous organizational principles leads biologists like Monod to classify Polanyi's thought as vitalistic.2 (Vitalism is the philosophy of nature which holds that the existence of life is exclusively the result of some extra-material principle totally different from matter.)

All biologists agree that the behavior of organisms as a whole is directive, in the sense that in the course of evolution some at least of it has been modified by selection so as to lead with greater or less certainty towards states which favour the survival and reproduction of the individual.

Synthetic biologist Drew Endy is leading efforts to make the natural world programmable — which means blurring the distinction between information and matter

There, a team led by biologist Johannes Fritz, recently awarded major funding by the European Commission, was reintroducing the northern bald ibis (Geronticus eremita), which had been extinct in Europe for about 400 years.

In 2011, researchers led by David Baker, a computational biologist at the University of Washington in Seattle, created a designer protein that binds HA's stem, which prevented viral infection in cell cultures.

The Massachusetts team, led by Peng Yin, a systems biologist at Harvard University's Wyss Institute in Boston, modified the DNA brick approach, which they invented, to make larger, more complex structures.

While Jarvis and Genome 10K were deciding which avian genomes to sequence, with Jarvis making sure the list included vocal learners and species believed to be their close relatives, they learned about another collaboration in the works led by Guojie Zhang of Chinese sequencing giant BGI and University of Copenhagen evolutionary biologist Tom Gilbert.

«Our work describes the structure and function of an important enzyme called Rumi, which adds a glucose molecule to several signaling proteins to modify their activities,» said the study's lead author, Huilin Li, a biologist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University.

British newspapers reported this weekend that Ian Wilmut, the University of Edinburgh biologist who led the team that in 1997 cloned Dolly the sheep, is getting out of the cloning business in light of the new findings, which seem to offer researchers a likely new source of stem cell lines for basic research that could one day lead to new treatments and perhaps cures for spinal injuries, diabetes and debilitating disorders such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease.

The biologists predict that a temperature rise of 1 degree Celsius leads to 6 - 20 percent higher emission of methane bubbles, which in turn leads to additional greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and to an additional temperature increase.

The Santa Cruz tracking program, begun in 2008 by a coalition of conservationists and biologists and led by Wilmers, has tracked 60 animals since its inception, 19 of which are still alive.

Led by reproductive biologist Alex Travis, the engineering effort focuses on a chain of enzymes that metabolize glucose molecules into the biological fuel ATP (a process known as glycolysis), which enables sperm locomotion.

In another paper in the same issue, a team led by molecular biologist Ronald Plasterk, now at the Hubrecht Laboratory in Utrecht, the Netherlands, reports an intriguing twist: The same genes appear to be responsible for both RNAi and another gene - silencing mechanism known as cosuppression, in which adding extra copies of a gene cause both the new and the existing copies of that gene to be shut down.

Recently, many scientists came to suspect that a protein called NF - κB, a master regulator of infection and inflammation, was at work; in 1996, several groups had found that it also inhibited cell death, which can lead to tumor formation.To find out whether suspicions about NF - κB were well - founded, molecular biologist Michael Karin of the University of California, San Diego, and his colleagues turned to a mouse model of colitis.

Another team, which included Taubenberger and was led by structural biologist Ian Wilson of the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, determined the structure of the same protein's precursor.

Meanwhile, in a separate study published online today in Science, an overlapping team at Genentech led by biologist Frederic de Sauvage describes the mechanism by which the man's brain tumor developed resistance.

One study led by Allender and first - year veterinary student Marta Rzadkowska and published in the Journal of Wildlife Diseases, reveals which disinfectant treatments — used by veterinarians and wildlife biologists to prevent the spread of infection — work against the fungus.

The research group, led by molecular biologist Eran Pichersky of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, studied two model organisms that are easily manipulated in the laboratory: basil, which produces large amounts of eugenol, and the petunia flower, whose scent is caused by three aromatic compounds including isoeugenol.

In the meantime, Takebe and the rest of the team, led by Hideki Taniguchi, also a stem - cell biologist at Yokohama City University — who are collaborating on the project with researchers at Sekisui Medical, a biotechnology firm based in Tokyo — hope that his liver bud could be useful for toxicity testing in drug screening, for which bile ducts are not needed.

He founded and produces iBiology, lectures by leading biologists which are made freely available on the web.

The paper's researchers, led by U.C. Davis marine biologist Patrick Kilduff, explain that the NPGO — which is largely driven by a flavor of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) that produces warming in the tropical central Pacific Ocean — has become more common in recent decades.

PULLMAN, Wash. — Researchers led by a Washington State University biologist have found the optimal mechanism by which plants heal the botanical equivalent of a bad sunburn.

Take the scene early on in which the film's heroes — an all - female government expedition, led by biologist Lena (Natalie Portman), tasked with exploring a quarantined zone known only as «Area X» — encounter a mutated alligator large enough to be mistaken for a small dinosaur, surreal enough to be a mass hallucination.

One of the biggest flaws in Swedish director Daniel Espinosa's (Safe House) Life, which follows what happens to the crew of the International Space Station after they discover the first evidence of extraterrestrial beings, is that lead biologist Hugh (Ariyon Bakare) seems to immediately throw all common sense out of the window and get emotionally attached to the thing they've brought on board, despite really REALLY glaring warning signs that the alien is highly intelligent.

The Djerzinski half - brothers, Bruno, a failed academic and sexual obsessive, and Michel, an asexual, lonely molecular biologist, struggle to survive in this broadside against the decadent 1960s, which strives to show that a permissive culture leads to loneliness and misery.

Finally this month, the Nobel Prizes were handed out with Japanese cell biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi awarded the Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy, which it is hoped could lead to breakthroughs in treatments for cancer, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.