Sentences with phrase «with chemicals in the environment»

Your pet may have a genetic tendency to cancer and have had an infection or contact with chemicals in the environment that have initiated or promoted the cancer.

Your pet may have a genetic tendency to cancer and then had an infection or contact with chemicals in the environment that initiated or promoted the cancer.

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The port city of Tianjin saw the sharpest fall in its livability score among the eight Chinese cities surveyed, with the drop compounded by a decline in its environment score following an explosion at a chemical factory a year ago.

Any non-linear system (e.g. most chemical systems) in an environment with a flow of energy (earth is a great example) will generate emergent phenomena both mathematically and physically.

With the amount of toxins and unknown chemicals in our food and environment, they all eventually take a toll on the body in the form of inflammation.

Other tasks involved in the position involve lifting, moving, pulling, pushing and tapping 35 lb + cases of bottles and cans, moving full kegs onto and off of pallets, climbing ladders, working with chemicals, and working in a team environment.

Why... Organic systems work in harmony with nature, keeping harmful chemicals out of our land, water and air, creating a healthy environment rich in wildlife, woodlands and nutrients.

Importantly farming organically improves the environment with no synthetic or chemical herbicides or pesticides used in the growing of the grapes.»

What I find most frightening is that there is no testing to determine what happens when multiple products are used concurrently or sequentially, or what happens when they combine with other chemicals (synthetic and natural) in the environment or in organisms.

Infants are born with detoxification and immune systems that aren't fully developed, so they are much more susceptible to the harmful affects of the chemicals in the air or in their sleeping environment.

And chemical exposure doesn't stop with childbirth; our babies are exposed in what they encounter in their environment as well as what they consume — from mother's milk to commercial formula to table foods and prepared baby foods.

Created with our little ones and the environment in mind, Seventh Generation is the natural choice for high - quality and effective products free of fragrances, latex, chlorine and other harmful chemicals.

Inside of your digestive tract, it is more complicated for the lactase to pair up with lactose, and it is also more difficult for the chemical reaction to take place due to continuous changes in the digestive tract environment.

The polyurethane foam filling used in most mattresses is produced with numerous toxic chemicals and polutes the environment.

Fairén says there is growing evidence that the harsh environment on the martian surface — a combination of frigid temperatures, caustic chemicals and deadly cosmic radiation — would kill Earth's microbes quickly, especially in the limited numbers that ride along with robots.

So at that point you said, all right, we're done with pesticides — now we can move forward to the thousands of other chemicals in the environment?

Currently, students can earn a Master's degree in Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, Water and Environment, Innovation Management, and Public Management and Social Development, with additional Master's programs in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, and «Omics starting in 2013.

When faced with uncertainties about the chemicals used in the hydraulic fracturing process, the researchers deliberately overestimated the amount of toxic chemicals that would reach the environment to ensure they weren't minimizing fracking's health impacts, Miller said.

Functional materials are those with controlled composition, size, and structure to facilitate desired interactions with light, electrical or magnetic fields, or chemical environment to provide unique functionality in a wide range of applications from energy to medicine.

The researchers from QMUL's School of Biological and Chemical Sciences investigated whether these «sexually selected» animals might be better able to cope with changes in the environment such as increasing temperatures or acidity.

In the current study, Yu - Shang Lee, PhD, of the Cleveland Clinic, together with Jerry Silver, PhD, of Case Western Reserve Medical School, and others, used a chemical that promotes cell growth along with a scar - busting enzyme to create a more hospitable environment for the nerve graft at the injury site.

«The brain along with the reproductive system and every other cell in your body is exquisitely sensitive to exceedingly small changes in estrogen and other sex hormones, and the fact that the environment is full of chemicals that can activate estrogen receptors means this phenomenally sensitive system is being perturbed constantly by environmental factors.»

By performing experiments in the precisely controlled environment of the CLOUD chamber, the project's scientists can change the concentrations of chemicals involved in nucleation and then measure the rate at which new particles are created with extreme precision.

An endocrine - disrupting chemical is a chemical in the environment that interferes with hormones and their actions in the body.

Circadian rhythms associated with sleeping, waking, eating and the ebb and flow of bodily chemicals reflect a fundamental role for time in the way that living things relate to their environments.

As caterpillars grow, they take on a characteristic chemical signature of the environment, with hydrogen, oxygen and other elements fixed in tissues in varying amounts.

Sometimes you can't win: Just when you stop littering the environment with throwaway water bottles and switch to reusable containers comes an uproar over bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical found in some can linings and hard plastics.

Some chemical issues that Geoff?s team deals with have a high - profile, like endocrine - disrupting substances; many chemicals, both natural and man - made, are known to adversely effect the hormone systems of humans and animals, and there is growing concern about the link between the presence of these substances in their environment and their harm to wildlife.

The new research indicates that bioluminescence — a phenomenon in which animals generate visible light through a chemical reaction — could promote communication and mating in the open ocean, an environment with few barriers to reproduction.

«We don't have a good understanding of how different chemicals interact with each other in the environment,» Larsen said.

«This means clumps of atoms surrounded by a bath at some temperature, like the atmosphere or the ocean, should tend over time to arrange themselves to resonate better and better with the sources of mechanical, electromagnetic or chemical work in their environments,» England explained.

All ants communicate largely by «smelling» different chemicals in the environment with their antennae.

Dr. Alivisatos has been recognized for his accomplishments, with awards such as the Wolf Prize in Chemistry, the Linus Pauling Medal, the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, the Eni Italgas Prize for Energy and Environment, the Rank Prize for Optoelectronics, the Wilson Prize, the Coblentz Award for Advances in Molecular Spectroscopy, the American Chemical Society Award for Colloid and Surface Science, the Von Hippel Award of the Materials Research Society, and most recently, the 2014 ACS Materials Chemistry Award.

So, whereas the typical person might think of their «environment» as their house, or their neighborhood - scientists trying to understand the factors that influence the development of schizophrenia define environment to include everything from the social, nutritional, hormonal and chemical environment in the womb of the mother during pregnancy, up to the social dynamics and stress a person is exposed to, to street drug use, education, virus exposure, vitamin use, and any other factor that could possibly be involved with the development of schizophrenia.

We build up bio-matrices with defined chemical composition to mimic their environment under physiological and pathological conditions, to supply nutrition, to provide signaling, to create polarized conditions, and to, ultimately, allow us to perform cell - based drug screening in 3D model organs.

Adopting the scheme of chemical disorder, which has been proved to successfully capture the variety of eumelanin protomolecules, we show that (1) the formation process of eumelanin protomolecules from the constituting monomers is generally hindered in a solvent environment with respect to vacuum and (2) key factors in improving the adhesion properties and band lineup of the molecules on an inorganic interface are the molecular electronic state and the planarity of their structures.

With postdoctoral researcher Marc Miskin at the helm, the team has made a robot exoskeleton that can rapidly change its shape upon sensing chemical or thermal changes in its environment.

chemical ecology The study of how plants and animals use chemicals and chemical signals in their interactions with each other and their environment.

Endocrinologists, toxicologists, epidemiologists, and environmental scientists must work together with federal agencies and legislators to develop comprehensive screening programs for all chemicals and regulations governing EDCs in manufactured products, the food supply, or the environment.

Environmental factors such as maternal infection or exposure to toxic chemicals during pregnancy may heighten the risk in ways that aren't yet understood, and the environment may combine in other ways with genetic factors after birth to cause the condition.

Or, aging polymers may react with other chemicals in the environment.

Plus, they're often coated with stain treatments and flame retardants that are sources of toxic, nonbiodegradable perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), which are bad for both the environment and the air quality in your home.

Certainly, there is no blanket answer to this question, as each person will have different nutrient needs and deficiencies, but with the declining soil and food quality and the ever - increasing presence of chemicals that can block nutrient absorption in our environment, there are times when it truly isn't possible to get everything we need from food (though in a perfect world, this would be possible.)

In a perfect world, I do not believe that supplementation is necessary: if we all had access to nutritionally dense food, ate perfectly, our environment wasn't polluted with toxins and chemicals, we were never exposed to pharmaceutical drug, and we were never affected by physical, emotional or lifestyle stressors.

This microbial environment develops in reaction to us and our microbes but also in response to the outside factors that come in contact with our environment, including pets, pesticides, chemical cleaners, and so much more.

Think of all the problems with plastic use in our homes and environment and consider having those plastic chemicals in contact with your body's largest organ for all or part of the day... every single day.

A new guide by Made Safe — a certification scheme that labels products with ingredients that don't harm our health or the environment — seeks to demystify some of the over 80,000 chemicals in our products today.

I had to detox from the chemicals I was bombarded with in my food, environment and water.

Heavy metals such as mercury, cadmium, and lead as well as chemicals in the environment such as pesticides and herbicides impair hormone cascades and interfere with health.

However, we live in an environment where we are constantly bombarded with chemicals and toxins that are not good for our health: chemicals from cleaning products and personal care products, unfiltered water, vaccines, plastics, and chemicals and pesticides in our food, to name a few.