This week, Science is running an interview
with systems biologist and trauma surgeon Michael Yaffe, who treated victims of the Boston Marathon bombings.
Not exact matches
In short, the irreducible complexity of molecular
systems is controversial among molecular
biologists when it is presented as an idea
with philosophical consequences, and tacitly accepted as reality when it remains in the world of innocent fact.
She is currently working on an anthology concerning approaches to environmental problems
with a
biologist and has published an article on Whitehead's metaphysical
system as a foundation for environmental ethics in Environmental Ethics 8/3.
Do you know that just recently, some evolutionary
biologists discovered that some species grow younger
with age, which is contradictory to the Evolutionary Theory, and that our Solar
System has no Black Holes, which is contradictory to the Big Bang Theory?
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.
In order to find out if this was really the case, the
systems biologist Dr Sebastian Beggel, who has worked extensively on the biology of amphipods for a long time, carried out a standardized laboratory test together
with his working group in Weihenstephan.
Researchers from LSTM, along
with a team of international
biologists who have recently sequenced the genome of the king cobra, say that their work reveals dynamic evolution and adaptation in the snake venom
system, which seemingly occurs in response to an evolutionary arms race between venomous snakes and their prey.
Richard Kitney, a
systems biologist from Imperial College London, is launching a similar parts - production facility in the United Kingdom that will work closely
with BIOFAB.
By chemically removing the gut microbiome in zebrafish in the lab and then repopulating the gut
with two to three bacterial species, University of Oregon
biologist Karen Guillemin has shown that certain microbes are especially skilled at suppressing the host immune
system and preventing inflammation — a discovery she thinks may have implications for human health.
Assistive technologies for scientists
with disabilities are an extension of the technologies that assist all scientists, like a
biologist's microscope or a geographer's global positioning
system.
And
with his boss, Monell director Gary Beauchamp, he isdeveloping the idea of the odor print: the notion, first proposed bythe late
biologist Lewis Thomas more than 25 years ago, that body odorbears a signature of immune -
system proteins as unique as a face or afingerprint.
For the current paper in Science, the
systems biologists teamed up
with Carmen Birchmeier's lab at the MDC to reconsider Cdr1as.
The finding that luck plays a big role in citations makes sense to Lucas Carey, a
systems biologist at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain, who was not involved
with the study.
For many molecular
biologists, the discovery of the CRISPR - Cas9
system marked a new milestone in research: finally, genomic DNA can be cut
with high efficiency and precision, enabling genes to be disabled, modified or re-introduced.
If you are a molecular
biologist with experience in baculovirus expression, who are the top 30 people in baculovirus
systems internationally?
Neuroscientist Ratnesh Lal, an associate research
biologist on soft money at the UC Santa Barbara Neuroscience Research Institute, compares the academic culture to the caste
system in his native India,
with soft - money researchers trapped at the bottom.
Jeff Smith, a first - year postdoc at OISB who studies cell signaling using proteomics, notes that
with no specific categories for
systems biology on research - grant applications, he has no choice but to place himself in direct competition
with biochemists and
biologists in other fields.
With the help of a supercomputer, Dunn's team showed that the worm is a product of the first split among bilateral animals more than half a billion years ago — a discovery that will help
biologists understand the origins of the digestive and nervous
systems.
«The test assures people that their
system is in sync
with everybody else's,» says Margaret Kline, a research
biologist at the US government's National Institute of Standards and Technology, which assembled the kit.
It was only later that Novak learned that Charpentier, in collaboration
with a prominent structural
biologist, Jennifer Doudna of the University of California (UC), Berkeley, had transformed the CRISPR immune
system into a tool that could edit genomes
with great ease.
Scientists from the Luxembourg Centre for
Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg, in collaboration
with colleagues from the US Institute for
Systems Biology (ISB) in Seattle, have now systematically studied the genetics of this process, which
biologists refer to as aneuploidy.
The
system would also have to undergo a lot of work before it can be considered for use in humans — including, perhaps, replacing E. coli
with another delivery
system, says Richard Kitney, a synthetic
biologist at Imperial College London.
Systems biologists and virologists Angela Rasmussen and Michael Katze from the Katze Laboratory at the University of Washington Department of Microbiology led the study in collaboration
with the National Institutes of Health's Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Montana and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Undoubtedly,
systems biologists — those looking at interacting elements of life science — want to correlate the metabolome
with the genome.
The Institute: brings together a wide range of scientists, including physicists, engineers, chemists,
biologists as well as HMS clinicians to address fundamental questions about the behavior and functioning of biological
systems; allows
biologists, engineers, and clinicians to potentially use such knowledge to foster applications and new technologies; and provides a way for the tool - developers (physicists, engineers, computer scientists) to work
with the tool - users (
biologists, chemists, clinicians) in the early stages of scientific inquiry and encourage scientific collaboration at the innovation stage of tool development.
A. Right now, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey and other institutions are engaged in an approach known as precision / personalized medicine, where
systems biologists and other specialists collaborate
with scientists and clinicians to identify the molecular alterations associated
with cancer, and then tailor regimens of targeted agents to those specific alterations or mutations.
When he moved back to Tokyo in 1977 to the lab of Yasuhiro Anraku, Ohsumi continued
with his new study subject, but worked on transport
systems that moved small molecules like amino acids and calcium into and out of the yeast version of the lysosome (idiosyncratically known by yeast
biologists as the vacuole — which means «empty space»).
I think the opportunity to blend people from different backgrounds, different disciplines, we have people who are
biologists from the molecular level, through the
systems level, blending
with people who are really working much more in engineering, imaging, physical sciences and it's through those sorts of collaborations that I think we can really come up
with new ideas and hopefully bring them forward to really make some progress on this difficult disease.
He taught me a lot about evolutionary medicine and nutrition in general, opened many doors and introduced me (directly and indirectly) to various players in this field, such as Dr. Boyd Eaton (one of the fathers of evolutionary nutrition), Maelán Fontes from Spain (a current research colleague and close friend), Alejandro Lucia (a Professor and a top researcher in exercise physiology from Spain,
with whom I am collaborating), Ben Balzer from Australia (a physician and one of the best minds in evolutionary medicine), Robb Wolf from the US (a biochemist and the best «biohackers I know»), Óscar Picazo and Fernando Mata from Spain (close friends who are working
with me at NutriScience), David Furman from Argentina (a top immunologist and expert in chronic inflammation working at Stanford University,
with whom I am collaborating), Stephan Guyenet from the US (one of my main references in the obesity field), Lynda Frassetto and Anthony Sebastian (both nephrologists at the University of California San Francisco and experts in acid - base balance), Michael Crawford from the UK (a world renowned expert in DHA and Director of the Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition, at the Imperial College London), Marcelo Rogero (a great researcher and Professor of Nutrigenomics at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Sérgio Veloso (a cell
biologist from Portugal currently working
with me, who has one of the best health blogs I know), Filomena Trindade (a Portuguese physician based in the US who is an expert in functional medicine), Remko Kuipers and Martine Luxwolda (both physicians from the Netherlands, who conducted field research on traditional populations in Tanzania), Gabriel de Carvalho (a pharmacist and renowned nutritionist from Brazil), Alex Vasquez (a physician from the US, who is an expert in functional medicine and Rheumatology), Bodo Melnik (a Professor of Dermatology and expert in Molecular Biology from Germany,
with whom I have published papers on milk and mTOR signaling), Johan Frostegård from Sweden (a rheumatologist and Professor at Karolinska Institutet, who has been a pioneer on establishing the role of the immune
system in cardiovascular disease), Frits Muskiet (a biochemist and Professor of Pathophysiology from the Netherlands, who, thanks to his incredible encyclopedic knowledge and open - mind, continuously teaches me more than I could imagine and who I consider a mentor), and the Swedish researchers Staffan Lindeberg, Tommy Jönsson and Yvonne Granfeldt, who became close friends and mentors.
Pete trained as a
biologist,
with a focus on understanding complex
systems.
In collaboration
with marine
biologists and other experts, the sculptures are all designed to counteract the effects of climate change on our oceans and reef
systems.
Whether it's me working
with Tommie Smith or me working in the world of magic
with Derek DelGaudio or
with biologists, it's really about connecting different
systems and learning how to operate on different time scales.
In the Nature study, a group of 27 marine chemists and
biologists from Europe, Japan, Australia, and the United States, combined recently compiled global ocean carbon data
with computer models to study potential future changes in the ocean CO2
system.
She has a Ph.D. in ecology / biology from the University of Michigan and worked previously as a field
biologist, gaining first hand experience
with the complex balance between the needs of people and the ecological
systems they depend upon.