Newman's work in developmental biology includes a proposed mechanism for patterning of the vertebrate limb skeleton based on the self-organization of embryonic tissues. He has also characterized a bio ...
The proposal that one type of animal could descend from an animal of another type goes back to some of the first pre-Socratic Greek philosophers, such as Anaximander and Empedocles. Such proposals sur ...
Biocomplexity is the study of complex structures and behaviors that arise from nonlinear interactions of active biological agents, which may range in scale from molecules to cells to organisms. Almost ...
In medicine and (clinical) genetics pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD or PIGD) (also known as embryo screening) refers to procedures that are performed on embryos prior to implantation, sometime ...
First attested in English in the mid-14c., the word embryon derives from Medieval Latin embryo, itself from Greek ?μβρυον (embruon), plural ?μβρυα (embrua), lit. "young one", which is the ...
Rifkin was born in Denver, Colorado, to Vivette Ravel Rifkin and Milton Rifkin, a plastic-bag manufacturer. He grew up on the southwest side of Chicago. He was president of his graduating class at the ...
The term "synthetic biology" has a history spanning the twentieth century. The first use was in Stéphane Leducs’s publication of ? Théorie physico-chimique de la vie et générations spontanées ...
Modern usage of the phrase started with Eric Voegelin in The New Science of Politics in 1952. Conservative spokesman William F. Buckley popularized Voegelin's phrase as "Don't immanentize the eschaton ...
Paul the Apostle taught in numerous passages that humans are sons of God (as in Romans 8 of Paul's Epistle to the Romans). Paul conceives of the resurrection as immortalization. Paul also writes that ...
Recent research has investigated how infrahumanisation influences behaviour. In a series of studies Jeroen Vaes and his colleagues investigated people's reactions to outgroup members who attempt to 'h ...
Every episcopal see is considered holy. In Greek, the adjective "holy" or "sacred" (?ερ? transliterated as hiera) is constantly applied to all such sees as a matter of course. In the West, the adj ...
Kurzweil characterizes evolution throughout all time as progressing through six epochs, each one building on the next. He says the four epochs which have occurred so far are Physics and Chemistry, Bio ...
It once was generally believed that life and its materials had some essential property or substance distinct from any found in non-living matter, and it was thought that only living beings could produ ...
Most of the structures that make up animals, plants and microbes are made from three basic classes of molecule: amino acids, carbohydrates and lipids (often called fats). As these molecules are vital ...
The word genetics is from the Ancient Greek γενετικ?? genetikos meaning "genitive"/"generative", in turn from γ?νεσι? genesis meaning "origin"),The Gene The modern working definition o ...
