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biological: Encyclopedia - Biologics

Biologics or biologic therapies are a new class of drugs typically used for rheumatoid arthritis. Psoriasis may also be treated with these drugs, and their use in other skin diseases (such as hidradenitis suppurativa) is currently under investigation. Biologics include Amevive®, etanercept (Enbrel®), Humira®, infliximab (Remicade®) and Raptiva. They act as immunosuppressants by blocking the inflammation causing action of TNF-alpha. These drugs have only recently begun to receive approval by the FDA, and their long-term ...

biological: Encyclopedia - Biological target A biological target is an enzyme, receptor or other protein that can be modified by an external stimulus. The definition is context-dependent and can refer to the biological target of a drug compound, or the receptor target of a hormone (like insulin). The implication is that a molecule is "hit" by a signal and its behavior is thereby changed. This term is commonly used in pharmaceutical research to describe the native protein in the body that is modified by a medicinal chemical. Other rela

biological: Encyclopedia - Biological agent

A biological agent is an infectious disease, or toxin that can be used in bioterrorism or biological warfare. There are more than 1200 different kinds of biological agents. Biological agents include prions, microorganisms (viruses, bacteria and fungi) and some unicellular and multicellular eukaryotes (for example parasites) and their associated toxins. They have the ability to adversely affect human health in a variety of ways, ranging from allergic reactions that are usually relatively mild, to serious medical conditions, even ...

biological: Encyclopedia - Biological thermodynamics

Biological thermodynamics (Greek: bios = life and logikos = reason + Greek: thermos = heat and dynamics = power) is the study of energy transformation in the biological sciences. More definitively, biological thermodynamics may be defined as the quantitative study of the energy transductions that occur in and between living organisms, structures, and cells and of the nature and fu ...

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Biological thermodynamics - Sources

biological: Encyclopedia - Biological psychology

Biological psychology may be looked at as a hybrid of neuroscience and psychology. Practitioners of biological psychology may use their knowledge of the brain, from neurotransmitters to the cerebral cortex to treat their patients. Others may use this knowledge to search for biological causes for common mental illnesses, such as depression and schizophrenia. Many psychologists focus largely on the mental processes of their patients. Biological psychologists work on the basis that there is an organic basis to mental processes, an ...

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biological: Encyclopedia - Biological inheritance

Biological inheritance is the process by which an offspring cell or organism acquires or becomes predisposed to characteristics of its parent cell or organism. Through inheritance, variations exhibited by individuals can accumulate and cause a species to evolve. Mechanisms of inheritance: Genetic or Mendelian inheritance results from DNA replication and cell division. Epigenetic inheritance results from, among other things, DNA modifications such as gene silencing. non-Mendelian inheritance includes inheritance based on cytoplasmic ...

biological: Encyclopedia - Biological dispersal

Biological dispersal refers to those processes by which a species maintains or expands the distribution of a population. Dispersal implies movement—movement away from an existing population (population expansion) or away from the parent organisms (population maintenance). In the latter case, dispersal may simply involve replacement of the parent generation by the new generation, with only minor changes in geographic area occupied. In either case, dispersal is important because new life must replace old, and the two generations canno ...

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Biological dispersal - Dispersal in plants

Biological dispersal - Dispersal in animals

Biological dispersal - Reference

biological: Encyclopedia - Biological hazard

Biohazard is a shorthand term for "biological hazard". It refers to biological substances that pose a threat to (primarily) human health. This can include medical waste, samples of a microoganism, virus or toxin (from a biological source) that can affect humans, and so forth. It is generally used as a warning, so that those potentially exposed to the substances will know to take precautions. It can also include substances harmful to animals. There is also a biohazard HCS/WHMIS logo which utilizes the same symbol. In Unicode, the biohazard sign is U+2623 (☣). Graphic novelist Mitchell Vega u ...

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biological: Encyclopedia - Biological tissue

Biological tissue is a substance made up of cells that perform a similar function. The study of tissues is known as histology, or, in connection with disease, histopathology. The classical tools for studying the tissues are the wax block, the tissue stain, and the optical microscope, though developments in electron microscopy, immunofluorescence, and frozen sections have all adde ...

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biological: Encyclopedia - Biological reproduction

Biological reproduction is the biological process by which new individual organisms are produced. Reproduction is a fundamental feature of all known life; each individual organism exists as the result of reproduction by an antecedent. The known methods of reproduction are broadly grouped into two main types: sexual and asexual reproduction. In asexual reproduction, an individual can reproduce without involvement with another individual of that species. The division of a bacterial cell into two daughter cells is an example of as ...

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Biological reproduction - Mitosis and Meiosis

Biological reproduction - The Red Queen hypothesis

biological: Encyclopedia - Biological psychiatry

Biological psychiatry, sometimes referred to as bio-psychiatry, is a term used mainly by critics of mainstream mental health practice to describe what opponents of psychiatry believe are unproven and subjective diagnostic and treatment practices in modern psychiatry. References to biological psychiatry are used specifically by critics to denote the biological model of mental health, which they believe places undue emphasis upon biological theories and psychiatric drug treatment, rather than objective diagnosis of medical pathol ...

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biological: Encyclopedia - Biological interaction

Biological interactions result from the fact that organisms in an ecosystem interact with each other, in the natural world, no organism is an autonomous entity isolated from its surroundings. It is part of its environment, rich in living and non living elements all of which interact with each other in some fashion. An organism's interactions with its environment are fundamental to the survival of t ...

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biological: Encyclopedia - Biological warfare

Biological warfare, also known as germ warfare, is the use of any organism (bacteria, virus or other disease-causing organism) or toxin found in nature, as a weapon of war. It is meant to incapacitate or kill an adversary. The creation and stockpiling of biological weapons is outlawed by the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention, signed by over 100 states, because a successful attack could conceivably result in thousands, possibly even millions, of deaths and could cause severe disruptions to societies and economies. Oddly ...

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biological: Encyclopedia - Biological cybernetics

Biological Cybernetics investigates communication and control processes in living organisms and ecosystems. Exemplary applications are control of body core temperature, osmotic balance and the regulation of metabolic processes by hormones. Biological cybernetics - Scientists. Valentino Braitenberg Erich von Holst Frederic Vester Bernhard Hassenstein Horst Mittelstaedt Joseph J. DiStefano III

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Biological cybernetics - Scientists

biological: Encyclopedia - Biological pest control

Biological control of pests and diseases is a method of controlling pests and diseases in agriculture that relies on natural predation rather than introduced chemicals. Biological pest control - Overview. A key belief of the organic gardener is that biodiversity furthers health. The more variety a landscape has, the more sustainable it is. The organic gardener therefore works to create a system where the insects that are sometimes called pests and the pathogens that cause diseases are not eradicated, but in ...

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biological: Encyclopedia - Biological patent

A biological patent is a patent relating to an invention in biology. Whether or not patents can be validly obtained for certain parts of the DNA of an organism depends of the patent law. Some types of biological patents are considered controversial by some as they feel life is not invented thus should not be patentable. This is especially true if the biological matter being patented can be found in the natural world or sequences of DNA. Advocates who speak against biological patents suggest that the techniques and processes ass ...

biological: Encyclopedia - Biological determinism

Biological determinism is the hypothesis that biological factors such as an organism's individual genes (as opposed to social or environmental factors) completely determine how a system behaves or changes over time. Consider certain human behaviors, such as having a particular sexual orientation, committing murder, or writing poetry. A biological determinist would look only at innate factors, such as genetic makeup, in deciding whether or not a given person would exhibit these behaviors. They would ignore non-innate factors, such as social c ...

biological: Encyclopedia - Biological immortality

Biological immortality can be defined as the absence of a sustained increase in rate of mortality as a function of chronological age. A cell or organism that does not experience, or at some future point will cease, aging is biologically immortal. There is no organism or individual cell that is literally immortal. Any "immortal" cell or organism can be killed by cutting or crushing. Biologists have chosen the word immortal to designate cells that do not undergo cellular sensecence (the state wherein c ...

biological: Encyclopedia - Biological life cycle

A life cycle is a period involving one generation of an organism, whether through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction. In regard to its ploidy, there are three types of cycles: haplontic life cycle diplontic life cycle diplobiontic life cycle (also referred to as diplohaplontic, haplodiplontic, or dibiontic life cycle) These three types of cycles feature alternating haploid and diploid phases (n and 2n). Th ...

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biological: Encyclopedia - Viking biological experiments

Each NASA Viking Lander carried three biological experiments to the surface of Mars in the late 1970s. These were the first experiments used specifically to look for biosignatures on another planet. The three experiments all looked for changes in chemical composition of the atmospheric gasses trapped over a sample of Martian soil as it was exposed to different temperatures, chemical substances, and other conditions. In general, the results were negative for signs of life, although one of the three experiments gave an initial po ...