Because there is a need to identify patterns of exposure that are most likely to be relevant to human health, some pollutant combinations may be of less relevance if there are no individuals with a given pattern of exposure.
Whatever etiquette or morality evolves for cyberspace, he said, it must be relevant to human feelings of sorrow and happiness, as all moral standards must be.
However, the overall decrease in bout length suggests increased fragmentation and disruption in sleep consolidation that may be relevant to human sleep.
This apparent segregation of different Nef-mediated phenotypes suggests distinct mechanisms of Nef action in different populations of target cells, and may be relevant to human AIDS.
Some people may be immune to carcinogens that kill others; animal studies may or may not be relevant to human disease; statistics may or may not reflect cause and effect.
Rabinowitz, who created the online Canary Database to index papers on animal outbreaks that may be relevant to human health, thinks scientists and clinicians could be more strategic about connecting the dots between species.
Although this work was not known to be relevant to human disease when carried out in the 1980s, subsequent studies of telomeres and telomerase in human cells have shown that the enzyme plays crucial roles in both cancer and aging.
Because they are designed to be relevant to human needs, biosphere reserves have helped make the conservation of biological diversity more scientific, more systematic, and more socially and economically acceptable to human populations.
Modulation of hepatic sterol and steroid metabolism is a plausible mode of action for changes in serum testosterone and adverse reproductive outcomes observed in rat studies, and may be relevant to human risk assessment.
Our findings demonstrate multiple roles of Noggin in different domains for craniofacial skeletogenesis, and suggest an indirect mechanism for secondary cleft palate in Nog mutants that may be relevant to human cleft palate as well.
