The emergence of new biotechnologies, ranging from techniques and tools directly allowing manipulation of the essential fabric of biological life to expertise in these and their empirical outcomes, has destabilised the way in which the 'biological' is understood.
Results from our study involving explicit ratio manipulation of the essential volatile compounds confirmed this by showing that not only artificial ratio changes (doubling single compound) but also naturally-caused increase and decrease in the ratio of host volatile compounds could affect specificity in the olfactory-based host processing in this phytophagous insect and possibly other species.
Not to mention the lies spouted about: the Petrobras scandal, the government's ability to control inflation, the manipulation of prices of essential items like gasoline, while accusing the opposition of being out to destroy the country.
Design and manipulation of scaffolds are essential to improve cellular functions for regeneration of functional bone constructs in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
Capacity-building, especially in developing countries and for presequencing manipulation of samples, is essential, as is the development of simple-to-use bioinformatic tools for rapid analysis of the generated data.
(For a more extensive account of the relationship between active and passive covariance, see the Supplementary Document: Active and Passive Covariance).[2] The exercising of this freedom is the essential manipulation of the hole argument.
This view squares well with scientific practice, where scientists often talk about models as if they were objects, as well as with philosophical views that see the manipulation of models as an essential part of the process of scientific investigation (Morgan 1999).
It is however questionable whether this independent manipulation of stimulus strength is essential.
As ER stress is intimately associated with cell death, proper manipulation of ER stress is essential for cell survival.
Thus, while the exact functions of Wnt/β-catenin pathway activity in response to injury still need to be elucidated in the non-regenerating mammalian heart, but also in regenerating lower vertebrates, manipulation of the pathway is essential for creation of therapeutically useful cardiomyocytes from stem cells in culture.
