Sentence examples for prevented from reproducing from inspiring English sources

One explanation for this lack of variation is that our species underwent recent bottlenecks--events where a significant percentage were killed or otherwise prevented from reproducing.

The orcas now in captivity could be prevented from reproducing and would live their lives in retirement under the best conditions we could provide.

The triumph of this experiment is that it overcame an inbuilt system called genetic imprinting, which hitherto had prevented mammals from reproducing by parthenogenesis.

A national biosecurity panel in the United States has already taken the unusual step of asking the scientists to keep part of their data secret to prevent others from reproducing their work.

Creating gelding herds and preventing them from reproducing is managing them toward extinction".

The pen emits UV-C rays, which prevent bacteria from reproducing by altering their DNA.

Until recently, antiviral medications had been designed largely to prevent H.I.V. from reproducing.

Dr. Jean-Louis Guenet of Pasteur, a co-author of the study appearing this week in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, said the West Nile gene allows the virus to cause disease by blocking production of a group of proteins that normally prevent viruses from reproducing inside a cell.

Sure, the life-and-death, gods-and-girded-warriors gravitas of fantasy explains much of its appeal, but maybe we should try throwing in a gaggle of philosophers, artists, scientists and idealists, who might collaborate to lift us out of the mire of our shared dread, to prevent us from reproducing our own suffering in the generations to come.

This exclusive expression in reproductive tissue, the researchers suggest, means that the protein could have contributed to the formation of new species by helping prevent hominoids from reproducing with other primates.

Eugenicists had two-fold aims: to encourage people of good health to reproduce together to create good births (what is known as "positive" eugenics), and to end certain diseases and disabilities by discouraging or preventing others from reproducing (what is known as "negative" eugenics).