Use the animal's scientific name as a starting point for research.
With the approval of the Bloom syndrome DNA test, there is now a starting point for scientific, regulatory and public discussion on the future of direct-to-consumer medical genetic testing.
Our evidence shows that African farmers are active agents in plant improvement and we suggest that their agency may be taken as a starting point for scientific technology development.
Although coming from a different starting point, both scientific and policy studies moved towards integrated scenarios.
In the 1960s, AbM was brought to Japan for industrial cultivation and this became the starting point for scientific research.
16 The aggregation of these data sets, and those continuously acquired from other sources, with regular outputs from advanced scientific analysis, serve as a starting point for analysis of disease risk and vulnerable regions.
Taking as a starting point the first scientific studies of wild elephants that were conducted in the 1960s, Mr Meredith draws elegantly from ancient historical texts, accounts of 19th-century ivory traders and the work of a new breed of scientists who are articulate lobbyists against the ivory trade as well as ecologists and animal behaviourists.
Within this framework, the scientific challenge is to provide a starting point for the non-invasive diagnosis of fresco degradation in order to contribute to the design and realization of innovative solutions for the restoration and conservation of the paintings, especially in presence of extended surfaces with difficult access.
In 1543, Copernicus' pronouncement that the Sun, not the Earth, was at the center of the universe, created a great upheaval, and marked the starting point of the scientific revolution.
For it suggests that not only pre-scientific proto-ideas, but also passive results obtained within an old scientific thought style can serve as a starting point for constructing a new one.
