The concept of an animal 'tool', a biological system that can provide insight into a disorder without obviously recapitulating all associated phenotypes, is useful for pre-clinical studies (Sive, 2011).
In order to address this deficit, I therefore define a 'tool' as a biological system that gives insight into a human disorder, without obviously recapitulating the phenotype that is diagnostic of that disorder.
Control tumours (EV-infected or without virus) recapitulated some of the features of prostate cancer.
As in the human body, where continuous, collagenous elements alter their chemical and mechanical properties as a function of the tension they exert or endure, each mask is designed as a synthetic 'whole without parts.' The masks incorporate tunable physical properties recapitulating, augmenting, or controlling the facial form and movement behind them.
Without the guidance from the mature bone marrow niche, the erythrogenesis was recapitulating the embryonal stages.
But Ms. Shane and Ms. Wilson are less interested in recapitulating political debates than in understanding how the doctors approach work that would be emotionally difficult and ethically challenging even without the incessant controversy.
Seeking marriage as an escape from her own difficult childhood, she ends up merely recapitulating it.
By recapitulating the growth and differentiation of those patient cells in a dish, researchers can investigate how mutations impact development, identify critical signaling pathways, and test potential pharmaceuticals all without biopsy or animal models.
In real life, recapitulating the 19th century is both stupid and boring.
We are reading, dissecting, and then recapitulating through action the works of our greatest modern political science thinkers.
