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There are other things like genetic differences in populations that may lead to at-risk populations that are at risk of having an adverse drug reaction.
Now imagine if we could take cells from all those different populations, put them on chips, and create populations on a chip.
We collect data on animal populations, analyze complex patterns, try to explain them.
By 2020, global wildlife populations are projected to have fallen by a staggering two-thirds.
Over 80 percent of our planet's land surface is now experiencing measurable human impact: habitat destruction and illegal wildlife trade are decimating global wildlife populations.
The sexual strategies and reproductive structures that we see in the animal kingdom basically dictate how males and females will react to each other, which then dictates how populations and societies form and evolve.
That's larger than the populations of the United States, Russia, of Germany, of the United Kingdom, of France and Canada combined.
As the Chinese internet continues to grow, even in its imperfection and restrictions and controls, the lives of its once-forgotten populations have been irrevocably elevated.
There is a focus on populations of need, not of want, that has driven a lot of the curiosity, the creativity and the development that we see.
Projections are that their populations will expand as the ocean warms to 30 percent larger by the year 2100.
Now in some cases, the search for bodies that could push athletic performance forward ended up introducing into the competitive world populations of people that weren't previously competing at all, like Kenyan distance runners.
Innovation in sports, whether that's new track surfaces or new swimming techniques, the democratization of sport, the spread to new bodies and to new populations around the world, and imagination in sport, an understanding of what the human body is truly capable of, have conspired to make athletes stronger, faster, bolder, and better than ever.
We still have a lot to learn about fireflies, but it looks like many stories will remain untold, because around the world, firefly populations are blinking out.
Well, based on our work in the United States and elsewhere, we know that there are three key things we have to do to bring fisheries back, and they are: We need to set quotas or limits on how much we take; we need to reduce bycatch, which is the accidental catching and killing of fish that we're not targeting, and it's very wasteful; and three, we need to protect habitats, the nursery areas, the spawning areas that these fish need to grow and reproduce successfully so that they can rebuild their populations.
So I've spent a lot of the last 10 or 15 years trying to find out what could be that self-interest that would encourage not just politicians but also businesses and general populations, all of us, to start to think a little more outwardly, to think in a bigger picture, not always to look inwards, sometimes to look outwards.
So governments care desperately about the image of their country, because it makes a direct difference to how much money they can make, and that's what they've promised their populations they're going to deliver.
And we have underprivileged populations that remain unfortunate and underprivileged, because the data that we're using is either outdated, or is not good at all or we don't have anything at all.
I've based my scientific career on using leading-edge molecular techniques, DNA- and RNA-based methods to look at microbial populations in biological reactors, and again to optimize these systems.
As somebody who finds mass surveillance odious for all the reasons I just talked about and a lot more, I mean, I look at this as work that will never end until governments around the world are no longer able to subject entire populations to monitoring and surveillance unless they convince some court or some entity that the person they've targeted has actually done something wrong.
Americans and Europeans have the impression that proportionally huge numbers of refugees are coming to their country, but the reality is that 86 percent, the vast majority of refugees, are living in the developing world, in countries struggling with their own insecurity, with their own issues of helping their own populations and poverty.
It's one of the biggest displaced populations in the world, and this conflict has cost over 220,000 lives.
And from literate populations, new forms of collective action emerged in the spheres of knowledge, religion and politics.
The 200 years of whaling was clearly detrimental and caused a reduction in the populations of whales between 60 to 90 percent.
To borrow a line from Chai Jing, we're all under the same dome, and air pollution that originates in China can travel beyond its borders and affect populations as far away as those in North America.
Large populations needed to be quarantined in some areas, and then riots broke out.
This is in 2010 in Uganda, working on a solution that allowed local populations to avoid government surveillance on their mobile phones for expressing dissent.
New York, New Jersey and California have been dropping their prison populations, closing prisons, while also seeing a big drop in crime.
And for populations like these, the criminal justice system is too often part of the problem, rather than the solution.
In contrast, low-income and rural populations can spend 20, even 30 percent of their income on energy.
For developing countries and emerging economies, the problem and the challenge is to grow without emissions, because they must develop; they have very poor populations.
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