In fact, states have been heavily involved in regulating small group health insurance for decades.
To be sure, it is possible for regulators to go too far in regulating implants.
In many people with the condition this is related to difficulties in regulating mood and anxiety.
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It turns out gamma secretase plays a role in regulating cell growth in the intestines.
This is not to say there is no public policy role in regulating labor markets.
Government has a role in regulating, but its role shouldn't include picking the winners and losers.
It may be that the cerebellum is far more important in regulating attention than we realize today.
In 1994 a scientist at Rockefeller University discovered the "obese" gene, which plays a role in regulating hunger.
Research has shown that oestrogen plays a role in regulating several systems in the body connected to Alzheimer's disease.
This gene plays a key role in regulating the flow of calcium through the heart, enabling it to beat effectively.
Opponents of reform wrongly claim that Congress exceeded its authority in regulating when and how people pay for health care.
After all, the government is going to have difficulty in regulating what people do in the privacy of their own garage.
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The eurozone countries are moving towards a banking union, which will give the ECB a central role in regulating the sector.
Trees are key players in regulating climate because they convert carbon dioxide, which they store in their trunks and roots, to oxygen.
"Governments have shown that they have a pivotal role in regulating the financial markets, " said Dr Stephan Singer, Director of WWF's Global Energy Program.
Up to 18% of our DNA sequence is involved in regulating the less than 2% of the DNA that codes for proteins, they asserted.
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Courts can punish and deter wrongdoing, but they are ill-equipped to weigh the complex trade-offs involved in regulating a widely used product such as tobacco.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) the Financial Services Authority's successor in regulating the financial services industry is bringing out its own customer complaints data on Monday.
Since World War II most countries have regarded monetary policy as a critical instrument (the other biggies being government spending and taxation) in regulating the economy.
Merger conditions, in other words, assure the FCC of some role in regulating the Internet even where Congress and the courts have told it not to.
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The Fed would also take on a consultative role in regulating Fannie and Freddie, giving the central bank authority to assist in setting the companies' capital requirements.
The researchers showed that light was activating in the mice a protein, melanopsin, which also has a role in regulating the body clock, and is present in people.
So as a matter of both politics and the continued relevance of the agency, the FCC seems determined to grab any foothold it can in regulating broadband.
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Much of this proprietary DNA is involved in regulating gene activity for example, controlling how much of a protein is produced, rather than changing the nature of the protein itself.
Sinn Fein's Raymond McCartney accepted that the level of premiums was high but he saw the answer in regulating the insurance companies rather than in capping the level of damages.
Because the law focuses on the making of copies, it has become embroiled in regulating a bewildering array of non-commercial activities fan fiction, amateur mash-ups, BitTorrent file-sharing that have sprung up online.
But as yet there is no smoking gun - a protein involved in regulating brain function, say - that may have caused our ape-like ancestors to branch off from chimps.
The Commission has been openly pursuing a larger role in regulating the online space, an effort which has run into resistance from regulated entities as well as the federal courts.
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Second-to-second changes in its activity might, though, be expected to be correlated with changes in the amygdalas, because of its role in regulating them. fMRI allows such correlations to be measured.
"Early on the U.S. trailed way behind Europe in making these things cheap because the federal government got so caught up in regulating cell phones, " says TIME business editor William Saporito.
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