Sentences with phrase «british life scientist»

«It's common now in France that you do two postdocs,» explains Jonathan Weitzman, a British life scientist just appointed professor at the University of Paris 7, after completing postdoctoral appointments in the United States and France and working as a senior research scientist at the Pasteur Institute.

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The renowned British scientist was given just years to live after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease in his twenties.

With events from some of the country's leading social scientists, the Festival celebrates the very best of British social science research and how it influences our social, economic and political lives - both now and in the future.

C. praetermissus lived a little more than 500 million years ago during the Cambrian Period and was identified from 49 specimens found in the fossil - rich Burgess Shale in British Columbia, the scientists report in the Aug. 21 Current Biology.

«Life» and «living» are words that the scientist has borrowed from the plain man,» the British virologist Norman Pirie wrote at the time.

Reporting this week in the journal Global Change Biology scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and from Germany's University of Kiel and the Alfred Wegener Institute reveal that when it comes to environmental change the reaction of Antarctic clams (laternula elliptica)-- a long - lived and abundant species that lives in cold, oxygen - rich Antarctic waters — is different depending on how old the animal is.

I'm immensely proud of British scientists, who really are among the world's best, as demonstrated by the strong showing in the recent international space life sciences competition,» U.K. Space Agency CEO David Parker said in a statement.

New research by British and Dutch scientists has found that Aspergillus — a common fungus that attacks the lungs and is found in soil and other organic matter — has become resistant to life — saving drugs in parts of rural Yorkshire.

Built by British scientists who had to take out a loan to finance it, and were still working nights and weekends to finish it only weeks before launch, Beagle 2 could scoop NASA on a huge question: Did life ever exist on Mars?

In the March 10 issue of Science, a group of American, British and Italian scientists present the deciphered genetic sequence of Neisseria meningitidis — the bacterium responsible for life - threatening infections like meningitis and septicemia.

Leicester scientist features in Canadian - British documentary providing new insights into life and death of Jumbo the elephant -

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Russian Billionaire Yuri Milner will be joining efforts with British scientist Stephen Hawking to find intelligent life in the outer space with a sum of $ 100 million to be spent in the next decades on the project.

Paul Bettany stars as British scientist and author Charles Darwin, a brilliant and deeply emotional man devoted to his religious wife Emma (Jennifer Connelly, Bettany's wife in real life) and the rest of his family, but also somewhat increasingly removed from them.

Here the Philadelphia writer goes to Egypt at the turn of the 20th century, where two British scientists are attempting to communicate with Mars — but can barely interact with each other, much less the women in their lives.

A team of international scientists is due to set off for the world's biggest iceberg, fighting huge waves and the encroaching Antarctic winter, in a mission aiming to answer fundamental questions about the impact of climate change in the polar regions.The scientists, led by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), are trying to reach a newly revealed ecosystem that had been hidden for 120,000 years below the Larsen C ice shelf on the Antarctic peninsula.In July last year, part of the Larsen C ice shelf calved away, forming a huge iceberg - A68 - which is four times bigger than London, and revealing life beneath for the first time.

Regulators of Antarctica's krill fishery have already implemented rigorous rules to ensure sustainable fishing levels according to current available science, said Phil Trathan, a scientific adviser to the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources and a senior scientist at the British Antarctic Survey.

Even before the first evidence that global warming had already begun, British and US scientists confirmed that human action — in the release of a suite of industrially - important gases called chlorofluorocarbons — had begun to erode the invisible shield of stratospheric ozone that has always sheltered life on Earth.

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Three British scientists have lost their lives since 2013 — all three had been involved in Arctic research.