Sentences with phrase «early discoveries by»

Early discoveries by NASA's newest Mars orbiter are starting to reveal key features about the loss of the planet's atmosphere to space over time.
An earlier discovery by Hu's lab revealed the exterior of ZIP4's structure, or its extracellular domain, which functions as an accessory that makes the machinery more efficient.

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When selling value, you can avoid bidding situations by establishing your value proposition early in the sales appointment with a discovery question about their intentions: «Is the lowest investment your only consideration, or is quality also important?»
Playing to an ambivalent crowd at Seattle's Crocodile Café earlier this spring, they threw down a commanding performance that had the room buzzing with the excitement of discovery by night's end.
8) «This conclusion serves to corroborate the inference made by Soviet archaeologists from their discovery of camel - headed wagons that as early as the first half of the third millennium B.C. two - humped camels were used in Turkmenistan for drawing wagons...» The Camel and the Wheel, Richard W. Bulliet p155
The discoveries and scientific creations of recent years in the field of nuclear energy, transforming our period into a new power age, are directly traceable to the discoveries of radioactive elements by Becquerel and the Curies, inaugurating the new physics.9 A new depth of relations and energy revealed in both earlier and more recent experiments has routed the world - view of mechanism which Newton and his followers through the nineteenth century had come to take for granted.
Whereas Wesley came to his theology chiefly out of his study of the Bible and his personal experience, Whitehead was a mathematical physicist trying to make coherent sense of deep perplexities created by new discoveries in the early part of this century.
The discovery of Thomas was paralleled by a new confidence that an early sayings source could be identified behind the synoptic Gospels.
His starting point is his discovery of the manuscript of a brief early history of the Movement, entitled Revival of Primitive Doctrine and written in 1840 by a devout and intelligent lay disciple of Newman's called S.F.Wood (the text is published here in an appendix for the first time).
In 1920, for example, one pediatrician, clearly an advocate of late introduction of solids, called the early feeding of solids («early» being six months at this point) the new «liberal diet» and registered his opinion that the «traditional timetable» was still the best for babies.101 Yet by the mid-1920s several doctors were noting in medical journals that, with the relatively recent discovery of «vitamins,» it was necessary to change an infant's feeding timetable.102
Richard Hargreaves, executive director of imaging at Merck Research Laboratories, says, «Nuclear imaging using radiotracers gives the opportunity to put your arms around proof - of - concept very early in a drug discovery and development program by focusing the selection of doses to study on those proven to deliver enough drug to the target therapeutic sites.»
«The paper by Harmand et al describes a truly pathbreaking discovery, and moves the date of the earliest flaked stone artifacts back by almost 3/4 of a million years.
«Mastodon discovery shakes up understanding of early humans in the New World: Broken bones and rocks yield evidence that pushes back the record of early humans in North America by more than 100,000 years.»
This remarkable discovery of the earliest evidence of syphilis between 1320 and 1390 now awaits confirmation by molecular biological tests and proteomics (examination of the proteome using biochemical methods).
He says it is too early to predict any clinical applications for this discovery, which must be confirmed by other researchers.
In the early 20th century, 11,000 - year - old cave paintings of woolly mammoths were found in France, suggesting, along with other discoveries of that time, that the creatures once lived side by side with humans.
Schrum, who led early chemistry research at Moderna and made some of the discoveries behind its initial patents, had left the company by the time the AstraZeneca deal was sealed.
The discovery follows earlier work by the same Italian research team, which found that dogs wag to the right when they feel positive emotions (upon seeing their owners, for instance) and to the left when they feel negative emotions (upon seeing an unfriendly dog, for example).
The study was prompted by the discovery of the world's earliest tin bronze artefacts four years ago in Serbia and the ongoing debate into what significance colour played in the advancement of metal - making technologies.
Early work by scientists at the NIH led to the discovery that the drug AZT (zidovudine) slows the progression of AIDS.
Bottled Lightning by Seth Fletcher (Hill & Wang) During the early 1900s, Thomas Edison failed to perfect an electric car battery but made one crucial discovery: Lithium hydroxide increased his battery's storage capacity.
The idea for this high - throughput, data - driven approach to materials discovery hit Ceder in the early 2000s, when he was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge and found himself inspired by the nearly completed Human Genome Project.
Earlier last year, the PharmBio Growth fund — which is managed by the Economic Development Board * (EDB)-- Chiron Corporation (USA), and Blue Dot Capital Pte Ltd jointly started the nation's first drug discovery company, S'Bio.
This discovery, like earlier work on supercapacitors by the lab, depends on the malleable qualities of bentonite clay and room - temperature ionic liquids that serve as both a separator and an electrolyte system and provide a conductive path between a battery's anode and cathode.
By examining striations on teeth of a Homo habilis fossil, a new discovery led by a University of Kansas researcher has found the earliest evidence for right - handedness in the fossil record dating back 1.8 million yearBy examining striations on teeth of a Homo habilis fossil, a new discovery led by a University of Kansas researcher has found the earliest evidence for right - handedness in the fossil record dating back 1.8 million yearby a University of Kansas researcher has found the earliest evidence for right - handedness in the fossil record dating back 1.8 million years.
Moradian - Oldak will couple the MMP - 20 discovery with another study published Nov. 2 in the Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Informatics, which concluded an amelogenin - chitosan hydrogel could repair early tooth decay by growing an enamel - like layer that reduces lesions by up to 70 percent.
This discovery coincides with the recently reported news of the HIV resurgence in the «Mississippi baby,» who was believed to have been cured by early administration of ART.
This latest discovery comes a week after a lab in Albany, N.Y., found high concentrations of aminopterin (a rat poison) in samples from over 60 million cans and pouches of moist meals recalled earlier this month by Canadian company Menu Foods.
This discovery by the scientists at the CRG provides an insight into stem cell - forming molecular mechanisms, and is therefore of great interest for studies on the early stages of life, during embryonic development.
Dark matter particles predicted by supersymmetry — a theory that proposes hidden connections between matter particles and particles that transmit forces — might be an early discovery of the LHC, depending on how much the particles weigh, said CERN director - general Rolf Heuer.
[3] In early 2016, a team of astronomers, also led by Michaël Gillon announced the discovery of three planets orbiting TRAPPIST - 1.
The government's Office of Research Integrity had earlier found Popovic guilty of «relatively minor» misconduct based on what the appeals board called a «handful of words and notations... in one heavily edited paper written by a scientist with limited English skills during a volatile period of scientific discovery a decade ago».
In 2006, for example, a team led by paleontologist Zhe - Xi Luo, now of the University of Chicago, reported the discovery in China of a 164 - million - year - old docodont named Castorocauda lutrasimilis, which apparently not only swam but might also have eaten fish — adaptations not previously known among such early mammals.
But the past decade or two of research, which is marked by the discovery of thousands of specimens of early birds and flying dinosaurs, also shows that feathers were an early evolutionary innovation — even if they probably arose for reasons unrelated to powered flight, such as insulation or sexual display.
In two papers in this week's issue of Science, a team led by Luo and paleontologist Qing - Jin Meng of the Beijing Museum of Natural History reports the discovery of two new, shrew - sized docodonts that boost this picture of early mammalian diversity.
During the early years of my PhD studies, I was very fascinated by the exciting discoveries in the field of signal transduction, in particular how receptor tyrosine kinases are activated to transmit their signals and how protein complexes are formed through defined protein folds (domains) interacting with specific cellular targets.
And, to some extent, pharmaceutical companies are already moving in the direction proposed by Bountra, explicitly outsourcing more and more of the early stages of drug discovery.
In early 2017 scientists announced the discovery of possible desiccation cracks in Gale Crater, which was filled by lakes 3.5 billion years ago.
Nano - TV series, showing the most recent and exciting discoveries in the area of nanotechnology research, released by youris.com in 2010 and early 2011.
Before becoming a full - time science writer, Andy Extance worked for six and a half years in early - stage drug discovery research, followed by brief stint in silicone adhesive and rubber manufacturing.
The platform is part of MD Anderson's Moon Shots Program, launched in 2013 to reduce cancer deaths by accelerating development of therapies, prevention efforts and early detection from scientific discoveries.
Although astronomers detected methane on Titan as early as 1944, it was only the additional discovery of nitrogen 36 years later that generated the immense interest in this cold and distant moon [see «Titan,» by Tobias Owen; Scientific American, February 1982].
The paper built on an earlier theory by influential British computational neuroscientist David Marr and on then - recent discoveries in neural network learning methods.
«Changing the picture of Earth's earliest fossils (3.5 - 1.9 Ga) with new approaches and new discoveries» by Martin Brasier, Jonathan Antcliffe, Martin Saunders and David Wacey in PNAS
Maunakea, Hawaii — Astronomers have spotted a primitive galaxy being devoured by a gigantic neighboring galaxy — a discovery that could provide clues about the early universe.
Over the last few decades, however, as subsequent discoveries pushed back the date for the earliest stone tools to 2.6 million years ago (Ma) and the earliest fossils attributable to early Homo to only 2.4 - 2.3 Ma, there has been increasing openness to the possibility of tool manufacture before 2.6 Ma and by hominins other than Homo.
Hubble's latest discovery of 250 faint galaxies — formed 600 million to 900 million years after the Big Bang — in the early universe using three galaxy clusters to magnify the light given off by these distant objects.
In February of last year, the project announced the first detection of gravitational waves caused by two black holes merging — a discovery that was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics earlier this month.
Santoro's discovery followed earlier breakthroughs by others, including Stahl and DeLong.
Initiated by the discovery of Ralph Steinman at Rockefeller University, New York, in the early 1970s, European scientists were attracted by this exciting field of research early on and continue to make major contributions.
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