Sentences with phrase «experiments in his lab at»

Cancer cells are well - known as voracious energy consumers, but even veteran cancer - metabolism researcher Deepak Nagrath was surprised by their latest exploit: Experiments in his lab at Rice University show that some cancer cells get 30 - 60 percent of their fuel from eating their neighbors» «words.»

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And thanks to the Plasticity Labs app that our own office is now experimenting with, he has the data to prove it: average happiness scores at his company, Fibernetics, hover in the high 80s to low 90s — impressively chipper stats that soar above our group's paltry 60 - 80 range.

It is dominated by the far - seeing genius of Josh Boger, who at age 7 does experiments in a lab above his parents» garage (including sending a hapless mouse soaring aloft on a Hindenberg - type contraption he rigs up).

The company is in the midst of experimenting with facial recognition technologies at the company's New York labs, which it is looking at as a possible solution for secure mobile payment transfers.

«This is an experiment in the spirit of learning what these crypto assets are like and how our customers may want to interact with them,» Hadley Stern, senior vice president and managing director at Fidelity Labs, the company's innovation unit, said in an interview.

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Back in 2012, a short film called Montauk from filmmaker Charlie Kessler garnered some attention at The Hamptons Film Festival for its intriguing sci - fi story about a government research lab conducting strange experiments outside of a small American town (which leads to a bunch of weird stuff happening, including a child going missing and a monster from another dimension being released).

To test this theory, we poured a cup (eight ounces) of warm water on the Baby Box mattress in the box (what — you thought only the folks at Consumer Reports get to do experiments in white lab coats?).

He describes «genuine horror at the overweening power of central government and its treatment of citizens either as supplicants... or lab rats in some vast social experiment, designed to improve mankind».

The first lab - based, computer experiment indicated that, in general, people are not good at multitasking, slowing down when they were asked to do more one task.

A lab at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris has created a geodynamo in this way, and the scientists there were able to observe flips in polarity, although critics say that the experiment does not replicate the core's conditions closely enough to be trumpeted as a true success.

Dr Oberst conducted experiments in the labs of CSIRO Black Mountain in Canberra before designing a highly sensitive vibration setup within the anechoic chamber at UNSW Canberra to record sounds of ants and termites walking.

In the meantime, a new analysis from the BaBar experiment, which ran at the SLAC National Accelerator Lab in California until 2008, suggests the standard model is not what it seemIn the meantime, a new analysis from the BaBar experiment, which ran at the SLAC National Accelerator Lab in California until 2008, suggests the standard model is not what it seemin California until 2008, suggests the standard model is not what it seems.

Despite resistance from Navy skeptics, Bond began a series of experiments at the Navy's submarine base at New London, Connecticut, where he was in charge of the medical research lab.

«I really like working in smaller labs — you can take bigger risks and do lots of experiments,» says Williams, who completed her PhD at Yale University.

The electron microscopy provided a crucial piece of the larger puzzle assembled in concert with Berkeley Lab materials scientists and soft x-ray spectroscopy experiments conducted at SLAC's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL).

So far the researchers at the University of Maryland have analyzed the feasibility of the new approach and experiments are underway to test it in the lab.

The technique worked well in lab experiments, but when Eugene Madsen, a microbiologist at Cornell University, and colleagues saw the study, they wondered if the technique could locate bacteria in the field.

Recently the Poverty Action Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology carried out a detailed experiment in Western Kenya that compared mass distribution with a partial - subsidy approach.

In the previously unreported experiments implanting human brain organoids into lab rodents, most of the transplants survived, in one case for at least two months, according to summaries of the two papers being presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Washington, D.CIn the previously unreported experiments implanting human brain organoids into lab rodents, most of the transplants survived, in one case for at least two months, according to summaries of the two papers being presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Washington, D.Cin one case for at least two months, according to summaries of the two papers being presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Washington, D.Cin Washington, D.C..

The other coauthor is Wenchao Wang, who did one of the initial experiments as a graduate student in Strome's lab several years ago when she was at Indiana University.

Researchers Shannon Young, Thomas Wobby and Providence Ryan measure plants in a controlled experiment at the La Selva research lab in Costa Rica.

Doug Dluzen, currently a graduate student in the Department of Pharmacology at Penn State University, says that he works in a fairly large lab where there are outlets to discuss research problems, and strategies, and «generally there is someone who has stumbled upon a problem before — being able to discuss my issues can be very helpful when troubleshooting an assay or transfection in the early stages of the experiments.»

In experiments, the «spectral fingerprints» or absorption spectrum, are measured with state - of - the - art facilities like the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

They conducted six experiments involving 456 infants between the ages of eight months and 16 months at Science World's Living Lab located at TELUS World of Science in Vancouver.

In lab experiments using tissue samples cultured from cystic fibrosis patients, scientists at the UNC School of Medicine and the UNC Marsico Lung Institute have shown that a new CF drug counteracts the intended beneficial molecular effect of another CF drug.

He suggests several lab experiments for this purpose, including the firing of a hyperfast bullet or fluid jet at water in a controlled setting to see if it produces luminescence.

Jeffrey Bode, an organic chemist at the University of Pennsylvania, strives for an environment in which lab members feel that they can discuss all experiments — those that worked and those that didn't.

At the Galveston National Laboratory, which houses a biosafety level 4 lab, researchers shut down experiments, euthanized infected animals, put pathogens in cold storage, and autoclaved cell cultures.

In general, it takes people out of the lab and into their offices just when they get really good at doing and designing experiments, and that's a shame.

Still, in December of last year the agency announced that it would phase out monkey experiments at the lab, though it blamed finances, not animal rights or congressional pressure.

The head of Georgiou's lab, neuroscientist Todd Gould, learned that antidepressant researcher Ronald Duman at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, was seeing similar effects with female researchers in his lab that were working on ketamine experiments.

«It's a huge lab experiment, but there are no controls,» says Harriet Perry, a fisheries biologist at the University of Southern Mississippi's Gulf Coast Research Laboratory marine - science centre in Ocean Springs, Mississippi.

During the next three decades, he conducted a series of lab experiments at Cornell and Virginia Tech and found that rats given a brief initial exposure to aflatoxin tended to develop liver cancer when fed casein, the main protein in milk.

For the purpose of additional experiments, the researchers generated myocardial cells from embryonic stem cells and human skin cells, in collaboration with the lab headed by Prof Dr Jürgen Hescheler at the University of Cologne.

In addition, hiring postdocs at academic institutions in the United States is solely the responsibility of individual PIs, who need experiments to be done and papers to be written so that they can continue to get funding for their labIn addition, hiring postdocs at academic institutions in the United States is solely the responsibility of individual PIs, who need experiments to be done and papers to be written so that they can continue to get funding for their labin the United States is solely the responsibility of individual PIs, who need experiments to be done and papers to be written so that they can continue to get funding for their labs.

Physicists in the Netherlands performed quantum entanglement experiments using electrons in diamonds located at labs (left and right of aerial photo) far enough apart to confirm that no hidden signal could be influencing the results.

After answering a newspaper ad, volunteers (all men) arrive at a Yale University laboratory, where a man in a gray lab coat asks for help in a «learning experiment.»

Jingjing Liang, the lead author and a doctoral student at Guangxi University who had a fellowship at Penn Vet to work in the Harty Lab for two years, performed the experiments in collaboration with Cari Sagum and Mark Beddford of the University of Texas at Austin, Sachdev Sidhu of the University of Toronto, Marius Sudol of the National University of Singapore and Ziying Han of Penn Vet.

«This is the first time an experiment has directly linked the disappearance of the density waves and their associated nanoscale crystal distortions with the emergence of universally free - flowing electrons needed for unrestricted superconductivity,» said lead author J.C. Séamus Davis, a senior physicist and Director of DOE's Center for Emergent Superconductivity at Brookhaven Lab and also a professor at both Cornell University and the St. Andrews University in Scotland.

At the time, culturing stem cells was notoriously hard, but after combing through previous lab experiments, another postdoc in Clevers's lab, Toshiro Sato, concocted a mix of growth factors that coaxed the gut stem cells to replicate in a dish.

In 1979, he and Ciechanover, then a postdoctoral student, did a series of experiments while visiting Rose's lab at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in PhiladelphiIn 1979, he and Ciechanover, then a postdoctoral student, did a series of experiments while visiting Rose's lab at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphiin Philadelphia.

He would spend his Saturday mornings in the lab conducting microbiology experiments and got exposed to the science of DNA during a summer internship at the university's Center for Sickle Cell Disease.

Lab - based experiments can also help answer important questions about early human development and the development of sperm and eggs cells, says Robin Lovell - Badge, a developmental biologist at the Francis Crick Institute in London and a member of the Hinxton Group steering committee.

Francesco Panerai of Analytical Mechanical Associates Inc., a materials scientist leading a series of X-ray experiments at Berkeley Lab for NASA Ames Research Center, discusses a 3 - D visualization (shown on screens) of a heat shield material's microscopic structure in simulated spacecraft atmospheric entry conditions.

Prosin says that as far as she knows both chimps still reside in a lab at Stony Brook, where they are the subjects of experiments to understand the evolution of human bipedalism.

Sweeney delved into work in Bais's lab at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute after school, on weekends and during summer breaks, culturing an estimated thousand Arabidopsis plants for experiments.

Physicists running a competing experiment at the CERN lab outside Geneva announced that they had created such a plasma in 2000.

Set up experiments for whole week: Start cell cultures, book microscopes, make buffers, and even find time over the bacterial incubator for a spot of eyelash fluttering at the sexy postdoc in the lab next door.

If the dark matter were warm, it might require different search methods than those currently being applied in underground lab experiments and at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland, Kaplinghat says.