Sentences with phrase «lab researchers did»

The Berkeley Lab researchers did not originally set out to develop a thermochromic solar window.

Not exact matches

Not long ago, researchers at the University of Manitoba's Human - Computer Interaction Lab conducted a study in which participants were asked to do 80 minutes of painfully dull drudge work under the supervision of a human, or that of a computer named Nao.

(The reality is that many retirees do naturally vary their income anyway outside of the confines of the retirement researcher's lab.)

Working in a Harvard Physics Department lab, a team of researchers led by Harvard Professors Mikhail Lukin and Markus Greiner and MIT Professor Vladan Vuletic has developed a special type of quantum computer, known as a quantum simulator, which is programmed by capturing super-cooled rubidium atoms with lasers and arranging them in a specific order, then allowing quantum mechanics to do the necessary calculations.

Ban and Poul Nissen, a membrane protein researcher at the Aarhus University in Denmark who was also doing a postdoc in Steitz's lab at the time, pushed to determine the structure of the large subunit of the ribosome at high resolution.

«I think we need to do more work to see if there are any limitations to the number of genes CRISPR - on can activate at a time,» says Haoyi Wang, a co-author and postdoctoral researcher in the Jaenisch lab.

Our program also includes an extensive undergraduate component, an outreach component that provides short - term opportunities for biologists to enhance their quantitative training, and opportunities for graduate students to do collaborative research with full - time staff and postdoctoral researchers at UT in computational ecology, or with a variety of researchers at Oak Ridge National Lab and private firms.

As one researcher told us: «Twenty labs could do this within three months, so we'll soon know whether it's real.»

She had no intention of following a traditional «publish or perish» academic route where «most researchers don't ever come out of the lab and interact with the community,» she says.

«Innovation is fundamental to all aspects of our business,» adds Norbert Bischofberger, Gilead's executive vice president, research and development, and chief scientific officer, «from what our researchers do in the lab to how we think about reaching patients to the way we work with government, public health, and industry partners.»

This striking increase does not appear to reflect a vast new influx of researchers into America's academic labs, however.

To figure out why birds do this, researchers implanted sensors in the wing and primary flight muscles of three pigeons, and had them traverse steep inclines in the lab.

Nipah is so deadly that work with the virus itself can only be done in biosafety level 4 (BSL - 4) labs where researchers wear tightly sealed hazmat suits with internal oxygen supplies.

Researcher Casey Gifford, Arreola's mentor at Gladstone, asked me not to name the disorder or the gene that her lab is tinkering with — she doesn't want to alert any possible competitors.

This discovery of these oversized versions of soldier ants, whose job is to defend the nest, led researchers to create their own supersoldier ants in the lab with the help of a hormone, and, by doing so, offer an explanation for how ants, and possibly other social insects, take on specific forms with dedicated jobs within their colonies.

«This material could be used to help stabilize temperature,» said study co-lead author Fan Yang, a postdoctoral researcher at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry, a DOE Office of Science User Facility where some of the research was done.

Rounding out the author list are Michael Szell, who was a postdoc in the Senseable City lab when the work was done and is now at Northeastern University, and Giovanni Resta, a researcher at Santi's home institution, the Institute for Informatics and Telematics.

In a remote Turkish village, researchers have located a family with a mutation in the leptin gene similar to the one found in lab mice, and — just like the mice — adults with two copies of the mutation are grossly overweight and don't ever go through puberty.

One of the founders of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he flashed a slide of his lab team and gave a warning: Because investigator - initiated grants have become impossible to get, he said, these young researchers don't have «much of a future.»

It is quite remarkable that Shawn Lin's group could do it at this size,» says Rama Biswas, a researcher at Ames Lab.

The researchers don't see the MFN as simply a reflection of detecting mistakes, because the stronger response showed up even when the lab gamblers made a correct choice, such as taking a 5 - cent loss when the alternative was a 25 - cent loss.

The Dutch are doing their best with the Impulse program (worth 600,000 euros over 5 years for young researchers to start their own labs) 9, but neighbour Germany has similar initiatives, such as the Humboldt Foundation's Kosmos program for young scientists, which is worth much more (up to $ 1.1 million / 1.19 million euros over 3 years) 10.

In addition, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) should offer grants explicitly to Ph.D. researchers who want to continue to do research in an academic lab but do not want to become PIs themselves.

The researchers also observed that 6 - week - old germ cells created in the lab do not match a 6 - week - old human germ cell, suggesting that there is a blockage in the development of lab cells that scientists are failing to understand.

So say researchers at E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., which alongside Seattle - based Bio Architecture Lab (BAL) has secured $ 9 million from the Department of Energy to explore seaweed's potential as a feedstock for biobutanol, an advanced biofuel.

Even if this doesn't work, it probably will spur other ideas, either in Romesberg's lab at his company or among other researchers of how to attack the problem.

Researchers in the Caltech lab of Julia Greer, professor of materials science and mechanics in the Division of Engineering and Applied Science, have shown that metallic glasses do have an atomic - level structure — if you zoom in closely enough — although it differs from the periodic lattices that characterize crystalline metals.

Industry «does not have the heart» — or the monopoly profits — to invest in work with the same kind of «long - term payoff» as, say, the transistor, invented in 1947 by a trio of Bell Labs researchers.

This doesn't reflect what many postdoctoral researchers say they want, i.e. to remain working in the lab as a permanent researcher, not necessarily with teaching or academic management responsibilities.

According to the researchers, animals used in lab - based bioassays almost always have abundant food, but in nature, they rarely do.

«We see this as being an important part of new technology coming online to better track the health of shark populations, better understand their behavior and help do a better job with their conservation,» said co-author Paul DeSalles, a researcher in McCauley's lab.

Even when the researchers restricted their analysis to exam questions that didn't require quantitative calculations, but only conceptual reasoning that should have been enhanced in a lab course, they got the same results for the lab benefit: zero.

«I beg of you,...» he implores his fellow researchers, «don't be afraid to call out your lab mates if they're being unsafe.

The lab did not report finding chemicals in its samples, so researchers sent duplicate samples to a lab in Switzerland, which reported high levels of chlorinated compounds in two of its three samples.

The researchers didn't test Bolt in the SMU lab.

He notes, for example, his lab's surprising finding that the mutations connected to transmission do not simply involve the way influenza's hemagglutinin protein binds to cellular receptors, as many researchers assume.

When Courtney needs technical advice, all he has to do is call one of the national labs, he says, where researchers who worked on the parts are happy to offer their services.

The Norwegian analysis was done after researchers at Harvard University found these effects of the medicines in animal tests and in experiments with brain cells in the lab.

«By working through each step so carefully, these researchers demonstrated a level of performance and efficiency that people did not think was possible at this point,» said Berkeley Lab chemist Frances Houle, JCAP deputy director for Science and Research Integration, who was not part of the study.

Now, that's good news, but it doesn't mean that cancer researchers — in the lab or clinic — are resting on any laurels.

However, Robert Durkee, vice president and secretary of Princeton University, says the researchers did nothing wrong and were simply beneficiaries of an overly generous policy to promote collaboration between labs.

The paper is based on work that was done while she was a researcher in the lab of Associate Professor, Susan Parks.

Rather than presenting, as some advisors do, an overly narrow, self - reflective vision of how a science lab ought to be run, she offers an abundance of diverse observations from recently published sources, as well as unattributed (and often conflicting) quotations from personal interviews, to assist young researchers in charting a personal course through science.

«I don't really know what to make of that result,» Juliana Rangel, formerly a post-doctoral researcher in Tarpy's lab and now an assistant professor at Texas A&M, said during the Penn State conference.

If the company bypasses security in an older model iPhone, a judge who might not know the difference between security features of different models could compel Apple to do this again in the future, even if it may not be possible to break newer iPhone security, says Morgan Marquis - Boire, a senior researcher at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab and former member of Google's security team.

In a new study of a Brown University scholarly course on mindfulness that also included meditation labs, researchers found that the practice on average significantly helped women overcome «negative affect» — a downcast mood — but did not help men.

The lab - grown mini-brains, which researchers say are truer to life and more cost - effective than similar research models, came about thanks to the son of two Johns Hopkins scientists and two other high school students who were doing summer research internships.

«This simple and efficient method does away with the need for both cold - press molds and high - temperature CVD treatment,» said co-lead author Junwei Sha, a former student in Tour's lab who is now a postdoctoral researcher at Tianjin.

«But we still didn't know the molecular mechanisms behind this,» says True, a former postdoctoral researcher in the Lindquist lab, and now an assistant professor at Washington University, St. Louis.

In May 2010, the J. Craig Venter Institute announced that its lab had built the first synthetic, self - replicating bacterial cell — that is, researchers inserted a synthetic genome, which did not exactly match the DNA sequence of any natural genome, into an existing working cell; the cell accepted the synthetic genome and reproduced.