Sentences with phrase «lab researchers not»

The Raes Lab researchers not only identified associations with antibiotics and laxatives, but also with hay fever drugs and hormones used for anticonception or alleviation of menopause symptoms.

Not exact matches

It's not all bad for Theranos; in fact, researchers found that for the most part, Theranos's measurements were in line with the other labs — and cost much less.

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.

Eliot Higgins, a researcher with Kings College London and Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, pointed out this was not the first time the Russian Defense Ministry's social media accounts were caught lying.

Memphis Meats wasn't the first company to explore lab - grown meat products: Dr. Mark Post, a Netherlands - based researcher, produced the world's first lab - grown burger in 2013, in research originally financed by Google's co-founder Sergey Brin.

With its festival atmosphere and a panel of judges from the worlds of venture capital and communications as well as science, the Skolar Award contest also expresses a somewhat subversive notion: that researchers need not only to discover important new knowledge, but also to convey it beyond the lab and readers of scientific journals so that society at large can understand it, value it, benefit from it, and support it.

And researchers generally shied away from clinical research on any patented genes — a 2003 survey found that 53 percent of genetics labs decided not to develop a new genetic test because of a patent or license.

Then, to ensure their results in the lab weren't a fluke, researchers released a smartphone app that simulated the lab experiment cheaply and on a larger scale.

The researchers haven't yet seen their gauzy networks of silicon coalesce into miniballs of lightning in the lab, but they're still trying.

Human norovirus can't be grown easily in a lab, and for this reason, the researchers choose to study it in mice.

«While 80 percent might not sound «near perfect,» most researchers no longer believe that 100 percent pure cubic ice is attainable in the lab or in nature,» she said.

«So it is not just one researcher in a lab by himself or herself; it is lab technicians, postdoctoral fellows, research assistants, and on and on.»

Advances needed to make the combined technology usable outside of a lab are not far from reality, the researchers say.

The bacterium, Wolbachia, is not naturally found in the Aedes aegypti mosquito, but researchers with Eliminate Dengue have found that when they infect mosquitoes with the bacteria in the lab, it prevents them from transmitting dengue, chikungunya and yellow fever.

So far, researchers have mostly turned on genes with CRISPRa in cells growing in lab dishes, says Charles Gersbach, a biomedical engineer at Duke University not involved in the new study.

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.

«We believe that there is a threshold effect whereby the levels of Klotho, dictated mostly by the age of the patients, are crucial in determining whether they will benefit from this treatment or not,» said Reeti Behera, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher in the Weeraratna lab and first author of the study.

The program works like this: Full - time faculty members with independent research programs (postdocs are not eligible) apply via the program's Web site; researchers holding equivalent positions in industry of nonacademic labs may also apply.

In Tokyo, meanwhile, a spokesperson for the University of Tokyo Hospital confirmed in a phone interview that Moriguchi is on staff as a project researcher, but emphasized that the work apparently reported in New York was not carried out in the hospital's labs.

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

Demir, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Dave Worley, Ph.D., at Auburn University, wants to expand the use of N - halamines into the medical and food industries.

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 is happening worldwide, and not just in Antarctica,» said Andriuzzi, who is a researcher in the lab of University Distinguished Professor Diana Wall.

If risk managers came to labs not as occasional inspectors but as frequent visitors, and «people were used to seeing them and it wasn't such an abrasive interaction,» they could then spend time «talking to researchers and understanding the research and observing what's going on and helping» to minimize risks.

The mtDNA sequence the researchers claimed to have obtained from the fossil is quite common in Europe today, making it difficult to rule out the possibility that someone not on the team touched the sample or the lab equipment used in the analysis, says evolutionary geneticist and ancient DNA expert Hendrik Poinar of McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada.

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.»

Next time you visit a science lab and see someone using a Nintendo Wii, it may not be because researchers are slacking off.

Reliable figures on lab notebook practices are not available, but it is widely agreed that a large majority of university researchers still use paper.

«At the time Hugh started this, if you had asked anyone in prosthetics, they would have told you that the ankle requires so much power that you could not build a lightweight, compact, quiet one,» says Bruce Deffenbaugh, a longtime researcher at the MIT Media Lab who worked on the project.

Those hoping for quick clinical success should remember it takes time for revolutionary treatments to go from lab bench to bedside, says Andras Nagy, a stem cell researcher at Mount Sinai Hospital's Lunenfeld — Tanenbaum Research Institute in Toronto, who has not been directly involved in Yamanaka's work.

The researchers found that two out of every five (40 percent) variants noted in the DTC raw data were incorrectly reported and could not be verified by further diagnostic lab tests.

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.

Kristen Marhaver, who began this work while she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California at Merced, USA, said: «Now that we've successfully reared juvenile Pillar Corals in the lab, not only can we study them in more detail to find out what factors could be threatening their survival in the wild, but it also means that we can try to out - plant a small number back to the reef.

Several USAMRIID researchers have been grumbling about the decision, which seems to have caught them by surprise, according to a government official not connected to the lab.

For similar reasons, researchers agree that naming the new virus, a distant cousin of SARS, after Jeddah or Saudi Arabia would not be wise; Fouchier says that's why he named it after his lab instead.

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.

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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.

I was surprised and disappointed, therefore, to find that fully two - thirds of the book is written specifically for new biomedical researchers, and not for all types of «lab people.»

Pauling's theory was not tested until the group of researchers — comprised of Eric Isaacs, Donald Hamann and Phil Platzman of Bell Labs; Bernardo Barbiellini, now at Northeastern University; Abhay Shukla of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF); and Christopher A. Tulk of National Research Council of Canada — devised a clever experiment.

Seitz seized an opportunity to work with microbiologist Jill Banfield of the University of California, Berkeley, for several months, and Rambo intends to rotate through several labs if he can't find space in the lab of a Harvard University researcher.

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.

The good news is that most of the errors occur when researchers interpret the data for submission to a journal, not during actual experiments in the lab.

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.

Researchers, she adds, need to look not just in front of them on the academic path but also all around them at the job options in other sectors, making the best choice for themselves rather than the best choice for their labs.

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.