Sentences with phrase «lab researchers on»

This year more than 70 current and recent college students and almost 20 high school and college instructors participated in a CSEE program, working with Berkeley Lab researchers on science projects spanning from cancer research to cosmology to biofuels.

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During a tour of the MIT Media Lab on Wednesday, researchers shared a bit about a project that seeks to merge the worlds of technology and magic, according to a report on Mass High Tech's TechFlash blog.

In 2011, after government researchers conducted a series of those tests, the European Commission found that diesel cars were spewing as much as seven times more NOx on actual roads than they were in the lab.

Researchers in my lab think that this impact of influenza infection on muscles is another unintended consequence of the immune response to the virus.

The main campus of Bell Labs was designed so that researchers working on different projects would be forced to interact with one another as they went about their daily tasks.

Companies like 3M and Google have institutionalized the Bell Labs tradition of allowing its researchers to follow their own interests on company time.

The Creative Destruction Lab Rockies (CDL - Rockies) in the Haskayne School of Business wants to talk to researchers and graduate students who are working on potential «next big things» in science and technology that could be commercialized.

On any given day, Canada's leading researchers unravel the mysteries of biology in state - of - the - art labs throughout the Toronto Medical Discovery Tower and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research; early - stage science and technology companies put business plans into action in the MaRS Incubator; organizations across the innovation spectrum grow their businesses in the Heritage Building — the original brick façade of the old Toronto General Hospital.

Here's an update on a story I shared with you last February: Back then, I told you how a team of researchers had examined four published studies by the Cornell Food and Brand Lab and had raised a number of serious concerns about the studies» data.

Related: Nathan Matias, a PhD student at the MIT Media Lab, has posted a terrific summary of a recent seminar given there by Christian Sandvig, Karrie Karaholios and Cedric Langbort on ways that researchers can audit the algorithms that subtly and quietly shape the user experience, with a focus on Facebook's News Feed.

Lab - grown tissues derived from patients» stem cells may also allow researchers to screen drugs and test their effectiveness on diseases like cancer.

Back then, most researchers were working on making supramolecular systems that were able to perform either linear or rotational motions — «but Jean - Marie said, when I arrived in the lab, «You know, the most important mechanical motion in the world is the coiling motion of the proteins in the biological world,»» Barboiu recalls.

At first he worked on a vaccine against Chagas disease, but then he noticed some recent findings made by other researchers in the lab.

Fresh out of the borehole, a mud - covered instrument is moved by crane to an on - site lab, where a team of researchers package, label and analyze sediment.

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.

Researchers will be following up on this with work on additional berkelium compounds that they were able to make in the lab.

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.

In addition to paying to equip the new labs, the university gave the Dunns funding for at least a year's worth of supplies for their research — a luxury in Turkey, where researchers usually rely on grants for all of their funds, including start - up.

So unheard of was what researchers discovered in a protein associated with glaucoma that for over two years they ran it through a gauntlet of lab tests and published a new research paper on it.

Cells inside the brains contract, while cells on the outside grow and push outward, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, discovered from working with the lab - grown brains, or organoids.

«Humans have had far - reaching impacts on ecosystems,» said author Tyler Coverdale, a researcher in the lab of lead author Mark Bertness, chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

«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.

But DOE's Office of Science will spend only half its budget on work by university researchers, with much of the rest going to its ten national laboratories and research facilities, from Brookhaven in New York state to the Pacific Northwest National Lab in Washington state.

In 2011, after spending 8 years as an industry researcher, Arefolov took the seemingly backward step of becoming a postdoc in the lab of Harvard University chemistry professor Matthew Shair to work on developing a promising — and potentially lucrative — new approach to treating acute myeloid leukemia.

More than a year later, when Prasher finished cloning the gene, he called Chalfie's lab only to learn that the researcher was on sabbatical at the University of Utah.

In the lab (at the Paul Scherrer Institute, near Zurich in Switzerland), «gasoline cars emitted on average 10 times more carbonaceous PM at 22 °C and 62 times more at -7 °C compared to diesel cars,» the researchers noted in their study.

She spent last winter and earlier this year assembling a team of researchers, hiring lab managers and filing patents on the brain implant.

«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.»

The Chair of Excellence for young researchers pays $ 250,000 over 3 years — $ 150,000 in the first year — to be spent on equipment and other lab costs as well as salaries for short - term contract staff.

When the frightened creatures froze in place and covered the cavity leading to the gills with their tentacles, the voltage in the water nearby dropped by about 80 %, the researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Subsequent lab tests on two types of sharks revealed that the tactic works beautifully: When the researchers generated voltages to simulate the presence of a resting cuttlefish, the sharks could detect the electronic equipment from a distance of 20 centimeters and struck at it 62 % of the time.

Using a series of genetic landmarks, Nathan Sutter, a researcher in Ostrander's laboratory (and the owner of a chocolate lab named «Maddie») homed in on a short region near IGF1 that comes in more than a dozen slightly different forms.

I gave about 40 thousand dollars to pay for a postdoctoral researcher to work on this problem in Larsson's lab.

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.

► Setting an example we hope will be emulated widely, the new president of RIKEN, Japan's «scandal - tarnished network of national laboratories,» announced plans to restore the labs» luster by «introducing a tenure track system that would retain the best young researchers now on temporary contracts,» Dennis Normile reported Monday at ScienceInsider.

FOLLOWING an astonishing blunder that may have allowed a lethal pandemic flu strain to escape from the lab, researchers are calling for a higher level of security to be imposed on work with flu viruses.

Xiao is a former doctoral student of Huang's at Northwestern who then went on to work as a postdoctoral researcher in Rogers» lab at Illinois.

«To find other materials with similar properties, we focused on the feasibility of exfoliation,» explains Nicolas Mounet, a researcher in the THEOS lab and lead author of the study.

«I've been shocked that almost every time we scan a species, we learn something new,» says Matthew Kolmann, a postdoctoral researcher in Summers's lab whose CT scans of piranhas revealed that the fish tend to leave nasty pinhole bite marks on each other's bones.

In a report on the study, published Feb. 5 in Nature Neuroscience, researchers say the biochemical receptor, known as a G protein - coupled receptor, was present on nerve cells in the lower respiratory tracts of lab mice.

And other Bell Labs researchers recently produced some of the smallest and fastest transistors ever, proving that for now, at least, Moore's Law marches on.

In the past two years, researchers have lab - tested gene drives in yeast1, fruit flies2 and mosquitoes3, 4 that are based on a gene - editing technology called CRISPR — Cas9.

To measure a person's sleep, researchers have always relied on costly and time - consuming approaches that could only be used in a sleep lab.

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.

Using high - speed cameras focused on bats trained to obtain nectar from artificial «test tube» flowers containing honey water in the lab, the researchers» video captured bats hovering in short flights (rarely lasting a second) over the feeders.

Spievack visited Badylak's lab and soon after joined the growing number of researchers who had begun pursuing their own research on ECM.

If you make a mistake once, you end up getting reinforcement through the feedback loop,» said Manuel Müller, a postdoctoral researcher in the Muir lab and lead author on the study.

Now researchers in California and Virginia have identified symbiotic bacteria living on amphibians» skins that protects them from the deadly fungal disease, and later this summer the scientists will collect some of the microbial samples, culture them in the lab, and use the product to inoculate some frogs in California's Sierra Nevada to see if the approach stops chytrid in the wild.

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.

Researchers are still parsing out the precise physiologic effects of cold on the cardiovascular system, but some controlled lab studies run on volunteers have provided clues.

Looking at 250 samples in the lab (116 from cotton swabs of the conjunctiva, 114 from cotton swabs of skin under the eye, and 20 contact lenses), researchers found a higher diversity of bacteria on the ocular surface than on the skin under the eye or on the contact lenses, which was a surprising result, Dominguez - Bello said.