Sentences with phrase «lab researchers took»

Using the world's most powerful x-ray laser, an international collaboration led by Berkeley Lab researchers took femtosecond «snapshots» of water oxidation in photosystem II, the only known biological system able to harness sunlight for splitting the water molecule.

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Now, the researcher and bionics expert is the co-director of the Center for Extreme Bionics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)-- a unique research lab that began with the idea of taking prosthetics to the next level.

There may also be other applications from this work, they say: Researchers could similarly take other viruses apart in the lab, scour them for important mutations and create vaccines against a plethora of other infections.

Researchers are therefore hoping that minimally invasive autopsies (MIAs)-- which take fluids and bits of tissue from a half - dozen organs and examine them in the lab — can substitute for full autopsies and provide critical mortality data.

«The researchers have taken a technique that most in the field thought would be impossible for complex organs such as the kidney, and have painstakingly developed a method to make it work,» says Jamie Davies at the University of Edinburgh, UK, who was part of a team that last year made some headway in their attempts to grow kidneys from scratch in the lab.

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.

For example, she developed the company's «New Medicines» venture, which takes an open approach to drug discovery by encouraging UCB researchers to collaborate with independent research labs outside the company.

British researcher Jonathan Hobley at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering recommends that foreign scientists begin networking as soon as they arrive — taking advantage of the high density of labs.

The many roles she plays — researcher, entrepreneur, marketer, evangelist — inspired this photo illustration, taken in her UCLA lab.

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.

However, it could take several days to remove trees felled by the storm, clean up debris, and just take stock of the water damage, Kolen says, and it's unclear when researchers will be able to return to their labs.

Zheng, together with Leah Boyer, then a researcher in Gage's lab and now director of Salk's Stem Cell Core, generated diseased neurons by taking skin cells from patients with Leigh syndrome, reprogramming them into stem cells in culture and then coaxing them to develop into brain cells in a dish.

The researchers found that the protein, called VRC07 - αCD3, triggered the activation and killing of latently HIV - infected helper T cells when the cells were taken from patients on antiretroviral therapy and then incubated in the lab with the patients» own killer T cells.

In lab experiments, scientists found that the longer it took the rock to cool, the larger the resulting crystals, allowing researchers to use crystal size to determine how long a rock was hot and its electrons susceptible to alignment by magnetic fields.

The animal rights group had run numerous ads alleging that researchers at an NIH lab in Poolesville, Maryland, were traumatizing baby rhesus macaques by taking them away from their mothers and addicting them to alcohol.

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 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.

To investigate the relationship between temperature and immune response, Iwasaki and an interdisciplinary team of Yale researchers spearheaded by Ellen Foxman, a postdoctoral fellow in Iwasaki's lab, examined the cells taken from the airways of mice.

But the researchers retracted the finding 2 years later (SN: 8/4/01, p. 68: Available to subscribers at Researchers take an element off the table), after other labs couldn't reproduce tresearchers retracted the finding 2 years later (SN: 8/4/01, p. 68: Available to subscribers at Researchers take an element off the table), after other labs couldn't reproduce tResearchers take an element off the table), after other labs couldn't reproduce the results.

A post-doctoral researcher, Karthik Masagounder, who is in charge of nutritional studies, took me around a lab building at CERC.

To save the life a young boy who lost most of his skin (left, red), researchers took a small bit of his remaining skin (gray) and grew skin stem cells in the lab.

Researchers took cells from leaves of the most productive trees and grew them in a lab dish to produce cloned seedlings.

To take just one example, L'Oréal alone has labs staffed with 2500 researchers and a team of dermatologists around the world, and the company registered 420 patents for innovative ingredients in 2001 alone.

Inspired by dynamic shifts in pH due to upwelling — the movement of nutrient - rich water toward the ocean surface — the researchers took urchins from the Santa Barbara Channel and brought them into the lab.

While quantum technologies remain grist for science fiction, a team of researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have taken an important step towards efficient light generation, the foundation for future quantum networks.

Taken as a whole, NSF's labs are the pushing the boundaries, not only to adapt and create technology, but also to train the next generation of researchers, in their drive to enhance the technology available to the disabled.

In the new study, Mogil told the researchers in his lab to inject an inflammatory agent into the foot of a rat or mouse and then take a seat nearby and read a book.

Then the researchers took the study outside the lab, asking participants to record their own emotions and the emotions of their partners six times a day for two weeks using a cell phone.

It connects more than 2,500 researchers around the world with the data generated by millions of particle collisions taking place each second at Brookhaven Lab's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC, a DOE Office of Science User Facility for nuclear physics research), and the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe.

Neuroblasts took four weeks to form and eight weeks to mature into neurons, slower than neurogenesis reported in lab dish experiments, so researchers plan to conduct experiments to determine if the slower pace helps the newly generated neurons properly integrate into their environment.

Using lab - grown mouse astrocytes with variant forms of NHE9, the researchers found a change in the pH (acidity) inside cellular compartments called endosomes, which in turn altered the ability of cells to take up glutamate.

The Berkeley Lab researchers looked at images from Landsat 8, a satellite that takes detailed images of the entire Earth every 16 days, comparing images from before and after the hurricanes and eliminating effects due to clouds and shadows.

That's why a team of researchers from the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Joint Genome Institute (JGI) took one of the most popular clustering approaches in modern biology — the Markov Clustering (MCL) algorithm — and modified it to run quickly, efficiently and at scale on distributed - memory supercomputers.

That's why the researcher started taking annual photos of her moles back when he was a Stanford graduate student working in a genomics lab.

He believes the researchers and labs collaborating on the project are particularly well suited to take on the challenge, bringing to bear expertise in organic and medicinal chemistry (Fasan), drug delivery technologies (Benoit), and the physiopathology of bone marrow during myeloid malignancy (Frisch).

The film takes place mostly in a Berkeley lab where a group of young medical researchers are developing an experimental new serum designed to prolong the neural activity of coma patients.

Taking us behind the scenes with today's foremost researchers and pioneers, Garreau reveals that the super powers of our comic - book heroes already exist, or are in development in hospitals, labs, and research facilities around the country — from the revved up reflexes and speed of Spider - Man and Superman, to the enhanced mental acuity and...

Taking us behind the scenes with today's foremost researchers and pioneers, Garreau reveals that the super powers of our comic - book heroes already exist, or are in development in hospitals, labs, and research facilities around the country — from the revved up reflexes and speed of Spider - Man and Superman, to the enhanced mental acuity and memory capabilities of an advanced species.

Conceived in dialogue with the exhibition The Shadows Took Shape, this panel discussion will be moderated by Nettrice Gaskins, Ph.D. candidate and researcher at Georgia Tech's Experimental Games Lab (EGL)(part of the Digital Media program at the School of Literature, Communication and Culture), and feature artists Coco Fusco, Jacolby Satterwhite and Saya Woolfalk, whose works are included in the two exhibitions currently on view at the Studio Museum, The Shadows Took Shape and Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art.

The Berkeley Lab researchers looked at images from Landsat 8, a satellite that takes detailed images of the entire Earth every 16 days, comparing images from before and after the hurricanes and eliminating effects due to clouds and shadows.

Here is a picture of a researcher taking a core from a very old tree that is then sent to a lab to have it's ring widths measured.

It took more than a week for AMD to respond to CTS Labs» report because the third - party security researchers gave the well - known semiconductor company only a day to read it.

Consistent with the researchers» expectations, couples who were more affectionate during the positive interaction evidenced greater marital satisfaction and stability down the road, even after taking into account how satisfied the couple was at the time of the lab visit.