Sentences with phrase «lab researchers used»

Berkeley Lab researchers using a bioinorganic hybrid approach to artificial photosynthesis have combined semiconducting nanowires with select microbes to create a system that produces renewable molecular hydrogen and uses it to synthesize carbon dioxide into methane, the primary constituent of natural gas.

Not exact matches

The «Skygofree» spyware implant has been in use since 2014, according to researchers at Russia's Kaspersky Lab.

Malware authors have used a zero - day vulnerability in the Windows client for the Telegram instant messaging service to infect users with cryptocurrency mining malware, researchers from Kaspersky Lab plan to reveal today.

Moments uses facial recognition technology, which was developed by Facebook's Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) lab, a group of 50 researchers led by Yann LeCun, an expert in a type of machine learning called deep learning.

The researchers were attempting to find new ways to create tissue in a lab setting that can be used to treat some diseases and injuries.

Researchers with New Mexico State University's Chile Pepper Institute in Las Cruces used seeds from a Colorado lab to develop two new chile varieties with improved flavor and aroma after essentially «cleaning up» two existing varieties popular with farmers and chile aficionados.

A few weeks after my trip to Queens, I visited the Stress Neurobiology and Prevention lab at the University of Oregon in Eugene, where a team of researchers led by Phil Fisher, a psychologist, has developed a series of interventions with parents that in many ways parallel the ABC program, though with one major difference: They use digital video as a teaching tool to help steer parents away from behaviors that cause fear and stress in children and toward patterns that promote attachment and self - regulation.

In fact, the researcher hopes to lay that fear to rest this fall with experiments in the new Notre Dame lab in which students will be given a doll to sleep with while their movements are recorded using infrared cameras.

An estimated 2,400 researchers from around the world use the facility annually, according to Brookhaven Lab.

The bacteria were created by researchers in the lab of Frances Arnold, Caltech's Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry, using directed evolution, a technique Arnold developed in the 1990s.

Lacking money to outfit the new lab, Wang and Xin bought used equipment: a single channel DNA sequencer (bought and barely touched by a Harvard Medical School researcher); second - hand centrifuges and pipettes; a reconditioned CytoScan HD system that detects variations in the number of copies of a gene.

Kaczmarek, who came to the lab in 2004, was awarded a Scopus - Perspektywy Young Researcher Award last year for her work using PCR techniques to distinguish the two types of stem canker, which differ in virulence and in their ability to infiltrate and kill the plant.

The researchers then used lab mice to determine how the decrease in natural intestinal flora might be worsening the disease.

In the lab, researchers will try to re-create the Thai results in monkeys to validate a new animal model using multiple low doses.

Using damselfly nymphs (Lestes congener) hatched in the lab, researchers put nymphs of various sizes in two different temperature environments, one a balmy 18 ° Celsius and the other a toastier 24 ° Celsius.

In lab tests, prototype multilayer lenses have shown they can release ciprofloxacin (an antibiotic often used to treat eye and other infections) for up to 100 days, according to a study published in the July issue of Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science by researchers from Children's Hospital Boston, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary's (MEEI) ophthalmology department, Schepens Eye Research Institute in Boston, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (M.I.T.) chemical engineering department.

Researchers from Duke University had previously used CRISPR to correct genetic mutations in cultured cells from Duchenne patients, and other labs had corrected genes in single - cell embryos in a laboratory environment.

Lu's lab is now using this approach to screen for genes related to other disorders, and the researchers have already identified some genes that appear to protect against certain effects of aging.

In a paper published January 2, 2018, in Nature Communications, Berkeley Lab researchers led by the Northen lab report that specific compounds are transformed by and strongly associated with specific bacteria in native biological soil crust (biocrust) using a suite of tools Northen calls «exometabolomics.&raqLab researchers led by the Northen lab report that specific compounds are transformed by and strongly associated with specific bacteria in native biological soil crust (biocrust) using a suite of tools Northen calls «exometabolomics.&raqlab report that specific compounds are transformed by and strongly associated with specific bacteria in native biological soil crust (biocrust) using a suite of tools Northen calls «exometabolomics.»

«The strategy our lab is using to fight SMA is to «repress the repressor,»» said Chris Lorson, a researcher in the Bond Life Sciences Center and professor in the MU Department of Veterinary Pathobiology.

The 100 Island Challenge team, composed of postdoctoral researchers, staff, and graduate students from the labs of Sandin and Scripps ecologist Jennifer Smith, is partnering with scientists and communities around the world to visit 100 different islands and use these novel 3 - D imaging techniques to create photo mosaics capturing every detail of the coral reef structure and ecology.

In addition, the substance used to stick cells together (ViaGlue), will provide researchers with tools to create and test 3D in vitro cardiac tissue in their own labs to study heart disease and issues with transplantation.

While observing young sharks in the lab, researchers at the Marine Biological Association in Plymouth, United Kingdom, serendipitously discovered that the fish might use their toothy tushes instead.

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.

Other researchers have used optogenetics to transmit artificial skin sensations into the brains of mice, but Ko plans to investigate other technologies to find a technique that's best suited for his lab's e-skin.

The researchers used a number of methods, including fluorescence and electron microscopy, in collaboration with Dr. Eugenia Klein of the Institute's Microscopy Unit; a unique system in Prof. Alon's lab for simulating blood vessels in a test tube; and in vivo imaging with Prof. Sussan Nourshargh of Queen Mary University of London.

By using laser - generated, hologram - like 3D images flashed into photosensitive resin, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, along with their academic collaborators, have discovered they can build complex 3D parts in a fraction of the time of traditional layer - by - layer printing.

Using the new gene - editing enzyme CRISPR - Cpf1, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have successfully corrected Duchenne muscular dystrophy in human cells and mice in the lab.

The biomedical device company CryoLife, Inc. is now using the researchers» design to build ring implants for further studies in lab animals, Karp says.

Already, researchers have used CRISPR / Cas9 to edit genes in human cells grown in lab dishes, monkeys (SN: 3/8/14, p. 7), dogs (SN: 11/28/15, p. 16), mice and pigs (SN: 11/14/15, p. 6), yeast, fruit flies, the worm Caenorhabditis elegans, zebrafish, tobacco and rice.

However, by using laser - generated, hologram - like 3D images flashed into photosensitive resin, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, along with collaborators at UC Berkeley, the University of Rochester, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), have discovered they can build complex 3D parts in a fraction of the time of traditional layer - by - layer printing.

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.

The foam is highly porous and its properties can be tuned for use in air filters and as gas absorption materials, according to researchers in the Rice lab of materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan.

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.

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.

In the wake of their successful initial lab tests using small model cats, the researchers are now talking to industrial partners to integrate one of these catalytic converters in full size in a test vehicle.

Contreras - Vidal and researchers with his lab use non-invasive brain monitoring to determine what parts of the brain are involved in an activity, using that information to create an algorithm, or a brain - machine interface, which can translate the subject's intentions into action.

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.

At the University of Helsinki, the researchers from the Digital Geography Lab have been studying whether social media data could be used to understand visitor's activities in national parks.

«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.

Researchers in Kunkel's molecular genetics lab identified a novel enzyme that P. syringae strain DC3000 uses to synthesize auxin.

The lab research used non-radioactive iodine in salted water for the experiment, but researchers say that it will also work in real - world conditions.

In addition, using methods for the analysis of regulatory networks developed by the Califano lab in the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Department of Systems Biology, the researchers identified a number of transcription factors (gene regulators) that have the potential to mimic the environmental signals that trigger papillae to induce new hair growth.

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.

And luckily for the researchers, the preferred diet of this little worm is the bug that for decades has been used in thousands of lab experiments — the bacterium E coli.

The cells will enable researchers to use lab - grown cultures to study how the diseases develop.

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.

Now, a team led by optics researcher Ling Liao of Intel's lab in Santa Clara, California, has used a silicon modulator to achieve pulse speeds of 10 Ghz — comparable to standard telecommunications modulators.

The researchers designed a lab prototype, which now needs to be turned into a prototype for use in real chocolate production lines.