Sentences with phrase «lab scale studies»

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The Ecological Applications study's findings are also consistent with an earlier study from Frank's lab that found another scale insect species is more abundant at warmer temperatures due to increased survival rates.

Theorists at Caltech used quantum mechanics to predict what was happening at atomic scales, while experimentalists at the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Berkeley Lab) used X-ray studies to analyze the steps of the chemical reaction.

The lab mounted the small - scale study with the knowledge that the industrial production of nanotubes will inevitably lead to their wider dispersal in the environment.

Attendees at the astrobiology meeting in Arizona showcased an assortment of high - tech devices for next - generation exploration, ranging from microfluidic «life analyzers» and integrated nucleic acid extractors for studying «Martian metagenomics» to exquisitely sensitive, miniaturized organic chemistry labs for spotting tantalizing carbon compounds and minerals at microscopic scales.

In a second study published in the June 6 edition of Nature Communications, Cui and Shougo Higashi, a visiting scientist from Toyota Central R&D Labs Inc., proposed a new battery design that could help solve the problem of grid - scale energy storage.

Previous studies have revealed that human hair, reptile scales and bird feathers evolved from a single ancestor — a reptile that lived 300 million years ago — but this new study from the Fraser Lab at Sheffield has found that the skin teeth found on sharks also developed from the same genes.

That's part of the Thrash Lab's larger research goal: to apply the Gulf of Mexico cultivars towards large - scale microbial biogeography and evolutionary studies.

A large - scale study of two strains of lab mouse by Viola André, Martin Hrabé de Angelis and co-authors shows that the inclusion of nesting material and shelters as environmental enrichment does not impair the scientific assessment of a battery of 164 physiological parameters in mice.

Falk Harnisch stressed that this study will be only a first step «We have now shown the feasibility of such a process line at lab scale.

In the new study, the lab has conducted the first large - scale whole genome sequencing study of asthma drug response in African Americans and Latino children in an effort to pin down the genetic factors contributing to reduced albuterol response more precisely than possible in previous association studies.

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley have created a sort of nanoscale display case that enables new atomic - scale views of hard - to - study chemical and biological samples.

The researchers focused on a process — known as «homeostatic scaling down» — that has been well - studied in lab neurons but not before in living animals.

The Sette lab's research on DENV encompasses large - scale epitope identification (supported by an HHS contract) and diverse studies towards understanding the role of T cells and HLA variants in the development of (or protection from) DENV disease (supported in part by a consortium grant led by Eva Harris at UC Berkeley).

With up to 45 labs across campus engaged in research at any given time — and 130 affiliated professors in departments ranging from neurology and neurosurgery to engineering and computer science — Brown's brain science institute already has built a reputation for studying the brain at all scales, said Diane Lipscombe, the director of the institute since 2016 and a professor of neuroscience.

The two available national - scale studies that examine the economic effects of climate change across U.S. sectors, including the Impact Lab team's American Climate Prospectus, suggested that potential economic effects could be significant and unevenly distributed across sectors and regions.

«It's really amazing that a change in nutrient intake can have such dramatic influences on neuron activity on such a short time scale,» said the study's co-lead author Grant Kauwe, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Haghighi lab.

Partnering with districts and communities throughout the United States will allow the Lab to study practice in the field, examining how pockets of success can be brought to scale.

Federally funded, yet independently run, the labs would tackle the toughest problems facing the nation's schools, conduct large - scale studies using the best research methods, develop innovative curricula, and experiment with new teaching approaches.

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The GAO's new report draws heavily from two national - scale studies: one from the EPA and the other is the American Climate Prospectus, authored by Climate Impact Lab members.

«On the global scale, greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide cause the most concern related to climate change,» said Yun Qian, study co-author and atmospheric scientist at Pacific Northwest National Lab in the US.

Arizona also has, according to a National Renewable Energy Lab study, the third best combination of land area and resource potential in the U.S. for utility - scale solar power plant development (behind Utah and New Mexico).