Sentences with phrase «lab scientists first»

Berkeley Lab scientists first sounded the warning on thirdhand smoke with a pair of studies in 2010 establishing that nicotine in thirdhand smoke can react with common indoor air pollutants to produce dangerous carcinogens.

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She had first been inspired to study aging when she read Pereira - Smith's papers in the late»80s as an undergrad in St. Petersburg, Russia; after earning her Ph.D., she wrote to the senior scientist inquiring about positions in her lab.

Despite a discouraging first meeting on New Year's day, when I competed for the attention of the lab scientists with a football game being shown on an adjacent television set, I returned later for a real interview.

This image shows (from left) Noah Roy, Ph.D., a postdoctoral research associate in Dr. Zakharenko's lab, and first author Jay Blundon, Ph.D., an associate scientist in Dr. Zakharenko's lab.

Yao - Cheng Li, a staff scientist in Wahl's lab and first author of the new paper, explains that their method focuses on one of the two kinds of protein - protein interactions.

Dedysh, whose first international research experience was in the Tiedje lab, agrees, saying, «Scientists share an interest in research that is the same all over the world.

University and government labs worldwide offer first - rate opportunities for a few gifted scientists to work to understand the basic phenomenon of superconductivity and develop it in ways that will facilitate commercialization.

«This is the first optical an receiver that combines high - speed data transmission rate and rapid power - on and off functionality while being extremely low lower in the «power - on» state (about 88 miliwatts),» said Alessandro Cevrero, the primary author of the paper and a scientist of IBM Research Lab, Switzerland.

«This is one of the first times that people have taken geoengineering out of the lab and into the field,» lead scientist Matthew Watson said Tuesday during a press conference in London.

«Our findings present new potential targets for therapeutic regulation of cross-presentation,» said Filippo Veglia, Ph.D., first author of the study and staff scientist in the Gabrilovich Lab.

Ellen Stofan, NASA's chief scientist, was rendered briefly speechless when she saw the first full close - up Pluto portrait circulating around the lab July 15.

First authorYun Sok Lee, PhD, a project scientist in Olefsky's lab, and colleagues fed mice a high - fat diet.

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have shown for the first time that dark fiber — the vast network of unused fiber - optic cables installed throughout the country and the world — can be used as sensors for detecting earthquakes, the presence of groundwater, changes in permafrost conditions, and a variety of other subsurface activity.

The inspiration to use magnets to control brain activity in mice first struck materials scientist Polina Anikeeva while working in the lab of neuroscientist - engineer Karl Deisseroth at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.

«One big problem we have is that tens of thousands of human genome variants and phenotypes are spread throughout a number of databases, each one with their own organization and nomenclature that aren't easily accessible,» said Julia Wang, an M.D. / Ph.D. candidate in the Medical Scientist Training Program at Baylor and a McNair Student Scholar in the Bellen lab, as well as first author on the publication.

Henig relates the early history of conception in a dish, giving center stage to Columbia University scientist Landrum Shettles, who in 1973 tried to create the first American fetus in a lab before a zealous administrator destroyed the stewing gametes.

«After watching the photoanodes run at record performance without any noticeable degradation for 24 hours, and then 100 hours, and then 500 hours, I knew we had done what scientists had failed to do before,» says Ke Sun, a postdoc in Lewis's lab and the first author of the new study.

«NYGC is thrilled to have this work be our first published example of the explosive power of collaborations between deeply invested biologists like those in the Simon lab including Elana Simon, and thoughtful bioinformatics scientists like Nicolas Robine and NYGC team, who worked together so effectively with the tools of genomic sequencing and analysis to discover this new chimeric protein and cancer target,» says Robert Darnell, head of Rockefeller's Laboratory of Molecular Neuro - Oncology, HHMI investigator, and president and scientific director of NYGC.

First, many academic labs sorely need «recommendations and guidance» — and more — in order to work safely, as shown by this horrifying litany of disasters and near - disasters recounted on Reddit by scientists and students.

Now scientists at Nobel laureate Eric Cornell's lab at the University of Colorado have taken the first pictures of spin waves as they undulate through space.

In 1983, Beddington set up her own lab at Oxford and became one of the first scientists to demonstrate that embryonic stem cells can give rise to any tissue found in a developed body.

The research produced another positive result: exposing emerging scientists to advanced lab techniques, many for the first time.

In a study led by Alexander Pines, a senior faculty scientist with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and UC Berkeley's Glenn T. Seaborg Professor of Chemistry, researchers recorded the first bulk room - temperature NMR hyperpolarization of carbon - 13 nuclei in diamond in situ at arbitrary magnetic fields and crystal orientations.

«We have bioengineered micro-scale heart tissues with a method that can easily be reproduced, which will enable scientists in stem cell biology and the drug industry to study heart cells in their proper context,» said first author Nathaniel Huebsch, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Conklin lab at Gladstone.

Foreign scientists will get their first glimpse of the lab when it hosts a global conference on climate and oceans later this month.

«People have been talking about the possible link between winds and Antarctic sea ice expansion before, but I think this is the first study that confirms this link through a model experiment,» commented Axel Schweiger, a polar scientist at the UW Applied Physics Lab.

As the first of several national laboratories that China intends to launch in the coming years — others will be devoted to brain research, physics, and environmental science — the Qingdao lab will also be a bellwether for efforts to persuade scientists to accept greater government scrutiny and direction in exchange for ample resources.

In the first part of the move, Emmert International and a team of Fermilab and Brookhaven Lab scientists and engineers transported the electromagnet across the Brookhaven Lab site to a staging area by its main gate.

In a first for laser - driven fusion, scientists at a US lab say they have reached a key milestone called fuel gain: they are producing more energy than the fuel absorbed to start the reaction.

Following a brief «tour» through the years leading up to the first Earth Day, he then discusses lessons learned and Brookhaven Lab scientists» research that may be applied, today and in the future, to determine what Earth will be like 50 years from now.

Scientists in the lab of Whitehead Member David Sabatini have for the first time identified a protein that appears to sense the amino acid arginine.

2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the first published paper on Maglev by retired Brookhaven Lab scientists Gordon Danby and James Powell.

Now, it seems, scientists in Sabatini's lab have at least a partial answer, describing for the first time a protein that appears to sense the amino acid arginine.

An international collaboration led by Berkeley Lab scientists has woven the first 3D covalent organic frameworks (COFs) from helical organic threads.

Dutch scientists have used stem cells to create strips of muscle tissue with the aim of producing the first lab - grown hamburger later this year.

Co-founded and directed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) scientist Kristin Persson, the Materials Project uses supercomputers to calculate the properties of materials based on first - principles quantum - mechanical frameworks.

The map, unprecedented in its size and scope, will allow scientists to test theories of dark energy, the mysterious force that appears to cause the accelerating expansion and stretching of the universe first discovered in observations of supernovae by groups led by Saul Perlmutter at Berkeley Lab and by Brian Schmidt, now at Australian National University, and Adam Riess, now at Johns Hopkins University.

Scientists have conducted the first lab experiments on haze formation in simulated exoplanet atmospheres, an important step for understanding upcoming observations of planets outside the solar system with the James Webb Space Telescope.

Scientists at the Bar Harbor - based MDI Biological Laboratory have been awarded a patent — the first for the lab — for MSI - 1436, a potential new heart disease drug that stimulates the repair and regeneration of heart tissue damaged by injuries and heart attacks.

Her lab published the first DNA sequences of the Passenger Pigeon in 2002, and she has since become one of the premiere scientists contemplating the emerging field of de-extinction.

Designer organisms created from scratch in genomics labs won't run amok anytime soon, according to scientists speaking at the first public meeting of President Obama's bioethics commission held here in the nation's capital last week.

Scientists in the lab of Whitehead Institute Member David Sabatini have for the first time identified a protein that appears to be a nutrient sensor for the key growth - regulating mTORC1 metabolic pathway.

Scientists from Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and from UC Berkeley will conduct the first set of experiments using HiRES, Filippetto said, including studies of the structural and electronic properties of single - layer and multilayer graphene, as well as other materials with semiconductor and superconductor properties.

He was the first scientist to make Liquidmetal, a form of bulk metallic glass, in the lab.

As Kissler's lab began to examine whether pTregs play a role in diabetes, the scientists first looked for these cells in the non-obese diabetes (NOD) mouse model of type 1 diabetes.

Breaking the supermassive black hole speed limit — Using computer codes for modeling the interaction of matter and radiation related to the Lab's stockpile stewardship mission, scientists simulated collapsing stars that resulted in supermassive black holes forming in less time than expected, cosmologically speaking — in the first billion years of the universe.

Upon returning to the U.S., Proctor began a challenging first semester at Cornell and resumed her work in the Harrison lab, now working with postdoctoral scientists Armando Bravo and Lidia Campos Soriano on Brachypodium, a model species that stands in for wheat.

Japanese scientists said Monday they had grown mouse eggs entirely in the lab, then fertilised them to yield fertile offspring, a scientific first cautiously hailed by experts in human reproduction.

Using an integrative approach that combined electron microscopy on the Env trimer complex with PGT151 (led by the Ward lab) with the structure of the PGT151 Fab by x-ray crystallography (led by the Wilson lab), the scientists were able to visualize the location of the PGT151 - series binding site on the Env trimer — which includes a spot on one gp41 protein with two associated sugars (glycans), a patch on the gp120 protein and even a piece of the adjacent gp41 within the trimer structure — «a very complex epitope,» said Claudia Blattner, a research associate in the Wilson laboratory at TSRI and member of the IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center who, along with graduate student Jeong Hyun Lee, was a first author of the second paper.

The person responsible for the discovery of PCO bioflavonoids was a French scientist named Dr. Jacques Masquelier, who first tested bioflavonoid - containing peanuts on lab animals and discovered that their blood vessel walls would double in strength only hours after ingesting them.