Sentences with phrase «lab scientists made»

Beyond inventions that revolutionized daily life, Bell Lab scientists made fundamental discoveries — such as the wave nature of matter and the microwave background radiation from the big bang — earning six Nobel Prizes including the one shared in 1997 by Secretary Chu for a method of trapping atoms with lasers.

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To fill the need for silk in the future, scientists are capable of making the proteins in a lab, but sometimes mother nature does it best.
I mean, isn't a scientist «playing god» as it were by creating life out of nothing and if this «abomination» is made in the lab and not in a womb, does it count as even human?
Made from seaweed, agar is the same stuff scientists use in the bio lab for petri dishes.
Processed foods that we're against are foods that you could not make without the help of scientists and lab equipment.
«The kilometre of rock above the lab filters out cosmic rays, making it one of the few radioactively quiet places accessible to scientists in the world.»
Inspired by Polish scientist Marie Curie and other famous scientists, this chandelier is made from real lab test tubes.
I put off making a decision by taking a research scientist position in the lab of a new PI so that I could see the job up close, with all its benefits and struggles.
The scientists believe that because they included eight mutations in their lab - made viral strain, it is unlikely the virus will revert back to its original, more dangerous form (a common concern with any live - virus vaccine).
A young scientist doing a postdoc in his Ph.D. lab is wondering whether he should make a move and, if so, whether it should be to another postdoc position or a more independent one.
Scientists have made a key discovery that could speed up the production of cells in the lab for studying diseases such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease.
Harshman said that whereas a biologist might be offered $ 35,000 a year at one laboratory, a photonics scientist in a different lab might make $ 61,000 a year.
It also proved useful for making contacts: I eventually applied to do graduate studies in plant physiology at Queen's University, in the lab of a scientist with whom I had worked the previous summer.
«This work was driven by talented scientists in the lab: graduate students Lian He and Peng Tan and postdoctoral research fellow Guolin Ma, Ph.D.,» Zhou said, «who fearlessly undertook this daunting project and overcame all the challenging obstacles to make this technique into reality.»
Petrovic says the team is making it possible for scientists to virtually explore reefs in the lab, allowing them to time - travel from year to year and track the growth and decline of individual colonies, and to study spatial and temporal relationships across the reef.
It should also make the lab more attractive to bright young scientists.
Many young scientists feel split between their Ph.D. obligations — making revisions, cleaning their lab space, or writing those last few papers — and their new job.
The Yahoo! Labs scientist and author explains why the «law of the few» is bunk, why history is full of failed hedgehogs, and why we can't make good predictions about just those things we most want to predict
As equipment makers and service providers try to make single - cell sequencing accessible to more labs, scientists at the forefront of the field are pushing the technique into entirely new territory.
The price of synthesis is dropping, too, which makes the idea of citizen scientists doing synthetic biology in home labs more feasible.
New Scientist magazine reports that Jet Propulsion Lab researcher Adrian Stoica told a meeting in England last month that gait analysis from satellites should make it possible to identify people by their walk and because of the angle of the satellite you have a better chance of getting the image of the shadow than of the actual walk.
There was a time when the only choice scientists needed to make about their lab notebooks was whether to use a blue pen or a black one.
Figaro, a Goffin's cockatoo (Cacatua goffini) housed at a research lab in Austria, stunned scientists a few years ago when he began spontaneously making stick tools from the wooden beams of his aviary.
Through decisions made haphazardly 60 years ago, «we chose as a country to staff our labs primarily with graduate students and postdocs and a few non-tenured staff people, while other countries have permanent ways of staffing their labs,» often with PhD staff scientists in career positions, says Georgia State University economist Paula Stephan, an authority on the academic labor force.
Some researchers test AI systems like scientists test lab rats, tinkering with the inputs to see how they affect behavior in hopes of illuminating the decision - making process.
Scientists can already make mammal eggs stand in for sperm in a lab.
Base pairs that exist only in the lab, rearranged chromosomes, even entire synthetic genomes — all have been made by scientists in recent years.
«If we want to make an impact in the cognitive systems era, we need to understand how the brain works,» said Matthias Kaiserswerth, a computer scientist who's director of IBM Research in Zurich, speaking during a media tour of the labs on Wednesday.
For her debut article for Science Careers, Laura S. Malisheski talked to 11 scientists who work part - time or have otherwise made adjustments to their schedules to be in the lab less and at home more.
These jobs are ideal for scientists who are tired of the lab and itching to make a difference in people's lives.
To make sure experimenters can get the most out of a major X-ray laser upgrade that will produce beams that are 10,000 times brighter and pulses up to a million times per second, the lab has created a new position — head of experimental design at the Linac Coherent Light Source — and hired an X-ray scientist to fill it.
The team has made all the information needed to create this system freely available, so that plant scientists in other labs can use ACME in their own research.
When scientists setup an artificial ecosystem in the lab, complete with ladybugs, parasites, and lacewings, insects that like to make a meal of wasp cocoons, they found that when the cocoons were between the legs of a living ladybug, only 35 % were killed by predators, compared with 85 % if the cocoon was attached to a dead ladybug, and nearly 100 % if it was free from any ladybug.
In any laboratory, a good lab notebook makes the data completely clear and provides enough information about your experimental technique to allow another trained scientist to reproduce your work, even years from now.
Scientists need evidence from both lab - raised and wild - caught mosquitoes to make the case that a given species is helping spread the virus.
To make matters more complicated, several scientists, including Drosten, say the central conclusion of the NEJM paper — that the MERS virus jumped from a camel to a human at a Saudi farm — is flawed and most likely the result of lab contamination.
Rotwang's shock of unruly hair, white lab coat, and maniacal eyes made him the prototype for the mad movie scientist, while his black - gloved prosthetic hand became a motif used in many films, most notably in...
His own situation illustrates why it doesn't make sense to push older scientists out of the lab en masse, he adds.
Such a material — a photovoltaic glass that is also reversibly thermochromic — is a green technology researchers have long worked toward, and now, scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have demonstrated a way to make it work.
«Our research adds weight to the idea that effective antifungal drugs can target even those mitochondrial proteins that are highly conserved in humans and fungi, and that this could be a way to make a broad spectrum antifungal combination therapy that would be less susceptible to resistance,» says Benjamin Vincent, a former graduate student in Whitehead Member Susan Lindquist's lab who is now a scientist at Yumanity Therapeutics.
Even though you won't find me in the lab any more, the successful introduction of my own product makes me feel just as excited as a scientist after a great discovery.
Along with scientists and engineers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories, the Berkeley Lab crew made up the so - called «Lab Team,» called in by state officials for their expertise in well integrity and well - flow modeling.
The findings were made by an international team of researchers led by Ms Caitlin Gionfriddo and Dr John Moreau from the University of Melbourne, and also included scientists from the Centre for Systems Genomics at the University of Melbourne, the US Geological Survey and Lawrence Livermore National Lab.
«Poor cementation will make reefs softer and therefore more vulnerable to erosion,» says senior marine scientist Richard Aronson at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama, who was not involved in the research.
The growing level of teamwork in metabolomics makes these features crucial to scientists collaborating internationally, because they seek consistency in NMR data coming out of different labs.
The anthrax scare at a US lab is unlikely to make anyone ill, but it suggests we should be very careful about scientists creating highly dangerous pathogens
The new resist effectively combines the material properties of two pre-existing kinds of resist, achieving the characteristics needed to make smaller features for microprocessors, which include better light sensitivity and mechanical stability, says Paul Ashby, staff scientist at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry, a DOE Office of Science user facility.
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), who have made important findings on the dangers of thirdhand smoke and how it adsorbs strongly onto indoor surfaces, have published a new study assessing the health effects of thirdhand smoke constituents present in indoor air.
Other scientists at Bell Labs have made scientific breakthroughs leading to advances such as the invention of the transistor, Chu said.
Exposure to the main ingredient of polycarbonate plastics can modify brain formation in female mouse fetuses and make the lab animals, later in life, display a typically male behavior pattern, scientists have announced.
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