Through a program called IISME, or Industry Initiatives for Science and Mathematics Education, 12 high school science teachers from throughout the Bay Area spent part of their summer working with Berkeley
Lab scientists on ongoing research projects, conducting and designing experiments and helping to collect and analyze data.
Not exact matches
Not every
scientist gets to spend her days mixing concoctions in test tubes or digging up dinosaur bones; every
lab needs a senior manager to keep research teams
on track and
on budget.
In these lean, early days, Other
Lab has only three full - time employees: Griffith, the mechanical engineer and so - called lead
scientist; Jim McBride, a fellow MIT postdoc and the house physicist (who happens to be
on vacation during my visit); and Jonathan (Jach) Bachrach, yet another MIT guy who is technically a software engineer but like the other two has a far broader purview.
On Tuesday, Uber appointed him as its new chief
scientist overseeing its Uber A.I.
Labs, its new research arm dedicated to A.I. and machine learning.
On the other hand, Biogen has its roots in a Cambridge start - up founded in 1978 by MIT and Harvard scientists working in small, separate labs on then - radical theories, pursuing research dead ends and racking up debt until blockbuster drugs for treating leukemia, MS, and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma brought major commercial succes
On the other hand, Biogen has its roots in a Cambridge start - up founded in 1978 by MIT and Harvard
scientists working in small, separate
labs on then - radical theories, pursuing research dead ends and racking up debt until blockbuster drugs for treating leukemia, MS, and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma brought major commercial succes
on then - radical theories, pursuing research dead ends and racking up debt until blockbuster drugs for treating leukemia, MS, and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma brought major commercial success.
Scientists can then grow the muscle cells and develop them in a
lab the same way the cells would grow
on a living organism.
Other than Post, only a handful of
scientists are working
on lab - grown meat; others believe the future lies in plant - based substitutes, ones so good they could fool even the most discerning palate, although Post maintains that we humans will always have an appetite for the real thing.
That's because it costs
on average, $ 1.2 billion dollars to bring a new drug to market — from the time it is a twinkle in a
scientist's eye, through a decade or more of
lab research, to clinical trials and finally FDA approval.
«Therfore, this implies the force is the guiding enrgy of the universe» «therefore this implies that we are in the matrix» «Therefore this implies, that we are in a petry dish
on some alien
scientists lab table»
Atheist bring nothing good to society... unfortunately they don't have philosophical minds they can't see the big picture... you simply put a monkey in
lab coat
on TV, call them a
scientist, and an atheist will believe anything they say.
The difference is that
scientists go to the
lab and do experiments to try to find accurate explanations; creationists
on the other hand, find a magic explanation and attribute it to what we don't know yet.
Scientists have linked low doses of BPA to obesity, diabetes, thyroid disease, breast cancer, prostate cancer and other illnesses in
lab tests
on animals.
On the other hand, proposed new rules for NIH grantees seek to strictly monitor all ties between academic
scientists and the industry partners required to move treatments from the
lab to patients.
The news came a year after Attorney General Jeff Sessions disbanded the National Commission
on Forensic Science, an Obama administration - era collaboration between the Justice Department and the National Institutes of Standards and Technology that brought together
scientists, judicial players including prosecutors, defense lawyers, federal crime
labs directors in an effort to improve forensic science.
Second, I will work to further support LGBTQ
scientists — whether students, early - career, or otherwise — for example by developing safe spaces by initiating diversity - focused conversations during weekly
lab meetings and visible signage
on my office.
But as the research in Yaniv's
lab progressed, it became clear that
scientists on both sides of the argument had been right: Lymphatic cells do indeed grow from veins, but they originate from a niche within the vein that harbors angioblasts.
Kita spends whole days in the
lab, either working
on her own research or helping students, postdocs, and other
scientists develop their projects.
Many
scientists never receive formal training
on running their
lab but instead learn how to do it from mentors who have been successful.
Building
on Berkeley
Lab's ENIGMA and Microbes to Biomes initiatives, the project
scientists are looking to develop and evaluate microbial amendments, which can be thought of as «probiotics for soil,» to replace the carbon, phosphorus, and other nutrients that have been lost.
«You don't really forget what to do,» she reassures
scientists thinking of embarking
on family life, but you do need some time to regain the necessary self - confidence when you go back to the
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.
The discovery helps
scientists understand the interaction of microswimmers and could help prevent films from forming in microfluidic devices such as
labs -
on - a-chip.
Hughes initially set up a
lab on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland, alongside other distinguished intramural
scientists.
So, I took a job as a research
scientist in the analytical
lab of a smaller chemistry - driven, discovery - based pharmaceutical company located in Vancouver, B.C. With fewer than 100 employees and no products
on the market, it couldn't have been further from the formal corporate work environment I was accustomed to at a multinational company.
Wireless sensors could help
scientists keep track of sleep patterns at home, instead of their having to rely
on lab - based studies or self - reporting.
Two actual, real
scientists, just like the ones working down the hall from you, were having enough fun at work that they decided to take
on the project of creating
Lab Wars.
«We discovered surprising and never - before - seen evolution and degradation patterns in two key battery materials,» said Huolin Xin, a materials
scientist at Brookhaven
Lab's Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) and coauthor
on both studies.
Currently,
scientists rely
on ships, buoys, floats and
lab tests to track the data and although these disparate pieces can construct a baseline of acidification, there are gaps in coverage.
Lab - grown comets and hydrothermal vents are helping
scientists unravel life's strange origins
on a young, sterile Earth.
Although his team continued its research, with other
scientists assuming the principal investigator roles he had held, the
lab lost critical time
on projects funded by grants due for renewal.
«Hopefully we'll be able to get some insight by looking at these rocks into some of the global changes happening that maybe no longer permitted a lake to be present
on the surface,» says Abigail Fraeman, a research
scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion
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.
So, for example, a dull
scientist in a spectacular
lab probably would have a much higher index than a spectacular
scientist working
on someone else's projects in a dull
lab.
20 Still, do you ever get the feeling that some
scientists are just taking out their stress
on lab rats?
Working with
scientists in and out of your
lab is especially important, Frias says, which places great demands
on communication skills.
Walsh and Lee argue in their paper that the growth of team science and the accompanying trend toward bureaucratization, compounded by the increasing emphasis
on lab productivity and the concentration of research resources around major funding initiatives or expensive equipment, may have far - reaching consequences for the training and employment of young
scientists.
For the current study, the
scientists evaluated the drug combinations
on plates in a
lab.
For years,
scientists have been working to develop «
labs on a chip,» portable devices that would perform complex analyses usually only possible in a chemistry laboratory.
But that ecosystem is vigorous and expanding as India builds new
labs, pumps in money, introduces new fellowships, and hires
scientists from India and abroad
on a rolling basis, throughout the year.
It also provides the
scientists lower
on the totem pole — grad students, postdocs, staff
scientists, and others — the possibility of moving among
labs and mentors; their careers need not be tied to a single sponsor.
It's easier to do research in a
lab with more resources and fewer insecurities, but most established
scientists spend less time in the
lab and more time traveling to conferences and invited lectures, in grant - review meetings, and
on other activities.
Now, having proven himself among the world's leading
scientists, Palatnik is taking
on what is probably an even greater challenge: setting up a
lab in Argentina, where he intends to do research that competes with the world's best.
Young
scientists «might spend much of graduate school optimizing computer code for a large physics experiment, or extracting samples in a biology
lab, or doing the statistical analyses
on other people's data,» Walsh and Lee write in their email.
«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.
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.
Reports from the
lab obtained by New
Scientist listed SNP variants
on the X chromosome and chromosome 1 when the fetus was female, and
on the Y chromosome when the fetus was male.
In each case, an expert group calls for, among other things, supporting more postdocs and graduate students
on training grants and fellowships instead of
on professors» research grants, employing more staff
scientists in permanent posts and fewer temporary trainees to do scientific work, providing higher pay and better working conditions for postdocs, and publishing information
on the career outcomes of departments» and
labs» graduate students and postdocs.
«I'm embarking
on the next phase of my professional evolution as an independent
scientist, leaving the Academia - Pharma Complex behind,» he wrote in a blog
on his
lab Web page — another way he had previously won media attention.
Many
scientists are working to develop microfluidic systems — known as
labs -
on - a-chip — that can mix small amounts of chemical reagents or biological molecules.
On a practical level, scientists would like to be able to use lab - propagation techniques on crop plants such as maize that still require normal pollinatio
On a practical level,
scientists would like to be able to use
lab - propagation techniques
on crop plants such as maize that still require normal pollinatio
on crop plants such as maize that still require normal pollination.