Sentences with phrase «laboratory researchers found»

To replicate this roundabout route in climate models, a team of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers found a way to compute the complex fluxes using statistical distributions of the vertical velocity and the kinds of precipitating particles within the convective clouds.

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In 2015, researchers from Harvard and the Boston Attention and Learning Laboratory published a joint study that found people in their mid-40s — specifically, age 43 — tended to do the best on tests of concentration.
One such system is the Electrolyte Genome, a program designed by researchers at Argonne in collaboration with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California that sifts through thousands of potential battery chemistries to find promising candidates.
A team of Japanese researchers recently found that small samples of iron, when subjected to high pressures in the laboratory, displayed the same heat - transfer properties that Alfè and his colleagues predicted.
Researchers from Tohoku University have been trying to find out how the plasma flow is influenced by its environment via laboratory experiments.
The researchers found between four and 28 viable cells per passport photo — size unit of area — similar to those in clean rooms at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and the Kennedy Space Center in Florida where spacecraft are assembled.
In 1960 a Harvard laboratory measured the warping of time in a gravitational field, and some 20 years later researchers found indirect evidence for the existence of gravity waves.
Using laboratory experiments to study these conditions is difficult, as it is very hard to recreate the extreme pressures and temperatures found on ice giants, researchers say.
Although the researchers emphasized that laboratory results involving cell lines and mice do not necessarily translate to human treatment, they say their findings show that new mTOR inhibitors combined with chemotherapy could become a new treatment strategy for T - ALL.
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences researchers have developed a statistical method to quantify important ocean measurements from satellite data, publishing their findings in the journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles.
Now researchers from the University of Rochester and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory have found out how they do that.
The researchers then monitored the respiratory health of the volunteers with biweekly telephone calls and laboratory visits from September through May — but they did not attempt to find out whether the subjects continued meditating or exercising after the initial eight - week training period.
Scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in collaboration with researchers from University of California campuses at Merced and Davis have found that a secreted protein predominantly expressed in bone inhibits prostate cancer metastasis to bone.
In the Science paper, the researchers derived a quantity related to the fault's slow onset, called the slip weakening distance, and found it to be several orders of magnitude higher that laboratory experiments on rock samples would predict.
If confirmed by other researchers, the planet would not just be an astronomical novelty; Its detection, reported on the e-print server at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (see astro - ph / 9908038), would also be a triumph for a new and potentially powerful technique for finding planets around other stars.
Researchers in my laboratory and elsewhere have found a number of ways in which this happens.
Using yogurt cups, the researchers scooped up the larvae they found and raised them in a laboratory.
In a series of laboratory experiments, the researchers found that antibodies against HSV - 1 remain in the trigeminal ganglion (a group of nerve cells that receives signals from the eyes and face and is a key site of HSV infection) long after active virus infection is cleared, and that these maternal antibodies can travel to the fetal trigeminal ganglia.
Unfortunately, dental researchers are finding it difficult to recapitulate half a billion years of evolution in the laboratory.
Of particular interest to stem cell and regenerative medicine researchers, the finding may lead to laboratory methods to create heart cells that function more like those found in adult hearts.
«These findings are important because they suggest that we may have another tool in our toolbox to combat childhood obesity,» says psychological scientist and lead researcher Jennifer A. Silvers, a post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University in the laboratory of Professor Kevin Ochsner.
Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have recently found evidence that the moon has a hot, liquid center.
The finding by an international team of researchers that includes professors Rony Swennen and Dirk De Waele (Laboratory for Tropical Crop Improvement) bodes well for the Grande Naine, the export banana par excellence, which is very susceptible to the roundworms.
A team of researchers with the Dark Energy Survey, headquartered at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and an independent group from the University of Cambridge jointly announced their findings today.
«The researchers found that buds containing high levels of cinnamic acid and its derivatives were less damaged,» says David Cowan, who heads the team responsible for developing cinnamamide at MAFF's Central Science Laboratory in Slough.
Cancer researchers can find themselves in various settings linked to either academia or industry, working in many areas, from tackling basic questions in the laboratory to testing new drugs and vaccines in the clinic.
In laboratory studies reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the researchers found that these «neutralizing» antibodies prevented a key part of the virus, known as MERS CoV, from attaching to protein receptors that allow the virus to infect human cells.
Researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, California, suggest that high levels of carbon monoxide in the seals» blood has a protective effect — echoing laboratory research on rats and mice that has found the gas has anti-inflammatory properties and can lead to better outcomes after organ transplant.
A study led by researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has found for the first time that thirdhand smoke — the noxious residue that clings to virtually all surfaces long after the secondhand smoke from a cigarette has cleared out — causes significant genetic damage in human cells.
To date the researchers have found the fungus in about 30 frog species from Australia, Central America, and the United States and have shown that it kills frogs in laboratory trials.
In the group that cycled indoors, the researchers compared the new device's biomarker readouts to conventional laboratory analysis of the same sweat and found the two sets of results agreed with each other.
Like a team of laboratory gearheads, Arizona State University (A.S.U.) researchers have found a way to soup up microscopic «nanomachines» that may someday be used to deliver lifesaving medications or test the quality of drinking water in remote regions of the world.
The findings across three independent research papers show that human activity did increase the damage inflicted by Hurricane Harvey, said Michael Wehner, a researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Researchers at the NIEHS, including Kenneth Korach, Ph.D., a co-investigator for the new study, previously found laboratory evidence that lavender and tea tree oil have estrogenic (estrogen - like) properties and anti-androgenic (testosterone inhibiting - like) activities, meaning they compete or hinder the hormones that control male characteristics, which could affect puberty and growth.
«As far as I am aware, this is the first time that researchers have found that an invasive predator (such as the python) has caused an increase in contact between mosquitoes and hosts of a human pathogen,» said Nathan Burkett - Cadena, a faculty member with the UF / IFAS Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory in Vero Beach, Florida.
According to this 2009 article by the late bioweapons researcher Jonathan Tucker, after most smallpox stocks were shifted to the two central repositories, «[a] few scientific research centers also reported finding and destroying vials containing the smallpox virus that had been retained inadvertently in laboratory freezers, sparking fears that other poorly secured samples might exist that could fall into the hands of terrorists.»
«As far as I am aware, this is the first time that researchers have found that an invasive predator (such as the python) has caused an increase in contact between mosquitoes and hosts of a human pathogen,» said Burkett - Cadena, a faculty member with the UF / IFAS Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory in Vero Beach, Florida.
The researchers replicated real - life environments in the laboratory and found that the shape of the spaces and the flow of fluids through them affected bacterial growth and the formation of slimy surface layers called biofilms.
EXOTIC polymers that have been little more than laboratory curiosities should at last be ripe for commercial development, now that researchers have found a way to make them in bulk.
Concerned about the possibility that astronauts might unwittingly be exposed to pathogens that lurk in a spacecraft's surfaces or in air filters — biological contamination has been found in both the ISS and Russia's MIR before — NASA asked researchers at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, to assess the problem.
Glycine, the simplest of the 20 naturally occurring amino acids in living things, crystallizes into a form that exhibits ferroelectricity, researchers from Portugal, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., and Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee have found.
A team of researchers led by Alipasha Vaziri, an associate professor and head of the Rockefeller's Laboratory of Neurotechnology and Biophysics, has found that a molecular motor, called Kinesin - 14, helps to guide the formation of a new microtubule along an existing one, and so directs the formation of bundles.
The researchers hope to partner with other groups in the future to conduct laboratory experiments with microbes to confirm that real - world evolution supports their findings.
A group of people at Osaka University (Eiji Umemoto [Associate Professor, Laboratory of Immune Regulation, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine] and Masayuki Miyasaka [Specially Appointed Professor, Institute for Academic Initiatives]-RRB- and University of Turku, Finland (Akira Takeda, Postdoctoral researcher at MediCity Research Laboratory) has found for the first time that a lipid called lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) plays a vital role in regulating lymphocyte motility within lymph nodes.
However, the researchers also found that the death spiral can be slowed when this communication is blocked using a laboratory method that could inspire pharmacological therapies to treat pathological axon degeneration.
In a find that could transform some of the world's most energy - intensive manufacturing processes, researchers at Rice University's Laboratory for Nanophotonics have unveiled a new method for uniting light - capturing photonic nanomaterials and high - efficiency metal catalysts.
Researchers simulated the environment found inside these planets by creating shock waves in plastic with an intense optical laser at the Matter in Extreme Conditions (MEC) instrument at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's X-ray free - electron laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS).
Soon other researchers began to find more connections between microRNA and cancer, and microRNA research began to spread through medicine and biology — in David Baltimore's words, like «an infection in the laboratory
Now, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine report that a novel laboratory tool that lets them find virus mutations faster and more efficiently than ever before has identified a biological mechanism that appears to play a big role in helping HCV evade both the natural immune system and vaccines.
In laboratory testing, the researchers were able to improve symptoms of the disease in mice, raising hopes that they may have found an avenue for treating people with CMT.
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