Sentences with phrase «laboratory researchers made»

Result: A report to which Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers made major contributions is providing the scientific foundation for climate change preparation and planning in Washington State.

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But the only way we will know the answer to that question is to make sure that whatever helmets female lacrosse players wear meet standards that are based on science, and have been developed after a deliberative and collaborative process by an independent organization, like ASTM, which is not funded by helmet manufacturers (unlike NOCSAE), and which does not just invite, but requires input from equipment manufacturers, product testing laboratories, researchers and governing bodies, in this case US Lacrosse.

In the 1970s, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California focused on the former, boosting laser energy by routing beams through additional lasing crystals made of glass doped with neodymium.

This week, at the Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium, researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Harvard University presented a paper describing a new system, dubbed Veil, that makes private browsing more private.

A leading expert on sustainable buildings, Brown directs the University of Oregon's Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory, where researchers test ways to make structures, including hospitals, radically more energy efficient.

Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory believe that household robots should take advantage of their mobility and their relatively static environments to make object recognition easier, by imaging objects from multiple perspectives before making judgments about their identity.

Graphene - based membranes have mostly been made in small batches in the laboratory, where researchers can carefully control the material's growth conditions.

They would add a liter of the tissue to two liters of seawater and shake the mixture 75 times — no more, no less — to make «the individual light - producing cells pop out of the tissue,» according to Bill Ward, a bioluminescence researcher at Rutgers University in New Jersey who was a post - doc in Cormier's laboratory.

Patents on discoveries made in university laboratories bring in hundreds of millions of dollars annually, which are split among the institution and the researchers named as inventors on the relevant patents in accord with each university's intellectual property (IP) policy.

In a study under way at USP's Neuroimaging Laboratory (LIM - 21), the researchers are now seeking to correlate the cognitive profile observed in the two groups of cocaine - dependent patients with decision - making and resting - state brain activity, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

«I would bet the farm that whaling will continue in the future much as it has, albeit with some flimsy window dressing to make it look like they're complying with the spirit of the ruling,» says whale researcher Phillip Clapham of the National Marine Mammal Laboratory.

Now researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Washington State) along with collaborators at Binghamton University (New York) and the Paul Drude Institute (Berlin) have made a new material that conducts holes, while maintaining much of its transparency.

«It is now time to evaluate how to make the most of satellite and in situ data to help us understand ocean acidification, and to establish where remotely sensed data can make the best contribution,» Peter Land, lead author of the new study and researcher at Plymouth Marine Laboratory, said in a press release accompanying the new study.

... The safety program at UH was not designed to assist researchers in identifying hazards, making risk assessments, and controlling laboratory hazards.»

Now researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) report major progress in cathodes made with so - called «disordered» materials, a promising new type of lithium battery.

Working with a team of researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, Demkowicz investigated how helium behaves in nanocomposite solids, materials made of stacks of thick metal layers.

Young scientists must start making a mark in their field, and many attempt to do so by joining a laboratory that is led by a famous researcher or frequently publishes in high - impact journals.

American scientists, of course, also feel intense pressure to publish — but, Schrank and Lee argue, the structure of U.S. laboratories makes getting away with fraud much harder and researchers therefore much less likely to risk their careers by trying.

«It's taken years of trial and error, making educated guesses and taking baby steps to finally produce functioning human muscle from pluripotent stem cells,» said Lingjun Rao, a postdoctoral researcher in Bursac's laboratory and first author of the study.

Researchers studying viruses in the environment are scrambling to stockpile tiny laboratory filters called Anodiscs after GE Healthcare announced it would stop making them at the end of the year.

Using a variety of geophysics measurements and laboratory experiments, researchers are capable of gaining some degree of insight into material properties under certain pressure conditions without actually being able to make direct observations.

For the first time, last week, the government encouraged Britain's five research councils to make university scientists compete for funding with researchers from commercial and government laboratories.

Although they were named after an analogous magnetic phenomenon — ferromagnetism — ferroelectrics were generally thought to not have magnetic properties, which made me, a budding magnetism researcher, an apparently odd fit for the laboratory.

Franco believes that the new European legislation — which would require systematic evaluation of all research involving laboratory animals in all E.U. countries, with ethical considerations a big part of the assessment — makes now a good time «to assess what [researchers] think about using animals, what effect training can have not only about their knowledge of the three R's but also how it affects their attitudes.»

I'll spare you as many of the details as I can, but what appears to have happened is that said researchers assembled a crowd of typical Dutch shoppers — sending home, one would imagine, the ones whose shoulder - slung panpipes and Caucasian dreadlocks marked them as liable to freak out in a laboratory setting — and put them through a series of tests to see how they make buying decisions.

Also, «[i] nstitutions should ensure that in addition to laboratory methodology the young researchers are... made to undergo training in the relevant standards and regulations» and learn the value system that applies to their field, Nath adds.

When I came to the United States from Sweden over 40 years ago to begin a postdoctoral fellowship in the still - unnamed field of neuroscience, many young U.S. biomedical researchers were making reciprocal journeys to European laboratories.

Many researchers, including Van Trung Chu, Klaus Rajewsky and Ralf Kühn, are seeking to promote the HDR repair pathway to make gene modification in the laboratory more precise in order to avoid editing errors and to increase efficiency.

For fusion - powered energy, you need big science — massive laboratories, hundreds of researchers making this their life's work, advanced equipment and a concerted multiyear drive — and NIF is nothing if not big science.

A concentrated extract of maple syrup makes disease - causing bacteria more susceptible to antibiotics, according to laboratory experiments by researchers at McGill University.

The researchers did a «great job» of designing a task that can discriminate between the regret of making a poor decision and the disappointment that results when one is punished despite making all the right choices, says Alex Vaughan, a neuroscientist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.

An international team led by researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) used advanced techniques in electron microscopy to show how the ratio of materials that make up a lithium - ion battery electrode affects its structure at the atomic level, and how the surface is very different from the rest of the material.

Here, a researcher at the Department of Energy's Savannah River National Laboratory holds a photonic crystal made from bismuth germanate.

Furthermore, the team devised a technique to control the number of neurons labeled — labeling too many neurons makes it impossible to distinguish individual ones — that allows researchers to visualize individual neuron shapes and trace their connecting fibers through intact tissues using another technology the Gradinaru laboratory has helped develop, known as tissue clearing.

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.

The first week in a new laboratory can be exhilarating, bewildering, and chaotic, and while Barker has observed many fledgling researchers struggle to make good first impressions, get organized, and learn new techniques, she has also witnessed their common mistakes.

Researchers in Dr. Charron's laboratory study neurons, the nerve cells that make up the central nervous system, as well as their long extensions known as axons.

The specificity of this DNA cutting activity has made CRISPR - Cas the darling of gene therapy researchers, who have modified it to make precise changes in the genomes of cultured cells, laboratory animals, and even humans.

Empa researchers Gilberto Siqueira and Tanja Zimmermann from the Laboratory for Applied Wood Materials have now succeeded, together with colleagues from Harvard University and ETH Zürich, in developing a new, environmentally friendly 3D printing ink made from cellulose nanocrystals (CNC).

Through experiments involving almost two dozen researchers across the FSU campus and the FSU - headquartered National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Albrecht - Schmitt made compounds out of berkelium that started exhibiting unusual chemistry.

The researchers — led by physicist Francesco Bonaccorso, who is based at the Graphene Labs of the Italian Institute of Technology in Genova, and is a Royal Society Newton Fellow at the Cambridge Graphene Centre — note the substantial progress made in material preparation at the laboratory level.

Researchers at another DOE lab, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), recently made a related discovery, using a chemical reaction in a hybrid perovskite to demonstrate a switchable solar window.

Says David Greene, a transportation researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory: «If manufacturers were to take the available technologies and apply them to fuel economy over the next 10 to 15 years, they could cost - effectively achieve a 40 to 50 percent improvement without making vehicles smaller.»

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.

The result, led by researchers at Stanford University and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, is the culmination of 20 years of research aimed at finding out whether the pseudogap helps or hinders superconductivity, which could transform society by making electrical transmission, computing and other areas much more energy efficient.

Writing in the latest issue of the journal Nature, researchers in the laboratories of Gladstone Senior Investigator Sheng Ding, PhD, and UCSF Associate Professor Holger Willenbring, MD, PhD, reveal a new cellular reprogramming method that transforms human skin cells into liver cells that are virtually indistinguishable from the cells that make up native liver tissue.

But Claverie, a geneticist at Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Structural and Genomic Information Laboratory in Marseille, France, believes that the Mimivirus's complexity should make researchers rethink their characterization of viruses as nonliving.

The Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology will consolidate much of the nation's ocean research and host 10,000 researchers and support staff, making it one of the largest national labs in the world.

Now, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have made a better thermoplastic by replacing styrene with lignin, a brittle, rigid polymer that, with cellulose, forms the woody cell walls of plants.

«It is possible to create these protein aggregates artificially in a laboratory,» says Piotr Hanczyc, one of the researchers who made the discovery.